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Dr. Herb Ruhs & grandson
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The bleaker things seem,
the closer to liberation we come
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by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News June 30, 2008
I get a little dizzy as I scan all the "news" about "the possibility
of war with Iran." The language has been just utterly destroyed. It
becomes progressively more difficult to make sense under the
influence of newspeak. War
exists when parties commit acts of war, not when the press release
comes out announcing that "war has come."
The fact is that we are at
war with Iran and have been for some |
time — blockades, economic
sanctions, cross border raids with destruction of property and
capture of enemy personnel for purposes of interrogation under
torture (all adequately docu- mented by Seymour M. Hersh) are acts of
war, plain and simple. Acts of war make for a war, not
official
pronouncements.
The issue, as it was in Viet Nam (which was also an undeclared war),
is only what escalation of this war will come next. Our military and
its allies are at war in many places in the world, Somalia, Columbia,
Peru being just a few. Accept facts, folks. The fascist regime that
has controlled the US for many decades now has already ignited World
War III, but, like a fire started in oily rags, for a while it just
smolders and smokes. The rest of the world would be fighting back
with full force were it not for the specter of nuclear terror wielded
by the US and Israel.
It is good, perhaps, that the rest of the world chooses not to fight
back, since such resistance practically guarantees the abrupt
destruction of the earth and all human life. Resistance will be by
poorly-armed insurgents. This resistance inspires overwhelming
violence on the part of the world's hyper-paranoid super-elite, who,
in their orgy of destruction, move ever closer to the edge of economic
ruin. Our only hope seems to lie in the collapse of the system
that sustains the hyper-criminality of these elites.
These elites continue to act out medieval fantasies of life in
fortified castles guarded
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The fascist regime that has controlled the US for many decades now has already ignited World War III, but, like a fire started in oily rags, for a while it just smolders and smokes.
The rest of the world would be fighting back with full force were it not for the specter of nuclear terror wielded by the US and Israel.
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by ruthless mercenaries. Laughable
fantasies these. The economic system of medieval Europe has no
resemblance to the highly technical and precariously balanced one
that exists today. In asymmetric warfare, whether it be fought
economically or militarily, the advantage, over time, lies with the
side that has the least to lose in terms of resources and equipment.
Any force willing to submit itself to mass slaughter will eventually
win. With starvation and the ongoing slaughter of their families at
their backs, ordinary people become motivated to accept the risks of
unequal combat. But then, history shows that members of a predatory
elite, driven mad by power, prestige and excess always choose the
suicidal path. Who knows? Perhaps this time it will be different.
Maybe the super-powerful and super-wealthy will, for once, become
aware of this self-destructive cycle of progressive enrichment by
means of robbery and violence and spare the rest of us a perhaps
final cataclysm of violence that promises, this time, to bring an end
to our species.
Increasingly I place my hope in the ever more likely event of high
altitude nuclear explosions, resorted to by some nuclear armed regime
that finds its back to the wall. North Korea, or perhaps an
embattled Pakistan, or some stealth nuclear-armed small country could
choose to set off a small number of primitive nuclear weapons in near
space, and bring an abrupt end to advanced industrial culture by means
of the worldwide destruction of microcircuitry and satellites in the
ensuing electromagnetic pulse.
The advantage from this sort of use of nuclear weapons is all to the weaker power, regardless of the magnitude of the effect, since the less technologically sophisticated the weapons system, the less vulnerable. Any such use would be a desperation move, after all, since the actual consequences are impossible to accurately predict. In any event, such use does serve as an equalizer in asymmetric warfare. An AK47 works no matter what and nuclear retaliation would be problematic because of blowback effects.
Nobody likes nukes, but such a strike would help free the surviving
populations from oppression by the industrialized nations. Local
warlordism and banditry would replace organized oppression, but I
like those odds better than what promises to be total destruction at
the hands of those seeking global dominance. And I could still use
my computer for a door stop.
Vote Nader.
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