July 1
GUEST: John Walsh, writer for CounterPunch, Antiwar.com, Consortium News and Dissident Voice, as well as former Professor of Physiology and Cellular Neuroscience at a Massachusetts Medical School, talks about China and US hegemony.
John V. Walsh, Author at CounterPunch.org
I put this graphic up because it goes beyond logic. There is something sinister about two grown men fighting over a submissive woman. It brings up all the complexities of our mating rituals, as well as the dangers of our subliminal feelings.
Is the will be be dominant over the Chinese people such a deep seated and potentially deadly aspiration? In a world of nuclear arms it certainly is. John Walsh holds up a mirror to the US, revealing that the will to dominate the world is the driving force of our foreign policy towards both China and Russia. And like most subliminal needs, it is a force that we steadfastly refuse to even acknowledge.
Can we create a world were all countries and all people have inalienable rights? Where one country doesn't start a third world war because it can't dominate all the others? It seems like the peace movement had better get back in gear. Democrats tend to be as militarily aggressive as Republicans. And our media is once again cheerleading US military interventions in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
