Foreign Policy "Hijacking"

A propos of my post yesterday on our illustrious new military dictatorship, the Financial Times is reporting today on the recent whistle-blowing of Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's chief of staff during his Sec. of State tenure.


“What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

“Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.”

A "cabal" eh? Of the two corporatocratic Defense hawks. In other words, military coup d'etat.

"I would say that we have courted disaster in Iraq, in North Korea, in Iran.” Wilkerson said, speaking at the New America Foundation (a scholarly think-tank founded in 1999 that, if anything, can perhaps be described as center-right on the political spectrum).

One other place our corporate-military cabal has courted disaster is in China. As Bob Burnett blogs today from Bangkok, China is growing increasingly bemused by the imbecilic coaching they are recieving from American economic advisors like Snow and Greenspan. The US is still pretending they are playing from a position of economic strength with China.

Alas, this is hardly the case. And while we are all riveted to our monitors watching the perfect storm of Plamegate/DeLay indictment/Miers backlash/Frist SEC inquest/etc. etc. unfold, the economic flip-flop and potential implosion that we were hearing so much more about this summer is still, steadily but surely, tightening its coil ready to explode.

One other thing deserves as much cross-posting as it can get today. Diebold is slipping into deep deep water in Florida.

As reported today in Cleveland SCENE, the Leon Co., FL, supervisor of elections allowed hackers to put the Accuvote to the hack-test--and, surprise surprise, it was easy as pie to register 10,000 hacked votes for the candidate of choice!

Hmmm....

check out Brad Blog on more of same today.

Viva la contra-revolucion.