"Imperialism is the progressive oppression of nations of the world by the great powers, is the epoch of wars between them for expansion and strengthening of oppression over nations, the epoch of the defrauding the public masses by hypocritical social-patriots, i.e. people, which under the pretext of "freedom of nations", "the right of a nation to self-determination" and "defence of the fatherland" justify and defend oppression of the majority of the nations of the world by the great powers" – that is how leader of the world proletariat V.I.LENIN characterized imperialism at the start of the XX century (Vol.27,p.63, Russian).

This Leninist definition of imperialism remains actual to this day, when world imperialism has entered into a phase of a system civilization crisis, comprising of - a crisis of the world economy, which is accompanied by a global political crisis with deepening instability of the existing organization of society and weakening of international political structures (an example is the UN Organisation), an ecological crisis as a result of the predatory use of natural resources, a crisis to human personality, a spiritual crisis, a crisis of the consciousness which in turn brings about the degeneration of a person as an individual, the crown of nature.

The state of the imperialist system as a whole is well examined by an analysis of the real state of the USA, the essence of US foreign policy conducted and real relations with their own "friends" of this leading imperialist world power.

By figurative expression of one leading economic strategist of the West, a leader of the world economy of imperialism, – the economy of the US can now be compared to an Egyptian pyramid, turned over by 180 degrees and standing on its "head" with the base of the pyramid facing upwards (an upside down pyramid). This more unstable design remains in relative balance due to an ensemble of artificial, miscellaneous kinds of temporary props, which may fall away from the pyramid at any time. One of such props is that a big part of the reserves of convertible currency worldwide consists of paper dollars (provided by gold reserves of the USA less than 10%) and American bons. So the majority of imperialist states have to support the dollar. Additionally, contracts and trading on the majority of the world exchanges are conducted in dollars. However, one may consider that one of the props of the American economic pyramid has already burst: one of five of the largest oil exchanges (NEW YORK, London, Singapore and Tokyo), and the Iranian one since May 2006 has been realizing the sale in Euros only. Contractually Japan pays Iran in its national currency. At a given moment Iran will sell already more than 70% gained by it oil-products in their raw state to countries which do not fall into the dollar zone, that is indicative of a reduction of the deliveries of Iranian oil to countries, where US currency has circulation.

The USA today has the largest state debt, amounting to hundreds of billions of Euro (in 2006 it was 200 billion Euro). The US is neither capable of returning, nor servicing its debt in the plan of the near future since at the base of the crisis of the economic system of the USA lies not simply a parasitic, but a drug-addiction like way of existence of the economy and society, when the only form of survival is by monetary and credit emission provided with no backup.

The USA is -
- A country-usurer, which the population lives largely on the backs of gambling and speculating on the exchanges;
- No 1 state terrorist , organizing terrorist acts even in countries of their own "friends" – in countries of the elite “Great 7”;
- a country, initiating all over the world a state of constant tension and frailty of existing peacetime;
- a country, unleashing to everyone its most populist and demagogic image "democracy" and its own understanding of "human rights".

The IMF confirms the presence of a system crisis of imperialism and forecasts the deterioration of the condition of the global economy. In the opinion of IMF, in 2007, the global increase in GDP will form only 5,2%, in following year - 4,8%. Such a forecast was discovered by the IMF in October 2007. The head of the department of the studies of the IMF Simon Johnson, having named the reasons for the deterioration of the state of the world economy, defined as the main threat - the continuation of the instability of the financial markets and the possibility of the reduction in the value of assets, including (but not only) price falls in the housing market. Besides, Simon noted, "We are talking here about a loss of confidence (in the US), which can have much more serious consequences for economic activity, than we expect". The August problems on the US mortgage lending market of were transformed into a global crisis of liquidity, which neither Europe escaped. The Central Banks of the world were able to stop its spreading by their own large-scale infusion, however themselves the US has not recovered from the disease. The IMF forecasts the leading world economy (the US) this year to be the slowest growing GDP for the past 5 years - at a rate of 1,9%.

