Surviving Capitalism (Not) : New US military strategy: ‘Russia, China

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, July 3, 2015

New US military strategy: ‘Russia, China - threat to unipolar domination fantasy’

Click here to access an interview with Brian Becker of the anti-war Answer Coalition from RT.

The RT interviewer asks questions related to a recently released Pentagon document entitled "The National Military Strategy of the United States of America 2015".

Besides a clear indication that our masters in the US-led Empire are preparing military threats to both Russia and China, the document, according to Becker, also indicates that they will be imposing more austerity measures on the American public to help finance their military threats.

Americans are being told that there is no money for hospitals, schools and many other vitally needed social programs, but suddenly we will have a clarion call that the US must catch up and must not let its adversaries – Russia or China – become superior to the US. This is precisely what triggered the advanced arms race in the 1950s. So I think the language is political, it shows the US is a defensive party, it’s a possible victim of aggression, it must not allow itself to become the victim of aggression and it can only deter it by adding more money to the arms budget.