Pepe Escobar Simplifies the Insanity

Escobar's report speaks for itself, so i'm not going to write much. He calls it Full Spectrum Dominance, a term which actually originated with the US SAC (Strategic Air Command) in their Vision 2020 report (late 1990s, early 2000) and detailed the need for the US to control space militarily. Eventually our piping periodista Pepe gets around to this, bringing in the missile defense shield the US is pushing on the new NATO countries (Poland and Czech Republic are to actually get the anti-missile missiles systems, other countries like Hungary and Romania provide related infrastructural needs). Now, before you start having nightmares that Ronald the Raygun has risen from the dead, think back to that period and like John McCain, you'll probably agree: the Cold War geopolitical framework was a lot easier for voters to warp their brains around than the War on Terror for Oil framework. Enough of this elusive taliban shit, snakey Gulf sheikhs and should or shouldn't psychologists be involved in torture. i'm tired of Guantanamo, i want another Cuban missile crisis. White people threatening other white people makes so much more sense, even to the non-white people who are wrecked in the process.

Not sure what to make of this item in the Prague Post about Russia reducing it's oil exports to the Czech Republic by 40% in the wake of the CZ government's anti-missile missile treaty with the US. If, in fact, Russia IS trying to punish the Czechs, well, who can blame them? At least they've done it without a slog of rhetoric decrying Prague as part of an Axis of Evil. The argument that Russia doesn't have the right to take punative measures falls a bit flat in the wake of US policy these past 8 years, wouldn't you say? And while i'd like to maintain that withholding resources as a form of coercive politics is unacceptable, that would be hypocritical given my avid support for sanctions against the Zimbabwean and Israeli governments.

More to come on this topic....