“A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight:”
Gaza will be “entirely destroyed.”
For decades, US policy has been world dominance through military and financial power as key to exploiting and extorting the people and resources of the world.
1991—Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Paul Wolfowitz stated, “Our policy… must now refocus on precluding the emergence of any potential future global competitor.”
1997—National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski articulated the U.S. imperial strategy for global dominance, to make the U.S. “the world’s paramount power.”
Dollar dominance, financial and economic control, and the massive US debt can only be maintained by controlling the world’s oil supply. Extorting, exploiting, and militarily dominating the Middle East has forced the world to use the petro dollar and funnel profits into buying US debt and investing in Wall Street.
“The U.S. maximalist nuclear strategy, rooted in the assumption that the United States can dominate at all stages of conventional and nuclear escalation and even win a nuclear war, is a major factor in inducing a false sense of power on the part of decision-makers, leading to Washington’s aggressiveness toward Beijing and Moscow in the present New Cold War. The most likely result of the current Western view that nuclear weapons can be used to achieve political and military ends is that they will indeed end up being used, with the destruction of virtually all of humanity.89 The fact that the entire Western nuclear strategy since 1991 has been based on counterforce targeting, first-strike capability, nuclear primacy, and limited nuclear war, viewing thermonuclear weapons as useful instruments in the struggle to secure a unipolar world order, means that the United States/NATO today constitutes the single greatest existential threat to humanity via a Third World War….”
https://www.cfr.org/
This predatory war-mongering culture and economic system is clearly leading us into dangerous, endless expanding wars, barbarism and social catastrophe for the world’s vast majority. Halting this development can begin with building a General Strike and a movement grounded in militant egalitarianism to establish a society dedicated exclusively to peace, equality, cooperation and social needs.
Nayvin Gordon writes about politics and health, and his articles have appeared in: The Mercury News, Counterpunch, Z Magazine, Countercurrents, Scoop Independent News, Anderson Valley Advertiser, Socialist Viewpoint, Multiracial Unity Blog, Scientific American, The Oakland Tribune, The Journal of Family Practice, American Family Physician, Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism, LA Progressive and Dissident Voice. He may be reached at gordonnayvin@yahoo.com