And, as always, imperialism searches for its next salvation in the organizing of wars, having directed now their own surges on the countries of the MIDDLE EAST.
The geo-strategic position of the MIDDLE EAST, the presence of rich oilfields (first place in the world occupies Saudi Arabia with 35 billion tons, then Iraq -17 billion tons, and Iran) have always attracted the attention of leading imperialist countries. After the Second World War the region was transformed into complex node of many contradictions, an arena of confrontation between imperialism and the national-liberation movement of peoples of the Arab world.
In its fight against the national-liberation movement, imperialism actively uses the state of Israel (created in 1948), which in breach and ignoring Resolutions of the UN General Assembly, began the seizure of the whole of Palestine. As a result of the Arab-Israel war in1948 – 1949, Tele-Aviv had occupied most of the lands intended for building an Arab state and the west part Jerusalem, which on decision of the General Assembly of the UN was to become an international zone. The Palestinian problem to this day remains a fundamentally unsolved question of the Middle East and very heavily promoted by the USA. The main purpose of USA in regulating the problem, it sees in the creation of a regional community, satisfying at all points, namely America. The response of the revolutionary movement HAMAS to the American so-called "Roadmap" plan, proposed in 2003, was unambiguous: "We shall not, neither as a whole, nor on separate points recognize this document, and consider it as a secret collusion against Palestinian people. This plan is no better than previous plans and agreements, directed mainly towards the security and protection of Israel on the backs of the security of Palestine".

The realization of the American plan "Middle East 2003", by which a change of the political regime in Iraq was expected, brought about armed aggression by the USA against Iraq in March 2003, the destruction of Iraq and a mass refugee crisis in nearby countries – of more than 4 million people (the population of Iraq before the US invasion was 22 million).
"After what has occurred in Iraq, everyone began fiercely hating the Americans " - declared the president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, H.MUBARAK in an interview to French newspaper "Monde". "The promised democracy turned into terror, which pursues us on the streets, in our homes and mosques, freedom – by colonial dependence, dignity - by insult" - declared by a leader of one of the central mosques in Baghdad. According to one Iraqi teacher "Bush’s policy on Iraq has failed. The USA are the main cause of the destruction of our country, and sufferings of its people." Nowadays the unemployment rate in the country is 50% of the able population, 4 million are undernourished and are underfed. There are two wars going on in Iraq now: one against the US occupation, the other – a civil war, between different confessional groups, mainly between Sunnis and Shiites.

The War against Iraq has shown that the USA have stated their own claim to individual leadership, for the sake of achievement of which America will be capable to go on any adventures and take any risks. This was said in Bush’s speech in the US Congress on January 21 2004, in which he declared that the USA will not hesitate and ask permission and support from other countries, when the business concerns US national interests. America is ready to act alone, without considering anyone or anything. This position is the state position and the president is not intending to depart from this position.

Having smashed Iraq, the USA have gained a certain temporary injection for its slowing rate of growth of the economy on account of the Iraqi oil, and have reduced its dependency on Saudi oil and created an additional lever of pressure on the states of Western Europe, Japan and China, dependent on deliveries of Arab oil. Having solved partly the problems of energy resources for its own economy, the USA have vastly lost in another - in a loss of confidence in itself on behalf of other states (this concerns Great Britain, which supported the USA in its war against Iraq). Today in Iraq there are 162 thousand US soldiers plus 11,5 thousand military personnel of other countries of the coalition. During the 3 years of war, the US has got from Iraq more than 3 thousand coffins.

After destroying Iraq, on the part of USA the Islamic Republic of Iran is now being subjected to barbaric attacks, occupying a very profitable geo-strategic position in the Middle East, Central and South Asia also declared a US zone of their own vitally important national interests, allowing actively to influence these regions. The seizure of Iranian oil will allow the US to solve the problem of its own energy security. One of the pretexts to start a war against Iran is that from the standpoint of the US, Iran presents a real threat to Israel (which the US have an obligation in the field of security), as well as that Iran, ostensibly, is busy building its own nuclear weapons.

The Islamic Republic of Iran at the head of which stands president Ahmedinezhad at present is a leader of the national-liberation struggle of the Muslim world against US imperialism in the first place, confronting the military, economic and cultural aggression of western imperialism with its market (in-essence usurious) economy. We shall note that the Islamic doctrine considers usury as one of the most serious crimes before Allah. Religious values today in the Islamic world are a political force, forming a certain lifestyle, a common culture and world outlook.

