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March
24, 2003
A Survival
Guide
How to Live
with a Rogue SuperPower
By WAYNE MADSEN
The
nations of the world must learn how to cope with living on the same
planet with a regime that has resurrected the Nazi war strategy of "blitzkrieg"
(lightning war) by adopting the concept of pre-emptive "shock and
awe" military strikes. Make no mistake about it, the Bush regime,
which came to power through a manipulative election process and then
conveniently used a domestic terrorist attack to seize unconstitutional
powers, will stop at nothing from remaking the world according to its
own concept of a "new world order" subservient to the United
States.
The nations of the
world would do well to emulate the United States and its allies in containing
the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The final aim of the Soviet Union
was a worldwide communist federation. A few neo-conservative political
alchemists have brewed up a new ideological concoction that combines
elements of unilateral militarism, fundamentalist Christianity, Zionism,
and fascism. They plan to spread this political philosophy around the
world using the military might of the United States. Therefore, the
world must be on guard against a dangerous political movement that has
nested in the U.S. government and uses the U.S. military and intelligence-gathering
prowess to advance its dangerous agenda. The international community
must contain the United States and its sordid agenda.
Some nations have
already responded to the Bush regime's bombast and threats. North Korea's
nuclear program was under United Nations supervision until Bush included
the North in his "Axis of Evil." The North Koreans scrapped
a policy of détente forged by the South Koreans and the Clinton
administration and resumed its nuclear weapons program. Pyongyang fears
it is next for an attack. But Iran is also in the sights of the Bush
regime.
When it was included
in Bush's "Axis," it accelerated its own nuclear weapons program.
Already, the neo-conservatives have suggested the U.S. military thrust
into Iraq soon make a right-turn into Iran to eliminate its government
and nuclear program. In fact, the Bush regime secured Iraq's oil fields
before it struck at Iraq's chemical weapons facilities in Nasariyah.
This decision belies all the Bush regime's constant propaganda about
the danger posed by Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction."
It was always the purpose of the Bush regime to seize Iraq's oil. On
that issue, it was on the very same page as Saddam Hussein, who warned
the world that this was the real goal of the oil-centric Bush regime.
A few stray U.S. "precision-guided" missiles struck Iran near
its Abadan oil complex. Considering the agenda of the neo-conservatives,
this was probably a belligerent "shot across the bow" and
no mistake. Iran is the next target of opportunity for the Bush regime.
It has made no secret that it wants to place the Shah of Iran's son
back on the Peacock Throne of an neo-imperial Iran that would be vassal
state of America.
Cuba, fearing an
impending U.S. action with the prodding of the dangerous right-wing
elements in Florida who propelled George W. Bush into the White House
and his brother Jeb into the State House in Tallahassee, has begun rounding
up dissidents who have been in contact with U.S. Interests Section personnel
in Havana. The U.S. Interests Section in Havana should be sent packing
by Fidel Castro.
Venezuela's President
Hugo Chavez, knowing full well that the Bush regime tried to oust him
in a made-in-Washington uprising almost one year ago to gain control
over Venezuela's oil wealth, is arresting political and labor leaders
who backed the coup. He is wise to do so.
The decision by
Mexico and Chile to refuse to support the U.S. resolution in the U.N.
Security Council means they will come under intense Bush regime pressure.
The intelligence services of these countries must be on guard against
the activities of U.S. intelligence operatives, particularly those of
the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). U.S. Defense Attaches, who work
for the DIA, must be closely watched and their visits to military bases
should be barred. Similarly, Guinea and Cameroon should be wary of U.S.-backed
subversion among domestic ethnic and religious groups. Certain groups
in these countries should be on guard against attempts by U.S. covert
operators to fan the flames of their own grievances against their governments.
These groups, which have legitimate complaints against their own governments,
should, nevertheless, open a line of communications with their capitals
to ensure the Bush regime does not try to stage a rebellion or an "incident"
to punish these nations for their lack of support in the U.N.
It is no secret
that Russia, China, Brazil, and France,among others, are making military
contingency plans that include the possibility of military conflict
with the United States. Nothing shoud be taken for granted with a Bush
regime that clearly is under the influence of religious suicidal cultists
who literally believe the apocryphal events described in the biblical
Book of Revelations are soon going to happen.
But these efforts
are clearly not enough. To contain the Bush regime, the international
community of nations, including the United Nations and regional blocs,
must take the same steps that the West took against the Soviet bloc.
National intelligence,
counter-intelligence, and law enforcement agencies that should have
already identified U.S. diplomats in embassies and consulates who are,
in fact, intelligence and law enforcement agents, should limit their
travels to a 25-mile radius of their diplomatic missions. These agents
should also be barred from sensitive military, government, and critical
infrastructure installations. No restrictions should be placed on the
many U.S. diplomats who are opposed to the policies of the Bush regime
and who may serve as valuable sources of information on the future destabilizing
military, political, and economic plans of the regime.
