I closed my last post with a series of rhetorical questions. Why are RAAF jets flying missions inside Syria? Why are we following the United States blindly halfway around the world to drop bombs on a country with whom we are not at war? And why do we now appear to be supporting ISIS? In hindsight these questions could have been answered in a single bullet point: Australia is a client state of the US, and we do exactly what we’re told. The question then becomes, what is the US doing in Syria?

In 1945, having financed both sides of a war which had brought Britain to its knees, the US was ready to take the reins of the world’s first truly global Empire. To this end an agreement was reached between 730 delegates from 44 countries which would establish the US dollar as the world reserve currency, backed by gold at $38 an ounce. Sister agencies the International Monetary Fund and World Bank were created to regulate finance markets and provide loans for post war reconstruction, effectively giving the US a license to print money.

When it became apparent that there were more US dollars in circulation than there was gold to back them, certain countries, I.E. France, began to make noises about wanting their gold back. In 1971, fearing a run on gold reserves, Richard Nixon abolished the gold standard, and in 1973 a deal was struck with the corrupt House of Saud which would make the most precious commodity of the industrial age, oil, denominated in US dollars, the new reserve currency. This has resulted in the paradoxical situation where the most indebted country in the world has achieved economic hegemony through all-but complete control of the global oil market.

Today this hegemony faces an existential threat of its own making, as China and Russia emerge as economic players on the global stage. The New Silk Road project, the Asia Infrastructure Development Bank, and the BRIICS axis (Brazil-Russia-India-Iran-China-South Africa), have the globalists in panic, which has led to military escalation in three main theatres: The Ukraine, the Middle East and the South China Sea. The war agenda is currently being run by Ashton Carter, a neo-con war criminal and one of the original engineers of the “War on Terror.” (Carter’s Department of Defence has become an authority unto itself within the Obama Administration.)

In games of geopolitics, divide and conquer is always a winning strategy, and while billionaire Soros’ refugees ‘flood’ Europe fueling the rebirth of Nazism, Washington and its NATO allies along with strategic partners Israel and Saudi Arabia are seeking to divide the territory of Iraq and Syria into three separate states. Carving out separate Sunni and Shia regions with an independent Kurdistan in the north would render Israel’s immediate neighbours weaker and more compliant, as proscribed by the Yinon Plan for a Greater Israel. It would also mean unfettered US access to Arab oil, and unlimited free money for defence contractors, civil engineers, and insurance companies. Dick Cheney’s Haliburton made $39bn from the deaths of 1 million Iraqis – what price will the IMF and World Bank put on “rebuilding” Syria?

Regime change in Syria would also be a blow to the Russian economy, which currently supplies the lion’s share of Europe’s oil and gas. Basher al-Assad’s government has refused to allow the construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar to Turkey which would pipe US petrodollars into Europe, while Genie Energy, majority-owned by Murdoch, Cheney and Rothschild, is heavily invested in oil exploration in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights.

WWII may have officially ended when the Berlin wall came down, but the cold war scarcely stopped for breath. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the US has continued to chip away at Russia’s borders, often using Islamist or Nazi goons to stir civil unrest, and then intervening in the name of humanitarianism. ISIS, like al Qaeda and the Taliban before it, is a US proxy. The same headchoppers which Washington supports in Syria today it also supported in Afghanistan, and throughout the Russo-Chechen conflict.

If it all seems cynical that’s because it is. For the first time in history we have a global empire; a rotten to the core transnational oligarchy of oil, guns and exploited labour parading under the banner of free market capitalism. Like a single cell organism that must expand to stay alive, it rapes and murders its way across continents, consuming all in its path and shitting out dollar bills in its wake. There is not likely to be a hot war between the US, China and Russia. Their economies are too interdependent. China alone holds enough US debt to collapse the dollar, but the truth is nobody wants the dollar to collapse. What most of the world wants is for the US to pack up its military bases and go home.

The US is not an exceptional state, it is a rogue state. It is not the world’s policeman; it is the jackboot of Imperialism in the face of the working classes. It’s not the shining city on the hill; it is white prosperous and Sarin gas, pesticides and fracking waste-water. It promises freedom and democracy but delivers war and violence. The values it portends are spiked with reality TV and antidepressants to make them palatable, but the world has no more appetite for its junk food.

Fortunately there is an alternative, one in which the world’s emerging economies are heavily invested. The return to multiple gold-backed currencies and shift toward a more multipolar and less globalist world order will be a while to come, but this shift is absolutely essential to our common future. With the safety, security, health and happiness of all seven billion humans on spaceship earth in the balance, the final collapse of the blood sucking Anglo-Zionist Empire cannot come soon enough.

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