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Model of Empire

Mask of Rightness Heart of Darkness

Empires

Geopolitics

The Mask

Conrad’s “Idea”

The Heart

Wealth and Power

Empire

...which mostly means the

taking it away

Labour Power

Resources Plunder

Land Sovereignty

...is not a pretty thing when

you look into it too much.

Terror Force

Murder Torture

Concentration Camps

Counter Insurgency

...from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,

Those “others”

...What redeems it is the idea only. An

idea at the back of it; not a sentimental

pretence but an idea; and an unselfish

belief in the idea — something you can

set up, and bow down before, and offer a

sacrifice to. . . .”

A mask of

righteousness

“The conquest of the earth

Promoting: White Man’s Burden – Exceptionalism - Mission civilisatrice - Missão

civilizadora - Democracy – Humantitarian Intervention Christianity - Jihad - Holy Writ - Commerce and Civilisation

Freedom of the Seas - Defense – National Security – Rebellion – Insurgency - Greater Far East Co Prosperity Sphere –

- Free Trade – Rule of Law– Treaties - Soverign Borders – Right of Self Determination – R2P– Killing their own people

Women’s Rights - Girls Education – Development - Lebensraum

The “IDEA”:

Fighting: Bandits – Terrorists – Mau Mau – Communism

– Piracy – Them Over There – For Defense -

– National Security – Rebels – Insurgencies – The Drug War - Dictators – Genocidaires – Humanity – Slavery

Faces of Empire

Model of Empire

Mask of Rightness Heart of Darkness

Empires

Geopolitics

The Mask

Conrad’s “Idea”

The Heart

Wealth and Power

Plunder and Geopolitical Power

Argentina (1891), Haiti (1891), Hawaii (1893), Nicarargua (1894), China (1894-1895), Korea (1894-96), Panama (1895), Nicarargua (1896), China (1898-1900) , Philippines (1898), Cuba (1898-1902), Puerto Rico (1898), Nicarargua (1898), Samoa (1899), Panama (1901-1903), Honduras (1903), Dominican Republic (1903), Korea (1904 -1905), Cuba (1906-1909), Nicarargua (1907), Honduras (1911), China (1911), Cuba (1912), Panama (1912), Honduras (1912), Haiti (1914-1934), Dominican Republic (1916 1924), Cuba (1917), Russia (1918 1922), Panama (1918-1920), Honduras (1919), Guatemala (1920), China (1922-1927), Honduras (1924-1925), Panama (1925), China (1928-1934), El Salvador (1932), Iran (1946), Yugoslavia (1946), Uruguay (1947), Greece ( 1947-1949), Germany (1948), Philippines (1948-1954), Puerto Rico (1950), Korea (1951-1953), Iran (1953), Vietnam (1954), Guatemala (1954), Lebanon (1958), Iraq (1958), China (1958), Panama (1958), Vietnam (1960-1975), Laos (1961), Cuba (1961), Cuba (1962), Panama (1964 ), Indonesia (1965), Dominican Republic (1965-1966), Guatemala (1966, 1967), Cambodia (1969-1975), Oman (1970), Laos (1971-1973), the Middle East (1973), Chile (1973), Cambodia (1975), Angola (1976-1992), Iran (1980), Libya (1981), El Salvador (1981-1992), Nicarargua (1981-1990), Honduras (1982-1990), Lebanon (1982-1984) , Grenada (1983-1984), Libya (1986), Bolivia (1987), Iran (1987-1988), Libya (1989), Virgin Islands (1989), Panama (1989), Liberia (1990), Saudi Arabia-Iraq Kuwait (1990-91), ), Panama (1925), Somalia (1992-1994), Bosnia (1993), Haiti (1994), Croatia (1995), Congo (1996-1997), Liberia (1997), Albania (1997), Sudan (1998) , Afghanistan (1998), Iraq (1998), Yugoslavia (1999), Yemen (2000), Macedonia (2001), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Haiti (2004)

Wealth - Resources - Labour- Commerce - Geopolitical Power

Empires do not have friends they have interests.

The Face of Empire

The “IDEA”: American Exceptionalism

Neo-colonialism

…is the geopolitical practice of using economic and cultural imperialism to control another country – in practice though often requiring both proxy political and proxy military control as well.


"America is today the leader of a world-wide anti revolutionary movement in the defense of vested interests. She now stands for what Rome stood for. Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor in all foreign communities that fell under her sway; and, since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome’s policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the greatest number."

- Arnold Toynbee (1961)


What is at the Heart of the Darkness

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren...”

Mathew 25:40

Friendship, Kindness and Rightness

Diego Garcia and Haiti

Diego Garcia.

There are times when one tragedy tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic façade… To understand the catastrophe of Iraq, and all the other Iraqs along imperial history's trail of blood and tears, one need look no further than Diego Garcia.

- John Pilger



Mask of Defence

The IDEA’s for the Iraq War

Weapons of Mass Destruction Democracy Security Global War on Terror Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. Reconstruction Winning Hearts and Minds Women’s Rights


“we could not allow in the case of Kosovo ethnic cleansing and genocide to happen right at the doorstep of Europe and do nothing about it.“

- Tony Blair

The Idea

Turkey

“… the US found itself "championing the very Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups who are our mortal enemies elsewhere".

-US Army Colonel Harry Summers

NATO vs Yugoslavia

Argumentum Ad Hitlerum

The Butcher of Belgrade



Ustasha – Croatian Nazis

NATO vs Yugoslavia

Humanitarian Intervention

“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren...”

Mathew 25:40



The Idea

? Kosovo

Turkey Indonesia

? Kosovo

Turkey Indonesia

The “Butcher”, “Terrorist” “Madman”, “Dictator”

is the Pretext.

Control of wealth and geopolitics

is the Subtext.



Member, German Bundestag Vice President, Parliamentary

Assembly of the OSCE

Empires do not have friends they have interests. Empires do not have friends they have interests.


charging senior members


Wealth - Resources - Labour- Commerce

Trepca Mines

http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2010/20101218_ajdoc462010provamended.pdf

Mining in the Congo





George Orwell:

“… an empire is primarily a money-making concern...

the ‘box-wallah’ [business man] calls the tune.”

Adam Smith:

[maintaining an empire is for] “…the private interest of the governing part of it.”

The IDEA for the Afghanistan War

War on Terror Peace Keeping Democracy Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. Women’s Rights The Mission Canada doesn’t cut and run. Reconstruction Winning Hearts and Minds

Summary

A Case Study



Divide and Conquer Divide and Rule

Divide and Leave (or not)

The Myth of Imperial Morality Plays

U.S. – Saudi Salafi / Wahhabi

Proxy Fighters

Illegal Drugs

Petrodollars

Allies attack former ‘friends’

“The comforts of the rich require a great many poor.”

- Voltaire

Sea Lane Choke Points

The “Barbarians” Periphery and Containment

Canadian Forces In Afghanistan

Proxy Fighters Brief Cases of Cash

Pipelines

The Scramble for Wealth/Resources

Questions

Discussion

The Face of Empire. Empires do not have friends they have interests.


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