Servitors of Empire: Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America
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| ISBN-13: | 9781937584870 |
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| Publisher: | Trine Day |
| Publication date: | 08/01/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 320 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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Servitors of Empire
Studies in the Dark Side of Asian America
By Darrell Y. Hamamoto
Trine Day LLC
Copyright © 2014 Darrell Y. HamamotoAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-937584-87-0
CHAPTER 1
Asian Americans and the New World Order System
Twice-Told Tales
The overriding intention of Servitors of Empire is to move beyond outworn popular narratives and orthodox academic studies that describe and explain Asian American history almost exclusively through the lens of racial oppression, economic exploitation, and lingering regressive social attitudes that are claimed to limit access to the higher reaches of mainstream institutional power whether in business, the military, politics, or representation in the larger popular culture. These are major tropes in Asian American Studies, an academic enterprise that as currently constituted appears to be at odds with the defined population and the discipline it purports to represent. For if a recent Pew Research Center report on "Social & Demographic Trends" is to be believed, US Asians (most do not even accept the designation "Asian American") are overwhelmingly content with their position within American society and have great expectations for the future.
According to "The Rise of Asian Americans" (2012), this fastest-growing demographic group — outpacing even "Hispanics" — when compared to the general populace is characterized by advanced levels of education, enjoys a significantly higher median annual household income, and exhibits apparent ease in structural assimilation as seen in the prevalence (almost thirty percent) of marriage to non-Asians. With almost three-quarters of its population born overseas, Asian Americans reportedly are optimistic about their prospects in America and are confident that their goals can be reached by dint of hard work.
The chapters that follow, however, also demonstrate why such optimism not only is misplaced but dangerously blinds Asian Americans — even top-echelon adepts among the science, corporate, military, academic, and administrative super-class — to the exactingly planned installation of an unimaginably harsh comprehensive new world order system born of both ancient and contemporary totalitarian states but brought into fully-realized form through hyper-advanced technology that will supplant the vast majority of humanity irrespective of race and nationality. The most prominent proponent of this worldview is conceptual genius and creative innovator Ray Kurzweil, who advances a vision of man and machine merging in what he came to call "The Singularity." Against Kurzweil stands Bill Joy — chief scientist and co-founder of Sun Microsystems — who in his essay "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us" (2000) sounded the alarm against the danger to humanity posed by developments in robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
As will be argued consistently in these pages, Asian Americans as a defined population have been recruited and positioned by the globalist overlords to assist in the planning and implementation of what Obama shadow-advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1970 dubbed the "technetronic era." Today, this blueprint authored by the co-founder of the Rockefeller-funded Trilateral Commission, member of the globalist Anglo-American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and former National Security Advisor (1977-81) to President Jimmy Carter includes the biological sciences, engineering, information technology, physics, and mathematics.
In addition, branches of the social sciences including economics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology have been staffed by appreciable numbers of Asian Americans to facilitate both the ringing in of the comprehensive new world order system and then to manage those held captive to it. Compartmentalized, specialized technical labor such as this is paralleled by a select class of Asian American intellectual labor placed at the highest levels within business, the military, and politics.
The one defining characteristic these super-managers share is a demonstrated commitment to the emerging new world order political-economic structure otherwise known in popular and academic discourse as "globalization." Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo by way of Yale School of Management, is ranked by Forbes magazine as sixth on its list of the "World's 100 Most Powerful Women" along with four others born in India. But Nooyi ranked #2 on its list of "powerful women" in the business world. As Americans grow more aware of the dangers associated with the consumption of aspartame in so-called diet beverages and the use of MSG in snack food, the huge market in the exploited "developing" world has become crucial to PepsiCo, Inc.'s quarterly profits. With its historical connections to the American intelligence community, PepsiCo is among major corporations, the US military, federal government agencies, wealthy individuals, and private foundations pouring massive resources into the medico-pharmaceutical industry.
As a political appointee, prior to her insertion as US labor secretary (2001-09) under George W. Bush, Elaine Lan Chao served on the board of directors of an insurance company co-owned by a subsidiary of the Lippo Group. The Hong Kong-based subsidiary, China Resources Holdings Co., is reportedly "an intelligence-gathering front company for China's People's Liberation Army."The Lippo Group headed by the powerful Riady family of Indonesia was at the center of the campaign finance scandal that broke in 1996. The imbroglio helped subvert the political advance of Asian Americans as a group by smearing them with accusations of foreign influence and manipulation owing to illegal campaign contributions to US political candidates that were at bottom orchestrated and executed by foreign nationals and select numbers of highly placed officials such as Taiwan-born Chao.
The daughter of James S. C. Chao, who founded a successful company in the shipping industry (Foremost Maritime, Corp.), Chao married into the American political system in 1993 by joining in holy matrimony with Sen. Addison Mitchell "Mitch" McConnell, Jr. (R-Kentucky). As a US senator, McConnell enjoyed campaign contributions and honoraria from intelligence-connected insurance giant American International Group, Inc. (AIG), headed by the legendary Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Not coincidentally, AIG was the first foreign insurance firm granted approval to sell their services in China.
Elite family connections helped Chao pass through institutional filters into talent pools such as the conservative Heritage Foundation, where she served as chair of the Asian Studies Center Advisory Council formed in 1983 "in recognition of the dynamic Asia-Pacific region's growing importance to U.S. interests." In truth, Chao was paid an annual salary of $200,000 "to open doors in China for Heritage's corporate donors." After stints as "deputy maritime administrator" with the US Department of Transportation and chair of the Federal Maritime Commission, she was tapped to head the ostensibly humanitarian Peace Corps. (1991-1992). She next moved over to the United Way of America (1992-1996) to help repair the public relations disaster caused by reports by the Washington Post of an organization plagued by "financial improprieties, mismanagement, and abuse ..."
The corporate media, distracted by such an impressive record of public service, was silent about the close ties enjoyed by the Chao family with leaders at the highest level of government in China. Former PRC president Jiang Zemin (1993-2003), for example, formed a lifelong friendship at college with James S. C. Chao although he later fled to Taiwan in 1949. Conservative news organ WorldNetDaily claimed that both Elaine Chao and her father maintained "regular" and "deep" contact with President Jiang. Yet on the website maintained by the appropriately named Horatio Alger Association, the elder Chao is characterized as the son of "subsistence farmers" although his father served as "principal of the village elementary school."
The late Sherman H. Skolnick, an investigative journalist and court reformer based in the notoriously corrupt city of Chicago, went even further by writing of Chao and McConnell as a "husband and wife team" that are "reportedly fronts for the Beijing government in Washington." Writes Skolnick: "European and American intelligence sources assert that Elaine L. Chao's reputed links to the Red Chinese Secret Policy, together could easily fill a good-sized book or magazine article."
Lest his work be dismissed as the ravings of an Internet conspiracy pundit, it should be noted that investigative reportage by Skolnick has been instrumental in exposing and checking the proliferation of judicial corruption and governmental criminality. Kenneth A. Manaster, former Assistant Attorney General of Illinois and currently Presidential Professor of Ethics and the Common Good at Santa Clara University School of Law, places Skolnick at the center of exposing a classic example of official corruption in Illinois Justice (2001) and lauds his contribution to rooting out the misdeeds of political insiders.
Ultra-elite connections notwithstanding, as head of the $60 billion Department of Labor, Chao delivered the coup de grâce to the American working class by pressuring fat-cat labor union leaders to disclose the financial dealings of their respective organizations. She was not interested in eradicating union corruption as such. Rather, Chao used the threat of public exposure and possible criminal investigation to further induce well-compensated union leaders to cooperate with the master plan of sending heavy industrial manufacturing jobs to China, which had been designated by the international banking establishment as the means for realizing its vision of a post-industrial America. From the time China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the relocation of approximately 26,000 manufacturing plants overseas has spelled the loss of over 5.5 million jobs in the US.
India, too, was brought in to crush the service sector and undercut even highly trained computer and information technology specialists. "Post-colonial" types like S. Gopalakrishnan and Nandan Nilekani were instrumental in facilitating the demise of the American economy through the multinational organization they co-founded with others in 1981, Infosys Technologies, Ltd. Neither was specialized MBA-level intellectual labor shielded from the regulatory, tax, and profit benefits of moving such jobs outside the US. Athul Vashistha and AvinashVashistha breathlessly tout the transfer of junior analyst jobs by Wall Street brokerage firms to "Bombay to do research functions" as the "booming hedge fund industry also jumped on the bandwagon and is offshoring everything from research to fund accounting."
Keeping company with legions of unemployed American blue collar workers is an entire generation of young people that otherwise would have joined the educated middle class in productive professions that not long ago required only undergraduate degree credentials for entry. According to the Associated Press, fully half of recent college graduates were either without jobs or underemployed. The goal of globalist mega-banks such as Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Goldman Sachs was to undermine the US economy by sending its formerly world-class manufacturing base overseas while reducing the once vibrant middle class to a state of perpetual debt bondage and eliminating what little remains of independent producers and small businesses unable to compete in the Wal-Mart economy. China was positioned by globalist planners to bring about this new economy of radically reduced circumstances for the majority of Americans who in turn would have no recourse but to utterly depend upon centralized government "social welfare" programs. By the end of 2012, almost fifty million Americans were receiving federal food-stamp disbursements.
