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Oct 11, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The United States and those with similar profiles continue to impose their colonial and imperialist arrogance and interference with poor nations; the thrust of this vile approach is to make poor nations poorer; and to control the flow of those poor countries’ resources into the coffers of the wicked developed world. History supports the notion that greater poverty induces and attracts greater external dominance; and this is a deliberate act by the self-styled benevolent rich nations of the West.
It is no coincidence that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) emerged on the scene in 1995 to protect the wiles of rich nations. Notwithstanding its charade of applying WTO rules to enhance trade liberalization in the world, the U.S. and the European Union (EU) continue to grant enormous subsidies in agriculture to their farmers. Yet they will not tolerate poor nations to do the same; and if these poor countries refuse to comply with WTO rules, they are hauled before the WTO Court.
Is this not a double standard? And let’s remind ourselves that the recent Doha Round in Geneva collapsed because China and India stood up to the might of the U.S. and the EU because they will have none of their bullyism.
But trade liberalization could be a good working principle if all the players operate under the same rules and apply those rules in a uniform way. The fact of the matter is that trade liberalization, of which the WTO aggressively drives, is a mechanism for protecting the vested interests of former colonial masters and imperialists.
For instance, on paper, in the name of trade liberalization, the WTO had instructed the EU to practice trade liberalization and terminate its preferential arrangement with the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. And this act is now reaching concluding stages, tracing its starting point with the end of the Lome Conventions in 2000, modification of the trade chapters of the Cotonou Agreement, and now the forced institutionalization of the infamous Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
But the WTO’s trade liberalization principle is a mere ploy for the EU to disintegrate the ACP, since the EU no longer sees the ACP as possessing utility value.
And without the trade liberalization argument, this pursuit of disintegrating the ACP would have been politically incorrect and indeed risky vis-à-vis relations between the developed and developing nations.
And so the erosion of the EU’s preferential arrangement with the ACP group had little or nothing to do with trade liberalization, and more to do with shoring up the EU’s vested self-interests; a key strategy in U.S. and EU’s policy relations with poor nations.; and the realisation of their self-interests require the institution of their dominance on the developing world. The rationale for this kind of imperialism was well articulated by Senator Albert Beveridge in 1898 and by president Woodrow Wilson; and President Harry Truman added his piece, thus: “…the whole world should adopt the American system…the American system could survive in America only if it became a world system….”
And now we have Chalmers Johnson, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, with a Blowback Trilogy featuring his books: Blowback (2000); The Sorrows of Empire (2004); and Nemesis (2006); all dishing out disturbing evidence of American atrocities around the world; and how these atrocities are returning to trouble America.
One of the dailies in this country in a recent editorial tried to paint boisterous and unseemly images of Venezuela’s Chavez, Bolivia’s Morales and the Honduras Government as catalysts of instability in Latin and Central America.
Recently, Bolivia and Venezuela decided to expel the US Ambassadors to these countries; and the Honduras Government did not accredit the new U.S. Ambassador to Tegucigalpa. The Presidential Palace Miraflores reduced American Airlines’ services to Venezuela; and President Chávez unraveled one more coup plot against him, purportedly with Washington’s support.
The book ‘Nemesis’ painstakingly demonstrates how American imperialist actions are fast constructing political and economic bankruptcy in the U.S.
Prem Misir

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