Professor Francis Boyle: American Militarism Threatening To Set Off World War III !

• Daniel 7:23 (New King James Version)
  23 “Thus he said:
  ‘The fourth beast shall be
  A fourth kingdom on earth,
  Which shall be different from all other kingdoms,
  And shall devour the whole earth,
  Trample it and break it in pieces.
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• American Militarism Threatening To Set Off World War III ! 
  by Professor Francis A. Boyle, http://www.opednews.com/
  Massive lawlessness by the U.S. government, at home and abroad, requires a response of civil resistance. “Today’s civil resisters are acting for the express purpose of upholding the  rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, human rights, and international  law.” The resistance is lawful.” The U.S. government officials are the outlaws!” 
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  The following is the  text of a speech delivered by Professor Francis A. Boyle at the Puerto  Rican Summit Conference on Human Rights, University of the Sacred Heart, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 9, 2012.
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  ” The serial  imperial aggressions launched and menaced by the neoconservative  Republican Bush Junior administration and the neoliberal Democratic  Obama administration are now threatening to set off World War III.”
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  Historically this latest  eruption of American militarism at the start of the 21st Century is akin to that of America opening the 20th Century by means of the  U.S.-instigated Spanish-American War in 1898. Then the Republican  administration of President William McKinley stole their colonial empire from Spain in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines; inflicted a near genocidal war against the Filipino people; while at the same time  illegally annexing the Kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the Native  Hawaiian people (who call themselves the Kanaka Maoli) to near genocidal conditions. Additionally, McKinley’s military and colonial expansion  into the Pacific was also designed to secure America’s economic  exploitation of China pursuant to the euphemistic rubric of the “open  door” policy. But over the next four decades America’s aggressive  presence, policies, and practices in the so-called “Pacific” Ocean would ineluctably pave the way for Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7,  194l, and thus America’s precipitation into the ongoing Second World  War. Today a century later the serial imperial aggressions launched and  menaced by the neoconservative Republican Bush Junior administration and the neoliberal Democratic Obama administration are now threatening to  set off World War III. 
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  By shamelessly exploiting the terrible tragedy of 11 September 2001, the Bush Junior  administration set forth to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim  states and peoples living in Central Asia and the Middle East and Africa under the bogus pretexts of (1) fighting a war against “international  terrorism” or “Islamic fundamentalism”; and/or (2) eliminating weapons  of mass destruction; and/or (3) the promotion of democracy; and/or (4)  self-styled humanitarian intervention/responsibility to protect (R2P).  Only this time the geopolitical stakes are infinitely greater than they  were a century ago: control and domination of the world’s hydrocarbon  resources and thus the very fundaments and energizers of the global  economic system — oil and gas. The Bush Junior/ Obama administrations  have already targeted the remaining hydrocarbon reserves of Africa,  Latin America (e.g., the Pentagon’s reactivization of the U.S. Fourth  Fleet in 2008), and Southeast Asia for further conquest or domination,  together with the strategic choke-points at sea and on land required for their transportation. Today the U.S. Fourth Fleet threatens Cuba,  Venezuela, and Ecuador for sure. 
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  Toward accomplishing that first objective, in 2007 the neoconservative Bush Junior administration announced the establishment of the U.S. Pentagon’s Africa Command  (AFRICOM) in order to better control, dominate, steal, and exploit both  the natural resources and the variegated peoples of the continent of  Africa, the very cradle of our human species. In 2011 Libya then proved  to be the first victim of AFRICOM under the neoliberal Obama  administration, thus demonstrating the truly bi-partisan and  non-partisan nature of U.S. imperial foreign policy decision-making. Let us put aside as beyond the scope of this paper the American conquest,  extermination, and ethnic cleansing of the Indians from off the face of  the continent of North America. Since America’s instigation of the  Spanish-American War in 1898, U.S. foreign policy decision-making has  been alternatively conducted by reactionary imperialists, conservative  imperialists, and liberal imperialists for the past 115 years and  counting.
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Discretionary spending in the FY 2013 budget was slashed to $1.264 trillion from $1.319 trillion budgeted in FY 2012. America is a WAR economy!
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