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The growth industry in the united $tates--it's not biotech, oil or solar energy. It's spying.
USA Today reports that the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) just grew by 15% in two months.
Nearly half of all spies have arrived since 9/11. It goes to show that there is a surplus available in the economy despite talk of "deficits."
Indirectly, the CIA has admitted that the greatest obstacles to its recruiting drive are the secret rendition flights caught in Europe and Guantanamo Bay.
For less than 3000 deaths on 9/11, for fewer deaths than caused by second-hand smoke each year, Amerikans have revealed their real priorities. Lenin told us this would be true about imperialism, that it's surplus would grow as would its useless parasitism such as militarism. It is proof that the entrepreneurial class cannot come up with more exciting things or people to spend money on.
CIA spying does not make anyone better off. The reasons for its growth as opposed to the solar industry to replace Arab oil are entirely psychological--chauvinism.
Recently, Iran arrested two Amerikan academics to charge them with spying.(2) The suspicion against Amerikans is completely justified, because the government has a policy of covert recruitment of academics. It's not something Amerikans can have both ways: covert infiltration of academia and journalism is going to have consequences if not inside the united $tates, at least in the actions of other countries. With all the spying going on and control of campuses and journalism (in their international aspects) by covert forces, Rice's rhetoric about "freedom" in Iran rings hollow.
On May 26, ABC News reported that Bush gave the go-ahead to the CIA to conduct non-lethal destabilization of Iran.(3) MIM can only speculate on the significance of this report, namely that it is a cover for military activities already going on in Iran. Even some bourgeois journalists did not know why this story "leaked" out.
The only thing that can really reduce Amerikan spying is international class struggle. Right now, China is injecting the most commodities into the u.$. economy that make the growth of spying possible. The growth of spying cannot be sustained in a shrinking material economy. Ironically, the growth of the parasitic sector may suddenly reveal itself and the whole parasitic structure of imperialism as unsustainable once the commodity-producers finally take up class struggle to a sufficient degree.
Note:
1. Richard Wiling, "CIA taking more risks,"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-30-hayden-cia_N.htm
2. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6704987.stm
3. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708684692&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull