"A barbarian is a man who believes the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature" - George Bernard Shaw

Introduction

In 2004 the Pentagon's "Interim Global Strike Alert Order"  enshrined America's unilateral Right of Pre-emptive War. They can strike any country at any time for any reason. This includes Nuclear first strike. After World War Two the UN established (unanimously) that "to initiate a war of aggression [unsanctioned by International Treaty] is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole". Nazi War Criminals were hung for this crime. The American Regime states that it is going to commit this crime and tells you - in advance that it is a matter of US policy.

Don't kid yourself that you live in a Country that is one of America's friends. How long do you think that will last? Do you recall how France was treated prior to Gulf War II? In the competition for world resources anyone who gets in America's way will have to watch their backs. You, me, everyone. It is only a question of time before we make the list of enemies.

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Share with us this: vibrant local communities across the Planet. Economies that sustain. Money systems that are just for all. Stability. Security. Disengagement. Peace.

Share with us this nightmare. A monotonous globalised world. The powerful with dominion over the weak. Economies that rape. Money systems at great cost to the many. Fagility. Suffering. Military engagement. War.

Choose.

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Can America Avoid Conflict?

What happens when the white middle classes, around the World, lose faith in America? This light on the hill that preaches 'democracy' and 'free trade'. What happens when all those nice English-speaking people around the planet stop believing this? When they start to see illegal foreign wars for what they truly are. We don't mean the usual suspects, you know, the people we have labelled 'terrorists'. No, we mean the people who look just like you. White, successful, rich. Those people who are meant to do well in the U.S.-Model Economy. What happens when people like us join with the people America has already made enemies of? What if people "who matter" start to speak up for the people who don't? Then, my friend, you have the beginning of the end.

Send in the peacekeepers. Can America avoid conflict? We no longer know. It is time for a change. If American leadership can no longer keep step with the rest of the World, whilst still holding the People of that World to ransom with its Dollar and its Military, then what do we do? We liberate ourselves. We declare independence. "The Coming War" is not a threat nor a promise. It is our nightmare and we wish to stop it from ever happening. We fear that, unless there is an urgent change in the balance of power in world affairs that sooner or later, the entire planet will be at war with the last Superpower. No one will win.

Imagine if you will, the UN peacekeepers streaming in from Mexico in the south and Canada in the north. The year is 2025. Oil production has fallen off a cliff since its peak in 2008. American has attempted a global oil-grab by military or political means in order to preserve its "non-negotiable" way of life. The high seas are scenes of piracy as the US war fleet abduct oil tankers destined for China, Europe and Asia and bring them into US ports. American-TV sparkles with the rhetoric of the Neo-Conservatives who tell their people that they will protect the American people from those evil-doers who would steal what is "rightfully America's". Those evil-doers have grown from a short list in 2001 to now include Europeans, the Middle East, far East, Asia and Africa. Indeed anyone who will no longer pay their dues to Washington.

The UN General Assembly was removed from New York in 2021 and now sits judgements in Geneva. The US delegation no longer turns up nor pay its way. It had already rejected over 200 UN Resolutions and multi-lateral agreements on everything from the oil-depletion protocol, to Climate-Change abatements, Cuba, land-mines, the International Courts, Human Rights and so on. America stands alone with only a fistful of "Trade Agreements" remaining of its global obligations. (The agreements it had negotiated to suit itself some 20 years before - the rest of the world had abandoned the suicidal course of Globalisation and Economic Growth by 2019.) The dollar had collapsed and the US no longer paid its debts. The global economy is in free-fall and America is dragging down everyone with it.

What would it take for one last UN Security Council Resolution to support regime change in Washington? I know what you are thinking. If you are American you will be in one of two camps. The Nationalist guttural response will one of "bring it on". Armed to the teeth they will protect America to the bitter end. This jingoistic few will care nothing for the wrongs of their country abroad. They will march into this coming war with "my country right or wrong" on their lips.

Then there will those true patriots who will sigh gently and shake their heads. They are the ones that know that this is one possible destiny that awaits their country. They know it CAN'T come to that. It must not. They too would defend their country if they thought it had acted in any defensible way. None of these good people can, any longer, put their hands on their collective hearts and pledge to put America first. America has been first for 200 years and it has lead them nowhere. Time for a realignment. Time to remove the claws of the men in Washington. Time to remove the central Federal power base and replace it with a loose Union of States. There will be many winners but a few losers. Even if change does not come from without it may come from within. Is the coming war the next American Civil War?

How can we bring about a peaceful change? If the American people are unable to change the face of its Nation then here is the alternative: the rest of the world will reject America. American Corporations will be ejected from foreign economies. The American way of life will be removed from people's lives. No more McDonalds, no more Coke, no more Starbucks. People will no longer look upon these imports as sophisticated. They will no longer reflect what the rest of the World needs. We should bring this process around early through the voluntary actions of millions. Why refuse to buy the products or services of just one American Corporation when you can reject them all? It is time for Global Sanctions against the USA. It is time that the other centres of global capital moved away from the Dollar for International Trade. Imagine your barrels of crude priced in Euros or Yen? If the Dollar economy is an unsustainable pack of cards, set to topple and wreck the world economy, then let us voluntarily exorcise the dollar from our lives and economies. Let's isolate America and trade, say, only with Cuba and Venezuela. Let's take the Empire apart brick by brick. This will be the people's revolution.

