DO THE INTERNATIONAL MEGA FASCISTS (IMF) WANT THEIR GRUBBY HANDS ON THE SYRIAN STATE?

Stephen Gowans has written a thought-provoking article about the current intrigue in Syria. Gowans argues that Syria is not opening up its state to the US corporations, and is also an ally of Hezbollah which threatens the Zionist State of Israel, and that this is enough for the US and Israel to replace the government of Syria with one that is more "interconnected".

Apart from Syria’s irritating Washington by allying with Iran, backing Hezbollah, and providing material assistance to Palestinian national liberation movements, the country exhibits a tendency shared by all US regime change targets: a predilection for independent, self-directed, economic development. This is expressed in state-ownership of important industries, subsidies to domestic firms, controls on foreign investment, and subsidization of basic commodities. These measures restrict the profit-making opportunities of US corporations, banks and investors, and since it is their principals who hold sway in Washington, US foreign policy is accordingly shaped to serve their interests.

The US State Department complains that Syria has “failed to join an increasingly interconnected global economy,” which is to say, has failed to turn over its state-owned enterprises to private investors, among them Wall Street financial interests. The State Department is aggrieved that “ideological reasons” continue to prevent the Assad government from liberalizing Syria’s economy. As a result of the Ba’athists’ ideological fixation on socialism, “privatization of government enterprises is still not widespread.” The economy “remains highly controlled by the government.”

[source : Syria’s Uprising in Context, http://gowans.wordpress.com/, 10/2/2012]

A few years ago the IMF stated that it was preparing for the day in the not too distant future when it would run the global economy. The crisis in Europe has led the IMF to intervene and be given much more power. The IMF is now looking like it will get its grubby hands on Egypt. If Assad falls we can expect the IMF to get in there and carve up the Syrian state and open it up for the international mega fascists.