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cautioned that every evolution had to be preceded by an "involution". Arkansas (while Bill Clinton acted as Governor of the state) led up So what wound the clock in Vietnam? to the G. H. W. Bush presidency. All this will surely be followed by In 1954, when French General Navarre lost the strategic, fortified disclosures of similar "activities" in the meantime (if and when the city of Dien Bien Phu to the Vietcong under the brilliant leadership _ present stranglehold over the media is broken). Robbins” details the of General Giap, the colonial adventure of the French in the Far East —_ involvement of the CIA (through Air America) in all of these strange became an orphan in need of a generous "uncle". Always happy to affairs. prop up a repressive regime which provided the "freedom" for One is tempted to suspect that the surest way to stop the corporate economy to wreak havoc, the USA was drawn into the trafficking of drugs and rid the world of the drug industry menace next vortex of military conflict. What started as a loan of military would be via the immediate disassembly of the secret services. "advisers" developed into a full-blown military conflict of epic Countless numbers of lives would be saved (or made less proportions. miserable). Will this ever happen? The answer is simply, "No!" The sociopolitical effect of this scenario on the entire world was Such a move would remove one of the most effective "tools" of incredibly hefty. All of South East Asia was turned into a brothel government (elitist) control over the masses: the ubiquitous use of for American soldiers on R&R, and again this war was largely "run" the chimera of "national security" as a smokescreen behind which by the American Secret Service. Air America, the aviation wing of "secret" actions take place which ostensibly are in the interests of the the CIA, was for a long time the biggest airline in the world.’ While nation. the military was fighting a war in accordance with political doctrine and within the framework of international law, the CIA financed the | CORPORATISM VERSUS DEMOCRACY destruction of much of South East Asia and American (Western) The New Political Order which comes hand in glove with the society by drug running. merging of Communism and Capitalism into globalist practices is a Only few ever saw that the arrow was also the target: a logically house of cards without any real sustainability. It is a sombre fact thinking democratic society would not permit its own dregs to per- _ that some 200 multinational (transnational) corporations control and vert the methodology of government into the modus operandi of an their shareholders own over 95 per cent of all "private" business organised crime syndicate. Blum points out that over the two which is not owned by individual privateers and are reaping most of decades of (official) American military presence in South East Asia, __ the benefit. The flipside of this coin is the fact that all of this eco- the region was turned into the (clandestine) producer of some 70 per —_ nomic activity employs only some 0.3 per cent of the global work- cent of the heroin and opium supply that force.” is consumed in the USA.” The dealing From this it follows that the corporate of drugs and arms is an essential part of economy, which accounts for the major- the destabilising tactics” which have Over the two decades of ity of activities which continually and been and still are visited on the most American military presence progressively degrade the quality of life populous region on Earth. in South East Asia, the region (all life), is supported in all this by the It is interesting to note that while in private and public sectors: they not only the 1th century the British use China was turned into the producer Provide the vast majority of all employ: as their playground and sold drugs there ment, which is to say the wherewithal to which had been produced in India (using of some 70 per cent of the purchase the products of the corporate the military power of the Empire in heroin and opium supply that sector, but also generate yet again the order to do so), the USA used a phoney majority of all tax revenue. war (financed by the American taxpay- Is consumed In the USA. Yet corporate enterprises and entre- er) to set up the logistics needed to pro- preneurs in 1983 paid 13.1 per cent of duce the drugs required to turn the all taxes levied in Germany; after 13 American people into zombies. In both years of the Kohl government, this fig- instances the "social cost" was immeasurable, the beneficiaries were _ ure had been reduced to 5.7 per cent.*_ The Canadian corporate sec- an extremely small number of "personalities", and neither of the two _tor in 1955 paid some 25 per cent of all taxes; by 1998, this had been episodes had been possible without the knowledge, condoning and reduced to 12.2 per cent.* complicity of the highest levels of government (and "high society"). Moore* gives figures for the USA which tell the same "story": Who can be surprised to learn that the Israeli Secret Service, the * between 1979 and 2002, the income of the richest percentage of Mossad, "runs" a similar operation in Lebanon? Local opposition to the American population rose by 157 per cent, while that of the this illicit drug industry is (as Robert Fisk pointed out in the poorest 20 per cent fell; Independent of 11 December 2002) the major drive behind the * profits of the richest 20 "concerns" of the world rose since 1983 Hizbollah "terrorism". In early 2003, the newspapers and TV news by 362.4 per cent; channels were having a jolly good time "informing" the world how * after the latest round of "fusion" in the oil industry, the profits of Israeli-based operations were swamping the yuppie scene with the oil companies rose by 146 per cent—at a time when the oil moguls drug ecstasy. That the largely Jewish-owned media was reporting decried the fact that they were "not making any money"! (It is a sore on such antisocial Jewish activities hinted at a more important fact that the global economy, as some 80 years ago, is again literally agenda. drowning in cheap oil!); This was closely followed by the media-induced SARS hysteria. * 44 of the biggest 82 corporations in the USA paid taxes at a rate The "Rape of Iraq” will relieve Israel from having to buy expensive _ of 17 per cent in 2001, while the "man on the street" paid 35 per oil and ensure that "Big Brother" for a long time to come will render _ cent; 17 per cent of US corporations paid no tax(!), while seven cor- ineffective Arab opposition to the kind of treatment handed out to porations (among them General Motors) in their 2001 tax returns the Palestinian people. claimed to be due amounts paid over and above that required; The Iran—Contra Affair overshadowed much of the Reagan * 1,279 corporations with incomes in excess of US$250 million or administration, and the shady "activities" at the Mena Air Field in more paid no taxes and declared no taxable income in 2001. Arkansas (while Bill Clinton acted as Governor of the state) led up to the G. H. W. Bush presidency. All this will surely be followed by disclosures of similar "activities" in the meantime (if and when the present stranglehold over the media is broken). Robbins” details the involvement of the CIA (through Air America) in all of these strange affairs. One is tempted to suspect that the surest way to stop the trafficking of drugs and rid the world of the drug industry menace would be via the immediate disassembly of the secret services. Countless numbers of lives would be saved (or made less miserable). Will this ever happen? The answer is simply, "No!" Such a move would remove one of the most effective "tools" of government (elitist) control over the masses: the ubiquitous use of the chimera of "national security" as okescreen behind which "secret" actions take place which ostensibly are in the interests of the nation. American military presence in South East Asia, the region was turned into the producer of some 70 per cent of the heroin and opium supply that is consumed in the USA. 14 = NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2004 Over the two decades of www.nexusmagazine.com