A dark chapter
January 13th, 2009Since the age of cannibalism to the present age of so-called human civilisation and democracy, it is the dominant society that has exploited the downtrodden society. Cannibalism, in a sense, is not a stigma on the forehead of humanity, as in that age of bleak barbarism it was eating the flesh of its own species, because of its ignorance. In that age human was unaware of the value and respect of humanity.
When it started using its senses and inner conscience, the age of cannibalism went out. In candling the path of humanity and endowing it with the sense of purity, equality and sympathy, religion also played a vital role. But in present-day-world where media and science rules, it is the use of religion (not religion itself) that is dragging the humanity back to the dark ages. That is all done for the great game of achieving economic ends.
For the economic ends and capitalist designs the dominant societies have started the use of value-laden language and the language of labeling. In this game the US has clinched the title of championship because its media is the ruling media.
It is a double-edged weapon, used on one hand for demonisng the downtrodden society as savage, uncivilised and terrorist, and on the other for raising the sense of jingoism–or in bitter words fascism among the members of the dominant society. This us-versus-them approach has spilled the blood of millions of millions people and divided the great humanity among the Blacks and Whites, the Occidentals and Orientals, the Christian and Jews, The Muslims and Hindus, the Jains and Buddhists and so on. In this division the religion played influential role in yore but in present it is the use of technology and economy that has brought fissures among the human communities.
With the means of communication no doubt the world entered into the age of globalisation. As the dominant nations are the owners of means of communication, so they used it skillfully in propaganda against anti-capitalist elements or the nations that are usually hapless. The use of propaganda in demonising the enemies has been a lethal and fatal weapon in every age. But the French Army under Napoleon used it for the first time used it very cunningly when it adopted the slogan, ” We–the French are fighting for the freedom of entire world.” King George (VIII) of England to this French military propaganda responded in such words, “some foreign forces are the enemies of our internal peace”. It was the first ever planned and deliberate attempt to mould public opinion for military adventurism.
During world war-2, Hitler of Germany also used propaganda against his enemies and called his nation as the first blood of the world. It was the difference of blood that compelled the Germans on the holocaust of the Jews.
German great propagandist and Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Paul Joseph Goebbels in Nazi Germany under Hitle, stressed the government should pay heed on propaganda so that it can win exertion on public opinion.
After world war-2, a great stress was given on propaganda in the US and Lord Harris was appointed the first Director of the US Institute for Propaganda Analysis. Since then the US has dominated the global political pulpit through the force of its propaganda. Though it is not a new phenomenon. For it has been used in almost all the human civilisations. But all the civilisations could not be embanked against the decline through the help of propaganda but contrary it led to the fall of those civilisations. And fell as steeply as a rolling rock crushing the followers of its own civilisation. Now the US has adopted the same path. It has initiated a great game of exploitation against the Muslims. It has so skillfully manipulated most of the people through the force of tools of communications that not only the westerners and the Americans but most of the Muslims believe that beard, toopi–a typical cap, waistcoat and traditional dress is the emblem of savagery, utter ignorance and denotes terrorism. The US must study the stories of the Roman Empire, the British Empire and so on. Where is their elegance and why did they hug the shores of decline and debacle.
When Roman Empire was in its heydays the Romans had at least 37 major military bases and other several hundreds erected around its dominions. It was all done in the same way as the present-day-world the US is doing. But now it is just a past history and a token for reckoning. When the British Empire reached its zenith it had more or less the same no of military bases across the world. The Muslims also witnessed its rise among the nations of the world and saw the downfall of its Caliphate. In India also it embraced the worse defeat at the hands of the British. And the same British Raj was destined with the drub through its former colony–the Egypt under the president Nasser Kamal. According to William Blum, who is a well-known author and critical writer says in one of his piece “the Suez fiasco not only destroyed Eden’s prime ministership, it also marked the end of British imperial ambitions”. All these civilisations considered themselves better than the others and widened the gulf between the human minds with the names of cast, tribe and nations approach. Don’t go so far back but just have a glance in the history of the USSR and its repressive policies.
The Soviet Union also bubbled and went out just in a span of 76-year. It invaded Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Afghanistan in 1989. At length its intervention in Afghanistan culminated at its fractures. And now the US has repeated the same blunder of attacking Afghanistan. And soon it will embrace the same fate as the then USSR had.
Though Russia the posterior of the then USSR once again is striving hard now to regain its past elegance but it is 2009 and the US has gored it to the extent that it will be hard enough to the role of the its predecessor.
The Nazi German and Napoleon France all rose to height but fall steeply and headlong. In all these vicissitudes the deviant and downtrodden societies have been exploited, blamed, tortured and considered inhuman through the hands of its’ own human species.
As the expansionist designs led to the fall of the former USSR now the US has started walking the same route.
The Pentagon has no less than 761 military bases and sites across this planet. But all this is a labyrinth of “us versus them” approach to keep its general masses in ignorance of its military adventurism and its capitalist imperial designs or global-policemanism. According to the Pentagon, it has even toady more than 123 bases only in Japan, at least 87 in South Korea and no less than 38 on the tiny island of Okinawa. The US defeat in Vietnam War in 1975 led to the loss of its huge military bases in South Vietnam. The war ended on the loss of three million Vietnamese and the US military adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan is still going on which has mowed down more than one million only in Iraq. It has stationed its military forces on the rich-oil-land of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Kosovo but under the garb of a Messiah and that too at the cost of their own expenses. The US has even today at least military bases in 130 different countries, which is a crystal clear proof of its quest for global hegemony. The war on terror is but a sub part of the Washington’s policy for global hegemony.
In this whole game of terror the US has excessively and successfully used the language of allegation. Especially the use of such language reached its high water mark after the incident of 9/11. Is it logical to call a handful of al-Qaeda, a major threat to the very existence and security of the US? The same US that is so arrogant on its military strength that has been thumping its chest for having the propensity to send its troops across the globe but to hear the words like, “they are out to crush us” of its mouth are more than ludicrous. That is the deadly lie of 21-century responsible for the loss and bloodshed of millions of Muslims around the globe.
The US has not waged war on terror but war for terror. The US under the rule of Mr. G.W Bush defaced America to the extent wherefrom it is difficult for her to make its way back. The persecutions it carried out on the detainees of the Gitmo are an inhuman smudge and a stigma on the forehead its so-called democratic face. The world including the US masses waited for the time to come and see the departure of this devilish man from the White House. It is the same house where the destiny of the small nations is written. After Iraq and Afghanistan now the destiny of FATA is underway.
The same FATA where you will see only the pale, wrinkled and poverty stricken faces of thousands of tribals. Where a single man has to feed 20-30 members of a family. Where there is no factory to work in. Does such a territory and its inhabitants are a major threat for the security and existence of the US–the world’s only superpower and rogue state? Surely no.
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Your piece is a general critique, without suggestions, on the hegemonic system which now is of capitalism led by the US, where ethic is absent. Moral factors are largely hoped to be integrated in politics, started by Obama administration to bring an end to this injustice, otherwise suffering continue arising in the whole world.
Obama wouldn’t change anything. He would still follow ‘American interests’. Even if the superpower was today let’s say China or Pakistan or another country. Would that change anything? If you look to the history of America, you see they first saw themselves as a sort of ‘anti-Imperialistic’ nation, while in fact they just killed the whole population of North-America. They confronted Spain for taking over the Philippines. Instead of retreating they started to occupy it themselves and hence the American ’super power’ was born. I don’t think it would make a difference if we would replace the word American, with Chinese, Arabic, Kurd, Turk, etc.