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Subject: [no_iraq_war_az] Reflections by comrade Fidel - A QUESTION WITH NO ANSWER
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
A QUESTION WITH NO ANSWER
Our world is not only threatened by the cyclical economic crises
which are ever more serious and frequent. Unemployment, bankruptcy,
and the huge losses in goods and wealth are inseparable companions of
the blind market laws which govern the world economy today.
Neo-liberalism proscribes any interference by the State, considering
it a disturbing element for the economy, as if the domestic order,
the army, health, education, culture, science, the courts, the
judges, and many other activities could exist without the State and
its laws.
Obviously, the State, with its rigor and coercive force, was
considered an obstruction by those like Marx, Lenin and other
theoreticians, who saw it as an instrument used by the exploiters to
impose the heinous capitalist system, and conceived the idea of
turning it into an instrument of the Revolution in the stage of
transition to and entirely new society.
Colonialists, capitalists and imperialists have created their own
codes of conduct and imposed their values. They talk about freedom,
democracy, human rights and so on. After the United States was
founded, millions of human beings continued working as salves; the
Creator had not granted them any right, as was stated in the
Philadelphia Declaration. During almost 100 years they were like
merchandise which was bought and sold in the market, and for another
100 years, after the civil war, they were atrociously discriminated
against and marginalized. Today, together with the American Indians
and the Latin Americans, they are the poorest citizens to be found in
the US prisons; they do the toughest and worst paid jobs.
It is never said that billions of people in the world suffer the
consequences of ignorance, unemployment, underdevelopment, diseases
that curtail their life span to two thirds or by one half –and
sometimes less than that- as compared to the life span enjoyed by
people in rich countries.
New problems, such as drug trafficking, organized crime, brain drain
and illegal migration, add to the old ones. There is even an attempt
to submit the human minds using the mass media and the most modern
techniques of the so called entertainment industry.
What supports that order? Wealth and the use of force. For that they
have all the money in this world and the most sophisticated military
means. Besides, they are the big producers and exporters of weapons
that pose no threat whatsoever to their international hegemony, but
spur local wars, multinationals profits and their allies' dependence.
They mint unlimited amounts of the hard currency required by
international trade, and with that they acquire properties for their
multinationals and take hold of the natural resources and the fruits
of peoples' labor in order to prop up the societies of consumption
and waste that they have created.
Furthermore, the United States keeps a monopolist control over the
international credit and investment agencies.
Whenever these concerns start going around the minds of many millions
in the world who do not let themselves be misled by the lies that are
proclaimed, news begin to flow showing different realities.
For example: In the year 2004, the last shown by statistics, the US
multinationals' profits abroad amounted to 700 billion dollars, for
which they paid to the Treasury only 16 billion dollars in discounts,
which grant special privileges to US companies investing in other
countries, thus affecting those which do it inside the US and create
jobs in that country. The mere attempt by the present US
administration to reduce that privilege gave rise to a protest by
important US business organizations whose economic and political
power no one can deny.
Gathering a number of national and international news showing the
national privileges that country has imposed on the whole world could
even be an enlightening pastime. There are politicians inside and
outside the United States who take offense if someone dares to
describe that system as an empire, as if there were another word that
could better define it.
The other side of the coin offers a much gloomier picture. On several
occasions reference was made to the seven fleets with which the US
imposes its military might on the world, resorting to more than 800
military bases scattered throughout the planet. Guantánamo, whose
prison camps and tortures astonished the world's public opinion, is
only one of the hundreds of military bases that they have.
Maybe we could have a better idea of the military power with which
the superpower supports the economic and social system it has imposed
on humankind by referring to some data which were recently published
by the specialized press.
The US military power is based on its nuclear arsenal.
It has 534 Minuteman III and Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBM); 432 Trident C-4 and D-5 submarine-launched ballistic
missiles (SLBM) installed on board of 17 Ohio submarines; and around
200 long-range nuclear bombers that can be supplied in mid-air, among
them 16 invisible B-2. The missiles carry several warheads. The
number of nuclear warheads deployed ranges between five thousand and
ten thousand. Its Armed Forces are made up by more than 2 million
men. Added to all these there are hundreds of military and
communication satellites which make up the space shield and are the
means for an electromagnetic war.
Russia, the other big nuclear power, has been surrounded by offensive
nuclear weapons.
It is hardly necessary to add one more word, except for being
reminded that thanks to the monopoly over money and natural
resources, the United States announced yesterday through the
Pentagon's principal commander for cyber-war that that country was
determined to lead the global effort to use computer technology to
deter or defeat the enemies, while protecting people's constitutional
rights. The news was broadcast by the AP, the main US news agency.
How much security can be found in today's world? That is a question
with no answer!
Fidel Castro Ruz
May 6, 2009
3:32 p.m.
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