Thursday May 11th 2006, 8:16 am
Kurt Nimmo
Another Day in the Empire
Naturally, it is the job of the corporate media to paper over the real reasons for the NSA snoop database, described as "the largest database ever assembled in the world," according to a source quoted by USA Today. Leslie Cauley of the daily newspaper tells us "the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity," and attributes this excuse to shadowy sources, as usual, and yet not a single nine eleven terrorist, with the exception of the nut job Zacarias Moussaoui, has faced a jury or suffered a conviction.
I'd like to begin my commentary on David Sirota's important new book Hostile Takeover with my strong endorsement of his fine work. Everyone should read it to learn what's really going on around us that affects us all in the most important ways I know and which most people at best only vaguely understand on many if not most of the major issues. Those who read it will learn in stunning and graphic detail how large corporations in league with government at all levels serving their interests and not ours are destroying the democratic pillars of our society. The result now evident when we know the facts David presents is a great irreversible harm to the great majority unless we can collectively act in time to reverse the destructive path and economically downward trajectory we're now on - all planned and implemented by our elected officials in service to their generous corporate benefactors. In his important book, David lucidly explains the problem in detail and gives us an action plan to fight back.
The recent installing of a puppet government in Iraq under U.S. Occupation shows that America's messianic mission of "spreading democracy" is flawed. The fraudulent electoral "law" imposed by the Occupation, and the U.S. addiction to violence to protect its imperialist and corporate interests at the expense of the Iraqi population provide compelling evidence against the U.S. imperialist agenda in Iraq.
Contrary to the myth played and promoted by the Western so-called "Left" and "Right" and the corprorate media that the "US failed [in Iraq] because of poor planning" and "incompetence," the U.S. planned the war and the occupation (military and economic) of Iraq months before the illegal invasion took place. The U.S. failed in Iraq for the following reasons: 1) the U.S. is serving its own imperialists and corporate interests in Iraq, not the interests of the Iraqi people. The overwhelming evidence shows that since the invasion, the Bush administration and their cronies have benefited immensely from looting Iraq's wealth; 2) the U.S. aim was to destroy Iraq; 3) the anti-imperialist, anti-Occupation consciousness of the Iraqi people; and 4) the undeterred Resistance of the Iraqi people to the U.S. imperialist agenda.