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Overview of Alter America
If Alter America Is Not Realized
The Future of Real America
Five Scenarios
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Failed State and Beyond
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Armed Revolution
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Escalating Blowbacks
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Armageddon
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Other global Calamities
Failed State and Beyond
The non-governmental organization, Fund for Peace (FFP), regularly
ranks the nations of the world on its “failed state index.” Over 100 nations are put into the “alert” and
“warning” categories. The U.S. is not one of them. One reason is that the FFP is
politicized. Its biggest funders are the federal government, corporations, and
foundations. I suspect another reason is
that the government uses FFP to corroborate the picking of nations ripe for
“democratization,” read that to mean imperialistic subjugation.
Putting the FFP’s list aside, there is ample evidence from the list of
her “sadtistics” (see post dated January 5, 2016) that America already is a failed state or
close to becoming one.Once an economic superpower, America is on the way to
economic ruin according to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Assistant Secretary of the
US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration.
Armed Revolution
If Real America’s course is not reversed she may later this century
experience widespread public unrest and violence that precipitates an armed
revolution (just think of the number of gun carrying citizens in America).
The U.S. government undoubtedly has a contingency plan to combat armed
revolution and is already training for the possibility of it happening (e.g., swarms
of Black Hawk helicopters flying over Minneapolis the summer of 2014).
If an armed revolution were to occur, it would turn into a bloodbath
with thousands of the regime’s tanks in the streets, Black Hawks and drones
overhead and not on training missions, storm troopers, and thuggish,
militarized police. The few protestors’
deaths during the Vietnam War would be multiplied by the millions.
The revolution would probably be followed by a dictatorship, which in
turn would eventually deteriorate into a state of dystopia and ultimate
collapse. That has happened to a few nation states in the history of
civilization and there is no guarantee it won’t happen to Real America.
Escalating Blowbacks
America was born in the womb of war
Will she die in its arms?
---The author
Blowback is an exercise in retributive justice, an eye for an eye.
There are two sources of blowbacks, or retaliatory actions, one internal
involving citizens against their own government, the other external involving
actions against a nation by sources outside of it. Both sources produce
blowbacks varying in size, intensity, and harm done. By “escalating blowbacks”
I mean repeated retaliations against the same target(s) that increase in size,
intensity, and harm done. Escalating blowbacks lead to a “mass of bodies for a
mass of bodies.”
Internal Blowbacks
Internal blowbacks happen probably daily in America. Most are very
small scale, as when, for instance, one or a few citizens protest some
government action or inaction. A few blowbacks have been of a much larger
scale; viz. the Vietnam War protests and the riots following the assassination
of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Then there was the really
monumental blowback with a slight twist, the Civil War.
There has yet to be a military coup against the politicians because
the military/intelligence agencies get whatever they want from them. There has
yet to be an armed revolution by the masses since the Civil War, and I hope
there never will be one.
External Blowbacks
If you agree with the view that the U.S. provoked Japan into bombing
Pearl Harbor then that “day in infamy”
as FDR famously and perhaps deceptively put it, was the most monumental
blowback on America ever carried out by another nation---so far. More deadly
external blowbacks were to follow years later, some on American soil, some on
Americans in foreign countries: the Beirut barracks bombings in 1983, the 1988
bombing of PAA Flight 103 over Lockerbie; the 1993 bombing of the World Trade
Center; the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996; the 1998 bombings of U.S.
embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the “9/11” attack; the Baltimore marathon
bombing in 2013; the beheadings by the ISIS in 2014.
Unless and until Real America’s two habits are kicked more blowbacks
are inevitable according to numerous, very knowledgeable authorities. They include
a) an internal DOD report that was shelved, b) a four-star Marine General who warned that
U.S. drone strikes “are begging for retaliation,” c) a UN special rapporteur on human rights in
the Palestinian territories, d) a former senior advisor to a high military official,
e) a former counterterrorism adviser in the Departments of Defense and
Treasury, e) a former Pentagon official and fighter aircraft designer, and f) a
former chief of staff to a Secretary of
State
Real America’s corpocracy regimes
have carried out over time covert military actions in 134 countries and
currently have authorized torture chambers in 54 countries. Every one of those
countries is a potential source of external blowback no matter how long ago
they suffered at the hands of America. Memories and legends of carnage and
suffering rarely fade. Some of those country’s despotic regimes, usually put in
place as puppet regimes with the help of America’s regime have likely allowed
U.S. drone strikes as a means to thwart internal rebellion as much if not more
so than to thwart external terrorism directed toward the U.S. In Yemen,
however, a country with many drone strike casualties, the parliament passed a
non-binding resolution to ban the strikes.
