Depopulation part 3

“From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.” - William Blum

“ ... the United States [is] cast in the role of Praetorian Guard, protecting the interests of the global financial order against fractious elements in the Third World. ” - John Stockwell, former CIA official and author

Someone posted a comment on another blog regarding my Kissinger quote on part 1 of this series. I have been a bit busy of late, so I did not get a change to respond there, so I will respond briefly to the comments as a whole now.

The quote: “Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.”- Henry Kissinger

The basic gist of the commentary was that the context of the quote needs to be considered. The context being that we need to help those poor third worlders get their rampant population under control. The commentary went on to say that this sounds reasonable.

Perhaps it does at first. We are all assaulted with those awful and terrifying images of poor, starving children with extended bellies and flies crawling all over their face. Everyone but a psychopath would be moved by such startling images and the awful suffering they portray.

Although, perhaps we in the west have become immune to such imagery. We have almost gotten used to the fact that those poor Africans live in appalling conditions and ignorance.

If we searched no further than the vague recitations of famine from the nightly talking head, then we might think bad luck. Or we might process vague racist notions about Africans who just can't seem to pull themselves together.

We may not endorse such atrocious pseudo science like The Bell Curve, but we may not be aware that endorsing such awful talk of Kissinger saying we need to help those Africans “depopulate” is equally, if not a more subtle, racism fueled entirely by our ignorance.

How come Africa cannot seem to help themselves?

Thinking the Unthinkable - World Violence as a Solution to Overpopulation and Resource Collapse

Keep in mind that it was only about a century ago that Native Americans were being systematically exterminated - to provide room for capitalist expansion. We may tend to blame it on some kind of wild-west pioneer mentality, but to the land speculators, the railroad builders, and the east-coast bankers, it was a fully-conscious program of business expansion through genocide. I ran across a confidential letter written by Thomas Jefferson, for example, in which he gave advice to an official about how the natives could be most efficiently killed off (it had to do with encouraging them to get into debt.)

Let's look at some of the things the West, especially the US, is doing in African countries such as Rwanda and many of its neighbours. First of all, the IMF has systematically destroyed the economies - in some cases utterly. From this cause alone, large-scale famines began. Then civil strife 'arose'. Indeed strife did 'arise' out of the abysmal economic conditions - but it was helped along with a strong push from US military advisors, and with shiploads of modern Western armaments.

The training emphasis was on 'security operations', which translates into the creation of death-squad militias, much like those in East Timor - which were also US trained. Out of these Western-sponsored civil-wars, further genocide occurred, partly from increased famine due to disorder, and partly from slaughter. No massive 'humanitarian' intervention effort was considered, I suggest, because what was happening is exactly what was intended to happen - genocide _is the fundamental agenda being carried out! Hence the corporate global media simply reports these events as unfortunate, unavoidable, due to ancient ethnic hatreds or droughts, etc. etc.

Another thing the IMF and World Bank are doing is dismantling health-care facilities in these parts of Africa. Under IMF structural requirements, the budget for health care is limited to something on the order of $3 per person per year. A new 'philosophy' of health care has been adopted. Under this philosophy professional health care is seen as being an 'elite institution', and the population instead is to depend on untrained lay people to provide their care. Of these events, the elite media is simply silent. [...]

Improve a populations wealth, stability and education and the birth rate drops. If we left Africa alone, stopped supporting dictators, and stopped forcing Africans to grow exports for the wealthy western world so that they could grow food for their own population than their would not be so much chaos and entropy there. To think otherwise is racist.

For Kissinger to discuss depopulation, and make it sound like he is some benevolent force in the world is just an ingenious tactic that whore uses to cover up the crimes of his masters. He is neglecting to mention what brought about the incredible suffering because he works for the people that deliberately and calculatingly brought it about.

US in Africa: Partnership or Pillage?

By Yifat Susskind
Spring 2000

Alarming reports about the specter of famine in the Horn of Africa have recently resurfaced in the media. The culprit, we are told, is insufficient rainfall. But while a drought might ruin harvests, mass starvation cannot be blamed on the weather. Famine is caused by grossly disparate access to resources; yet the idea of famine in Africa as “natural” disaster persists as part of a broader web of images.

Africa is a diverse continent three times the size of the United States with over 50 countries and 3,000 languages. But it is consistently portrayed in the US as a monolithic mass of primitive tribal wars, disaster, disease and death. The images are so pervasive that it's difficult to discuss African social and political problems without triggering the “dark continent” myths that everyone in the US ingests.

Part of what makes these images so powerful is that they are presented to us without explanation, as though chaos and suffering were the natural condition of Africans. Only when we extend the picture of African “victims” to include their victimizers, can we begin to see a schematic of cause and effect; of actual people and policies that create and maintain the poverty, violence and disease that appear endemic to Africa. [...]

The end of the Cold War was like taking the lid off a pressure cooker in Africa. The interest of the big powers evaporated, creating a vacuum which shattered weak states and exploded long-simmering civil conflicts in Rwanda, Somalia, Liberia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Burundi, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Zaire (renamed Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, in 1997).

The US built much of the arsenals for these wars with $227 million worth of weapons and military training since 1989. Today, the biggest war in African history is raging in the DRC, where the Pentagon has trained or armed eight of the nine warring countries. Most African militaries now receive US training through President Clinton's African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), which pushes even more weapons sales on these countries. The program is couched in a language of self-determination, with slogans like “African solutions to African problems.” But in reality, it serves to beef up those African forces that will protect US interests, while avoiding a direct US military presence. ACRI also sidelines multi-lateral peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations, which may not match US priorities. [...]

“State Terrorism and the United States: From Counterinsurgency to the War on Terrorism” (Frederick H. Gareau)

THE ROOT DOCTRINE

Schmitz makes it clear in his book Thank God They're on Our Side: the United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships that Washington's support for rightwing dictators during the Cold War was a continuation, an elongation and an intensification of a policy developed during the early part of the century. That policy placed the fear of communism, socialism, and the spread of disorder as the centerpiece of its formulation. [...]

The new policy was initiated by the Hoover administration, and taken up and “completed” during the succeeding Roosevelt administration. By 1934 all American troops had been withdrawn from Latin America, except for those at the military and naval bases maintained in Panama and in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The financial supervision of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua was phased out between 1936 and 1940.

Washington relinquished, at least on paper, its right to intervene. For direct forms of dominance, it substituted indirect ones, reminiscent of but less formal than those employed in British indirect rule in Africa. Central to this new scheme was support-economic, military and diplomatic-for local autocrats-for their currencies, their national constabularies, and their personal greed. In return, these autocrats suppressed local communists and radicals, protected American business, and performed other favors when called upon to do so.

The good neighbor policy and the Root doctrine not only accomplished the same essential goals, but the latter was generally more cost effective and presented a smoother surface. No need to invade to change unwanted regimes. Better to support the local military that would make the changes for you. [...]

Personally, I am overwhelmed by the crimes of the elite. To organize and to somehow give a brief insight into the sheer audacity and complexity of these crimes; to sort through the mountainous amount of data regarding these monsters chills me to the bone.

I do not judge anyone for their ignorance, unless it is a willful act. We all have been held in “their” sway and power at one time or another.

Until we got sick and said enough.

By referring to racism in this post, I do not mean to belittle anyone. Calling names is not necessarily helpful, and I do believe plenty of “good” people have picked up racist ideas almost subliminally from our shitty media. The only way to get rid of these concepts is to begin to gain a glimmer of the agenda and why these thoughts, that may not be our own, are lodged there.

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