Imperialism is Planning New Wars
The U.S. and Israel threaten Syria and the patriotic forces in Lebanon, support the occupation in Palestine and the criminal blockade against the Gaza Strip and the cowardly attack by the Israeli military on the humanitarian freedom flotilla, so widely denounced.
In Asia recently, the U.S. conducted jointly with South Korea, large-scale military maneuvers. Then they accused the North Korean government of sinking a South Korean battleship, when there are strong suspicions that their own Yankee military and intelligence put a mine in the vessel to artificially create tension with the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea and try to isolate it internationally.
Beyond these objectives, the U.S. wanted to influence the elections in South Korea and to press the prime minister of Japan to keep U.S. military bases on its territory, particularly in Okinawa, and thus break a promise on the campaign trail. In Japan, the result was the maintenance of U.S. bases and the resignation of the Japanese premier.
Before the announcement of new and even greater naval military maneuvers by the US-South Korea in the Yellow Sea, which will feature the infamous aircraft carrier George Washington, the "People's Daily", newspaper of the Communist Party of China, warned of the "risks to peace and regional stability" and declared "firm opposition" to this further "hostility against China."
In Latin America, there is stepped up pressure against the Cuban Revolution and the threat to Venezuela, considered by intelligence centers in Washington "the main threat" against the U.S. in the Americas. After the reactivation of the 4th Fleet, the U.S. installed new military bases, as in Honduras, where they helped promote a coup. On the pretext of humanitarian aid to Haiti after the earthquake earlier this year, U.S. military forces with more than 15,000 soldiers landed in the country.
In recent days more than 7,000 troops, 46 warships, aircraft carriers, submarines and U.S. helicopters settled into bases in Costa Rica, supposedly to combat drug trafficking. The Colombian government follows the line drawn by the U.S. of making the country the Israel of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Hillary Clinton, Obama's Secretary of State, heads the imperialist diplomatic reaction against Brazil. After the countries that possess nuclear weapons, Brazil is the country which possesses the most advanced nuclear program for peaceful purposes, even more advanced than the Iranian. Therefore, the threat to Iran is also indirectly a threat to Brazil, which already receives pressures and may be the next victim. That is precisely what accounts for the Brazilian and Turkish initiative that resulted in the Brazil-Iran-Turkey agreement.
The United States, surprised by the success of the agreement, and antagonized by the Lula government's foreign policy on several issues such as resistance to the coup in Honduras, do everything to isolate Brazil. Soon after the announcement of the agreement, the International Atomic Energy Agency warned of the risk that Brazil is gestating nuclear weapons and announced a new intrusive investigations into our nuclear program.
The anti-imperialist resistance obtains victories
The global imperialist military offensive is reaching an unprecedented scale. However, there's no way to put restraints on the wheel of history. Capitalism in its imperialist stage is a historically outmoded system spreading blood and destruction in its decadent path. The resistance of the peoples and oppressed countries are imposing defeats on imperialism in the Middle East, Central Asia and other corners of the Earth. In our continent, Latin America, they continue when there are popular democratic and anti-imperialist forces flourishing. The Brazilian people fight so that, in the elections next October, Brazil will keep on advancing and retain its independent foreign policy and sovereignty, for peace, the right to development, and a multipolar world.
World peace and socialism have never been so necessary to humanity.
* International Relations Secretary of PCdoB
Translated from the Portuguese version by:
Lisa KARPOVA
PRAVDA.Ru
