Saturday, October 29, 2005

Social Justice Television Editorial 10.28.05

Hello and welcome to SJTV. Today is October 28th 2005, I’m Marlin Hathaway here, with another SJTV editorial.


Well what can I say? Iraq is another imperial war. I feel that this war is no different than many other wars perpetrated over the last hundred, hundred-twenty-five years or so.

Those who would rule us all, who have recently seated themselves in the United States, have had an ever consumptive global agenda that spans many Administrations, Supreme Court's and Congressional and Senate houses.

Historically, this group of people whom I will now refer to as members of the controlling elite, have had self-serving nepotistic intentions, and have acted on them for hundreds and hundreds of generations.

To people like me, the war in Iraq represents the first step of this historic empire’s last attempt to rein in the forces that they fear are growing out of their control on economic and social grounds.
It’s about the power.

This is a last gasp, I believe anyway, I think the system of greed and socioeconomic control that these folks perpetuate through the institutions that they prop up, is coming to an end.

But of course this depends on a lot of factors, not the least of which is the antiwar movement and the resistance that we can create.

The antiwar movement could be a force that might forestall the Empire in this attempt, at least as far as Iraq is concerned, to harness control of the Middle East oil fields.

But again, it is not enough to stop the war in Iraq. Although it is important for the current controlling elite to gain strategic military control of the Central Asian theater, and Iraq is a necessary part of that, what is important to note, is that the current posture of the controlling elite coupled with the geopolitical conditions in the Central Asian region, leads one to a wary conclusion that the controlling elite are in preparation for an eventual conflict and showdown with the other imperial forces of the world like China, Russia, and even potentially, the European Union.

But what I'm getting to here, is that the antiwar movement needs to become more dynamic, the stakes are more than about the war in Iraq, or issues regarding the Bush administration.

The administration, and the war, are symptoms of a system that has been in place for eight to ten thousand years.

We need to recognize this history as we’re building an antiwar resistance in the United States.

Failure to do so is shortsighted, and will allow our movement to be channeled into Mainstream politics, which is the arena of the controlling elite.

Just think of how following the Democratic Party in the run up to the 2004 elections effected the organizational base of the antiwar movement.

It zapped its energy.

Funneling activist energies into candidates campaigns, in a similar manner to what happened in the nineteen sixties.

There has never been democracy in the United States, only an illusion of it.

Enough lip service by the controlling elite to dupe the populace into an apathetic and controllable state.
Just this week the Governmental Accountability Office found major discrepancies in Ohio regarding Electronic Voting Machines.

It’s money and power that run our government, but that system’s time is running out.

This current controlling elite has set up an economic system that functions in a modality of boom and bust.

It’s called Capitalism.

It seeks ever-increasing profit by the exploitation of labor and the accumulation of capital.

When capital interests begin to dry up in a particular market, or when profits begin to dwindle, those with controlling capital interests attempt to take over other markets to maintain or increase their profitability, this is called Imperialism.

Currently the empirical modus operandi is to use a two-pronged approach of economic and military power, the IMF-World Bank, W.T.O., G-8, and International Trade Agreements like N.A.F.T.A., C.A.F.T.A. etc. on the one hand, and the other, the use of covert and overt private and governmental military forces.

Looking at the past, when the economic times got tough, the agreements started to fail, this lead to market conflicts that grew into regional and global wars between Monarchs, Capitalist, and Imperialist States.

This can happen again in the not-too-distant future, and can lead to world war.

Similar trade and political agreements have failed under heavy economic pressure in the past, and it looks as if most of the pieces are in place for it to happen soon.

So as I have said before, the war in Iraq, horrible as it is, is an indicator of the intention and direction of the controlling elite, and we within the antiwar movement must begin to grasp the totality of our situation, debate it, and the potentially radical solutions to our dilemma.

We in the United States are far behind in our collective understanding of the world we live in.

People all over the world are calling into question the system of domination and greed.

We here in the U.S. sit within the belly of the beast so to speak, and as such we have a pivotal role to play in not just ending the war in Iraq, but in ending the rule of the controlling elite who presently reside and base their operations here in our country.

Thank you for listening. I’m Marlin Hathaway for SJTV.