Iraq's instability serves U.S. corporate interests.

Chaos Theory
by Mark LeVine

A recent visitor to Fallujah says Iraq's instability serves U.S. corporate interests.
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Mark LeVine is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is the co-editor, with Pilar Perez and Viggo Mortensen, of Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation (Perceval Press, 2003) and author of the forthcoming tentatively titled Why They Don't Hate Us: Islam and the World in the Age of Globalization (Oneworld Publications, 2004).

http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10195

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It is perhaps hard for Americans to understand the U.S. occupation of Iraq in the context of globalization. But Iraq today is clearly the epicenter of that trend, and in this context, chaos is king. Here, military force was used to seize control of the world's most important commodity: oil. And that's only the beginning.

Corporate prospectors allied with the United States search the country like safari hunters on elephants for any opportunity to profit from Iraq's misery—that's how conspicuous they are. Meanwhile, inside Baghdad's green zone, where the U.S. occupation headquarters are located, their innocuous-looking counterparts draft regulations for privatizing everything from health care to prisons.

It is chaos that makes this whole system possible. Without the chaos, Iraqis would not allow the country to be sold off wholesale, or allow the U.S. troops to remain after the June 30th "transfer" of sovereignty.

Without chaos, there is little reason to assume that the imposition of neoliberal globalization, which has wreaked such havoc in so many other countries of the developing world, would be in the process of entrenchment in Iraq. Without the chaos, there would be more reporting on the appalling conditions in the hospitals and schools, which are violations of the United States' obligations as occupying power under the Geneva and Hague Conventions.

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" Without the chaos, there would be more reporting on the appalling conditions in the hospitals and schools, which are violations of the United States' obligations as occupying power under the Geneva and Hague Conventions. "


I suppose if we here in the US of 'Murika get too uppity we'll get another dose of chaos ourselves...and then, gee who really needs those silly elections anyhow,eh??( we can just program all those BBV to vote repub and save everyone the time & trouble of casting their own vote,right?)

Good post G_j...guess I am feeling rather cynical today and this fits right in..sigh...

maybe I need a :hug:

Peace
DR

things have just gotten so nasty. I'm sickened.
:hug: & peace G_j

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9-11 sure played into the chaos theory. The war profiteers have made bundles, the Constitution is being dismantled and human rights violations around the world have skyrocketed.

"Colgate University professor Nancy Ries describes the chaos in Iraq as "sponsored chaos," which fits into the broad definition of chaos theory as an ordered system or purpose underlying seemingly random events. That is, war and occupation are wonderful opportunities for corporations to make billions of dollars in profits, unchecked by the laws and regulations that hamper their profitability in peacetime. Because of this, in the postmodern global era, global corporations and the government elites with whom they work have great incentive to sponsor global chaos and the violence it generates. "

how quickly we forget.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1176484,00.html

Terror as a weapon of occupation

Naomi Klein in Baghdad
Wednesday March 24, 2004
The Guardian