Described in a book River, here is a summary of the Strategy of the shock of Naomi Klein who will inform more than one on American imperialism, which is so hard since more than one century and makes of USA the bigest predator on Earth, despite its nations and its peoples.
In the mind of American Governments, nothing beats a good disaster to open new territories.
This strategy is driven by large-scale profit and greed, and is responsible for major socio-economic genocides of the planet.
This strategy consists of several phases:
-The overthrow of a sovereign State :
To get your hands on a country, the USA fomenting false revolutions by funding opposition groups which try to destabilize the Government by organising events, under pretext of subtract a nation oppressed in the brutality of a necessarily dictatorial regime and to bring democracy !
The second step, if the first fails, is to try to involve the army in the coup d’état, to finance his helping hand, and train it in guerrilla warfare techniques and to torture.
If the army remains faithful and the Government resists, mercenaries are trained and sent to the country, in an attempt to take power by weapons. If infiltration also fails, the last solution is the invasion of the country by the U.S. armed forces.
Once the Government overturned the coup opponents are captured, imprisoned, tortured, to sow terror and collapse them all attempts of resistance. Even independent police brigades of the army are trained independent of the national police, whose funding is provided by American multinationals and whose impunity is responsible for all the overflows, population lived in all the countries reversed.
Torture is used to extract the most information on resistance, and then as a therapy, to make men Virgin Lands ready to accept the new ideology than the USA want to impose.
The rapt of mass is used to create terror in the population and the family are ransomed to be able to retrieve their parent living, their corpse, or the cessation of torture.
Unscrupulous, the need to go through it, a part of the population is massacred as to the Chili during the 1970s.
For the other part of the population which was favourable to this reversal, a big part gives broad powers to those who claim to rescuing the country from the chaos caused by the coup.
Culture and political expression are censored, for the benefit of the ideology that USA wants to impose and they have the nerve to call democracy !
A dictatorship is therefore in place at the expense of all a nation traumatized and weakened, or even disoriented by the shock treatment that she has just undergone.
-The plundering of the country !
It is not enough to overthrow a country, but to have persuaded some opponents of economic theories that the US will impose on the targeted countries.
Young economists are trained in the theories of Milton Friedmann, a Jewish Zionist, and sent on the spot, to implement this theory preposterous and devastating, the goal is to get your hands on the wealth of the country and its raw materials (oil, water), on the economy of the country without any compensation and install bases American, in order to increase the grip of the American empire on the world.
Even if this theory becomes unpopular, destroying the economy of the target country, it is imposed by force, but in general shock and horror that resulted in the overthrow of the country is enough to suppress any resistance from the population.
Companies American conquistador, sent after the military conquest of the country, loote with the same determination and relentless energy, States treated as colonial Territories, or tirelessly seek new profit sources in the public domain.
The looting phase can also be cut into several times:
Privatize the country
To get : all State enterprises are privatised mass selling them to American multinationals with peanuts, and under the pretext that their sale is essential to the recovery of the country. This racket is organized with the protection of the U.S. Government.
Most of the employees are dismissed for supposedly to increase their competitiveness.
Competitors are excluded. Thus a whole pan of this country’s economy is set to bag so peaceful and democratic.
The grip on oil is the first objective: long contracts are signed and most of the profits are confiscated, depriving the population of the benefits of this windfall.
These multinationals are also hand on local markets easily in the middle of the field of battle became the country.
Not resistant to this unfair competition, many national companies close their door.
Sovereign functions are outsourced to the private sector at the price the market, but without greater efficiency and results, or even by increasing waste.
Therefore the State merely to supervise contracts with very private companies often more or less well client of the US Government.
An army of bankers make the tour of brokerage companies and banks hoping to acquire them for a pittance.
To facilitate the invasion of the country by American companies, the control of the movement of capital is removed.
Of course these privatizations lead to mass unemployment as Aboriginal employees are replaced by foreigners. They also cause waves of suicides.
Everyone is affected: officials, farmers, entrepreneurs, Trade Union, or any person who not successfully back up the devastating wave. Many come growing slums.
The reconstruction of the destroyed country is for friendly companies by the U.S. Government and no industry in the country is located.
Even the American State suffers from this policy: a private administration ghost was created using public funds leading the country in the fiscal crisis, both the accumulated deficit has coarses the US debt.