Having done her part by putting a Chinese American face on the global corporatist agenda of using China and India to decimate the working class while holding back middle class real income growth, Chao proved to be the best US Secretary of Labor that investment banks could ever have hoped for. While a thin stratum of politically connected business people in the People's Republic of China will reap massive financial benefits, James Petras daringly defies conventional wisdom in soberly predicting that its national economy will "become a territorial outpost for foreign controlled and operated banks and multinational corporations." Meanwhile, at Foxconn assembly plants that manufacture Apple products, suicides, riots, and abuse by supervisors are endemic to these "teeming facilities" staffed by workers siphoned into industrial centers from the countryside.
The Chao family, although successful in having staked a seemingly secure claim in the US system, are only mid-level players among contemporary Asian transnationals. At the highest reaches are heads of state that have been scrupulously cultivated, brought to power, and then burned after having outlived their usefulness. One of the better examples is the ultimate power couple, Ferdinand E. Marcos and Imelda Romualdez-Marcos. The illegitimate son of a Chinese-Filipino law student at the University of the Philippines who later rose to power as a judge, Ferdinand Chua, Marcos and his extended family benefitted from the patronage of his biological father and namesake.
Having fabricated a tale of his being a resistance fighter against Imperial Japan during its three-year occupation of the Philippines, beginning in 1946 Marcos advanced through a succession of elective offices until he was tapped by American operatives to head a US puppet state that a the time was unrivaled in its political corruption and murderous police-state tactics that kept him in power as president from 1965 to 1986. Conditions had deteriorated so badly in the Philippines that Marcos and his wife were forced to flee Malacañan Palace and were allowed by the US government to take up residency in Hawaii. Over the course of his US-sponsored reign, "Transparency International estimated that Marcos looted between $5 billion and $10 billon during his time in power." The current generation of Marcos political leadership is characteristic of Asian transnational royalty, having been educated overseas while maintaining residences and secure bank accounts outside their home country.
Fantastic stories of political corruption, purloined wealth, and hidden treasure are not the only legacy of the US-Philippines relationship that dates to 1898. Alfred W. McCoy in Policing America's Empire (2009) argues convincingly that what began as a colonial police state established by the US in the Philippines gradually took root in the imperial core society were a "distinctively American system of public and private surveillance persisted in various forms for the next fifty years as an omnipresent, sub rosa matrix that honeycombed U.S. society with active informers, secretive civilian organizations, and government counterintelligence agencies." That is, the national security state that grew to enslave ordinary Americans of the present was first rolled out in inchoate form overseas throughout Southeast Asia — the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos — and brutally beta-tested on its civilian population before being implemented in the US homeland against American citizens with mounting intensity from the 1950s to the post-9/11 paramilitary takeover. According to John Prados of the National Security Archives in Washington, the Far East Division of the CIA at its peak during the 1960s "became the largest component of the clandestine service."
After the US extricated its military from Vietnam, "frontline counterinsurgents" turned their attention to Latin America where the process was repeated using similar tactics and often employing the same shadow figures that were engaged in covert operations in Southeast Asia. The production of opium, cocaine, or cannabis transshipment to the US, and money laundering by large banking institutions were the common denominator in Southeast Asia and Latin America, as in the case of Afghanistan today.
Perhaps even more significant than the obvious examples of ongoing political repression and official violence against its citizens, the Philippines since the early twentieth century has been one of the preferred test sites for medical experimentation and racial domination by the US government under the guise of "public health" research into tropical disease. This medico-social apparatus in turn was exported to the US mainland thanks to "colonial health officers" stationed in the Philippines that were "among the first advocates of what came to be known in the United States as the new public health." As in the Philippines, non-Whites — particularly African Americans in the South — were targeted for the hygienic regime favored by the private Rockefeller Foundation and other mainline organizations that shared a philosophical and social commitment to eugenics.
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Table of Contents
Contents
CoverImage,Title Page,
Copyright page,
Endorsements,
Dedication,
Acknowledgments,
Preface,
Asian Americans and the New World Order System,
First Family: Soong Clan and Asian American Political Power,
Tactical Immigration: Contemporary Asian American Scientists and Engineers in the Arsenal of Empire,
Double Suicide: The Deaths of Ernest Hemingway and Iris Chang Reconsidered,
Useful Idiots: Asian Americans and the Campaign Finance Scandal,
False Flag: Transnational Asian America and Political Opportunism,
Enemies Foreign and Domestic: The Good Shepherd and Renegotiation of Racial Identity in the National Security State,
Race In Your Face: CNN and Neoliberal Multiculturalism,
Ethnic Cover: Inquiry Into Norman Yoshio Mineta and Post-Racial Profiling,
The Dream Is Over: Lenono and the Death of the Asian American Movement,
Race, Ethnicity, Techno-Fascism and the Restoration of the American Republic,
Index,
Back Cover,