Iran sharply denounces the unleashed to the whole world by the USA western liberal-democratic values and the market as such, considering it as variety of gambling, of which there must not be a place in a true Islamic society.
King Abdalle ben Hussain of Jordan remains in a conservative pro-American position. He does not intend to move from the political policy, bequeathed by his father. This means, by his statement, "close co-operation with Washington in all spheres".
The absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia is being transformed into a constitutional monarchy. Officially this state formally rejected in its time the idea of using force against Iraq without sanction of the UN Security Council and therefore it is not worth over estimating the toughness of the US-Saudi military partnership.

The European community of nuclear powers together with the US are undertaking titanic efforts for unleashing a war against Iran under the farfetched and false pretext - "not to allow the uncontrolled proliferation of nuclear weapons", falsely accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons. Indeed Iran carries out research- development on obtaining nuclear fuel for building their own nuclear power stations. In the opinion of Fidel Castro, "Nobody must have the right to produce nuclear weapons, and more so to have a privileged right, obtruded by imperialism to install its hegemonic rule and deprive countries of the third world natural resources and raw materials.

We shall defend to the last on all tribunes of the world, the right for people to produce nuclear fuel, and to defend this right without any fear and awe".
In the Middle East, in this region of the world Israel has nuclear weapons obtained from the USA as far back as the 1950-s), along with Pakistan and India.
But the essence of the question is about a preemptive strike on Iran on the part of USA, as we see, not in development, of ostensibly, an atomic weapon, but in possession by Iran of one of the richest oilfields in the worlds. The same parcel, as in respect of Iraq, destroyed by American bombing for a month.

America exports oil, in which it feels a sharp lack of, which is a reason for racking up the price of oil on the world exchanges. Today the price of oil does not comply with any law on supply and demand of oil. This price complies with other factors, and namely its shortage in the face of rising extreme demand and the enormous extravagance of the consumers of the rich countries. This price has a no relations to some economic law. In the coming year, demand for oil will increase by another 2 million barrels a days. In the coming year the demand will be for more than 84 million barrels a day. The USA, the main territory of the empire, uses 8,6 million barrels of fuel at day(!).
To seize the rich oil-bearing region of Iran after the gangster-style hold up in Iraq, the USA long ago in readiness designed by Martin Indic in 1999 (then assistant state secretary of the US) a strategic project under name of "Double Attack". This strategic project comprises of a simultaneous encirclement, isolation and military defeat Iraq and Iran. The scheme of one of the versions of this plan was already marketed during the invasion by the USA into Afghanistan and Iraq. For the past years the Americans have taken the Iranian upland "in parentheses": from the west – US occupied Iraq, from the east – a puppet regime in Afghanistan, for which Kabul looks after the marines of the USA and which has some of its mercenary army, capable of providing a staging area for the deployment of force against Iran on "eastern front".

The CIA (notwithstanding the extreme unwillingness of the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf to be involved in American adventures even at the level of the obligatory fight against theTaliban) has managed to create an anti-Iranian terrorist group in Beludzhistane - "Dzhund Allah", - actively carrying out raids deep into Iranian territory ambushing border and police patrols, murdering officials etc. (all these acts have been documented on video cassette, like the Chechen fighters had recently being doing - for the purpose of reporting to their US sponsor).

From the western side, relying on Northern Iraq, practically torn away from Baghdad under the illegal political formation of "autonomous Kurdistan", the yanks have managed to unleash an underground guerrilla war of Kurdish fighters on Iranian territory. The presence of a Kurdish president in Baghdad must by American thinking guarantee them from a contest by the Iraqi side to the legality of such an administrative approach to the territory of a formally sovereign country (Iraq).

The main achievement of the Americans in the encirclement of Iran – is penetration of them into post-Soviet territory: the yanks now have military bases in Kirgizia and Tadzhikistan (former Soviet republics), the progressing destabilization of the South Caucasus, where Georgia plays the role of the rightless and warring satellite of the USA, and the USA is wresting concession after concession from out of Azerbaijan. All this creates a very complex geo-strategic situation for the regime of Azhmedinezhada.
Here is also another thing that needs to be added to what has been said: – the persistent urging on the part of USA of Saudi Arabia and Arab governments tied into it to participate in confrontations against the Iranians, the concentration of undersea and surface missile power in the Indian ocean, and military bases on Diego-Garcia.

