Re: [A-List] Oil-currency war?

["Tariq Mahmood" <zaogir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Nestor,

The uni-polarism that we witness today is worse than the situation of 1914
or 1939 for there were forces capable of challenging the fascism. Today the
US spend close to 360 [or one estimate says 385] billion American dollars on
defence annually, a sum larger than spent by the next 20 largest powers.

In the pre-WW I or WW II period the military presence of the aggressive
forces outside their geographic frontiers was equal to nil, less the
colonies in the South. The US now stations her soldiers and weapons on soil
of over 100 countries and all seas of the world.

Earlier governments had the audacity to challenge any overspilling of force
while today the allies [Britain] as well as the victims [Saudi Arabia etc.]
are at the minimum acquiesing with the tyrant.

The gap in military potential, in terms of sheer weight as well as
technological quality, between the 'super power' and the weaker powers is
far larger than in the past.

One thing, however, that is common now as with the earlier time mentioned,
is the moral nakedness and disregard to existing international norms and
protocols by the mighty and the immoral timidity of the weaker forces.
Nevertheless the global resolute demonstarted by the people today against
evil was never  experienced in earlier histroy.

Anne Williamson has rightly stated that Saddam sealed his fate by turning
his oil money into Euros instead of USD. Thereby he touched the weakest
nerve of the US. The oil currency may not be the first reason for the war on
Iraq but it does challenge the evil the hardest and at the very core of its
strength.

The US is the only economy that does not bind itself by any law to the
number of currency notes she prints. Say she sells worth 10 billion to China
and buys back goods worth 20 billion only leaves more paper stashed with the
Chinese. The universal willingness to accept the US currency as a medium for
exchange need to be breeched. The wrongly placed economic strength of the US
is converted into military and political power by her.

LETS EXCHANGE ALL THE US DOLLARS WE HAVE FOR ANY OTHER CURRENCY OR GOLD.

Tariq
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"Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
 Oil-currency war?


 I found the essay, which reached me via a friend in Belgrade, simply
fascinating. A most refreshing article, with more intelligence embedded than
any report presented by Powell or Blair to the international community (er,
that was intended as a flattering thing to say and resulted in a bad joke,
but will leave it there for comic effect).

 I have long been eerily feeling that after the destruction of the Soviet
Union, the global scenario is unstoppably returning to a mix of the pre-1914
and pre-1939 situtations. Anyone else sharing this?

 It would only be _reasonable_, if you come to think of it. The common enemy
torn down, we cannot expect imperialist bourgeoisies to escape their fate:
they must fight between them for global domination.

 The American bourgeoisie hoped to estabilize the situation in its almost
exclusive benefit, by means of economic hegemony, global control of fossil
energy resources, currency dictatorship and, last but not least, the global
system of militarized terrorism built around the war against socialism, a
system that due to historical reasons (wars were fought on European terrain)
had the U.S. Dept. of Defence at its core.

 Economic hegemony fainted, currency dictatorship begins to come under
attack, that bothersome "old Europe" -Bush's words, not mine: BTW, a friend
of mine here says that "the most intelligent trait in Bush is his face of
stupid brat"- raises the head again, former tame subjects begin to challenge
American diktat (1). The Euro, according to the essay, menaces to challenge
both American financial hegemony and energy control. Well, that's really a
good reason to go for war!

"If we are to return to closed trade areas like in the 30s", the American
bourgeois seems to think, "we shall return on OUR own terms". Irak signs the
bill today, as Yugoslavia did yesterday.

 Sozialismus oder Barbarismus.

 N O T E

 (1) In this connection, I suggest you to follow the recent American
declarations on the current political trends in --Argentina of all places!

 In fact, these alarmed utterings are not ungrounded. All the "feasible"
Presidential candidates are aping the advanced nationalist discourse of
Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, which shows the change of mood of this country. As an
a-list exclusive, I dare to inform the members that within a few weeks, the
results of the Argentinean elections might well shake the world.

 Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
 nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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 "Sí, una sola debe ser la patria de los sudamericanos". Simón Bolívar al
gobierno secesionista y disgregador de Buenos Aires, 1822