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ments of any nation would become the collective property of all. Indeed, research and development would be the collective and shared enterprise of the entire world. Today, however, it is the more often than not the prized and exclusive property of the na tion with the largest armaments and associated sur veillance apparatus.
Nineteenth-century German military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz, in his famous and often quoted work on war, stated almost 200 years ago that war is “a true political instrument, a continuation of politi cal intercourse carried on with other means.” Today, “peaceful” capitalist surveillance/spying or its mili tary-directed cyberwar variant employed to infect, alter or destroy opponents’ storage and communi cation systems is a leading instrument of corporate America’s politics—of its inherent drive for world domination. It is carried out in the modern era by the unprecedented surveillance of virtually the en tire world, accompanied by ever more sophisticated and brutal means of warfare, including privatized death-squad armies, drone warfare, torture, and the ever-increasing production of new weapons of mass destruction.
The documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, reportedly 1.3 million, merely scratched the surface of what the U.S. military and economic war machine practices daily. Capitalist Chi na and all other competitors in today’s crisis-ridden world order, ruled by the elite few in each nation, are fund drive ends this month.
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