Why is the US so insecure in run up to presidential election?

The recent debates over secret information revealed by Julian Assange through Wikileaks, including a discussion with renowned journalist John Pilger, has explosive material involving Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's controversial emails.

Her intelligence interests involve even her intervention in the overthrow of the Honduran government, of which she was proud despite "regime change" in a country which was no threat to its neighbours or any powerful country. She also supported intervention in the post-Arafat PLO election, according to Assange.

Why doesn't Assange come out of the Ecuador embassy in London since the UN has exonerated him of all charges against him? Because he cannot go to Sweden even though charges against him have been dropped. In his discussion with Pilger, Assange has said Sweden would extradite him to the US where he would be imprisoned on false charges, so he continues in seclusion in the Ecuador embassy. Ironically, Ecuador is a small country of 16 million people, standing up to the pressures of mighty giants like the US.

So what is Assange's crime? Information is today the equivalent of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. Imagine if the FBI had fully exposed Clinton's emails, on which they stalled as long as possible, before refusing practically blank "redacted" emails which were 90 per cent blank or more, censured by the FBI to protect the next President of the United States, irrespective of law or probity.

Of course, the use of official email channels as officially recorded by Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, was quite legal. The problem was the use by Clinton of official email channels for private emails which were well more than thousands is a misuse of US state media machinery.

But the "deep state" of the US desperately needs Clinton and without her, many politicians, business magnates and powerful media, have severe objections to the brash "outsider" Donald Trump. Trump wants good relations with Russia, in order to avoid great power tensions with the US's bête noire.

The power elite cannot accept that. The US needs enemies to justify the monstrous growth of what President Eisenhower called "the military industrial complex (MIC)", which he warned the American people about. The MIC continues selling arms to all sorts of buyers. For example, Saudi Arabia, a funder and staunch supporter of the Islamic State, was sold some $4 billion in armaments in 2015. What threat do the Wahhabi Saudis have from Wahhabi IS? And why do the Saudis who are also bombing along with Qatar the tiny Yemen, and the Shia Houthis, need so many billions of dollars in arms?

One obvious reason. The MIC has to sell its arms to recoup its interests, and further spread its influence throughout out the world, as part of its greater aim of being the unchallenged "world order". This term is used less often now, but is clearly the theory behind the policy of "regime change" which the US and NATO started in Afghanistan, decades ago, and are trying to continue in Syria.

Russia, supported by Iranian militia and Hezbollah, has been fighting back the Syrian "rebels" closely aligned with the terrorist outfit Al Nusra Front, whose linkage including in Aleppo continues, despite the US claim that it is trying to delink from Al Nusra, which few believe.

So great powers are unscrupulous, manipulative, and committed to increase leverage to become even greater powers. Those who have emigrated to the US, including Indians, have become integrated into the American ideological and cultural system, becoming "American Indians" who are keen to be treated as bonafide (white) Americans.

The 64 dollar question is that despite all these powers and facets, why is the US so insecure in the run up to the presidential election? Why this hysterical attack on Russia? Insecurities of a superpower?

The hundreds of "nukes" that the superpower has amassed are no substitute for "people's power" based on peace, friendship, and commitment to an egalitarian, pacifist, non-sectarian and inclusive order. Many people throughout the world are waiting for this.

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