US: The First Global Empire Built on Politics of Sanctions and Military Intervention

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March 20, 2015 (SSB)  –  Sanctions, sanctions and more sanctions! Every day we wake up in the morning holding breath to hear the psychotic Samantha Power speaking on the behalf of Us( the UK, US and the UN )announcing what the so-called targeted sanctions on south Sudan government. Everyone wonders what the US are really up to, is it oil or they want to expand their empire?. The items in the proposed modus vivendi by IGAD are awaiting atomic bombs and even US can’t allow the Iraqi government to have such a band-aid solution signed with ISIL. Can US persuade Iraqi government to have a power sharing with ISIL and for ISIL to have its own independent army within Iraq for a period of evening 6 months leave alone the proposed 24 months by IGAD? .The velocity with which the US wants the south government to concede the impossible and unbecoming demands of the rebels is inversely proportional to the mass of hypocrisy of drone attacks by US in Pakistan and airstrikes in Iraq against ISIL.

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It was early march this year when we saw the US ambassador to UN Mrs Power presiding over the UN Security Council creating sanction regime on south Sudan. The resolutions adopted the travel bans and assets frozen of south Sudan government officials who are branded by Power to be the ones blocking peace. I don’t know who will be the causalities of Mrs Power’s sanction, will it be Hon. Nhial Deng, Hon Micheal Makuei and Hon James Kok Ruai for rejecting the rebels’ proposal to make Riek Machar to be a ceremonial prime minster, or Hon.Dr. Gai Yoi ,Hon. Akol Paul Kordit and Hon. Daniel Awet for signing the Arusha agreement to reunite the SPLM again and maintain Salva Kiir as chairman of the SPLM? Is south Sudan government blocking peace? Really Mrs Power! Methinks not, unless you want the rebels to implement their failed coup on the negotiation table. Are you really call Power? , As English dictionary defines power to be the ability to do work? Am seriously doubting your reasoning capacity. Why your mind is lacking ability to think? I thought whatever you think should reflect the English meaning of “POWER” as your name carries but naïve me! You don’t have ability to think and differentiate the truth from imaginary, no doubt you are suffering from psychosis.

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No wonder what the US wants is oil and to get it, it is prerequisite to install their puppet. The installation of the puppet democratically requires a lot of things to do, like economics sanctions to angry the populations to go on the street and talk trash about the government, overstepping their freedom of expressions asking the elected president to step down and occupying the government premises. When the government intervenes, the US and UN will come in angrily and talk authoritatively that “He (president) is a man who has killed the pro-democracy Protestants and hence, he crossed the red line and lost his legitimacy “. From there, the military humanitarian intervention follows in the name of human right abuses and famine control.

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From the literate to the illiterate, everyone is wondering what the US thinks the sanction is and does it make sense to sanction south Sudan when the government rejected the rebels’ unbecoming demands? The government officials have done nothing wrong to be sanctioned unless US want them to abandon the government and join Riek’s rebellion . Sanctions are political tools that stands between diplomacy and guns, the midway between negotiations and soldiers. They begin where diplomacy ends, and often they come soon after the futility of diplomatic dress down and feasibility studies are done to know which side doesn’t want peace, something mrs. Power knowsnot. The failure of the IGAD to bring both parties to the agreement is due to unbecoming demands from the rebels side but still IGAD is not despair to bring peace to south Sudanese. How many years did the Sudan government and SPLA take to sign CPA? Did the USA sanction government of the Sudan or SPLA for taking long time to agree? where on the earth can you time peace like a football match ?we all know that after travel ban and asset forzen , the economic sanction will soon follow to angry the population for the US to find way to intervene militarily . Economic sanctions are third option used when military intervention is deemed to be either inappropriate or impossible. They are a default policy option, which according to Simon Chesterman and Beatrice Pouligmy “reflect the seriousness of the problem rather than the seriousness of engaging with it.” The political pundits and scientists suggest that economics sanctions and embargo will soon follow this travel ban and asset frozen and finally military humanitarian intervention follows to install Riek Machar like what had happened in Libya, Iraq and other countries invaded by the US.

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The first step against a “target” country is usually the imposition of sanctions- meant to destroy the country’ economy and soften it up for a possible military attack at a later date. Cuba has been sanctioned since 1962. Libya was hit by sanctions from the early 1970s onwards. Afghanistan was sanctioned in 1999. In the 1990s, the rump Yugoslavia was sanctioned. Further draconian sanctions were imposed on Iran (which had already been subjected to sanctions since 1979) on account of a totally unproven nuclear weapons program- with the powerful pro-Israel lobby in America at the forefront of the Iran sanctions campaign. Sudan has been sanctioned since 1997, and there’s been what the US describes as “targeted” sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe since 2003. Syria has been repeatedly sanctioned- even before the ongoing civil war it was sanctioned for being one of the “state sponsors of terrorism.” Sanctions on non-NATO and non-EU member like Belarus were extended earlier this year- and of course we now have US sanctions on Russia.

