OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #138,
AUGUST 9, 2023.
USA, WARMAKER
As you might know,
I am reshelving my books after having to box them up following a frozen pipe
this winter and restoration. It’s given
me an opportunity to read again books that help explain why I am opposed to US foreign
policy of wars and empire. For example, The Roots of American Foreign Policy: An
Analysis of Power and Purpose by Gabriel Kolko (1969). Here’s from the Introduction, p. xi: “For a growing number of Americans the war in
Vietnam has become the turning point in their perception of the nature of
American foreign policy, the traumatizing event that requires them to look again
at the very roots, assumptions, and structure of a policy that is profoundly destructive
and dangerous. Vietnam is the logical
outcome of a consistent reality we should have understood long before the
United States applied much of its energies to ravaging one small nation.” --D
Monroe
Doctrine to Control Latin America
Ronald Fernandez. Cruising
the Caribbean: U.S. Influence and Intervention in the Twentieth Century. Common Courage P, 1994.
US
colonialism in the Caribbean was characterized by 1) the racism of traditional colonialism and 2) this distinctive
addition: exceptionalism, both
guaranteed by US cannons. An exceptional
people (USA) deserved special license.
Other nations thought themselves superior, “but only the United States
was the heavenly appointed missionary of democracy and development” –in
interests of US autocracy . In 1823, President James Monroe “codified
these beliefs in the doctrine that bears his name.” (Dick)
Corporate Warmaker Investments
US
Funds Invest in Nuclear & Cluster Bombs.
Consortium News
(7-19-23).
Some of the largest corporate retirement funds are
among the most heavily invested in weapons banned under international law,
finds a corporate accountability watchdog. Read here...
Fossil Fuels, UK too
BP’s Wars, Coups & Dictators. Consortium News (7-21-23).
From Iran to Azerbaijan, Iraq to Nigeria, Russia to Venezuela, British
foreign policy is largely captured by the global climate polluter BP, writes Mark
Curtis. Read here...