Preface to
How many military conflicts
has the
What
Why
Why do not know
The truth is out there
Not new,
nor has it been hidden
It is
just not main stream
Everything
that I present can be found in the library here on campus
But very few Americans read
Allen Dulles—
Have to
make an effort
A paradigm shift—a change in perspective or worldview
Process—not pleasant
Similar to the experience of people who are dying
1st reaction denial
Then anger
Then depression
Last is acceptance
T.S. Eliot once wrote, "Human kind cannot bear
very much reality."
Why truth about
Educational system
What
is the basic purpose of the educational system?
Fundamental
purpose of all education systems
Real
education is always dangerous to the powers that be who seek to maintain their
hold on power
Socrates
was executed
American writer H.L. Mencken said:
Education
as indoctrination is a way of controlling the minds of people
Background
universal educational
systems designed to create obedient and patriotic citizens
In 1888, the Senate Committee on Education
The men who designed, funded,
and implemented
system in the late 1800s and early 1900s, were very clear
about what they believed public
education should do.
Elwood Cubberly
The corporate and political elites explicitly wanted an educational system
In
1889 the
The duty of
the public educator
In terms of history,
All current events that we observe are
filtered through that assumption
For example: Experiment
We interpret current events in terms of
what we have been taught
Events which are obviously inconsistent
with our programming are
Constitution—good example—Assignment 8
Federalist
Papers Number 10
Result of public education system
Status
quo—the system under the control of the elites is perpetuated
Mandatory
public education has not been a failure, but success
Taught
to think and act to benefit elites
Indoctrination does not end with high school
We have been taught to believe and most people do believe that
education is the way to
solve all our problems
Research reveals
educated more war-like and slavish to political leaders
What is the reasons for this:
1)
2)
3)
4)
People who are the
object of the greatest indoctrination are Phd
candidates
Must
be trusted since work alone and are leaders
Jeff
Schmidt in his book Disciplined Minds
analysis Phd education
Visible example:
Reason that most college professors have
been educated to be liberal
Gatekeepers—to
limit what is permissible thought
For example:
Also, there is always a great deal of
pressure to conform—to be servants
of
system—perpetuating the myths that maintain the status quo
Lynne
Cheney
So
the threat is that you either conform or you can lose your job
Look at the educational system
realistically
Victors write history books
The educational system
is just one part of the “perception management” system
Perception management is the current euphemism for
thought control or brainwashing
Other major parts of the system are
Major media
TV and movies
Disinformation
Technology
Taught not used in democracies, but only in authoritarian
governments
But just the opposite is true
Propaganda is to democracy as force is to dictatorships
CIA’s budget for propaganda
Tools are incredible
Manipulating video in real time
Bottom Line: Control
There is a difference between the common people of
American and the government—there are two
1)
2)
People of foreign countries used to be more aware of
this—they did not hold American
people responsible for actions
of their government
But since actions of US so blatant
Americans must be aware
Aware and doing nothing about it—so responsible
Americans have limited awareness
Foreign student
Conclusion
American people ultimately responsible
But most Americans do not know what
government is doing
Really is two
For example, 71% of American citizens
Recognition of this is essential to understanding
One
America is the people of America
All the good of
Our rights, our freedoms, and our prosperity has been
secured by the common American people
by
fighting elites
Americans not educated in this
Read Howard Zinn’s A
People’s History of the 20th Century
This is 99% of
Other
Sociologist C. Wright Mills in his
book The Power Elite characterizes
the Power Elite as
Includes:
1)
2)
3)
4)
Important to realize
Wright warns
Not moral examples
Money chief value
Elites
motives for acting
Elites always unified
Proper paradigm
Fitsgerald
"The rich are not like you and me."
LA elite and American embassy
personnel very much alike
All elites alike
Elites control
How elites pursued their agenda in
Elites do not represent American people
“Your government is not your country”
1845 President Polk instigated a war with
1903
US sent the marines to
Haiti 1914-1934
Panama in 1901, 1908,
1912, 1918, 1925;
Guatemala 1920
El Salvador 1932
Stability is a key foreign
policy objective
So the bottom line in all
Examples of the extent of
Major General Smedley
Butler, twice awarded the Medal of Honor (1914, 1917),
commanded the marines in the operations to maintain order in
LA
In a speech he made in 1933 he
said:
"War is just a
racket...
Conclusion—
Good neighbor because
Effect the same
By 1954 dictators ruled in 13 out of 20 LA countries
1980 to Present—Elite Democracy
William I. Robinson, Promoting Polyarchy : Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony
Support elites in
LA who protect economic elites interests
Not democracy
Motives of US foreign policy
US on top of the world after WWII
Elites
in the UU pursue two far-reaching goals that they had:
1)
2)
1) To perpetuate the military industrial complex
Created
and perpetuated by
Elites like this kind of spending
1) It makes them wealthy
Incidents
that led to US involvement in every war since the Mexican War were
rigged or set up by our own government
Mexican War
Spanish American
War
WWI
WWII
1st Gulf
War
War is good for business
Rothschilds
War do not just happen
International
bankers financed Nazis and Communism
Examples how elites make
money in war
International bankers financed rise of
Hitler and Russian Revolution
Oswald Spengler—communism
financed by bankers
Examples:
Ford
IBM
Soviet Union armed by US
Anthony
Sutton in his book The Best Enemy Money Can Buy
China helped by US
1995
GAO Report
Haliburton
Example how elites make money
Bush family example how elites
make money
Prescot Bush
George
Bush and
Carlyle
Group—n business with Bin Laden family
George
W.
