Jim Hlavac
Foreign Affairs
Current Foreign Policy
Past foreign policy
Which agencies are
involved in foreign affairs
The US Military
Why pick on some
countries and not others?
Future foreign policy goals
Future foreign policy missions
Future foreign policy theory
Future foreign policy practice
The United Nations
IMF and World Bank
History and its affect on current
foreign policy
understanding history
American Foreign Aid
The difficulties of doing
things that need doing.
Singling out countries
for active intervention
Free trade and why other
countries haven't benefited as
much as they could have -- their
domestic situation
How America made
Europe what it is today
Complaints by other countries
about America
Why America must
always be involved
Globalization
An analysis of each continent,
virtually country by country
Mexico
The Carribean
South America
Central America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Northern Africa
Southern Africa
The Middle East
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Scandanavia
Russia
The Asian
Subcontinent(southasia)
india
Asia
China
Taiwan
Polynesia
Australia
Japan
Pakistan and india
When they all catch
up to Europe
Aspiring to be America
Because Europe is
half of America
Adopt a country
almost failed states
american occupation
changing cultures
cultural dictatorships
demilitarization
diplomacy
electing dictators
empires
failed states
federal isreal-palestine
freedom for others
good and bad dictators
intelligence agencies
marxism & catholicism
negative culture
oil and war
peacekeeping
peaceniks
positive culture
raising other nations
relations with others
successful states
temporary dictatorships
trade
trading blocs
The CIA
the wealth of other nations
US is not an empire
ethnic cleansing
Foreign Affairs
Sections
An oil shock would be good for the world, spurring non-oil energy technologies,
increasing exploration and development in reasonable countries.  And it would
probably break the power of the Mideast to cause trouble.
      It is true that an Iraqi war is about oil but not just for American control of the
oil, but for the Iraqi people to peaceably benefit from the fruits of producing that
oil, instead of filling the coffers of a demented few at the top of the heap.
      The people of the world will be better off through the lower oil prices that will
result from the war with Iraq, as the entire region's security lowers the 'instability
tax' that the buyers of oil put on Mideast oil.
      The Europeans will have a more secure oil supply.  With Iraq back producing
oil freely there will be more supply and thus the price will go down.
      The oil industries of the world are owned by the governments of the world
and the wealth from that oil has been stolen and squandered by those
governments, all of whom are inept at ever producing the oil. So they rely on
American know-how and our multinational companies to produce the oil wealth
that they then steal and then everyone blames America for producing the oil. If we
did not produce it then there would be none produced and the poverty of the
people will only increase and the despots will only grow more desperate in their
grabs for power and money.  
      It is the leaders of counties and their cronies who are the biggest greedy
materialists in the world, always trying to get billions more stuffed into foreign bank
accounts.  And America has tried to loosen up those bank secrecy laws, but
Europeans especially have been loath to do so.
      The Venezuelan government has squandered the wealth of that country and
its current despot is so crazy that the people are revolting a little more each day
until the time comes when the American military will step in and oust the bastard
and restore order.  Obviously the money wasn't spent on schools, or roads, or
airports, or new power plants, or any sort of infrastructure.  So where's the
money?  It is in banks doing nothing.  
      The Swiss, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, the Isle of Man, The Cayman Island,
Bermuda and other so-called secret banking states are compiicit in theft and
corruption and the impoverishment of a huge portion of humanity.
      Mexico, Nigeria, Angola; the list goes on and on of countries who have, for
the Glory of the People, seized control of the oil industries and then did every
thing they could to steal and squander, keeping their people in poverty and
preventing the development of a wealth growing economy.