The likelihood of external terrorist attacks not only increases with
the continued military presence and action of the U.S, but also with advances
in technology and ingenuity in its use. The “underwear bomber” on an
international flight in 2009 to Detroit showed a bit of clumsy ingenuity that
fortunately failed. Can you just imagine a bunch of terrorists brainstorming
new techniques and uses? What might they be? I don’t even want to think about
it, but the regime’s brain center (wherever that is) better think about it
unless it wants to declare peace to the world. Meanwhile, terrorists can and do
retaliate with a simple technique perhaps as old as history itself, beheading.
Armageddon
Armageddon may someday be a reality, not just a scriptural prophecy.
Humanity has had the capacity for total self-destruction ever since America
introduced nuclear bombs to the world. Armageddon could happen by accident
rather than by intent, and there have indeed been several “near misses.” Real
America’s government has lied about, covered up, and underreported these accidents.
It is probably inevitable that there will be more nuclear accidents within our
own borders.
Armageddon could easily happen if there were escalating blowbacks or
confrontations among one or more warriors-in-chief and one of them had the
mentality of the late General Curtis Lemay, who seriously proposed dropping
“the entire stockpile of atomic bombs in a single massive attack” on the Soviet
Union during the cold war. Then there was the former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger who called a high-level nuclear alert in 1973 to “warn the Russians
not to interfere in the ongoing Israel-Arab war and, in particular, not to
interfere after he had informed the Israelis that they could violate a
ceasefire the U.S. and Russia had just agreed upon.”
Nine countries thereabout currently possess nuclear weapons. Not all
of them have signed a treaty agreeing to discontinue expanding their nuclear
weapon capability. The U.S. has the most adversarial relations with three of
those nations, China, North Korean, and Russia. Sometimes the disputes become
overheated and high-level warnings by one or both parties are issued. Whether
these verbal exchanges would ever culminate in an exchange of nuclear bombs
hurling back and forth remains to be seen. Some pundits argue that U.S.
militarism is heading it toward WWIII.
Other global Calamities
Ecocide, Genocide and
Manufactured Plague
Ecocide
Mother Nature may have the last
laugh, or blowback, if we don’t start placating her instead of plucking her.
The planet, offering finite, not infinite resources for human use and having
exceeded its carrying capacity for nearly seven billion humans and counting
almost exponentially, could very well become unlivable eventually with air that
is unbreathable, with soaring temperatures that are unbearable, with water that
is undrinkable, with food that is toxic, and with no oil to lubricate and
combust. Before those extreme conditions there very likely would be an outbreak
of “resource wars.” And we can “depend”
on our military being in the thick of it.
Genocide
Genetic engineering, Real America’s
military discovered, could make its arsenal of biological weapons more
effective by genetically altering them. Since there are very few natural pathogens
that lend themselves to biological warfare, the genetic engineering of
unnatural pathogens is where the military is apparently staking its future in
remaining a superpower and threat to uncooperative nations. The military’s
secretive research arm, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency), has
launched an expensive program called “Living Foundaries,” a misleadingly
innocent name if there ever was one.
Just think of what might happen
if a psychopathic warrior-in-chief, unrestrained military and political
advisers, and mad scientists all came together to plot and unleash an explosion
of unnatural pathogens on their adversaries. Can’t you just picture it next
century; our one-eyed, two-headed, three-legged species walking down the
street, if any streets are left?
Manufactured Plague
The recent scare of a spreading Ebola
epidemic has heightened concerns about biological warfare and Ebola terrorism
in particular. Real America continues to increase its own capabilities for
launching biological warfare. DOD, for example, has reportedly been Ebola
trials on humans in Guinea and Sierra Leone just weeks before the Ebola
outbreaks there.
Conclusion of
Overview Series
If Realizing Alter America Is Impossible
Doomsday Some Day For Real America Is
Probable
Alter America Overview Index of 2016
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First Mobilize
1/11 A Model of Alter America
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