Attacking the World’s Constitutions

August 27th, 2005 at 16:40 Björn Hallberg

Hardly a coincidental development. And this is also why the US remains the most dangerous entity on the planet. They have the motive and the resources. Article is originally from IBON Foundation, based in the Philippines. A nation that has first hand experience from continuous US intervention.

Since the 1990s, some 130 countries around the world have revised, amended or adopted brand new constitutions to accommodate a framework for the sort of “market democracies” that open up domestic labor, economic sectors and natural resources for neo-colonial exploitation.

When Iraqi politicians resisted the privatization of Iraq’s state-owned companies, the US appointed an interim government that would be bound by an “interim constitution” which protected the US-favored investment and privatization laws. The constitution even included a provision stating that for the duration of the interim government, “The laws, regulations, orders and directives issued by the Coalition Provisional Authority . . . shall remain in force” and could be changed only after general elections are held.

None of this should come a shock of course. The question is how to halt this development before it becomes irreversible. Unlike some thinkers, like Thomas Barnett assert, the world and history is not moving in any one direction. And to think that this is a future worth creating is frankly delusional, narrow-minded and very arrogant. Barnett’s line of thinking warrants a more complete analysis, but for now the bottom line will have to do.

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