DIE HARD III / Herman Tiu Laurel / February 12, 2014
Philippine media reports and opinions, including those of netizens, are turning reality on its head as to who the real bully is in Asia, by deliberately focusing the spotlight on China when it is the US that has been throwing its weight around in the region since 1945.
General Curtis LeMay, planner of the strategic bombing of North Korea, said, “After destroying North Korea’s 78 cities and thousands of her villages... over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population.” (Actually, it’s 30 percent.)
Then, further south, aside from four million Vietnamese civilian deaths are “two million Agent Orange victims (where) the figure today is greater than 3 million… including children of the second and third generations.” (Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, US)
In the Philippines, apart from the US’ war atrocities at the turn of the 20th Century, the colonial power is leading the merciless financial and economic extractions behind the dictated hemorrhagic debt and expanded Value Added Tax, electricity privatization, blockade of cheaper Chinese infrastructure goods (like MRT coaches), ad nausea.
The public needs accurate information, such as those coming from James Cogan (“US Analysts Debate Plans for War Against China,” GlobalResearch), who wrote: “Seth Cropsey of the Hudson Institute... told a US Senate subcommittee… ‘With China, our objective ought to be to prevent the rise of an Asian hegemony, a power that would destroy the current US alliance system in Asia (And) the alternative being advocated is by Thomas Hammes.
“Hammes, a former marine colonel... published several articles... promoting his ‘Offshore Control’ plan… in 2012 that the US repudiate direct attacks on targets located on the Chinese mainland... preparing for an economic blockade of China, which is included within AirSea Battle (the US war doctrine now) that the US military instead ‘cripple China’s export trade...’ (by) sinking or intercepting and turning back vessels (or) what in peacetime would be piracy on a mass scale. He noted that ‘80 percent of China’s imported oil transits the Straits of Malacca. If Malacca, Lombok, Sunda, and the routes north and south of Australia were controlled, these shipments could be cut off’, causing a massive energy crisis.”
As I have quoted the official Chinese declaration last Feb. 1 at the Munich Security Conference in my last column about the “Chinese dream” being realized with “a good external environment,” thereby adding to global “peace and prosperity,” the Philippines would indeed benefit from this.
Instead, fear and loathing of the Chinese are being inflamed as the specter of a “threat” is raised. But a “threat” to what?
The Philippines’ gold and other mineral treasures have been sucked dry by the US and its allies over the past hundred years. That is what the West does not want to lose.
China is aware of the eventual “economic blockade,” hence, it is investing in commercial ports in Pakistan (Gwadar), Sri Lanka (Hambantota and Colombo), Bangladesh (Chittagong), and Myanmar (Sittwe and Kyaukpyu). There is also a proposed project to open up the isthmus of Thailand (like the Panama Canal) to be known as the Kra Canal. All these are aimed at obviating the passage of Chinese goods around the Straits of Malacca and avoiding any choke-off of trade to and from China. South Asia and Southeast Asian trade will flourish because of these ports; only the West’s strategic interests are threatened.
China basher Ashley Townshend in YaleGlobal Online, for instance, opined, “Viewed alongside the large-scale naval modernization program being undertaken by the People’s Liberation Army Navy many worry that these ostensibly trade-oriented ports will one day be upgraded into permanent naval bases.”
But why should China do as they fear if others do not attempt to sabotage it and the region’s economic prosperity? The fact is, the US and its Western allies continue to discuss plots to choke off China as cited above.
And why would the US and the West want to start a war? From “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” by Michael Rivero: “The United States fought the American Revolution primarily over King George III’s Currency Act, which forced the colonists to conduct their business only using printed bank notes borrowed from the Bank of England… World War I started between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, but quickly shifted to focus on Germany… seen as an economic threat to Great Britain… When the Weimar Republic collapsed economically, it opened the door for (the state) to issue (its) own state currency not borrowed from private central bankers. Freed from having to pay interest… Germany blossomed and quickly began to rebuild its industry...”
British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, “The war wasn’t only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn’t want to.” (Fulton, USA speech, March 1946)
Suck on that, pro-US idiots!
