The Canadian National Newspaper: Iraq and Afghanistan War Culture and Prism responsible for Financial Crisis

The corporate mass-media is playing a key role in seeking to shape the broad public perception of the current financial crisis. The corporate mass media, in its public relations capacity, has sought to specifically create a public perception that prevailing economic problems, are a separate issue from on-going military adventurism in the Middle East. Notably, CNN anchors habitually portray an alleged "shift" away from the American people's concern for the Iraq War, to domestic economic issues.

However, it is apparent that on at least two levels, the Iraq War was in fact, a direct precursor to the prevailing financial crisis. The first level, is the actual cost of the war to the American taxpayer, and the second level, is an apparent culture of parasitism against the American taxpayers.

The same group of dissemblers who unethically fabricated the Iraq War, also sought to engage in similar unscrupulous practices on Wall Street, and that in turn, produced the financial crisis. Indeed, the financial crisis is the result of an ego driven agenda by elites, who pursue insatiable commercial profit and power, with total disregard to civil society. The machinations that led up to the prevailing, financial crisis poignantly show that capitalism does not enhance, nor need the presence of, socially responsible and constitutional government. Instead, the financial crisis and the Iraq War as one of precursors to it, illuminates capitalism as technique of governance that fundamentally subverts the democratic potential of a society.

Indeed, the dysfunctional culture that engineered the Iraq War, also engineered the Financial Crises. Having engineered the prevailing Financial Crisis, the Wall Street manipulators now seek to use taxpayer funds., to cover an agenda by a group with a predatory agenda against these same taxpayers.

Martin Wolk, CNBC's Chief Economics correspondent, had reported in the article "Estimates vary, but all agree price is far higher than initially expected" on 17 March 2006, that the "Cost of Iraq war could surpass $1 trillion." LINK The idea that such an evaporation of taxpayers money would not have profound adverse consequences to America's quality-of-living, is an idea, that CNN, and other such corporate media, have sought to proselytize.

It has been well documented that the U.S. President George W. Bush administration, used the pretext of verifiably falsified intelligence on the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. Having done that, this same Presidential administration, on behalf of elites, has continued to siphon-off vital U.S. taxpayers dollars out of the U.S. civilian economy, and then send that money many thousands of kilometres away, into Iraq, and also Afghanistan. It has been also well documented how these well connected elites have gained access to lucrative contracts as a result of War in Iraq and Afghanistan, often with extremely poor results other than generating great commercial profits.

CNN, and other such mass media organizations, have neglected to mention that a more socially responsible Presidential administration, would have not have launched the Iraq War (and the corresponding "War for Oil" in Afghanistan), and that type of administration would have instead, invested that $1 trillion into social programmes (from public healthcare, to job training, and broadly toward job creating social infrastructure projects). As a result, millions of Americans could have had the social and economic security, that they have been deprived of, as a result of military adventurism -- and domestic suppression of human rights and civil liberties.

Through the Afghanistan War, the American aristocracy, and its confederates in the European Union, seek to perpetuate adversarial military retributions, designed to prod contrived enemies into counter-attacks. In turn, that can be used to legitimate demands for more money, away from a peaceful civilian economy, and into the apparent criminal orchestrators of military adventurism.

The corporate mass media has also served to perpetuate support among the American people for military adventurism, by creating an irrational fear that an American pull-out from Iraq (and Afghanistan), would throw the Middle East in to some kind of turmoil.

The most plausible scenario of an American pull-out from Iraq and Afghanistan is not more turmoil, but peace and normalization. The orchestrators of military adventurism, rely on maintaining an agenda of fear and insecurity, that can make sure that economic parasitism can continue. Naomi Klein's book Disaster Capitalism, indeed explores the mutation of capitalism into preying on human fear and dislocations, in the pursuit of insatiable commercial profit, power, and eugenic control over the 'masses'.

Henceforth, it is the perpetuation of American military adventurism, that is throwing the Middle East into a worsening culture of deprivation and violence, that well connected elites have sought to exploit and parasitize. America has become a capitalistocracy, i.e. "government by capitalists", rather than substantively a democracy, "i.e. government of, by, and for the people".

It is this same parasitism within America's capitalistocracy, that has sought to use the American people to "write-off" a cynical agenda. The Bush administration's proposed $ 700 billion "bailout package" to Wall Street, could be viewed to be analogous to providing financial compensation to a den of thieves.

Americans who expect that any money being used by such thieves would be used for any other reason than to further subsidize thievery, may be asking a lot. Therefore, it is time that the American people consider an alternative economic system to capitalism, that would better serve the American public desire for the affirmation of an ethical democracy.

The book entitled Quality-of-Living and Human Development provides such a context for exploration. Another book entitled Capitalism is Not Democracy challenges Milton Friedman's implication in his book entitled Capitalism and Freedom, that capitalism serves to reinforce democracy. This other book systematically challenges this apparently deceptive thesis, by that capitalistocratic luminary.

Future falsified scenarios for the perpetuation and for the contriving of wars, toward worsening spiralling financial crises, cannot be prevented by bailing out the masterminds of generally unethical, and specifically criminal conspiracies against taxpayers. A political democracy can thrive if it is alternatively reinforced by an economic democracy, in which the primary focus is on human quality-of-survival, and is not centred on "capital"-focused considerations.

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