Wars By Desert Bloc

Cartoon by Clay Bennett; available at http://goo.gl/mtfL3 - taking off on the iconic Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima Pulitzer Prize photograph taken on February 23, 1945, of US Marines raising the US flag.

Between 1500-2000, in a space of 500 years, four Empires from the West came into being. First was Spanish Empire that ruled over large parts of South and North America, parts of Asia, declined into insignificance, civil war, chaos and dictatorship by 1900. 100 years later the British and French Empires were bad memories. The Wars of Pax Americana have been fought covertly and by unprecedented use of propaganda.

For instance, after killing 20 lakh Vietnamese, the American Empire only counts its own 60,000 killed. In Iraq, after 10 lakh dead Iraqis, the US Empire counts, its’ own less than 5000 dead. This is a new kind of Empire. Covert and by proxy.

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