U.S./U.N. New World Order attack on Iraq, Iran, N. Korea

U.S./U.N. New World Order attack on Iraq, Iran, N.Korea

With the current attacks on Iraq, Iran and North Korea together, a pattern emerges with Iraq as a politcal, more than military, colonial role model. As Clausewitz pointed out, the military is the handle with which the political knifeblade is manipulated, and politics is the object of military force, and to turn his words around, in a certain sense, politics is the continuation of war by other means.

Iraq is being swallowed up in a New World Order that demands the destruction of the independent nation state, or more properly, the conversion of the nation state into the administrative arm of a global government.

Superficially, the U.S. was misunderstood as in conjuctural conflict with a U.N. grouped around what Donald Rumsfeld has called "Old Europe", with France and Germany at the core.

In reality, the war on Iraq was a collaborative effort by all major imperialist governments, but had to be conducted in two phases, with public opinion, massively opposed to the war, kept in confusion.

Phase 1 was the military invasion of Iraq and the temporary practical submergence of its sovereignty. This could not be accomplished by the U.N., which after all has no standing armed forces of its own. In this phase, the U.N. was to build up its image as being "opposed" to the Iraq war, in spite of the fact that most of its member states were against the war in words, but neutral to supportive of the war in deeds, as far as local and national public opinion would tolerate.

The U.N. has constantly been little but a tool for transnational, largely U.S.-centered corporate takeover artists around the world. In the name of peace, it has again and again spilled blood and provided a blue-flag fig leaf always for U.S., and to a lesser degree, West European imperialist capital. The U.N. was born and sealed in blood starting from Korea (1950), moving to the Congo, from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and down to the present, not to mention Iraq from 1990 to now and the rest of the Middle East.

This is no less true today. However, in order to cover up this monstrously apparent reality and historic record, the U.N. was maneuvered into temporary mild political opposition, during Phase 1 of military U.S.-centered and British war and occupation.

But certain rhetoric aside, the U.N. was brought in from the beginning. Diplomatically, it passed the enabling resolutions demanding the disarmament and surrender of Baghdad. Socially and economically, it worked under U.S.-British military protection to handle "humanitarian" missions. These now have a growing role as the military application changed from initial invasion to protection of the growing international-painted U.N. presence to stabilize corporate domination and take over the occupation itself. These aims are likely to be upset, if the anti-occupation forces spread to engulf the majority Shiite-background population.

With the electoral plebiscite accomplished, Iraq is being restructured into a form of superficial democracy, for want of a better word. Of course, while "democracy" originated as a Greek word for power in the hands of the bulk of the people, this meaning survives mainly as an ideal form in the Platonic sense, and in ancient Greece itself, was shaped around the enslavement of the majority. "Democracy" has frequently been a word meaning the exact opposite of the ideal.

What "democracy" settles for in practice is some form of garnering the "consent of the governed" to simulate majority ratification of the rule of a tiny minority headed by a financial elite. Along with majority rule, it is supposed that the rights of minorities are respected. Often, these political minorities are mostly in tune with the suppressed and subordinated interests of the real overwhelming majority of the people, outmaneuvered by the past masters of the electoral chicanery.

What usually emerges, as is happening in Iraq, is a government which is faction-ridden and incapable of preventing penetration by high finance, with compradores within collaborating under imperialist finance from without. One obvious fact not talked about much is that the Iraqi election, like any election, necessitates massive popular registration, or, in other words, an imperialist-controlled database of the entire population. As electoral participation is expanded, the database will become broader and more detailed, and the eyes of Texas will be upon all.

With this type of "democracy", big money can push the government around, knocking it into pillar and post by playing games and pitting various factions against each other in jockeying for power.

Of course, some of the elected politicians will denounce the U.S. occupation, while calling for the U.N. to fill the putative vacuum. Others may even condemn and excoriate the U.N. presence, but they will be up against the corrupting force growing out of colonial dependence on global capital, and with it, New World Order administration. Foreign domination in this case will include a dominant U.S. core, but mixed in with a growing influence of other, mainly European finance capital centers, and, of course, U.N. politricks (not a typo).

