Imperialist gansterism

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Political Science Professor Nzito says that gangsters are adept at convincing you of your binding need for their protection, to guard against impending peril, largely of their own creation.

He says that the fee for this unsolicited service is that it must be reimbursed in recurrent fashion and this mobster tactic has become the preferred model of economic relationships between imperial financial institutions and the developing world.  I fully agree that it is a strategy that is at once an original and bizarre model of economics, or the now familiar neoliberal rabid tactics employed in the lopsided imperial economic relationships with developing nations.  Regardless of the origins of the strategy, imperial and settler governments have employed that tactic of protection racketeering and plunder along with recurrent fees, as indispensable for the economic success of their hegemonic undertakings. 

Shockingly in this sad state of affairs, the very organ that should hold imperialist governments to account, the mainstream version of the Fourth Estate (media) is often at the frontline cheerleading the twin acts of theft and mass murder in distant lands committed in the name of their citizens and lies cloaked as honourable principles.  They are the flag bearers of a formidable propaganda front in the service of Empire, one that effectively mesmerises its constituents into accepting a fictional munificence and a deceptive nobility of the imperial cause. What is omitted from this façade is that it is intended to benefit a minuscule economic elite and corporations for whom the state apparatus now shamelessly serves. Current imperial ventures of modern times can be usefully analysed within the mobster framework. The two entities imperialism and gangsterism as Nzito asserts, share a common precept: gangsters thrive on protection rackets. 

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