{"id":3878,"date":"2013-12-19T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T02:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=3878"},"modified":"2013-12-19T21:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:05:51","slug":"time-to-wake-up-us-will-have-to-deal-with-rising-powers-on-equal-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myfutureamerica.org\/?p=3878","title":{"rendered":"Time to wake up\u2019: US will have to deal with rising powers on equal terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In choosing Swedish company Saab over America\u2019s Boeing for its new fleet of jet fighters, Brazil is continuing a South American tradition of viewing the \u201cbully\u201d US with suspicion, Curtis Ellis, executive director of American Jobs Alliance, told RT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Brazil announced<\/a> Wednesday it was rejecting a contract for Boeing\u2019s F\/A-18 fighter jets in favor of the Swedish Saab\u2019s JAS 39 Gripens amid the global scandal over the NSA\u2019s involvement in economic espionage activities.<\/p>\n

Ellis said the US would do well to realize it can no longer dictate its relationship with South American countries, especially with rising power Brazil.<\/p>\n

RT:<\/strong> Was the US expecting such a fallout from the NSA spying scandal?<\/em><\/p>\n

Curtis Ellis:<\/strong> I don\u2019t think they were. Otherwise they would\u2019ve taken measures ahead of time to mend some of these fences, which have been badly damaged by America\u2019s overreach.<\/p>\n

RT<\/strong>: Do you think more moves like Brazil\u2019s are set to follow?<\/em><\/p>\n

CE:<\/strong> South America has always taken its own path. Go to Argentina, it prides itself of being the Paris of South America. Brazil has had close ties to Europe, perhaps closer than those ties with the US. Likewise, much of Latin America has always been suspicious of the United States as a hegemonic power, which was a bit of a bully-boy to the Latin Americans, the \u201cgiant in el norte.\u201d<\/p>\n

So any chance they have to do business with someone else, they\u2019d be happy to do that. There\u2019s a huge Asian influence growing in the southern continent. And the United States better wake up to the fact that it can\u2019t\u2026get away with whatever it wants. It\u2019s going to have to deal with Brazil, a rising power, on the basis of equals, not on the basis of just taking it for granted.<\/p>\n

RT:<\/strong> So with Boeing losing such a big contract because of the government policy, do you think there will be more private, and publicly-traded, companies pushing against the NSA policies?<\/em><\/p>\n

CE:<\/strong> We\u2019re seeing already in the tech sector, Google, Yahoo, some of the larger tech companies – which have been, perhaps mistakenly, considered complicit in the NSA\u2019s wiretapping and hoovering of electronic records – are now demanding some kind of accountability, and some type of distance between themselves and the NSA. This situation with Brazil is a personal affront to Barack Obama, as well.<\/p>\n

Now, the Swedish won the contract for the jet fighters. Remember, it was Sweden\u2019s neighbor, Norway, which awarded Barack Obama a Nobel Peace Prize on the basis of creating a new international climate that had suddenly improved because Barack Obama had ascended to power. And this was going to be a new era of international cooperation. What he\u2019s done is 180 degrees opposite of that. He is now creating an international coalition against American hegemonic power.<\/p>\n

RT:<\/strong> A report has come out recommending change to the NSA. It\u2019s not an outright dent in the data collection, though. Could we see any of these recommendations actually become legislation? And will it make any real difference?<\/em><\/p>\n

CE:<\/strong> There\u2019s a growing number of senators and House representatives \u2013 in fact, there\u2019s a caucus within the House \u2013 calling for defunding the NSA or not paying their water bill, not giving them electricity. The Libertarian wing of the Republican Party, which has a tribune of Rand Paul in the Senate and Justin Amash in the House, are openly in opposition to the NSA. I don\u2019t know what these recommendations are. I haven\u2019t read them in-depth. I don\u2019t know if they amount to, \u201cif you like your privacy, you can keep it,\u201d<\/em> if that\u2019s what Obama is saying here, or if they are substantial reforms.<\/p>\n

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