Heating up the Cold War

By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor

Jul 25, 2008, 00:24

You think I’m crazy? It was over years ago? But after all, who is competing for the oil to heat our houses, run our cars, turn the wheels of industry and trucks to deliver food? Why it’s Russia and China, both reconstituted post Cold War One to meet us on the present drawing board for Cold War Two, which will be very cold if they keep getting Iran and other OPEC countries to supply them, outbidding us in the oil marketplace, to power the largest combined population in the world.

Oh, and I did mention our deflating dollar, whose billions in debt China and Russia hold?

Russia has sewn up the Caspian region’s oil and gas, being the big neighbor to the north. China to the East is waiting to suck it up as Iran/Pakistan/China pipelines pour the black gold and gas east not west, null and voiding the purpose of the purported War on Terror, paid for so dearly by 3,000 American citizens, 9/11 being our Pearl Harbor-like inciting incident, to take by force of arms the Midle East’s oil. Ah, but we have Israel to sit shiva with us for the dead in Iraq, Afghanistan, and America, and even to bomb Iran for us. What a boon. Not.

What a bunch of jerks would be more like it, sitting in the White House, with all their neocon friends, Project for the New American Century PNACers, Big Oil billionaires, Defense industrialists, Para-military contractors, Subprime desperados, Money-printing Fed, Tax Cut Zillionaires, Think Tank morons, Conservative Anti-Christs, the whole hoary group, now set to gang bang each other at the annual Bohemian Grove Ritual in northern California. Better them than us. We’ve had enough of their money-wasting orgy.

If you think I’m pulling your chain, check out my friend Karl Schwarz’s article Russian Energy Might Is Wilting Bush’s Dream Of Energy Hegemony. Yes, he’s got maps and charts, and all the stats and a few more articles like Alphabet Soup and How Do Americans Cleanse The Wound Of 9-11?. And he knows his geography way beyond the malls of each coast and how other people in other countries feel about us. He currently lives and works in Hungary with his nanotech company. But he can see over the hill. Curiously the Ameriphobes in DC can’t.

Unfortunately, their Ignorance, Arrogance, and Greed, the initials curiously of one of our more infamous insurance and reinsurance companies, has gotten them on the rest of the world’s Dumb List.

Do I exaggerate? Look around you. What do you see? General Motors on the brink of bankruptcy. Ford chugging behind it. Fanny Mae bending over for Bernanke, or is it the other way around? A crumbling health care system. Even a billionaire investment banker like Peter Peterson about to spend a billion to tear down Social Security -- like to make up for all the lost private industry pensions and health care. The vicious rich looking to have the world for lunch while the world, the real world out there, is ready to pounce on them.

Actually, the First Cold War grew out of America’s fear that Europe would tilt to the left. It brought us such post WW II democracy-saving institutions as Operation Gladio, with leave-behind armies of assassins, murderers, and terrorists, with caches of arms throughout Europe, to level their paranoid playing field. In other words, before the ink was dry on peace, we were in their creating A Strategy of Tension, i.e, screwing up any sign of a left-wing government. Of course, the Russians as well as the Chinese, being among the left-wing governments of the world, sensed someone was coming for them, like now. So they’re coming back. What goes around comes around, not just in California.

The question is did we really need this, any of this: 9/11, the War on Terror, the continued addiction to cheap oil, Star Wars, NAFTA, CAFTA, the North American Union, a One World Government, deregulation that tipped capital to the right, the far right, and beyond that, to the neocons. What also came with it was the bankrupting of Russia, reconstituting it as a market economy (with a Mafia flavor in the Stroganoff), turning China into a “free marketâ€