over a period of weeks or months at the most to provide grist for the mill of the
intrinsically insolvent banking system.
The Anglo-American sphere of primitive accumulation is already implicitly world-wide;
apart from the further penetration of the territories of the former USSR under the banner
of the Jeffrey Sachs plan, there are no worlds left to conquer for London and New York.
Everything therefore depends on increasing the intensity of primitive accumulation
within the existing sphere. Sovereign governments are therefore to be weakened and
overthrown, since their institutions and inherent powers might provide some shelter
against looting pressure; this is what Bush means when he calls for "world-wide free
trade." Important regional powers must be subjected to ritual immolation within the same
logic, while payments are extorted from Japan, the European Community, the Asian
tigers, and others. During these operations, importaqnt concentrations of oil and other
strategic raw materials can be brought under control. This is the thrust of the Thornburgh
doctrine. This is the essence of the New World Order and Pax Americana.
The Anglo-Americans are also impelled towards destabilizations, coups, and military
actions in order to prevent the emergence of alternatives to their world system. The
greatest such challenge would be the emergence of an economic development bloc
comprehending Germany, eastern Europe, and the sovereign states like Russia and
Ukraine, and others asserting their independence amidst the wreckage of the former
Soviet Union. In this sense the overwhelming victory of the pro-independence option in
the Ukrainian referendum at the end of November, 1991, was a crushing personal defeat
for the Bush of the infamous August "Kiev chicken" speech. Bush had attempted to
support Gorbachov until the bitter end, and the reduction of the Gorbachov Kremlin to
minor bureau of the Russian Republic was a further humiliation for Bush, who just two
years before, on the eve of the Malta summit, had professed himself Gorbachov's leading
supporter. As long as even the semblance of Gorbachov remained, Bush had done
everything possible to maintain the illusion of a Soviet Presidency, in somewhat the same
way as the Allies had kept the Ottoman Sultan operating as a puppet out of comfortable
quarters in occupied Constantinople for some years after the Ottoman Empire had
become defunct, having been superceded by Ataturk's republic in Anatolia. Once even
the wraith of Gorbachov had vanished, it was predictable that Bush would attempt to
implement some version of Anglo-American "balance of power" upon the newly
variegated map of Eurasia. An evil and destructive intent might remain as the only
constant.
- New York Times, April 17, 1991.
- New York Times, May 15, 1976.
- New York Times, October 27, 1977.
- See articles by Fox Butterfield and Mary B.W. Tabor, New York Times,> April 15 and
April 17, 1991.