[Peace-discuss] AWARE anti-war demonstration, Saturday, Aug. 1st, 2-4pm at Main & Neil in Champaign
Stuart Levy
stuartnlevy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 18:10:39 EDT 2015
Tomorrow is the first Saturday of August, so please join AWARE for our
anti-war demonstration,
2-4 PM
Saturday, Aug. 1st
corner of Main and Neil, downtown Champaign
Our flyer this month, thanks to Carl, looks at the long consistency in
United States foreign policy:
Obama (and Hillary) - despite constant protestations of ‘hope and
change’ - are completely in line with US foreign policy for decades.
U.S. foreign military bases (which expanded to more than a thousand
after the fall of the Soviet Union; no other country has more than
30) make it clear that US foreign policy has been directed to
preventing an economic rival arising in Eurasia, especially in
Russia and China.
/US foreign policy for a century has seen Africa, Asia, and Europe
not as three separate continents, but as a unitary land mass, a
world island. Its heartland - 4,000 miles from the Persian Gulf to
the Siberian Sea - could only be controlled from its rimlands in
Eastern Europe or the margins in the surrounding seas. “Who rules
the Heartland commands the World-Island,” went the U.S. motto. “Who
rules the World-Island commands the world.” /
(If you think that the US makes war because we have to - in order to put
down this or that bad guy on the far side of the world, as we are told
daily in the media - think again.)
Background reading might be this, on an article by Alfred McCoy that
traces the origin of "geopolitics" - proposed in the context of the
British Empire in a visionary speech by Halford Mackinder more than a
century ago. Our leaders today are reading from the same playbook.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176007/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_washington%27s_great_game_and_why_it%27s_failing_/
"The Geopolitics of American Global Decline / Washington Versus
China in the Twenty-First Century"
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/alfredmccoy>
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