From all that has been said follows one conclusion:
The entire policy of the USA in the Middle East over the past few years aims in the first place to destroy the Islamic (national-liberation) revolution and destroy the states of ayatollah for the sake of seizing Iranian oil. As stated above, this question was long ago put on the agenda of US policy long before, the notorious question appeared "about the possibility of the appearance of an atomic bomb in Iran". In other words, the “care" by the USA concerning Iran carries a deep civilisation and geo-political nature, not depending on the state of affairs. All the rest, carried out for justification of their own claim to Arab oil, is part of the disinformation action, which must "without fail " prepare world public opinion in favour of a war unleashed by the US against Iran.

In the events unfurling on the Iranian plateau, the constant crafty rivalry of Great Britain with the USA is seen as a main geo-political acting person, who promoted the decay of the British colonial empire after the ending of the Second World War. The actions of the USA in that length of time were directed at removing the British from the traditional regions of their colonial presence (from their former colonies), to overthrow the ruling aristocratic (monarchist) regimes there belonging to the world "Anglophile" parties and replacing them with pro-American ones, in which young officers and the nationalist bourgeoisie played the leading role.
Iran under Pahlavi assisted American strengthening in the Middle East, was the closest partner to Israel, which, we shall remind you, appeared despite the reluctance of British imperial strategists, always occupied a hostile position in respect of the Arab states of the Gulf, and still kept its orientation towards London.

The Islamic revolution, which took place with the support of Britain and France, installed a theocratic regime in Iran, having restored inter-elite contacts with the British establishment. Since then, the USA have set course for a tough confrontation with Iran.
Today the USA, residing in a deep system crisis, sharply needs a world military conflict, even up to the extent of the organization of a third world war, not excluding the use tactical nuclear weapons (of course, only from their side). Considering the experience and character of conducting US foreign policy, one can consider as wholly real that the Pentagon will try to reduce to minimum its direct involvement in the conflict (wage war using someone else’s hand and their own money). The aim of the USA – is to cause maximum chaos on the territory of the OLD WORLD, to provoke a war of everyone against everyone along lines of previous historic scenarios, in which USA would carry out the role of the arbitrator, taking part in the final stages (when dividing up the “loot”).

Two countries - Iran and Russia – are, in the modern political situation, a "restraining" factor since, unlike all the rest of the imperialist states, they are not interested in world convulsions: the balance of the political resource and internal problems in Russia and in Iran now do not favour stability of these countries (there is enough heightened social tension and Russia as well as in Iran).

Other imperialist states are not averse to using the crisis situation in the world for solving their own geo-political problems and altering their own status.

Japan is hoping for a collapse of the modern international system of agreements and obligations and is trying to return to itself the territory and status (scale) of a great power, lost in 1945.

China, because of mass social discontent and ethnic separatism, is ready to solve its own internal problems by expansion of its political influence into the north first of all, and as far as possible, in the direction of the pacific. In the event of a collapse of Russian sovereignty - in the event of a third world war starting - China hopes on actively filling the ethnic vacuum in Siberia, in the Far East, yes and in Kazakhstan too, but here will hardly avoid the deep convulsions in the social sphere.

India is not against participation in the defeat of its traditional adversary - China.

Pakistan sees itself as a parent state dominant over Afghanistan and Central Asia, but at the same time participate with China in the collapse of the Indian polyethnic statehood.

Saudi Arabia, having gained championship in the Arab world besides Egypt, dreams to replace Iran in the status of the regional superpower.
And so on.

Russia in the event of the realization of US thoughts on the Middle East may turn out to be on edge of a catastrophe on the strength of the harmfulness of the administrative system inside the country.

The USA in this humanitarian collapse on the scale of an enormous region of the world saturated by people, besides the seizure of the richest oil-bearing deposits, plans to directly interfere in the internal affairs of Russia…

Thus, the USA is preparing to bring about world collapse for the sake of hiding the inevitable and indivertible default of its own system.
America declares a default to the whole world, believing that it possesses overwhelming military-political superiority. Characteristic of that so-called "leaking" of information already sends a message about scenario studying (at the level of the US government, State Department, the Pentagon, CIA and economic departments of the USA) for conducting a war against Iran. The solid bourgeois newspapers write about this. In September in the "The Sunday Times" an American expert on questions of national security from the Nixon Centre reported that the aim of the US plan consists in the absolute deprivation of the Iranian army of fighting efficiency for three days by carrying out air-strikes on already 1200 established targets. George Bush has elaborated that "this needs to be done while it is not too late".
Why is Bush in such a hurry? He hurrying also because time is running out for US impunity, for all the crimes committed by them.

