interest. The two aggressive militarist powers, the
US and Israel, should be sanctioned by the UN and
embargoed.
Instead, Europe is complicit in US and Israeli war
crimes.
Because of the Cold War, Europe is accustomed
to following US leadership. The financial convenience of the shelter provided by US military power
negated independent European foreign policies.
In effect, Western European countries became US
puppet states.
How does Europe escape from a subservient relationship of many decades? Not easily. The US is
accustomed to calling the shots and reacts harshly
when it meets opposition. For example, French
opposition to Bush’s invasion of Iraq brought about
instant demonization of France by the US media
and members of Congress.
The US government uses financial sanctions and
threatened leaks of sensitive personal information
gathered by its worldwide spy networks to discipline any independent-minded European leader.
Europe is essentially captive and forced to put US
interests ahead of its own. Consequently, unless Europeans find their courage and discard their servile
status, Europe will be badgered into more wars and
eventually led into a devastating war with Russia.
One European country can do little, but concerted
action would be effective. For example, why do not
Europeans protest that the war criminal Tony Blair
was given a post in the EU?
The Obama administration’s attitude towards s elfdetermination and the sovereignty of the people is
that these grand-sounding concepts are useful platitudes with which to mask the hegemonic interests
of the US government. US money and propaganda
foment “velvet” or “color” revolutions that turn
more countries into American puppet states.
The platitudes are useful also to disguise the overthrow of US civil liberties, such as habeas corpus,
due process, and prohibitions against torture and
preemptive arrest.
During the Cold War era, one of the mainstays of
US propaganda against the Soviet Union was the
inability of Soviet citizens to travel within their
country without the government’s permission. This
indignity has now been inflicted upon US citizens.
As of September, 2009, US citizens can no longer
travel within their country by air without the permission of the Transport Security Administration.
The Obama administration has adopted the Bush
administration’s search procedures. Under these
rules travelers’ computers, cell phones, and other
devices can be seized for searches that can take up
to 30 days. If you are on your way to a meeting and
your presentation is on your computer and your
contacts’ numbers are on your cell phone, you are
out of luck.
There is no excuse for these Gestapo practices.
However, there have been no domestic acts of terrorism in 8 years. The few “plots” that led to arrests
were all instigated by FBI agents in order to keep
the nonexistent threat alive in the public’s mind.
Yet, despite any real terrorist threat the police state
continues to gain ground. Considering the extent of
America’s oppression of peoples abroad, one would
expect much more blowback than has occurred,
assuming that 9/11 was not itself an inside job
designed to provide an excuse for America’s wars of
aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan.
Europe must look beyond the empty American political rhetoric about “freedom and democracy” and
recognize the emerging Brownshirt American State.
Democracy is slipping away from America. Its place
is being taken by an oligarchy of powerful interest
groups, such as the financial sector, the military/security complex about which President Eisenhower
warned, and AIPAC. Political campaign contributions from interest groups determine the content
of US domestic and foreign policy. A country in
which political elites are above the law and can
violate with impunity both laws against torture and
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