Denmark Vesey: Hegelian Headfake & The Communist Cold War Victory 003 • DV University • Fall 2010 • 3 Credits

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Hegelian Headfake & The Communist Cold War Victory 003 • DV University • Fall 2010 • 3 Credits

3 comments:

HotmfWax said...: Perhaps it is useful at this time to remember that according to a map prepared by the World Association of Parliamentarians for World Government meeting in London in 1952, when the World Government comes into being, U.S. forces would be patrolling Central Asia (e.g., Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc.). Brzezinski at Mikhail Gorbachev's first State of the World Forum in 1995 said:

"We cannot leap into world government through one quick step. A consensual global system requires a process....The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units."

This is the same strategy proposed by Cecil Rhodes' Association of Helpers member P. E. Corbett in Post-War Worlds (1942) and its fruits can been seen in the EU, NAU and other Superstate projects currently under-way.; Sep 7, 2010, 11:36:00 PM
HotmfWax said...: Post-Cold War, Washington used the illusion of democracy to dominate everywhere - with the long arm of the Pentagon and NATO as enforcers. Euphoric East Europeans couldn't know that American-style democracy was even more repressive than what had ended. Decades of Voice of America and Radio Free Europe propaganda was soon revealed to be no different than the Soviet system they rejected and in some ways much worse.

Western-imposed "shock therapy" meant "free market" hokum, mass privatizations, ending the public sphere, unrestricted access for foreign corporations unemcumbered by pesky regulations, deep social service cuts, loss of job security, poverty wages, repressive laws, and entire economies transformed to benefit a powerful corporate ruling class partnered with corrupted political elites. Globally, Russia got billionaire "oligarchs," China "the princelings," Chile "the piranhas," and in new millennium America the Bush-Cheney "Pioneers" and Obama Wall Street Top Guns wrecking global havoc for self-enrichment.

As for ordinary people, Russia is instructive for what's heading everywhere:

-- mass impoverishment;

-- an epidemic of unemployment;

-- loss of pensions and social benefits;

-- 80% of farmers bankrupted;

-- tens of thousands of factories closed and the country de-industrialized;

-- schools closed;

-- housing in disrepair;

-- skyrocketing alcoholism, drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, suicides, and violent crime; and

-- a declining population and life expectancy because the country was looted for profit and all safety nets ended; what Milton Friedman called "freedom."; Sep 8, 2010, 12:28:00 AM
IWonderAsIWander said...: There is a mass-propaganda movement afoot in Europe to force Europeans to swallow whole the notion that Europe must be "united" and that one European state cannot exist separate and apart from the rest of Europe. The Euro was foisted upon the people and the quick result was an economic slide and the immediate reduction in the European standard of living. The only Europeans with the brains (so far) to resist the Euro were the Brits, but I'm sure it's coming there. There population just wasn't as stupid as the rest of Europe's.

We don't know, as yet, what the EU will do as a military unit. That's the essential difference with the Soviet Union, at least for now.; Sep 8, 2010, 1:28:00 PM

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