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Warning! the 1% could be about to "wag the dog"
  • Dran October 2011 +1 -1
    I've been seeing little headings in DrudgeReport like these: "WAR DRUMS: Obama Presses Inspectors on Iran Nuclear Data...
    Iran's former president warns of possible US attack..."
    »»»If it is a war or not, something is for sure, now that the 1% is waking up to the real and surely the biggest threat they ever had: the 99% waking up. They will look for ways to DISTRACT.
    Remember that all wars must be won in peoples MINDS.
  • Dran October 2011 +1 -1
    MY PROPOSAL:

    Let's make viral the idea of... hey 1% what are you going to make to distract public opinion? Are you gonna make a war? are you gonna make a terror attack?
    Let's prepare a context where their tricks could be very obvious.
    Do you really think they will just watch how we grow and expand? They need an excuse to wipe us out!
  • slave October 2011 +1 -1
    Learn to share systemically. You won't stand a chance alone or even with others isolated and disconnected working in the system. They are desperate so expect desperate things from them. 9/11 exposed to what extent they will go and that was 10 years ago. The bigger question is what the masses will do. Protests are defensive and essentially signs of resistance. Alone they fizzle out and do not solve any problem with or without the 1%'s escape goats. We need to organize massively at grass roots level with focus on immediate resolution of our economic (directly survival-related) problems within an alternative economic system (i.e., outside of capitalism) providing a meaningful advance that then can be replicated eventually displacing the dysfunctional increasingly predatory global capitalism. I expand on this in my discussion:
    http://occupytogether.com/forum/discussion/599/strategy-know-your-political-economy-to-avoid-co-option-by-global-capitalism#Item_2
  • KnaveDave December 2011 +1 -1
    Interesting ... the prospect of war as distraction from the Great Recession. While I don't think Obama is so evil he would launch a war just to create a distraction from his economic policy failures, I can certainly see where certain legitimate needs to eradicate Iran's nuclear-war program could be weighing in the balance. Then the need for a distraction from the economic crisis and failed policy would prompt some key players in his administration (and his election campaign) to push harder for war. They would not do it by mentioning the need for a distraction to Obama, but that need could cause them to try harder to justify war to him. The desire for distraction, in other words, could tip the balance.

    Many accused FDR of that when Pearl Harbor happened. They accused him of making Pearl Harbor a desirable target so Japan would attack it in order to justify the U.S. entering World War II. I've never found any stock in that argument, as it has to assume a high level of evil; but I can see who the need for a distraction (or a war to create demand to boost industrial output and save the economy) could tip the balance among thinkers who are not too ill-disposed toward war in the first place.

    --Knave Dave
    http://thegreatrecession.info/blog/
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