The citizens, who have funded this parallel economy, don’t even have their word to say !
Deregulate the economy of the country
A slate of the past being performed, the second step is to move from dictatorship to the economic war: all social laws and regulations are removed :Abolition of the minimum wage, collective agreements, imposition of a hard a economic model that makes life hard for a majority of people: on one side a public sector weak, poorly funded and ineffective; another a private structure parallel and handsomely funded.
U.S. companies are allowed to own entire share of the assets of the societies of the invaded countries.
Environmental laws are abolished, opening the door to a wild capitalism.
Borders, on behalf of free trade, are open to wild competition of mainly U.S. companies and its allies and the corporate income tax is removed.
A franchise known as green box appears every time the military-industrial complex descends upon the country, digging a ditch between its privileged: U.S. and marginalized Aboriginal people.
Also, unable to withstand the competition from imported products, many companies in the country are closing their doors.
The State invaded and the not-for-profit sector, are considered as competitors encroaching on the private market.
Even the leaders of the USA benefit from the cataclysm that they have raised in realizing profits thanks to the disaster were, like Rumsfled and Bush during the war in Iraq.
All social spending in the region, the country invades are compressed to the maximum, or even deleted. The budget deficit is eliminated by taxing small taxpayers.
Of course, it follows an upsurge in unemployment, poverty and suicide.
Even Americans suffer from this strategy: when it is to pay contractors who colonized the country, there is no limit, however when it is necessary to fund the essential functions of the State, the coffers are empty.
The Government of the US closes its eyes on waste, mismanagement, overbilling of these companies, repeated errors in any same kind, the important thing is that they contribute to its election fund and provide volunteers for his next campaign.
Entrepreneurs are grotesquely overpaid, while the base which provides the work is underpaid.
To compensate the paid billion, the federal budget, it is social, is drastically reduced.
-Ethnic and cultural cleansing
Having destroyed and looted the country or taking advantage of its destruction by a natural disaster, the Americans did not hesitate to hunt or do hunt part of the population of villages and land, if it becomes an obstacle to reconstruction made in US under the pretext of a rapid recovery of the economy as in Sri Lanka, when recovery of whole families of fishermen were driven from the beaches, after the Tsunami.
People conquered in a State of shock, and has therefore become very vulnerable, is especially concerned for its physical survival. Therefore it’s remove the nation strong, deeply rooted in the territory and let it invade by of other ethnic groups by opening the borders and by replacing its culture by the American model: the way of American life.
To do so : it begin to remain the ancient culture, the example of the Iraq is quite examplary.
Finally, to give the coup de grace, it fuels the confrontation between communities, their division ending with completely disrupt the nation.
The overthrown Government is replaced by U.S. officials or by local representatives designated by the US.
As long as the USA keep control of the country, promises of elections and drafting of a new constitution are shifted.
-The countries by debt bondage
After years of occupation, once that the invaded people has succeeded in expelling the dictatorship that oppressed him or by replacing the shocks of invasion, destruction, looting and occupation, the USA reduce peoples to poverty, in order to keep them in a State of dependence and submission.
How? : The technique is to put into slavery by debt people: on behalf of liberalism, the State has been obliged to borrow from banks (more in its Central Bank), i.e. with Anglo-Saxon banks and their cronies: the IMF, the World Bank.
Over time, debt increases and taxes are no longer used only to repay the interest of this debt, and the State is no longer able to repay the debt it even, so it become unbearable!
Another technique is to trade accounts of a State and to declare bankruptcy, in order to impose the economic component of the strategy of the shock with the help of the IMF and the World Bank.
This neo-liberal crusade does never bring prosperity and peace, but poverty, insecurity, inequality, corruption, increase the degradation of the environment. It exacts a country for all its riches for the benefit of the USA.
Between 25% and 65% of the population is being scrapped because of this criminal and predatory imperialism.
The countries that have been victim of this strategy of shock are: the Argentina, the Chile, the Uruguay, the Bolivia, Ecuador, the Guatemala, the Venezuela, the Thailand, the Korea, the Malaysia, the Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Brazil, the Iran, the Iraq, the Afghanistan, South Africa, the Poland, the Russia.
Today, it is the turn of the European countries, the Syria and agaon the Iran, but countries having understood this strategy, unite to fight: the Russia. Venezuela, China, the Argentina.