"The ugly American"

That had murdered or caused to murder
millions of well meaning individuals
all over the world,
Destabilized dozens of
third world governments,
Imposed or perpetrated Cruel and inhuman
dictators over unwilling peoples,
Launched wars of genocide in
dozens of Countries,
destroyed millions of lives
at one stroke
using two powerful! atomic bombs
for the first time in the history of humanity,
And had caused to spread a
destructive blanket of dangerous nuclear
weapons
over globe -
Now poses himself
as the champion of human rights !

'Uncle Sam' has now more than one new rule book in his hands: the Human Rights rule book, the wildlife and Environmental Rule Book, the free trade rule book, the nuclear non-proliferation rule book, the GATT rule book and possibly several others - all supported and rendered perfectly legitimate by the global presence of his armed might.

Rule books are not new to history. Wars after wars were fought to establish and reestablish the right to free trade for several centuries. Right to free trade was the guiding principle when British East India Company was incorporated in 1602 AD as a private limited company with a few wealthy British citizens as share holders. The Indian subcontinent was ruled by this private enterprise for more than a century till 1857 when as a consequence of the first war of Indian independence, its governance was handed over to the British crown and then to the British parliament.

It was strictly as per rules again, the British had built up their empire and governed India and other countries for more than two centuries. Kingdoms after kingdoms were annexed strictly as per the law that if an Indian king dies without 'a proper heir' his kingdom should get annexed to the Empire. Might was always right and that was the fundamental rule in all these rule books.

In the earlier century British soldiers rode on horseback with their pistols in one pocket and the rule book in the other. Horses were replaced then by motor vehicles, pistols by stenguns, and mortars by the much more powerful tanks and armed vehicles. Now all these are redundant but, the rule books could be enforced with the help of much more powerful tools - the global communication network, the all powerful computers, the robots, the warplanes, the rockets, the bombs and the back up of nuclear terror. The recent gulf war was a warning to all and sundry that had entertained any hopes of questioning the legitimacy of the emerging New World Order. Imperialism has now launched its second offensive.

Warring capitalists have now formed global corporations and global corporations arc merging in to strategic alliances across the globe. There are the G7, the G22, the OECD, the UN system, the IBRD, the IMF, the GATT, the transnational bankers, the rating agencies, the global weather watchers, the human right chains, and the whole lot of formal and informal organisations all dominated by the ultimate law givers. Rules and rules - they say, abide by them or perish!

Moulds for the new world order arc now ready and (he rules of the game arc set. The Fund-Bank has already given orders to our sovereign Government that the fencings around national economic boundaries should get demolished. They grant us formal political freedom and concede our rights lo police our geographical boundaries, that is at least for the time being. Free trade is the name of the game once again and that was how it all started centuries ago.

Rule by the Company, economic dependency, and plunder of our resources had followed political subjugation and armed victories in the nineteenth century. End of the twentieth century is probably seeing a reversal of this sequence. Every thing is being done to re-assert economic domination or dependence on corporate capitalism of the West - the common European Home as put by that renegade Gorbachev. And here we have the traitors and collaborators reborn again not as feudal chieftains, kings and Mir Jafars but as great fortune seekers of the share market, the Tatas, the Birlas, their army of professional lackeys, tax evaders and boot loggers.

All these henchmen of global capital sing the songs in praise of the great market where everybody is compelled to cheat all others by trying to take a little more than what they really give. Taking much more than what you give is called market efficiency. Beyond a point that become looting and that could be sustained only with armed terror.

Mir-Jafars of the twentieth century sec and understand this point, just like their nineteenth century originals - and also the great reserves of armed might and nuclear arsenals at the disposal of the almighty world capital! They arc so keen to try out their market efficiency over their Indian brothers in collaboration with their international masters. In the New World Order, just like their predecessors, they dream the dreams of a grand subservient role under the great imperial masters.

One need not be an evangelist to reject the vision of such bleak future and prospects for the mankind. Man is much more than a market efficient utterly selfish brute as depicted by the instigators of the so called new world order. The collective wisdom he had acquired over the millenniums will assert itself and reject all such ugly theories of human progress that arc chained to (he inhuman mechanism of the market that is regulated, manipulated and controlled by the clever and the mighty. Mankind will ultimately discover for itself genuinely democratic and deeply moral solutions for resolving the conflicts between the nations of the world on one hand and then between the individual and the collective on the other.

Global capitalism has, now launched a second wave of imperialist offensives against the poor nations of the world. Even Prime Minister Narasimha Rao was forced to lament in the recent SARC meeting at Colombo - the acquisitive politics of the nineteenth century appears to be reemerging on a global scale.

It had taken almost a few centuries for the people of the Indian subcontinent to come to 1857 and then to 1947. Mir-Jafars of twentieth century should know that the Indian people will not lake that long this time, to rise up in arms against traitors and collaborators. Better for them to change late than never!