Edward Snowden:- The Anglospheric Emperor's New Clothes

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The story of Edward Snowden has shown that the world is no longer the unipolar place, compliant with the dictats of Washington or it's surrogates, that it was in the immediate post Cold War period.

What is emerging in the early twenty first century are complex interplays between big and small players on the world stage. The English language media, certainly in Britain, would like to give the impression that America and its allies are extremely powerful and determine the relations the Anglospheric Empire has with the rest of the world. America is portrayed as the global enforcer of the collective will of the English speaking world, the unquestioning compliance of Britain (and now second team player France too) with US led NATO policies as reported in the popular media, which often attempts to paint the world in very simple terms indeed.

We should I think therefore delve a little more deeply into the offers of political asylum Mr Snowden has had so far from two countries, Nicaragua and Venezuela and what this really means in geopolitical terms on the broader canvas.

Obviously the whole Snowden saga from the time he disclosed the obsessive spying carried out by the US National Security Agency (NSA) on behalf of the mega-paranoid Washington regime, who have it seems correctly come to the view that everybody really is against them.... and as a consequence has gone stark staring mad on Capitol Hill and in Dr Strangelove-style at the Pentagon too.
The Obama regime is palucidly unhinged, but no more so than the Bush regime before it, or during the Clinton years before that.... because since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy the lunatics have completely taken over the Washington corporate asylum.

They are still in charge, but now with a network of moles and patsies in governments and the corporate media giants all around the world whose job it is to redefine insanity and to make it appear rational.
Things have become much worse since the 9/11 Wall Street coup and so by comparison with Barack Obama, Richard Nixon now seems a paragon of propriety and a man of scrupulously high principles.

So it's not going all that well actually, the old world domination game. There is of course a very high cost to having madmen in charge as history repeatedly demonstrates, having a succession of psychopathic emperors has only compounded the problem for the Anglospheric Empire and its NATO satelite statelets.

Mr Snowden has publically revealed what many of us already knew about the complicity of politicians and various organs of state to damage the welfare of the populations, for the benefit of the corporations for whom they work. Mr Snowden himself is an example of privatisation and outsourcing that typifies that virtual empire I have come to call Greater Bilderbergia, which is just another name for the corporate Anglospheric Empire/NATO... or Disneyland meets Psycho as I tend to think of it. 

Snowden's flight has demonstrated that neither China nor Russia are sensitive to Washington's embarrassment, whereas France, Spain, Italy and Portugal are servile US vassal states, as is Austria whose historical record for backing fascist regimes is legendary. All of these are European countries that were complicit this week in air-piracy after kidnapping Bolivian president Evo Morales in Vienna for hours.
During a cringe-makingly unsuccessful bid to outwit Mr Snowden and his supporters in what became a hilarious rerun of GCHQ's very own Keystone Cops

Vienna Police Help CIA look for Edward Snowden

Two Bolivarian Alliance countries in Latin America are suggesting ways of rescuing Mr Snowden from the hands of the empire's secret police. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made a promise during a speech marking the anniversary of Venezuela's independence on 5 July.

He said:

"As head of state, the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the young American Edward Snowden so that he can live (without) ... persecution from the empire.

President Maduro went on to say:-

"In the name of America's dignity .... I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to Edward Snowden."

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega also expressed sympathy for the former intelligence contractor who exposed top secret NSA surveillance programs in early June.

"We are open, respectful of the right to asylum, and it is clear that if circumstances permit it, we would receive Snowden with pleasure and give him asylum here in Nicaragua," Mr Ortega said, according to reports circulated by French news agency Agence France-Press.

Both of these potential sanctuaries for Mr Snowden are ALBA countries [Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América- ALBA] and part of the Bolivarian Alliance which is a significant counterweight to US influence in central and south America.  The membership of ALBA is growing.

Wikipedia helpfully indicates that - The member nations are Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela. At the February 2012 summit, Suriname and Saint Lucia were admitted to ALBA as guest countries.

This is an extract from the Encyclopaedia Brittanica entry on ALBA:-

"ALBA’s main goals are to alleviate poverty and to promote socioeconomic reform through trade agreements that meet each country’s needs, rather than through the neoliberal, or free-market, economic policies that dominated the region’s economic planning and growth strategies in the 1990s. To that end, the ALBA Bank, a regional bank with its headquarters in Caracas —the Venezuelan national capital—was created in 2008 to channel money to development projects throughout the region. Moreover, in 2009 the leaders of ALBA agreed to create a regional electronic currency, the sucre, to reduce the use of the U.S. dollar among ALBA countries. Other, longer-term plans have included the implementation of regional literacy and health care programs, the creation of an arbitration court, and the establishment of a united military force of ALBA members"

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1271045/Bolivarian-Alliance-for-the-Peoples-of-Our-America-ALBA

The growth and success of ALBA is in no short measure a lasting legacy to the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. It represents a new economic and political power bloc with Venezuela at the centre.

The proven oil reserves in Venezuela are claimed to be the largest in the world, according to an announcement in early 2011 by president Chavez and the Venezuelan government. According to the Wikipedia entry the reported proven reserves reach 297 billion barrels (4.72×10¹⁰ m³), surpassing that of the previous long-term world leader, Saudi Arabia.^[1]

OPEC said that Saudi Arabia's reserves stood at 265 billion barrels (4.21×10¹⁰ m³) in 2009.

We are not talking about banana republics here we are talking about an alternative economic model to the gangsterism of the neo-liberalism and corporate power backed by the nazi-like aggressiveness of Global Nato and the Washington regime.

This is a force for good in the world and an economic model that is especially attractive to those countries where neoliberal 'austerity' programmes have been given full reign to ride roughshod over the rights of the people. The UK is one very good example, the US is another....but most English Speaking Anglosphere countries are subject to these disasterous social and economic policies in remarkably similar restructuring. In a world of globalised virtual empires nationalism is more or less meaningless, ideology is far more important and ALBA shows a way out of the insanity our leaders have unleashed upon us, especially over the past decade or so since the 9/11 bankster putsch.

I wish Edward Snowden a long and happy life in whichever country he takes shelter from international terrorism and gangster politics he has held up to public scrutiny and I give him a firm thumbs up to carry on leaking secrets - just because he can - for many years to come. We all look forward to hearing a lot more about the twisted machinations of those elected to serve us and their corporate sponsors too.

STOP PRESS (Saturday 6 July 19.30 GMT) Mr Snowden is spoiled for choice as third asylum offer comes in from Bolivia..... According to Reuters:-

'Bolivian President Evo Morales had said earlier this week that he would consider granting asylum to Snowden. But he took a harder line on Saturday, angered that some European countries banned his plane from their airspace this week on suspicion it carried Snowden.
"I want to tell ... the Europeans and Americans that last night I was thinking that as a fair protest, I want to say that now in fact we are going to give asylum to that American who is being persecuted by his fellow Americans," Morales said during a visit to the town of Chipaya.
"If we receive a legal request, we will grant asylum," he said.'
'Bolivia's Foreign Ministry was not immediately available to comment on whether a formal asylum request had been received.'

All supporters of Edward Snowden should demonstrate their support for the Bolivarian Revolution and Alba countries as a counterweight to the ongoing propaganda offensive and the state sponsored conspiracy theories in the mainstream media.

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