By Udo W. Froese,
non-institutionalised, independent political and socio-economic analyst and columnist based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
PROBLEM-reaction-solution. Create the problem, encourage the reaction, as something has to be done about it and then offer the solution. Create the chaos and then offer ways to restore order. This simple agenda is one of the oldest dirty tricks in politics and economics.
The former, very powerful US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, based his policy recommendation for southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe) on the premise – “The Whites are here to stay in southern Africa and the only way that constructive change can come about is through them. There is no hope for the Blacks to gain the political rights they seek through violence, which will only lead to chaos and increased opportunities for the communists.”
Kissinger further said: “The possibility of the various peoples of the region resorting to armed revolutionary struggle is perceived (by the imperialist, neo-colonial West) as a sort of destabilising problem, which could only serve the interests of China and/or the (former) Soviet Union.” In other words, whilst China was accorded ‘legitimacy’, revolutionary movements in Africa on the other hand, would have to be contained and defeated. Kissinger, and the former Prime Minister of colonial-apartheid South Africa, John Vorster, compared notes in Zurich, Switzerland in September 1976 on how to “save the white skins of the rulers in Pretoria. They eventually agreed to a democratically camouflaged neo-colonialist programme in Namibia, as it would be good for Washington too.” This is how the defunct “Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA)” was born. But, it was not recognised by the Swapo Party, or by the international community at the time.
Regarding Namibia, Kissinger declared: “South Africa had taken positive steps and the fact, that Namibia would soon be independent is an important breakthrough.” Since then the Swapo Party returned home and formed the new, independent and democratic government. The DTA ceased to exist, quite similar to the Nationalist Party that had ruled brutally through its racialist structures and laws, as well as occupied Namibia. It collapsed into the democratically elected ANC. After that so-called ‘cold war’ and with its southern neighbour also under indigenous African rule as from May 1994, the known imperialist monster, hell-bent on a global conquest based on neo-feudalism and capitalist terrorism raised its ugly face. Corporatisation of politics has turned democracy into a farce, as a global dictatorship and its tentacles hold the world in its vice grip.
‘Globalisation’ together with the ‘New Economic World Order’ guaranteed corporatisation the absolute ownership and control over finance and banking, industries and mining and the economy. This has empowered a psychopathic neo-feudalist few, who also control governments. They own the corporate mainstream media too. In addition, established well-funded foundations, NGOs and CBOs further the cause of global imperialism. A psychopathic self-righteous mindset of exceptionalism, which is a dangerous form of an aggressive and elitist arrogance make up the ingredients of wars and sanctions. An additionally corrupt judiciary and an over-liberal constitution allow the agents of the superpowers and their proxies to abuse such and destabilise whole continents. Together they have structured alternative governments around sovereign states in Third World countries.
Huge and powerful sophisticated war machineries deployed throughout the world enhance and protect the destructive syndrome of conquest. It has little, if anything to do with a self-assumed moralist role as reflected in the foreign policies of the superpowers. But, it has all to do with the primitive and disrespectful mindset of an amoral, isolationist superpower without substance. A global research monitored by author and journalist, Professor John Pilger, showed that the majority of those questioned as to whom they fear most as warmongers, they point to the imperialist superpowers of this time.
Their proxy warlords and their regimes would also be included in the most feared categories of warmongers. It is in their confused minds that the proxies expect to be honoured and respected for executing the wilful propaganda, political and economic wars for and on behalf of their powerful masters in the respective regions of the world. To achieve such despair, many deals had to be cut in order to grow global control. This is the current state of affairs in 2013 that Namibia too has to come to terms with, more so since oil has been found.
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