The DPRK having created its own nuclear shield is no longer afraid of the American nuclear cudgel, which Bush waves around the whole world.

Seven Latin American states - Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay and Ecuador declared on October 10 their intention to form a joint Bank of the South, which will play a "central role in new financial architecture of the region" and will become the source of loans, alternatives to World Bank and International Monetary Fund. By forming their own bank, Latin American countries hope to limit the influence of the USA.

The Political Council of the Resistance has created in Iraq six anti-government Sunni groups, which in its Political program call for the liberation of Iraq "to free Iraq from foreign influence for achievement of full independence". The Program of the guerrillas is based on two main principles: on the non-acceptance of the illegal occupation that is carrying out oppression and aggression, contradicting Islamic traditions and - on religious right, as well as on the legitimacy of armed resistance with the aim of throwing out foreign troops from the country.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia– the Army of the People – FARC, in its Manifesto calls for unification and counter-action against the authorities, which are ruining the country that consist of drug barons-paramilitary mafia, latifundists and cattle breeders, drug-traffickers and businessmen, which by relying on troops of the government of North-American States have subjected Columbia to the hell of war. The Army of the People accuses the government of inhuman counter-insurgency strategies, which the CIA and FBI are involved in.

According to the information agency Sinihua "the wish for the USA to grab the rich oil-bearing region of Iran subsequent to the gangster-style hold up of Iraq and actual destruction of this country, forces the countries of the Middle East to be seriously worried about their own security and to undertake efforts in the direction of the development to their own nuclear industry that will wholly lead to the establishment of new nuclear powers in the Middle East. With appearance of a nuclear weapon in Iran, it could be built in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Turkey and Jordan would follow closely behind. In the opinion of the head of the Hashimit Kingdom "After this summer, everyone (in the region) is going to start racing for nuclear programs".
And such a policy of the countries of the Middle East is wholly logical and well-grounded: the sole form of self-defense from the state-terrorist USA today, lies in the possession by a country of a nuclear weapon. All other arguments are ineffective. Confirmation of this is in the armed aggressions by the USA together with partners (the European nuclear powers) on destroying Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq and constant threats until lately of pre-emptive nuclear strikes on the DPRK. If the DPRK had not created its own nuclear weapon and had not conducted nuclear testing and the testing of their own ballistic missiles capable of reaching the territory of the USA, it is quite possible that this imperialist predator would already have unleashed a war against the DPRK.

To remove the heightened tension in the world is possible not by way of banning the building by sovereign states of their own nuclear shield, but way of banning by the world community of US policy of international banditism and unleashing by force on sovereign states the so-called "US-style democracy" or – the forcible "democratization of the region". In order for the world to leave peacefully, it is necessary to put an end to the terrorism by the main imperialist power – the USA. It is namely the USA that has created across the whole world an enormous network of camps for the preparation of terrorists of different nationalities and races, which are trained by American instructors. The terrorists are financed by so-called NGO-s (non-governmental organizations) of the USA", behind which stand the US State Department. Chechnya – is a result of the functioning of American sponsor and fighters trained by US Special Forces.

As Fidel Castro says, "what kind of peace is this for the world, when the barbarous empire proclaims that it has a right to attack suddenly and preventively 70 or more countries, where it is capable of bringing death and destruction to any corner of the world, using the latest weapon technology and methods of killing? A world, where reigns the empire of cruelty and force, having hundreds of the military bases across the whole planet.

We shall fully defend on all tribunes of the world the right for people to produce nuclear fuel, defend without any fear and awe.”
On the example of the leading world empire – the USA, it is obvious that imperialism has exhausted itself as a social-political formation, that the USA objectively has arrived at the point where there is a need of a change in its social-political system. In certain political circles an opinion is widespread that an American "elite core " stands before the necessity of an anti-republican and anti-constitutional coup and transition to a charismatic dictatorship. It is no secret that in the US already at present, parallel power is really functioning. WHO really rules America today and the ideology of this “elite core" – more on this in PART.2 of the report.