Saturday, 6 April 2013
The concern regarding Korea is that it is not unimportant to the world. By its position, and the severe 'tectonic' geo-politics of North Asia, it is the most important place in the world. In comparison, whatever happens in the Middle East doesn't matter at all.
If one place in the Middle East blew up another and was in return blown up, life for most folk in the world would continue as it had...but North Asia is not like that.
Huge populations, massive world wealth, massive weapons, giant armies, massive industrialisation, historically unresolved 'bad blood', severe and competing claims for territory involving Korea, Japan, Russia and China, with the USA somehow feeling it too belongs in that mix as the dominant self-seeking gun-selling policeman of it all.
A conflict in North Asia will involve at least 70% of the world population for many years, and it won't be good for anyone at all. The millions of refugees will also overwhelm the world's capacities.
The USA's easy historical fix of simply invading a country when they are weak and taking their resources doesn't work in North Asia, but they will sell a lot of guns... everyone will sell a lot of guns...and so maybe that is the point.
If one place in the Middle East blew up another and was in return blown up, life for most folk in the world would continue as it had...but North Asia is not like that.
Huge populations, massive world wealth, massive weapons, giant armies, massive industrialisation, historically unresolved 'bad blood', severe and competing claims for territory involving Korea, Japan, Russia and China, with the USA somehow feeling it too belongs in that mix as the dominant self-seeking gun-selling policeman of it all.
A conflict in North Asia will involve at least 70% of the world population for many years, and it won't be good for anyone at all. The millions of refugees will also overwhelm the world's capacities.
The USA's easy historical fix of simply invading a country when they are weak and taking their resources doesn't work in North Asia, but they will sell a lot of guns... everyone will sell a lot of guns...and so maybe that is the point.
Friday, 5 April 2013
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Sunday, 25 March 2012
The fall of the social-democratic Labor Party in Australia
These are grim days for the states or provinces of Australia with four of them now abandoning the Labor Party as governments and moving even more to the right. It's what happens when mining companies firmly rule a country. It's a shame, I believe. Not only the loss of the one social-democratic voice in each state but also the way the national Govt, a Labor Party Govt has bent to the will of the mining companies to the extent that they have; becoming a defacto and corrupted entity.
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