Gareth Porter (Part 3) Speaking Truth to Power: a permanent state of war

[mikecorbeil]

Overt and covert warring by the US and NATO is about dominating over, controlling, and profiting from other countries' natural resources ; not solely, but nevertheless very, very much about that. And we can learn about it in terms of some African countries, perhaps especially the Congo, from Keith Harmon Snow, whose websites are consciousbeingalliance[dot]com for the site he currently edits, and allthingspass[dot]com for what's become his archive site.

There's overt and covert warring, both.

[mikecorbeil]

"War is a Racket", former USMC Maj Gen Smedley Butler wrote about. He was definitely right. And David Swanson's also very right with his book, "War is a Lie". Chalmers Johnson was right, as are a good number of very good analysts; Pepe Escobar, Michel Chossudovsky, and others.

1953, the US orchestrated the overthrow of the then leader of Iran based on deceptions, i.e., lies. Why? He refused to de-nationalize and to, therefore, allow privatization of the oil.

[mikecorbeil]

War on Iraq was not for oil, but, instead, for strengthening US military presence and domiance in the Middle East ?

No and yes. Some of the war makers definitely wanted the oil, to dominate over it by gaining control of it. Cheney and others did.

And the wars are also for trying to militarily and strongly build up US dominance in the Middle East and Central Asia, but this has a lot to do with also profiting the MIC. These wars are more than for profiting cies, but it's part of the whole.