Freedom is not free. American imperialism and business interests
have
horrific
costs that appear across time, continents.
When the chickens come home to roost, we see the real gangsters.
They are a malevolent manifestation, imperialism's true face
behind grants, smiles and "respectable" organizations.
War and regime change are harsh words, so fascist
leadership create these
via NGO's, "reform" initiatives,
the good
guy's fight and propaganda.
The public hears continual excuses for intervention and coups on their tax dollar.
Fewer places is that hypocrisy more apparent than President Obama.
He used a revolving door to corporate militarism.
"This (Yemen) is a just war — a war waged proportionally,
in last resort, and in self-defense." (The New York Times).
Yemen's "proven success" is a nationwide war zone.
Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen have been open
alleyways for the U.S. in the Middle East.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are littered by bombs.
Drone campaigns and blanket strategies are the norm since 2002.
Imperialist, guerrilla warfare always dominated American politics.
Look at the Sons of Liberty.
They wanted freedom to
oppress fellow human
beings on their own
Indigenous land.
This original coup has repeated itself internationally.
Common attacks include "communism",
"fascism",
"terrorist",
"RADICAL",
"undesirable", and "a threat to freedom".
That terminology applies to the government
officials who organize these war crimes.
The National Endowment For Democracy has a heavy
hand in perpetuating global imperialism.
It is a bipartisan Congress and Reagan creation,
that links to American
government's most egregious mistakes
like election interference (Common Dreams).
“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,”
said a former employee, Albert Weinstein (The
Washington Post).
The non-profit organization functions much like an
apparatus
for CIA
operations, but non-profit is oxymoronic.
Plutocratic politicians (i.e. Reagan and his cabinet) have
gained enormous revenue from NED's actions.
Their primary aim is regime change by any means necessary.
Stokely Carmichael, Pan-African Trinidadian leader of the SNCC
This "non-profit" receives an annual $80 million check
from the State Department and Congress (Democracy Now).
That could cover 67% of Medicare and Medicaid payments
that New York's
cutting,
or 100% of Montana's
infrastructure bonding bill.
U.S. missions and operatives use every tactic
from 'secret sources' and
assassinations
to influence international politics (Voltaire Web).
For 55 years, the U.S. instigated three Haitian coups (A Timeline of CIA Atrocities).
"If the United States government declares a coup, you immediately have
to shut
off all aid,
including humanitarian aid, the Agency for
International
Development aid,
the support that we were providing
at that time for a lot of
very poor people." (Democracy Now!)
Some are intentional battles for power.
Others are blunders to distract from a larger corruption,
like Trump and Soleimani (Newsweek).
But this bloody approach has far-reaching consequences.
What happens when the chickens roost at home?
PAST/RELEVANT ASSASSINATIONS
BERTA CACERES
The Lenca
activist and nature defender said that
2009's U.S.-Honduran coup
institutionalized suppressive violence against her people (YouTube).
Replacing Zelaya meant ominous things for Honduran citizens.
Coup head General Velasquez (NCR)
studied through a U.S. program
that created others like him (The
Grayzone): from Bolivia to Mexico.
Cáceres was assassinated in 2016, a year after an
environmental award for COPINH.
The Berta Caceres Act (Rep. Hank Johnson, D-GA) addresses
the connection
between aid and juntas, and reached the
House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
It still doesn't mention Secretary Clinton's
role in Hondura's unity government.
PATRICE LUMUMBA
Lumumba was elected independent, DEMOCRATIC leader of the Congo (The Dawn News).
Lumumba fought tooth and nail against Western infiltration
like many
African leaders throughout time: for
Congolese
freedom from imperial control.
But he was a fallen revolutionary to Belgian mercenaries and the CIA.
MALCOLM X
Malcolm X had these scathing words to say:
"I can only view the role of the United States in the Congo as a criminal
role.
And I think the seeds she is sowing in the Congo she will have to harvest.
The chickens that she has turned loose over
there
have got to come home to
roost." (x)
It's gone on for long enough. 60's revolutionaries
were completely done with American 'democracy'.
Malcolm X catalyzed a nation of disenfranchised people against injustice.
His politics decimated America's false progressivism.
He exposed a malevolent system that treats poor, Black
people as disposable pawns in a wealth war worldwide.
Malcolm X's anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist
stance further articulated Black revolution.
His tragic assassination in 1965 kick-started the Panthers' formation (Rolling Out).
QASSEM SOLEIMANI
His role in Iran and other sectarian governments is controversial,
but Major General Soleimani unified many people
under an anti-imperialist cause.
He did lead strikes against U.S. troops.
However, the Iraq War has been continuously
criticized for its lack of basis at all (report).
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Soleimani ended several rebel attacks against the ruling Iraq government
a decade ago and provided crucial intelligence
about the Taliban, to his credit.
He did not bow to cultural or military pressure
since the 1990's Iran-Iraq War (NPR).
Sanctions had already been placed heavily on Iran by 1984.
________
Iran, Syria and
Yemen are the latest examples of
capitalist militarism's failure
as functional foreign policy (LA
Times).
Coups can't last, not 66 years or 500. We need a stable society.
War's after-effects knock on our door in refugee waves and financial
crises—no
homes, futures, a land destroyed by greed.
Capitalist U.S. imperialism houses 25% of the world and deports the rest.
Salvadorian prison. Photography: Giles Clarke.
"The lack of new prisons along with
the huge rise in US deportation rates—
the justice system
can’t handle it so
these cages are springing up everywhere.
35 men in each one." (Prison
Photography)
Dana Frank's a human rights and foreign policy expert, well-versed
on the
Case of the
Honduran Coup. They disregard Clinton's pretense.
"She’s baldly lying when she says we never called it a coup.
Clinton and post-coup President Porfirio Lobo, 2010
I think it’s really about the U.S. pushback
against the
democratically
elected governments
of the left and the
center-left that came to
power
in Latin America in the '90s and in the 2000's.
Venezuela, Bolivia,
Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, El Salvador, all these countries.
[Honduras] was the
first domino pushing back against democracy
in Latin America and reasserting
U.S. power." (Democracy
Now!)
82nd Airborne Division paratroopers at Palmerola Air Base
"The first stop the plane made was at Palmerola.
When
they seized me in my house and took me to the plane, they
threatened me both
verbally and with their guns.
As I arrived in Palmerola, I looked out the window
and
saw troops moving,
people running. I couldn’t tell if they were
Honduran or
foreign troops."
U.S.-supported dictators enable
mass genocide
and civil warfare in more than 20 countries.
The Americas, Africa, Asia and the Middle Eastern region
are
long-term
activists against Washington attempts to control their politics.
Lately, the interference cannot be painted nicely.
Ministers are checking U.S. presidents when they assassinate national leaders.
Iranian PM Asserts Trump Was Ready to Commit War Crimes VIDEO
Plutocratic elites meet revolutionaries with fiercer waves,
each
generation further willing to change the
world.
"U.S. "democracy" is not the answer," they say.
March Against Monsanto in San Salvador
"We know the way! We will show you
what the world should
be."
Nkrumah delivered a prophetic speech at
1963's
Organization of African Unity ceremony (Ghana
Web).
His message centered continental unity as a decisive element in progress.
"The hour of history which has brought us...
is a revolutionary hour. It is the hour of decision.
For the first time, the [economic]
imperialism which
menaces us is
itself
challenged by the irresistible will of our people."
The coups end today.
A History of Six Decades of Tensions Between the U.S. and Iran (WJLA, 1-08-20)
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (William Blum, 2003)
U.S. Regime Changes - The Historical Record (Global Research, 11-29-19)
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