FIGHTING AGAINST WESTERN IMPERIALISM
ANDRE VLTCHEK
PT. BADAK MERAH SEMESTA
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Fighting Against Western Imperialism
Copyright 2020 Andre Vltchek
All rights reserved.
Written by: Andre Vltchek
Foreword by: Michael Parenti
Edited by: Arthur Temungwa
Cover Design and Text Layout by: Rossie Indira
Cover Art by: Milan Kohout
Andre Vltcheks photo by: Alejandro Wagner
First edition, 2014
Published by PT. Badak Merah Semesta, Jakarta
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BOOKS By Andre Vltchek
Non-fiction:
New Capital of Indonesia: Abandoning Destitute Jakarta, Moving to Plundered Borneo,
Chinas Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting Countries Saving Millions of Lives
China and Ecological Civilization (with John B. Cobb, Jr.),
Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism
The Great October Socialist Revolution: Impact on the World and the Birth of Internationalism
Exposing Lies of the Empire
Fighting Against Western Imperialism
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare with Noam Chomsky.
Western Terror: From Potosi to Baghdad
Indonesia: Archipelago of Fear
Exile (with Pramoedya Ananta Toer and Rossie Indira)
Oceania Neocolonialism, Nukes & Bones
The World Order and Revolution! Essays from the Resistance (with Christopher Black and Peter Koenig)
Fiction:
Aurora
Point of No Return
Nalezeny
Plays: Ghosts of Valparaiso and Conversations with James.
FOREWORD
T he ultimate goal of U.S. foreign policy is to make the world ever safer and more profitable for international finance capitalism. This is also the goal of the ruling interests in countries other than the United States. The NATO nations and nations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia are, for the most part, all dedicated to this same objective and collude with the American plutocrats.
Often overlooked about impoverished Third World nations is the fact that they too are capitalist, which is to say, they too are ruled by elites that work determinedly and faithfully within the parameters of corporate financial accumulation. Such is the case with capitalist Nigeria, capitalist India, capitalist Colombia, capitalist Indonesia, capitalist Honduras, and others too numerous to list. Most of them also are seen in the western mainstream media as "faithful allies," "democracies," "anti-terrorists," purveyors of "humanitarian wars," and other such seemingly virtuous designations.
What really gives them standing with policymakers in Washington is their devotion to wealth and power, their readiness to throw open the land, labor, markets, capital, and natural resources of their countries to the global and regional corporate interests of the world, on terms that are highly favorable to the multi-national investors.
Of course this is not what we are told by our opinion makers and policy makers. Commentators of world affairs in the mainstream corporate owned media---and even others who profess to be further to the left---learn to go only halfway. By that I mean they learn not to cross into forbidden territory, both ideological and informational. They dare not pursue dissident ideas and issues, and they dare not present data that expose the subterranean motives of the global policymakers.
When U.S. policy produces faulty results, criticisms are lodged by mainstream commentators or political leaders, criticisms that are usually filled with false images. We are told that "our" policy abroad is repeatedly confused, timid, inept, bungled, overweening, overextended, deluded, myopic, and burdened by unintended consequences and imperial hubris. The critics are sure they are smarter than the policymakers. In fact, they are deliberately or unknowingly covering up what are the motives that propel U.S. global policy.
The difference between what U.S. citizens think their rulers are doing in the world and what these rulers actually are doing is one of the great propaganda feats of modern history. I made this observation a decade ago and unfortunately, it is as true today as ever. In fact, U.S. interventionist policy around the world is very consistent and very successful. It claims to intervene for humanitarian purposes, rescuing this or that helpless people from the clutches of some wicked aggrandizing dictator or autocratic movement, or defending "U.S. interests" abroad ----interests that are frequently referenced but never really defined in any plausible way. Or we supposedly need to defend our ramparts from terrorists, maniacal foreign leaders, fanatical Muslims, Communists, and other aggressors.
So the United States, with an occasional assist from British, French, or other collusive powers, has intervened in scores of countries using mercenaries, special operation units, paramilitaries, assassination squads, killer drones, well-trained agitators and demonstrators, well-financed elections, NGOs, compliant media, and persistent disruption, capping all this with highly advanced military forces perched on hundreds of bases in over 120 nations, in what is without doubt the largest, most imposing empire in history. All this is allegedly dedicated to keeping American civilization safe and sound.
But in truth, the world that is actually being fashioned by the global plutocracy is not one of liberty and prosperity. The plutocrats really do not want mass populations that are well educated, with a strong sense of entitlement and high expectations about social justice and economic democracy. The plutocrats do not want to deal with competitor nations that pursue self-development, who shun the debt traps of the IMF and the preemptive avarice of multinational corporations.
The plutocrats do not particularly dislike recessions. Recessions in this or that country, including the United States, expand the opportunity to buy up competitors, gain a more monopolistic control over certain markets, break labor unions, depress wages, roll back human services, and leave mass populations less willing or less able to fight back. Wealth feeds off poverty. Upon the deprived multitude feast the privileged few, the 1%.
Now comes Andre Vltchek, an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, novelist, and in-depth commentator, a man of many parts who has made his way through the turmoil and torment of numerous nations around the globe, and who throughout his years has spoken truth to power. Unlike mainstream media and even many "progressive" journalists, Vltchek regularly crosses into forbidden ideological territory and comes up with deeply revelatory scripts, insightful scenarios, telling details, and comprehensive analyses.
Consider for instance how he treats the growing use of "regime change," a form of disruptive destabilization going on in a number of countries today, orchestrated by NATO, the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy and other agencies of the global plutocracy, wreaking havoc from Ukraine to Thailand to Egypt to Venezuela.
Vltchek notes that the global agenda, led by Washington policymakers and plutocrats, also entails waging subversive agitation against some capitalists rulers themselves, those who commit what I call "economic nationalism." Any leader, movement, or government that tries to use the land, capital, labor, markets, and natural resources of their country for self-development, rather than throwing the people's resources open for plunder, is targeted by the imperialist interests and branded a dangerous autocrat even a psychopath. Once the leader and his movement are demonized, the plutocratic globalists feel they have license to subvert his government and even bomb his people.