Customs officials
should carefully inspect incoming American diplomatic pouches that might
contain electronic surveillance equipment. A number of U.S. diplomatic
missions host Special Collection Elements for the U.S. National Security
Agency (NSA). Satellite dishes atop U.S. compounds transmit captured
communications and other signals, via encrypted channels, to the NSA
and the Special Collection Service where the intercepts are processed,
analyzed, and stored in Echelon "Dictionary" databases and
a frequency database called RASIN (radio-signal notations).
U.S. naval visits
should be banned. A number of U.S. Navy ships come equipped with Direct
Support Units, sophisticated electronic surveillance units that are
designed to identify critical frequencies and pick up signals while
in port. These signals are transmitted to NSA and fed into the databases
described above. It is difficult to ascertain what vessels contain such
units since they are often relatively portable and can be moved from
one ship to another.
Nations shuold pull
out of U.S. military and law enforcement training programs. These programs,
such as International Military Education and Training, (IMET), Enhanced
IMET, Joint Combined Education and Training (JCET), and regional programs
like the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly
the School of the Americas), Africa Crisis Operations Training and Assistance
Program, Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the George Marshall European
Center for Security Studies, the Asia-Pacific Center, the FBI's International
Law Enforcement Academies in Budapest and Bangkok, are used to identify
agents of influence and pry into military and counter-espionage capabilities
and other secrets.
Countries hosting
the headquarters of international organizations should sweep their premises
for U.S. listening devices, computer surveillance software, and other
espionage tools. A U.S. "surge" surveillance operation against
missions to the United Nations in New York and the European Commission
in Brussels was recently discovered. Care should be taken in not using
the counter-espionage services of the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia,
Denmark, the Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, and Japan until the governments
of these nations are replaced by ones opposed to the Bush regime's policies.
Canada, Mexico,
the Bahamas, and other countries should immediately expel U.S. customs
and immigration agents. These personnel are now part of the Department
of Homeland Security, which now has a significant espionage mission.
These agents are now charged with collecting political information on
foreign citizens and feeding that information into U.S. databases containing
"lookout" and black lists on non-terrorists who are merely
opposed to U.S. policies. Expelling such individuals will make it harder
for the Bush regime to amass political information on people abroad
who are exercising their constitutional rights in their own countries.
Nations should cancel
all military, intelligence, and law enforcement exchange programs with
the United States. These include defense expositions, air shows, and
personnel exchange programs. These programs are being misused in order
to gather intelligence on the military and other defensive and offensive
capabilities of neutrals, friends, and allies.
Nations should ensure
that the United States has no direct access to sensitive domestic economic,
statistical, and financial tracking computer networks. This will prevent
any attempt by the Bush regime to destabilize monetary, banking, and
stock exchange systems to further its aims.
Nations should strictly
examine the purpose of U.S. research and development academic exchanges,
especially in the areas of nuclear research, missile defense, avionics,
genetics, digital communications, and other areas where the United States
military-industrial complex is seeking to exploit foreign scientific
expertise for military purposes. Nations should develop their own independent
means of broadcasting international news. The White House, Pentagon,
and State Department have established sophisticated propaganda, disinformation,
and misinformation programs to spread false and slanted news stories
around the world. The U.S. State Department established a unit during
the Cold War that immediately refuted Soviet disinformation and forgeries
placed in the international media. Considering the use of false intelligence
and plagiarized academic papers and articles by the United States during
the U.N. Security Council debate on Iraq, nations should establish their
own units within their Foreign Ministries to refute such propaganda
and disinformation. Television and radio networks should rely on independent
sources for their news since CNN, Fox, Sky News, ABC, NBC, and CBS are
all now embedded in U.S. military units and do the bidding of their
military and corporate handlers.
Media networks should
also ban running advertisements produced by the U.S. State Department.
These are part of a Bush regime advertising campaign designed to place
a "happy face" on its xenophobic, racist, and fascist domestic
policies aimed at foreign visitors and legal residents, as well as naturalized
citizens. In particular, State Department ads, disguised as documentaries,
that portray Arab and Muslim-Americans living in peace and harmony should
be strictly avoided. Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, and Egyptian television
networks have already refused to run these commercials.
These measures and
others were once taken by a democratic America that sought to free captive
and subjugated nations and peoples from the yoke of Communism. That
America no longer exists. By taking concrete action against the dangerous
regime that has seized control over a super power, turning it into a
virtual rogue state, the nations of the world might help restore a democratic
and cooperative government in Washington. Until that day comes, every
nation from Cuba to France, Turkey to Nigeria, India to New Zealand,
and Russia to South Korea, must remain vigilant and take immediate measures
to protect their national sovereignty from a menacing Bush regime.
Wayne Madsen
can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
Today's Features
Alexander Cockburn
Ominous Signs
David
Lindorff
Peacekeepers at Ground Zero
Diane Christian
Blood Sacrifice
Kathy
Kelly
The Morning After Shock and Awe
John Stanton
US Bombs Iran
Wayne
Madsen
How to Live with a Rogue Superpower
Anthony Gancarski
Iraq and the Death of the West
David
Vest
Earth vs. Bush
Ahmad Faruqui
The Liberation of Iraq in Perspective
Robert
Fisk
We Bomb, They Suffer
Website of the War
Iraq
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