U.S. Wars and the Climate Crisis
Weekend Edition September 26-28, 2014
The Death Throes of Decline
U.S. Wars and the Climate Crisis
by ROB URIE
As the cliché goes, no one rings a bell when a nation, or empire, is over. What is implied is gradual degradation, irresolvable circumstance as the default mode of social organization. Break or rupture that emerges as different political economy precedes this point of no return. As with the decline of Rome, full dissolution can take a thousand years and reverberate through historical memory for another thousand or more still. What makes itself evident in hindsight is functional incapacitation, a well-working social machinery of irresolution. The modern innovation is the capacity to bring the entire process about with the launch of a few bombs or an inability for environmental resolution.
Such now is the place of the early twenty-first century U.S. with systemically generated polices accumulating toward self-inflicted Armageddon and threatening to take the rest of the world with it. In the same week that saw renewed war for oil in Iraq and Syria it was reported that the Obama administration is rebuilding the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. In this same week that saw the largest climate resolution demonstration in history a series of dim shills for empire, a/k/a ‘leaders,’ went before the United Nations to offer the statistics of misdirection, ten times more than, thirty percent less than, that in context confirm the truism that something times nothing is nothing.
Image (1) above: the U.S. bombing of Syrian oil fields under IS control makes explicit what U.S. motives are. Oil is the ‘currency’ IS is funding itself with the U.S. says. Securing this same currency for itself is the only plausible explanation for decades of U.S. machinations in the Middle East. In his six years in office the only energy programs U.S. President Barack Obama has put forward are either ineffective, such as limiting the use of easily outsourced coal, or are outright scams like his public support for environmental ‘negotiations’ while undermining efforts behind the scenes. Source: BBC.
With his recent misdirection on renewed war against Iraq and Syria and climate crisis the precise question of whether or not U.S. President Barack Obama is the most cynical person who ever lived remains irrelevant. The social ontology that suggested difference, as well as the words of the man himself, back into his fact as President of American empire. His assertion that IS (Islamic State) and Khorasans represent a direct threat to Americans places it in the set of all direct threats to Americans that has around 300,000 thousand dying every year from preventable medical errors. Climate crisis poses greater risks than any Mr. Obama will ever factually address. And his duplicity in undermining climate ‘negotiations’ in 2010 and 2014 while publicly proclaiming support is now a matter of public record.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/26/u-s-wars-and-climate-crisis/
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