Showing posts with label imperialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imperialism. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Democracy and the people

Government of the people, by the people, for the people. This is the most common and famous definition of the democracy. Majority of the world's countries are following the pattern of democracy today of which the Topmost are the US, The Republic of India, and many others. And all these countries feel proud when called as a democratic.

But what exactly the democratic pattern of government is? Is it the same like that kings and rulers use to rule over there people, or is it totally in the hands of people, to decide what to implement in state means totally handled by its citizens or is it something else? Apparently democracy is in contrary to the kings rule on its citizen where king has all the rights to decide what is good and what is wrong for its people, and it is in a way similar to the public's rule, where general people will decide what to implement or what not to, general mass will decide what is best in their interest.

But when we look into the practical democracy, them picture is very different than what is supposed to be. In most of the democratic countries, pattern of government is based on voting of few popular politicians for the post of rulers, who will then rule over the whole country for the specific decided period. The overall central government will be of a party who is having maximum number of seats in the parliament or House of Commons.

Now after the election, the party who got majority will form the government. Now this majority will decide the future of the whole country for the next specified period, without any major threat from opposition parties as this party is in majority. So here in this case, general public is only in picture at the time of voting and nowhere after the election. So if now government wants to implement some rulings which is in benefit of ruling party but against the future of country, then no one can stop them because they have majority in the parliament.

This is the practical face of democracy. Let’s have a look at few examples. India, the world's largest democracy, its government has decided to sign the nuclear treaty with its key supporter in international platform, the US. It is clearly visible from all the angles that this treaty is not in favor of nation, and if signed, India will loose its basic right to do nuclear test, then also the so called government, which is the ruling party, has not bothered to sign the treaty because it’s in the party's benefit. General masses cried over this, taken out processions, opposition parties stand against the ruling party, but nothing happened. Ruling party is very strong on its position and doesn’t bother about other people like the ruler who rules over his kingdom. Is this the democracy? Where is the common person in this scene? How this government be termed as Government of the People? All these queries are an open query of democracy, which is not yet solved and that’s why imperialist countries are promoting it.

Let’s take another example from the United States itself. President George W. Bush was planning to send troops to Iraq. His government got rattled with huge number of protests, public debates and his relative public ratings falls considerably. But nothing happened to his position because democratic platform has given him permission for five years to whatever his ruling party wants to do. This is the real face of democracy.

As we have seen live examples of the future of democratic platform of ruling and it seems to be somewhat failure, we have to find the new system of ruling which will be compatible with every era. Democracy is using the common people’s right of voting for electing politicians who are not bothered about the citizen itself and ignored every voice and cry of these common people.

Now this is an open query to all the readers to find out what will be the suitable system for the political system of the world, either existing or new, but better than the current system, after all, world is working on the pattern on Research and Development, so we need to do some modifications on our current system so as to get perfect justice.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

High Level Corruption: New tool of Imperialism

From decades, Imperialism is trying to spread its roots throughout the globe and got success in achieving its goals by various means. Imperialism as compared to Colonialism has used altogether different strategy to rule over the globe. Practice of colonialism was to invade another country and takeover the rulers and all the administration and implement their rule in that country. In this way, Britain, France, Netherlands and many other countries has ruled throughout the globe. But after certain period of time they have to leave those countries due to many reasons like common masses waked up and raised slogans for independence and ruling these countries has became hectic work in itself. Therefore these colonial powers removed their presence from small countries one by one giving individual countries right to independence.

Then arrived, the period of Imperialism. The new era of modified strategies, advanced machines and weapons. Most important difference between colonialism and imperialism stand to be of change in leadership. The leader during the period of colonialism was Great Britain rather the new leader for Imperialism is The United States of America (The US). Great Britain's planning was to concur whole of the globe under their rule and they somewhat succeeded in achieving their goal. But the new leader came with new planning and new goals. The new goal of Imperialism is somewhat changed. They also want to rule over this globe but without making this feel to common people that they are ruling. Means they will have presence in each and every step of other nation’s hierarchy and administration but the presence will be apparent, only influence will be there. No country can defend or support any organization, country, concept, idea, etc. without prior permission from the imperial power.
Reason behind achieving this goal are many, such as, to divert the funds from other countries to their own country by influencing the government and supporting the traders of their own countries, formation of laws at international levels which will only support their own desires like that of Current Nuclear laws, etc. All these are funneling power and money to the imperialist countries while the third world is living life of disgrace and hunger.


Achieving this goal is not as simple as it is seen now, after partial globalization of imperialism. These super powers have invested billions of dollars behind this motive to achieve the goal. Now they are getting the results out of this. Third world countries are working and Imperialist countries are eating the fruits. This point is so much clear that there is no need of further explanation. We can take recent example of Indo-US nuclear deal. The scientists and scholars are constantly trying to show the Indian government that this deal is totally not in favor of India and will lead to major financial and energy dependency of US, but government is not listening to this and is prepared to sign the 123 nuclear deal. One question may come to our mind, even after there are huge losses in signing this deal, why government is behind signing of this treaty? Here comes the main issue.

US is the leader of Imperialist country today and wants to govern the whole globe according to its own self made laws. For achieving this goal they are ready to break all the universal, legal and environmental laws. What they did is simply purchased the top cream or say, high level hierarchy of every government in this globe. If someone doesn’t wants to surrender in front of US pressure and wants to stick to the values, then US has termed them as "Extremist". We have lots of examples in today’s world where lots of countries top hierarchy is been termed as extremist, that includes, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria, etc. At one time this list was very big that use to include North Korea (which surrenders in front of pressure from West), Libya, etc.

Same thing is going on in every country. If the leader is faithful, then they are purchasing lower level hierarchy, which is below the leader, both will ultimately break the backbone of any country. The most feasible weapon for the Imperialism to enter any country is giving bribe and purchasing the top level hierarchy. This is very sharp weapon which has been used since long in the human history but Imperialism has used this in very beautiful way. We can easily check in each country what these ministers are doing? They are having companies of drugs manufacturing and no one is seizing them. They are running many businesses which is totally illegal under local and international law, but no government is stopping them. The reason is simple, everyone is sold off.

Let’s take an example of India, a freedom lover country which is based on the principle of freedom and which negates any kind of oppression inside its boundaries and outside its boundaries. Therefore India doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Israel, which is an illegal entity on this land made on Palestinian lands. This country was standing firm on its principal from the time of its independence till the 80’s because it is getting support from the Soviet Russia. But as soon as Soviet Union braked down in 1989, Indian has taken support of US which is now leader of Imperialism. What happened next? As US is close alley of Israel, they pressurized India to develop diplomatic relations. As a result, India has announced start of formal diplomatic relations between itself and Israel. Not only this, India has also purchased huge stock of Barak Missile, which is one of the fail weapons of Israel in heavy cost under the pressure of US. And in today’s time India is the largest weapon customer of Israel.


Why all this is happening? The reason is simple, because the top Hierarchy is sold off. And India is now close alley of US. Similar is the case of every country, except few independent which are now termed as “Extremist”.