The Challenge for America

How does America meet this challenge? There will come a point where it has no friends left on the planet. If American leadership cannot be found who are able to engage the other citizens, of the planet, in meaningful debate, then what is your future? You cannot continue to print dollars as a means of making money. That is not sustainable. You have an unimaginable debt that is unserviceable. The dollar system will collapse. Your Oil supply will decrease. You will be effected by Global Climate Change. Will you choose to stop falling? Will you make the right choice? Are you able to see the ground rushing up towards you? Can you find a means of survival that doesn't require Military intervention in every other State in the World? Your Wars will come home to you. They already have. You have the get out of jail card. Use it before it is too late. We will not be with you at the end.

News

"Age of Stupid" released

The Grierson Award-winning "The Age of Stupid" has its "People's Premiere Sunday 15th March. It goes on general release from the 20th March. The movie stars Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living alone in what is a devastated world of 2055. He is a historian looking back at film archive footage of 2008 and asking "why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?" Directed by Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and produced by Oscar-winning John Battsek ("One Day in September"). Profits from the Premiere go to Climate Change campaigns.

The Coming War

Why "The Coming War"? America is locked into a system of Perpetual War. If you wait long enough, that this war will consume you, who-ever you are and where-ever you live. It will not respect borders or the current allegiances of your Government. It will not respect the language you speak nor the colour of your skin nor the god you worship. No one will be untouched. You may have to take sides. We wish to avert a war. Wars may not always be fought with weapons. Wars can bombard with ideas and ideology. Our ideology is "do no harm". An ideological system based upon perpetual conflict harms everyone. We no longer believe that the victims will just be some "bad people", "evil-doers" or "terrorists". It is everyone. We are all in competition with the USA. The Coming War is not only for the hearts and minds of the human race but also one of survival.

Survival? Do we continue to follow the Washington Consensus on economic growth? The pursuit of a free market paradigm will damage everyone's lives. It is damaging our life support system in the thin layer of atmosphere that wraps our home. It is consuming the last reserves of Oil. For it is Oil that will be the pivotal point of future conflict. American has already consumed far more than its fair share of this valuable resource in its growth to being the last superpower. It will use its power to secure the last remaining Oil. By force. There will be no negotiation. The needs of our poorest will mean nothing. The future of our unborn mean nothing. American values have displaced all other considerations. Consumerism is the new god and the Corporations the new high priests. Other cultures must be crushed to oil the wheels of American hegemony.

So, if you wish for a future for your children then join with us. Let us dare to wish for a different future. Let us act and speak defiance. You need never pick up a gun to reject Empire. You are probably the lucky few who live in a modern, industrialised, wealthy northern country. If so then you weapons are your choices. The choices you make in your democracy. The things you spend money on. The way you live your life. The values you teach your children. The TV you watch. In an energy-poor world Globalisation will be a painful memory. If we are to survive then it is our local communities who will be resurgent. You most relocalise now for our post-carbon future. Isolate yourself from America. Their dream is your nightmare. American will eat itself whole. The greater the distance you keep between your community and that train wreck the better. Declare your independence from America.

First they came...

First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out,

because I was not a Communist;

Then they came for the Socialists, and I did no speak out,

because I was not a Socialist;

Then they came for Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out,

because I was not a Trade Unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out,

because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me,

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

Martin Niemöller was the commander of a WWI German U-Boat and was awarded the Iron Cross (first class). He had supported the fascist Freikorps in the chaotic battles with Communists in inter-war Germany. He was an early supporter of Hitler. indeed, the Nazi's saluted him for his Military Service. He voted for the Nazi Party in 1924 and was making pro-Hitler speeches up until 1931.

Memories of the war-time atrocities haunted him and he became a Berlin Pastor. By 1934 he had come to oppose the Nazis due to their policy of religious reform. In his sermons he started to speak out about the arrest of Protestants resulting in him being tried and sent to Dachau Concentration Camp by 1937. He narrowly escaped execution.

He never spoke these words that became the Poem (above) until after the war - never from the pulpit in the 1930's. Niemöller rejected the Nazi vision of 'positive Christianity' that held the view that German people had some 'special virtue' over other people, ie, the Jews. However, he remained a loyal German and had even offered to serve in the German Navy during World War Two. His argument with the Nazis had been on religious grounds. He was refused entry to Britain after the war because he was not deemed anti-Nazi enough.

Despite his dubious past beliefs we now all know Niemöller's words as those that define apathy in the face of tyranny. After the war Niemöller worked to rebuild the reputation of the German Protestant Church through recognising the collective guilt of the German people for the crimes of the Nazis.

Today we face the same apathy that Niemöller observed in the Berlin of 1934. His observation is as true then as it is now. The loss of our freedoms comes slowly and always happens to OTHER people first. At first we don't see our crimes against these people because we have nothing in common with them. Slowly the circle of people effected by our crimes widens and widens. Still we say nothing. We hide out eyes from the truth until the circle of crime widens to include US. Then it is too late.

For us ALL it is Berlin in 1934. Yet we do nothing. For in 2008 we could write the Niemöller Poem to say this:

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out,

because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the socialists, and I did no speak out,

because I was not a socialist;

Then they came for trade unionists, and I did not speak out,

because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Muslims, and I did not speak out,

because I was not a Muslim;

Then they came for me,

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

The Challenge for the World

Look for OTHER models for your society and culture. Look at Cuba. Look at Kerala Province in India. Look anywhere where there is no economic growth yet the needs of the people are met. Reject the dollar economic system. Reject Globalisation. Embrace Localisation. Reject high-energy culture and the religion of waste. Embrace sustainable existence. Choose your lifeboat. Leave the sinking ship. Dare to be different.

"[America is] ...a nation of progressive-thinking, liberal-leaning, good hearted people." Michael Moore