franz (12) schrieb am 25.09.2022 21:06:
Die Machteliten der USA stellen eine große Gefahr für die Menschheit dar. Und es gibt unter denen Kräfte, die es durchaus auf einen Atomkrieg ankommen lassen wollen. Es gibt umfassende Untersuchungen über den sehr gefährlichen USA-Imperialismus, ich zitiere ein Buch. D. Ganser: Die skrupellose Weltmacht. Imperium USA. Wird das Volk der USA die Kraft haben, diese Machtelite zu stürzen? Könnte es zu einem Bürgerkrieg in den USA kommen? Wie stark ist das kritische Potential in der USA-Bevölkerung? Chomky ist ja gewiss nicht der einzige Kritiker der USA-Politik.
Ich bin erst vor kurzem auf die Rede von Harold Pinter anlässlich der Verleihung des Literaturnobelpreises an ihn gestoßen, die es als Aufzeichnung auf YouTube gibt.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PH96tuRA3L0
Sehr interessant ist hier seine politische Analyse ab ca. Minute 10:40.
Oder auch zum Nachlesen hier:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/25621-harold-pinter-nobel-lecture-2005/
Everyone knows what happened in the Soviet Union and throughout Eastern Europe during the post-war period: the systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought. All this has been fully documented and verified.
But my contention here is that the US crimes in the same period have only been superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged, let alone recognised as crimes at all. I believe this must be addressed and that the truth has considerable bearing on where the world stands now. Although constrained, to a certain extent, by the existence of the Soviet Union, the United States’ actions throughout the world made it clear that it had concluded it had carte blanche to do what it liked.
Direct invasion of a sovereign state has never in fact been America’s favoured method. In the main, it has preferred what it has described as ‘low intensity conflict’. Low intensity conflict means that thousands of people die but slower than if you dropped a bomb on them in one fell swoop. It means that you infect the heart of the country, that you establish a malignant growth and watch the gangrene bloom. When the populace has been subdued – or beaten to death – the same thing – and your own friends, the military and the great corporations, sit comfortably in power, you go before the camera and say that democracy has prevailed. This was a commonplace in US foreign policy in the years to which I refer.