I love over-the-top rants. Really, I do. They’re often a lot funnier, and a lot more easy to dismiss, than relatively well-reasoned opinion pieces.
For example, Andrew Sullivan quotes David Graham duBois’s commentary this past Tuesday.
This “war against terrorism” is in fact an open declaration of war against the peoples of the developing world; initially the peoples of the Middle East and Africa, and ultimately the peoples of South and Central America and the Caribbean, all Asia, the South Pacific and the islands of the Seas – – some four-fifths of humanity.
It is a desperate attempt to meet and overcome this developing world’s growing challenge to the continuation of four centuries of European and American hegemonic domination, exploitation, suppression, insult and injury by its executors in America and Europe.
In pursuit of this objective the events of September 11 are being used to justify the imposition of a wide range of military and socio-political measures gravely endangering democracy as we know it; measures that have as their objective the emergence of an authoritarian, military/corporate state in the U.S.A. This gives rise to serious question as to who really planned and executed the September
11 events.
That’s right, you heard it here first — 9-11 was planned and executed by the European/American hegemony to justify war against the people of Afghanistan, Ecuador, Japan, and Tuvalu. You have been warned.