(Watch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m.; tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
Philippine media reports and opinions, including those of netizens, are turning reality on its head as to who the real bully is in Asia, by deliberately focusing the spotlight on China when it is the US that has been throwing its weight around in the region since 1945.
General Curtis LeMay, planner of the strategic bombing of North Korea, said, “After destroying North Korea’s 78 cities and thousands of her villages... over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population.” (Actually, it’s 30 percent.)
Then, further south, aside from four million Vietnamese civilian deaths are “two million Agent Orange victims (where) the figure today is greater than 3 million… including children of the second and third generations.” (Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, US)
In the Philippines, apart from the US’ war atrocities at the turn of the 20th Century, the colonial power is leading the merciless financial and economic extractions behind the dictated hemorrhagic debt and expanded Value Added Tax, electricity privatization, blockade of cheaper Chinese infrastructure goods (like MRT coaches), ad nausea.
The public needs accurate information, such as those coming from James Cogan (“US Analysts Debate Plans for War Against China,” GlobalResearch), who wrote: “Seth Cropsey of the Hudson Institute... told a US Senate subcommittee… ‘With China, our objective ought to be to prevent the rise of an Asian hegemony, a power that would destroy the current US alliance system in Asia (And) the alternative being advocated is by Thomas Hammes.
“Hammes, a former marine colonel... published several articles... promoting his ‘Offshore Control’ plan… in 2012 that the US repudiate direct attacks on targets located on the Chinese mainland... preparing for an economic blockade of China, which is included within AirSea Battle (the US war doctrine now) that the US military instead ‘cripple China’s export trade...’ (by) sinking or intercepting and turning back vessels (or) what in peacetime would be piracy on a mass scale. He noted that ‘80 percent of China’s imported oil transits the Straits of Malacca. If Malacca, Lombok, Sunda, and the routes north and south of Australia were controlled, these shipments could be cut off’, causing a massive energy crisis.”
As I have quoted the official Chinese declaration last Feb. 1 at the Munich Security Conference in my last column about the “Chinese dream” being realized with “a good external environment,” thereby adding to global “peace and prosperity,” the Philippines would indeed benefit from this.
Instead, fear and loathing of the Chinese are being inflamed as the specter of a “threat” is raised. But a “threat” to what?
The Philippines’ gold and other mineral treasures have been sucked dry by the US and its allies over the past hundred years. That is what the West does not want to lose.
China is aware of the eventual “economic blockade,” hence, it is investing in commercial ports in Pakistan (Gwadar), Sri Lanka (Hambantota and Colombo), Bangladesh (Chittagong), and Myanmar (Sittwe and Kyaukpyu). There is also a proposed project to open up the isthmus of Thailand (like the Panama Canal) to be known as the Kra Canal. All these are aimed at obviating the passage of Chinese goods around the Straits of Malacca and avoiding any choke-off of trade to and from China. South Asia and Southeast Asian trade will flourish because of these ports; only the West’s strategic interests are threatened.
China basher Ashley Townshend in YaleGlobal Online, for instance, opined, “Viewed alongside the large-scale naval modernization program being undertaken by the People’s Liberation Army Navy many worry that these ostensibly trade-oriented ports will one day be upgraded into permanent naval bases.”
But why should China do as they fear if others do not attempt to sabotage it and the region’s economic prosperity? The fact is, the US and its Western allies continue to discuss plots to choke off China as cited above.
And why would the US and the West want to start a war? From “All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars” by Michael Rivero: “The United States fought the American Revolution primarily over King George III’s Currency Act, which forced the colonists to conduct their business only using printed bank notes borrowed from the Bank of England… World War I started between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, but quickly shifted to focus on Germany… seen as an economic threat to Great Britain… When the Weimar Republic collapsed economically, it opened the door for (the state) to issue (its) own state currency not borrowed from private central bankers. Freed from having to pay interest… Germany blossomed and quickly began to rebuild its industry...”
British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said, “The war wasn’t only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn’t want to.” (Fulton, USA speech, March 1946)
Suck on that, pro-US idiots!
(Watch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m.; tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
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