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To: sea_urchin who wrote (18103)	4/28/2003 9:39:43 AM
From: Gary H	Respond to of 81003

<Still waters run deep.> And those still waters can turn to sea of fury by a strong wind. In this case that wind is the blow-hard US.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (18103)	4/29/2003 8:23:55 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81003

>Paris and Berlin prepare alliance to rival Nato blackcommentator.com >>>Only a fool would not assume that last weekend's St. Petersburg summit of Germany, France and Russia was not consumed with the nuts and bolts of erecting defenses against American geopolitical aggression. And only foolish heads of state would admit it. Every actor in each emerging or mature economy is compelled to pursue alternatives to doing business with America, the rogue state that recognizes no rules but its own declarations. China has surpassed Japan as the country with which the U.S. has the largest trade deficit and remains a command system, able to move as a body to favor or disfavor the United States if her political will is tested. The redlining of the U.S. has begun. Like the banker who smiles broadly as he denies that such a thing as redlining exists, then offers his card and his sincerest Good Luck, the world can simply pretend that nothing hostile to U.S. interests is occurring. The effect will be as devastating as redlining the ghetto, a place that is depressed because nothing good happens there. As we discussed at the beginning of this piece, the U.S. position among nations has long been buttressed by artificial advantages. When these advantages were threatened, a Pirate class schemed to gut the world system in order to secure absolute advantage. But even the world's mightiest military cannot coerce trade and collaboration from an unwilling planet. As the world recoils from its grasping embrace, the U.S. will shrink. The process will be punctuated with a great deal of drama. It is possible that the world will not survive the convulsions of mayhem precipitated by the would-be hegemon - but that has been a possibility for the past half century or so. Certainly, many millions will perish less dramatically. TransAfrica Forum executive director Bill Fletcher said: The military action against Iraq is not just about controlling oil and not even just about empire. It's about economic competition with other powers; about the Bush administration framing global capitalism in an image that it wants with its 'new international economic architecture' via the IMF and World Bank.... This will exacerbate the increasing economic polarization of the last 20 years, further impoverish much of the globe and send a message to all: displays of resistance will be met with force."<<<