WORLD MUST TOSS OFF THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATE COMPLEX = THROW OFF THIS OLIGARCHY AND RETURN TO BEING A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC – COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON

Col. Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell

WILKERSON: “The hypocrisy of the US is beginning to grate on me. We just invaded a sovereign nation called Iraq. We didn’t ask anybody. We fly drones every day across international borders without asking anyone.”

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ASIA PIVOT = US WORK WITH CHINA TO SETTLE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlWRj5zK2Qo

WILKERSON: Pursue a cooperative relationship in solving global crises rather than domination.

Obama is going to East Asia to meet with several officials in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines. = An effort to control the influence of China in region

CHUCK HAGEL = “You (China) cannot go around the world and redefine boundaries and violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion, and intimidations, whether it’s in small islands, in the Pacific, our large nations in Europe. And nations must be clear on this and speak plainly. It takes courage from leaders.”

WILKERSON: “Chinese need to quit bullying countries like Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam. These countries have legitimate claims to properties the Chinese are very grandiloquently claiming. And these problems, these dilemmas, should be resolved in the international venues.”

US = Militarization of Asia + presence of US in and around China = Exacerbate tensions?

WILKERSON: “We (can) move an extra carrier to the Pacific, bring troops out of Afghanistan and put them, perhaps, somewhere else–Okinawa, Guam, Japan, Korea–it’s really not going to be a formidable move.”

WILKERSON: US should move to an alliances with India.

LONG RANGE CONCERN = Japan becoming a military nation with NUKES = destabilizing

WILKERSON: We should be trying to develop a great-state relationship:

1648 Peace of Westphalia = brought peace and stability to a monarchical world
1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk = Qing dynasty + Romanovs in Russia = 200 yrs peace
1940 Atlantic Charter = UK + US to defeat Nazi Germany and Japan

WILKERSON: China and US = Lead the way to meeting the environmental, the sustainability, the water, the energy–you name it, huge challenges confront.

WILKERSON: Settle China’s disputes in tribunals = Sign and ratify in Senate the UNCLOS, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea = US one of few NOT Signing. = Held up by the big US MULTINATIONALS like ExxonMobil, who want to mine the seabed floor for private profit = Not common good!

WORLD = Needs to get out of this corporate complex we’re in. = Throw off this oligarchy = Return to a Democratic Republic again.