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Various reasons were given for the imposition of sanctions on these states in different parts of the world, but the real reason is never openly stated – namely that they are, or were, all countries independent of the US and their leaders refused to show enough deference to the empire builders of Washington. The countries targeted in this way can of course expect their leaders to be demonized, and more often than not labeled “The New Hitler,” with Vladimir Putin only the latest in a long line of bogeyman. Washington relies on a cravenly pro-US media elite to make sure that the leaders in question get the full-on “boo-hiss” pantomime villain treatment like what Sudantribune is doing everyday. Even if the leader in question has won regular democratic election victories, he can still expect to be referred to as a “dictator” as Yugoslav President Milosevic, Museveni of Uganda and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He can also be fairly sure to be regularly branded a “war criminal” and “mass murdering tyrant” -labels rarely, if ever, used to describe the US allies such as President Suharto of Indonesia, who presided over the bloodbath in East Timor, in which around 200,000 people were killed or died of hunger, the brutal Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, or indeed Spain’s General Franco or this joker of Euqatorial Guinea mr. Teodoro Obiang who ousted his own uncle in 1978 mr. Fracisco Macias and was sentenced to death on 29.9.1978, executed by firing squad. In july 2003, state-operated radio declared him “ the country’god” and have “ all power over men and things” it also added that the president is in “permanent contact with Almighty “ he can decide to kill without anyone holding me to account and without going to hell.He appointed his son mr.Teodoro Nguema Obiang in 2012 to be a second vice president up to date and possibly he will succeed him. These are kind of presidents the US called “ darlings of democracy”. The “Almighty” is the US , he ( Teodoro) can kill as much as he wants because the oil is flowing to the US and that is what the US wants .

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There is an issue which bothers me and other people alot , why Mrs Power didn’t brand the Israeli president Benjamin Nyatenyahu as “ war criminal” for killing thousands of Palestinians or even rise a motion in the UNSC to send peacekeepers to the West Bank to protect the dying Palestinians from Israeli daily bombardment? This is not even double standard ; this is amazing, primitive and misanthropic. One should not crudely try to make everything suit their interest, calling the same thing black today and white tomorrow. All the Western powers , led by US prefer not to be guided by international law on their practical policies, but by the rule of gun shadowed by economics sanctions and travel ban, they sometimes come out openly invading countries and dishonoring the UNSC resolutions like in Libya , when instead of imposing the so-called non-fly zone over it they started bombing and invading it too. They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can be right.They act as they please; here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle” if you are not with us ,you are against us.” To make this psychosis aggression look legitimate, they force necessary resolutions from international organisations , and if for some reasons this didn’t work, they simply tend to ignore the UNSC and the UN overall if there is little resistance within coming from Russia and China.

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There are numerous write-ups on the debate of whether or not sanctions work; on what sanctions are intended to achieve, and if sanctions-imposers really want sanctions to work the way they declare through their public utterances. Whether sanctions are declared or imposed through individual countries, regional bodies, or through the United Nations, there is always a political context to every sanctions regime. There is always something behind the curtain when US talk of humanitarian interventions, human right abuses and sanctions but one day the world will say enough is enough. US has records of foreign regimes changes for decades either by supporting the rebels, militarily humanitarian intervention ,organizing the popular uprising and fund it through USAID or organizing coups. If these ways fail, they resort to invasion.From Yugoslavia to Somalia, from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Yemen to Libya, and now in Ukraine, the US has intervened under various false pretexts and the result is always the same, destroyed states and massive casualties.For each of these countries the US should have been sanctioned and stopped but the world is passive, subservient or just plain scared that they will be next. But one day the world will say enough is enough to imperialism.Russia and China stopped the US invasion of Syria and what they did to Ukraine is the answer to that but who will really stop the US invasion in south Sudan, Russia or China? I personally don’t know yet because their stand is not clear to me on south Sudan.

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The US can not tolerate any power challenging them in their doctrine of Full Spectrum Dominance and any possible challenger must be destroyed. Like what they are doing now to Iran and Russia .The US, in their self-anointed role as “masters of the world”, deluded by their own belief in their own exceptionalism, continue to commit atrocities and destroy peoples and states worldwide, and they remain unchallenged. They sell their aggressive wars to the people as “humanitarian interventions” or “democracy” operations, but the reality is that all of the recent US aggressive wars have been and continue to be illegal acts and crimes against humanity and peace but no a single country stood up to challenge their evil acts. I would like to tell the people of US,the people who,since the foundation of their nation and adoption of the Declaration of Independence, have been proud to hold democracy above all else; south Sudan will never go silent if you want to walk on us proudly and unchallengeably as” masters of the world”, you ought to know that we are “ masters of our own”.

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If you aggressively invade a country for territory or any other reason it is illegal, if you do the same for ideological reasons or because you are against the president or government it is also illegal. And that is exactly what the US has been engaged in time and time again to expand their empire and promote their interest. Can anyone imagine Guem , an island neighboring Philippine to be under US administration? Do you know how far is the US with Guem? They are not neighbors at all .But the worse of all is that, the people in this island are not allowed to vote in the US presidential elections nor even allow by the US constitution to elect their own local administration. US just hand-pick a typical American not from Guem to be the governor .How do you call that , it is democracy or colonization ? This is what mrs. Power wants, turning the independent country ( south Sudan)to be a territory of the US. The following is a list of countries where the US has organized coup d’états, supported revolutions, overthrown governments, invaded, annexed, supported groups or forces who overthrew or attempted to overthrow governments or outright executed the leaders. Again all of these “interventions” were illegal. Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, USSR, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, Yemen, Yugoslavia and Zaire (Congo) and south Sudan soon will follow.