Cui bono ?

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Who Benefits From War?

            When George II (or is it III?) was enthroned in the
White House by the Gang  of Five of the Supreme Court, as a kind
of American Emperor, a thought came to mind, chillingly: There
will be a war. It came with such a clarity that it was surprising.


            Why? A couple of reasons. First, because George II
was a man who was a darling of big corporate interests, and such
interests are always able to profit from war. For if there are
armed conflicts in Sierra Leone, or in Kashmir, or in Colombia,
you can bet your bottom dollar that 70 percent of the weapons
used in these struggles are American-manufactured. How could
it be otherwise, when the U.S. is the world's largest arms merchant?


            Second, because George II learned an important lesson
from his father: that nothing spurs a president's popularity
like war. Now, one wonders, what's this got to do with the World
Economic Forum, the World Trade Organization, or the growing
specter of globalism? The globalist economic structure is undergirded
by the globalist, capitalist, military structure. They are interconnected.
Indeed, one cannot exist without the other.

            Consider the words of New York Times writer Thomas
Friedman, who wrote back in early 1999: "The hidden hand of the
market will never work without a hidden fist-McDonald's cannot
flourish without McDonnell-Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's
technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy,
and Marine Corps." (New York Times Magazine, March 28, 1999)


            And what could be more secret, more hidden than the
WTO, a powerful, undemocratic international multi-state, corporate
entity that sets the rules governing the lives of billions? How
about the World Economic Forum, the body that claims it brought
the WTO into existence, and one of the world's engines of the
corporate globalist movement? These are the forces behind the
war, the vicious attacks on anti-globalists in Genoa, and the
equally vicious slurs in the corporate media against the anti-globalist
movement.

            War, ultimately, is fought for the wealthy, the well-to-do,
the established, with the working class and poor doing the lion's
share of the fighting and dying. It has nothing to do with patriotism,
for the rich and super-rich know no nationality higher than capital.


            Think of these things when you hear the siren's song
of globalism; it is but a call for more war, more poverty, more
exploitation and more death. I urge you to resist it.

            Ona Move, Long Live John Africa! Down with corporate
globalism!

Mumia Abu Jamal- Innocently On Death Row Since 1983----