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Alphabet Soups to Drown the World
and Americans
by Gaurang Bhatt, MD
 The writings of Hobbes, Darwin and more recently William
Hamilton and Richard Dawkins give us a good understanding of
human and animal psyches and the selfish nature of genes,
individuals and societies. Examples of differential and
discriminatory treatment of non-family and non-group individuals
by a cohesive group can be seen in tribal warfare in native
American history, Tutsi and Hutu genocide in Rwanda, German
massacres of the Hererros in South Africa, British massacres of
Tasmanians and aboriginals in Australia, American killing of the
natives in the USA, Spanish massacres in the Americas and
Belgians in the Congo. Other countries are not innocent but
their massacres are on a smaller scale.
Other situations where atrocities are committed are to put down
native resistance and insurgencies against a colonial occupation
and once again the British, Germans, Americans and South
Africans (apartheid) stand out prominently. War is used as a
pretext as was done in the world wars. Religious persecution and
massacres like Jazia taxation and forced conversion were common
in the Islamic empires. After WW2 the victorious European powers
realized that the new weapons and technology made total war
impossible as it would kill hundreds of millions (unlike the
tens of millions in the world wars) and destroy the environment
of the planet. Thus they set up the UNO, IMF and WB (world
bank). It is the nature of those in power to do everything
possible to perpetuate it. Thus the UN had a SC (security
council) with five permanent members who had the sole veto
power.
The IMF and WB were Trojan horses to facilitate economic
domination by subterfuge, as confessed in the book titled
“Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”. They were responsible for
the Asian, Russian and Latin American economic crises with
collaboration of corrupt and crooked leaders. FDR’s point man
foisted the Breton Woods financial system in preference to
Keynes’s better one, and America in the Johnson era abused the
system until Nixon’s closing of the gold window. Thereafter all
presidents from Reagan onwards abused the dollar’s position as
the international reserve currency to lead the US to a debtor’s
ruin. Latin America, Asia and Russia had marginalized the role
of the IMF until recently, when they tried to salvage their
excess accumulation of dollars by loaning them to the IMF in
return for SDRs (special drawing rights).
Other alphabet soups to manipulate trade in favor of the West
were created in the GATT, WTO and TRIPs. The general agreements
on tariff and trade, world trade organization and trade related
rights to intellectual property were means to force high value
patented products and US government subsidized agricultural
products on to under developed Asian, African and Latin American
countries. These would prevent them from controlling insurance
and banking – high rewarding–in their own countries lacking
capital and finance expertise, make western institutions in a
position to control their economies and destroy their farmers
and make the nations dependent on importing food.
Thus those countries would remain commodity exporters and
finished goods importers and remain undeveloped. In previous
times this was achieved by colonizing them, preventing
industrialization or by de-industrializing them like India and
China and burying them in debt by manufactured imports, which
were in excess in the developed industrialized countries. Now
newly industrializing China is buying up resources around the
world with its diminishing value dollar surpluses, while America
criticizes it and Germany tries to enact laws preventing foreign
takeovers by China and oil rich countries flush with dollars
from a de-industrialized America running eye popping trade
deficits forever.
Another example is nuclear weapons and related soups like NPT,
CTBT, FMCT, MTCR. The genius of American scientists and money to
spare, gave it the first nuclear weapons which it misused
against Japan to intimidate Stalin and the Soviet Union. When
the Soviets got their own weapon in 1949, the US seriously
considered using atomic weapons against them. India had similar
thoughts about Pakistan. Israel did do it to Iraq and is itching
to do the same to Iran. China got the bomb in 1964 and the US
considered bombing it. Now China condemns India’s nuclear
weapons and India voted to refer Iran to the UNSC. They all
worry that Khomeini was willing to sacrifice his nation for his
Islamic ideology and his Mullah heirs may become nuclear suicide
bombers.
The US smartly devised the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty and
those who signed it were forbidden to develop nuclear weapons.
Eisenhower’s civilian nuclear energy program allowed assistance
for power plants and the right to enrich uranium to the extent
for use in power plants. 20% enrichment or less is needed to
generate electricity and a much higher percentage for weapons
but the technology is the same for both. Atoms for peace and the
NPT permit enrichment. Iran is using this loophole to refuse to
give up enrichment rights and may be intending to acquire
weapons capability by stealth. India used the research reactor
to make Plutonium and achieved weapons capability on its own
while being a non-signatory. Israel another non-signatory
achieved the same status with US connivance. Pakistan the third
non-signatory used A. Q. Khan to steal the technology from the
Netherlands and by other clandestine means while America
purposely looked the other way because it needed Pakistan and
militant fanatic Islamicists to destroy the Soviets in their
Vietnam like quagmire in Afghanistan. Now the US is a victim of
the terrorists it created, and is stuck in another quagmire in
Afghanistan.
The British were given nuclear weapon technology by the US. The
French did it on their own but helped Israel a little. The
Chinese did it on their own but may have had some Russian help.
US wanted to prevent other countries from developing nuclear
weapons but shortly after China tested they set up the NPT and
the comprehensive test ban treaty. The latter would prevent a
nation like India which had the know-how from perfecting the
weapon by repeated testing. The next hurdle the US created was
the missile technology control regime (MTCR). This would
prohibit the transfer of technology for a missile with a range
greater than 300 kilometers. So even a country with nuclear
weapons and warheads small enough to put on a missile would be
unable to project it beyond 300 Km and thus would not be a
threat to the US ands its allies in Western Europe. To further
hamstring India and similar nations, the last soup was the
Fissile Material Capping Treaty. This would freeze the
production of HEU (highly enriched uranium) and Plutonium at
current levels.
Thus India, Pakistan and North Korea would have only 20 kiloton
atom bombs (currently less than hundred for the first two and
five to ten for North Korea) by the combined nets and
impediments of NPT, CTBT, MTCR and FMCR. There is nothing wrong
in all these tricks that the US and the West use. They maybe
immoral, unfair and unethical but as Chomsky says, nations are
not moral agents. My long saga is to inform the unknowing and
above all the bunch of retarded and slavish idiots who get
elected to leadership in India. My indictment of America and its
leadership is for a different but worse crime. They like
individuals will do anything to cling to their exalted power
status. Unfortunately they have sold their soul to their
campaign financiers who have now captured the government and use
it to enrich themselves by non-competitive contracts, tax
breaks, costly, unnecessary and poorly functioning weapons,
favorable laws and loopholes, TARP, TALF, PPIP and zero percent
federal loans. All these impoverish the ordinary citizens and
ruin the nation. Interested readers should read recent articles
by Simon Johnson, Joseph Stiglitz and “The Wrecking Crew” and
“The Predator State” by Thomas Frank and James Galbraith
respectively.
October 24, 2009
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