The timing of the Iraq invasion was governed by the growing capability of various countries in the Middle East, focally Iran, to develop nuclear weapons, and thus break out of New World Order and U.S.-centered control of the world finance elite. This is the reality propagandistically exaggerated into the idea that Iraq itself was near military nuclearization.

The invasion of Iraq is the invasion of the center of geographic Islamiah, and is reinforced with the invasion of Afghanistan. The immediate and direct result is a two-front constant military menace to Iran. Iran is now at gunpoint. It is already surrounded, and may face eventual invasion. It can also face targeted bombing of its nuclear development sites, either by the U.S. directly, or through its Israeli watchdog, perhaps under U.S./U.N. "denunciation" for public consumption.

Interestingly enough, the U.S. government promotes and covers up Israeli nuclear arms, since the JFK assassination resulted in reversing prior U.S. rejection of a nuclear-armed Israel.

In addition to the military encirclement, Iran is threatened with the prospect of U.S.-European economic warfare, euphemized as "sanctions", a tactic which reported resulted in a million Iraqi deaths. Under this type of pressure, the political structure of Iran, a parliamentary Shiite theocracy, can become destabilized and open to internal revolt. Again in the name of democracy and secularization, Iran can be brought under control of the New World Order, that is, the financial elite now centering around Wall Street and the City of London, which is still the source of tremendous loan and investment capital.

A similar strategy is aimed at North Korea, although this is more problematic because North Korea maintains working class-based outlook. Furthermore, it borders with China and Russia, which for all their compromises, still maintain some political independence and have strong factions inside their governments who resist having their independence totally swallowed up. While they make deals with the world financial elite, they maintain these deals in their own ways, and at this point are only treacherously cooperative with the New World Order.

This is especially true of China, the emerging superpower challenger to the U.S.

The nation state is consistently under attack, from the point of view of "states' rights" in the U.S., to the fragmentation of the ex-USSR, and even of former Yugoslavia, and to a growing degree, of Iraq into Arab Shiite, Arab Sunni and Kurdish Sunni enclaves, possibly to be accompanied by ethnic cleansing.

The invasion of Iraq has actually produced a role model not only for the colonial world or the Middle East. It is also a role model for the U.S. and the E.U. as well. Global capital now wants the world to be its oyster, with no national obstacles to its reach. The nation state is the main obstacle to the globalized hegemony of finance capital. Such national features as, in the U.S., the Bill of Rights, which has been interpreted to guarantee the rights of _expression, privacy and due process, is increasingly under attack.

One option of suppressing the Bill of Rights would be through U.N. and other international treaties. Ratified treaties by the U.S. government, to the extent that they have an internal impact, are elevated to Constitutional Law, and can therefore be held as legally vitiating what remains of the Bill of Rights.

While we unconditionally oppose U.S. imperialist oppression of the rest of the world, we have to be careful not to be manipulated by our internationalism to allow the U.N. as an embryonic world government, or any other New World Order formation, to create plausible excuses for structures that will replace a Constitutional republic with an outright totalitarian dictatorship of the world financial elite.

In addition, popular local organs of survival economics and community must be preserved at the most decentralized level, for the ultimate basis of regroupment and of eventual reintegration as the basis for the reemergence of a true democracy, closer to the Greek meaning, closer to the ideal, as a central spirit for a grass roots-based socialism. As capitalist delivery of benefits collapses, the incentive to defend it will erode. Socialism, like the sobriety of an alcoholic, may come about after capitalism hits bottom in its degeneration towards barbarism.

At any rate, a global federal government will only become desirable after the capitalist system, dominated by high finance, is first overthrown around the world, at least disintegrates to the degree that it can no longer create a global dictatorship.

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