The axis.

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday January 15, 2003 18:00 by ipsiphi jedi of europe - europe´s jedi me at myemailaccount dot org barcelona.two hours from Ireland by plane.

A short reflection on the current status of Anglo-American War Theory.

With reference to today´s european commercial mainstream newspapers all partners to the International Herald Tribune. For the benefit of "sad" and "irish american" people who just don´t seem to get the point of the blue flag with the twelve stars yet.

read todays LeMonde.
read todays Welt.

I´ll just start with the first three pages of France´s "national newspaper" France´s "International Herald Tribune" partner.
The Headlines today;

Iraq: les Européens contre la guerre.
that means in irish american
"Iraq. europeans against the war."
second article
La gauche face au projet Sarkozy
"the left face of Sarkozy´s project"
Mr Sarkozy worries about immigration, from mostly muslim islamic countries where the young people are getting used to hearing the USA our friends and cousins being described in most alarming terms. He also has an interest in Mosque building.
Page 2.
or would you like page three first?
ok
Page three.

Cartoon. American eagle with Bush2 head at loggerheads with German eagle flying over french cockerel with small peace dove in the left hand corner centre Saddam with beret as snake wrapped around oil and missiles with bird (unspecified) holding UN briefcase and magnifying glass.

Article:
Les agénces humanitaires de l´ONU examinent les différents scénarios d´une guerre contre l´Irak.
:The UN humanitarian agencies are examining different scenarios to the War on Iraq.
Complementary Article:
La question nord-coréenne doit être traitée avec prudence et calme.
:The northkorean question needs to be treated with prudence and calm.
Prudence was a popular girl´s name in nineteenth century anglo-saxon culture.
I believe a few of the older ladies in the Anglo-american peace movement are named Prudence.

I believe they are making reference to the "axis of evil", today of course the German partner of LeMonde and the International Herald Tribune, Welt also carries the joint declaration of the President of France and the Chancellor of Germany on the need to approach this whole thing sort of differently.
Very nice of them to jump on the bandwagon don´t you think?
Welt has a article using the same source material as LeMonde under the headline;
Horst Mahler, le neonazi el la haine de l´Amérique

Horst Mahler the neonazi and the hatred of America.

most curious how small the world is.
oh on page two where few people examine the typography the french report how George Bush 2´s popularity is at the lowest point since 11 September.

11 September was not the beginning of history.

Irish American I do not like TV. I knew about September 11 through fax and phonecalls. I will not quickly forget the description of the smell which lingered over Manhatten and Brooklyn for days.
But the current american adminstration is not "prudent" and is most certainly not calm. Mr Blair though awaiting a different incumbent of the White house chose to continue the British atlantic strategy of the post second war period one established by Macmillan´s most illuminating parlour game of interlocking circles of influence.

Blair saw no other option for upholding the interests of Her Majesty´s Britannic government. Thus Britain followed the USA though snubbed in the first weeks of Bush´s adminstration into the current flawed WAR foreign policy theory of the Atlantic block.

We may thus presume that were Bush to fall foul of the electorate or legislature of the USA for particularly poor government with an appaling record of foreign policy decisions, then Blair with his "democratic" mandate would quickly follow.

Macmillan placed the UK in the same circle as Washington. He chose to ignore the geographic realities of the other circle the emerging European block.

Ireland quite anomolously chose to enter the European circle with it´s common area partner (the UK as established by Fine Gael´s declaration of Ireland as a Republic) and continued to attempt to posititon itself "at the heart" of any emerging european block.

Europe has continued it´s apparantly correct analysis of the world strategic inter-realted spheres of influence and culture to develop an emerging superstate structure. This is a flawed version of Europe, but it shall for the foreseeable future not give Europeans another war akin to that we have suffered before.

Thus the flag of blue and twelve stars has always been thought of as an optional future negotiating point for the end to hyper capitalism and globalisation. That is as true now as at any stage before, in fact more so.

http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=5&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=21184&idseccio_PK=5&h=030115
At this article you will the words of syndicated MEP JOSÉ MARÍA Mendiluce entitled
DEMOCRACIA CONTRA LA GLOBALIZACIÓN
Democracy against Globalisation.
In which he treats upon the right and liberty of the alternative movements to engage the present political order and generation and theory for the sake of democracy and our global future.
He makes particular reference to what he terms the "legal killing" of Carlo Guiliani in Genoa, Italy.

We have entered a new phase of history.
It did not begin on the 11th of september 2001.
It might have begun with Danaher and others mobilisation of Seattle.
It might have begun with the Reclaim the Streets phenomona of London 1997-1999.
It might have begun with the publication and acceptance of Naomi Klein´s NoLogo.
It might have begun with the global emergence of peace processes in conflict zones and the end to state capitalism in Europe.
It might have begun with the autonomies of Chiapas and the emergence of the Zapatista movement.
It might have begun with the debate seen before Kyoto and the disgust at the American rejection of a global decision afterwards.
It might have begun with the rejection of non democratic non accountable world economic institutions such as World Bank 2000.

It might have begun on so many days.

But it was felt most strongly on September 11.

That day the USA saw itself attacked.
Many americans left. One asked me afterwards "why did Europe not speak out? We need you now".
That same american upon learning that Kissenger who famously said "when I wish to speak with Europe who do I phone?" was to chair the September 11 inquiry said "Kissenger personifies American power and guilt, he is pax americana, is pax americana to be subject to inquiry?"

Is pax americana to be subject to inquiry?

I sincerely hope so.

this link is to news of an anti-drug conference in Vienna our neutral partner in Europe.
http://austria.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18836&group=webcast
this link is to news of Europe´s next anti-police brutality day the seventh so far.
http://nice.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=530

Europe would in an ideal might have no borders.
Europe in an idea world might take the lead to negotiate the final long due end to Imperialist exploitation of our fellow global citizens and the abuse of our global environment.
Europe in an ideal world might save it´s own future by exercising the mandate of over 400million people of this continent.
A Slighlty larger mandate than the North American sphere.

You Americans have helped us your fellow culturalists and cousins so many times, we thank you, we have received ideas and aid so many times thank you, but now you have failed.
We offer you our assistance in repairing the damage.
For Washingon you seem not have noticed either Cassandra or Nemesis.

o as if you did.