George H.W. Bush’s
admission to White House Reporter Sarah McClellen
True of most of Rich and
Powerful families
Conclusion
FDR—Important Quote
Accidental View of History
This view of education,
media, government, majority of people
This view asserts that events in history basically
occur by accident
It is favored by
the Power Elites
Conspiracy View of History
This view holds
that major events in history are the result of careful planning
Also events which
occasionally do arise which are not preplanned
This is the cause
and effect view of history
This is a minority
view of history and used by elites
Effective thought control
Conclusion:
Examples of how elites make
money from war
Why can’t the government stop this?
2) Another reason that the elites
like military spending is they always have
military muscle on hand to enforce
will
3) Prevents egalitarian
wealth
What would our society be like...
1)
2)
Cannot justify not using industrial
capacity
Keep industry
going without enriching masses
To be able to continue
military Keynesianism--need an enemy and war
Former
CIA official and author John Stockwell
1)
2)
Security as a motive verified by
$80 billion transferred to
Only a single instance of attempting to
expand since WWII
Nation Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski—Us
goaded
Something was needed to whip up the
emotions against the
Several
Reports Would Turn the
NSC document 68
1)
2)
3)
4)
Concluded
Reports presented a Manichean perspective
US
Purpose of the report:
Dean
Acheson revealed that the purpose of this report was
Treetop
propaganda
Effect of the Report:
1)
2)
3)
4)
Conclusion:
The elites had their war--the Cold
War
1)
Senator Vandenbury
Michael Kelly
2)
3)
Samuel Huntington advised officials in the Reagan
administration that they
4)
2) The second far-reaching
goal for the elites was to establish a global economic and
political hegemony
Policy Planning Study 23—top secret intradepartmental document
written in 1948
by George Kennan
“...we
have about 50% of the world’s wealth, but only 6.3% of its
population....In this situation, we
cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our task in the coming
period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain
this position of disparity....To do so, we will have to dispense with all
sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated
everywhere on our immediate national objectives....We should cease to talk
about vague and...unreal objectives such as human
rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. The day is not
far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less
we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.”
Analysis of Policy Planning statement 23:
1) Because we have half of the
world’s wealth but only little of the population,
we are going to be the object
of envy and resentment
2) Real task
3) We have to
deal in straight power concepts
4) Concentrate our attention everywhere on out
immediate national objectives
5) To do so—we have to
Dispense with
Sentimentality
and daydreaming
Cease to talk
about
Vague and unreal objectives
Idealistic
slogans hamper us—slow us down, impede us
What is
sentimentality; day-dreaming; vague and unreal objectives; and
idealistic slogans?
In 1948 US foreign policy objectives set—contrary to what American
people led to believe
Use power to
Objective should not be
hindered by
Historical record
What were our national objectives?
Elite objectives
Grand Area for world
control
Grand Area
Included:
Far East—especially
defeated
Former British empire which
was disintegrating
Rest of
Control much of world
What can stop us from
accomplishing our objectives?
1)USSR/Communism
The real threat was
George Kennan
What is
Social equality
Economic equality
The great “threat” of
communism—successful example
That it would be successful
example
The
real threat on the home front in the Cold War
Keeping the world capitalism is
more important than making money
Not allowed to peruse
independent course of development
2)
Nationalism
Independent
Democratic
Nationalistic
Nationalism
characterized by things like:
1)
2)
3)
4)
What kind
of Government
Why a
threat to US power elite?
Is
democracy bad for business—maximizing short run profits?
Is
democracy a threat to long range business prosperity and growth?
Why can’t corporations function
based on long termed profits?
Characteristics
of governments good for capitalism and business:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
What kind
of government is being described here?
Why?
This is
the reason that the
democratic governments in the 3rd world
Authoritarian
governments facilitate capital accumulation
Elites
already in control
US destroys democracies
Kennan
US support LA
governments that use violence to protect our
resources
Only dictatorships have
the power
Kennedy—replace 9 civilian with military governments
Historian Thomas Carothers, who served in the Reagan administration,
Lars Schoultz—correlation
between aid and torture
Most US aid is military aid
Tied aid
US gives
the kind of aid that helps US business
Foreign Assistance Act
1961—aid had two purposes
1)
2)
FAA created USAID
Frank Coffin
President Eisenhower
Principle: Foreign aid is
largely________________
Taxpayer
Profits
Schoultz’s findings confirmed by Edward Herman
Correlation between aid and
favorable business environment
Relationship between
business, aid, and torture
What adds to or
subtracts from favorable business environment
Unions
Peasants
Students
Nationalists
Human rights workers
Priests
So countries with high
receive
which
is used
Human rights abuse essential
to exploit
Propaganda
People must be controlled
Michael Parenti
How could the
Justified targeting 3rd world
democratic nationalism by claiming
They could do this because there is a similarity
So how do you tell them apart?
Duck test
Examples:
Peasant cooperatives
Labor Unions
Student Organizations
Political parties
Human rights organizations
Church groups
They are all communists
Lump them all together
US justified in
opposing if Communist
But not if just
want democracy
So they all have to be
communist
1963
Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Guillermo Toriello
All these
aspects of nationalism linked to Russian communism to justify destruction
The truth was hidden from the American people
Conclusion:
For 50
years pursuing objective of elites
Objective
threatened by
All
labeled communism
Elites
control
Primary
purpose is to make money
Get rid
of governments and people who interfere
This truth revealed by US's
first major involvement in LA was to overthrow
the democratic government of Jacobo Arbenz in
Dictatorship of General Jorge Ubico ruled
Rebellion in 1944
Juan José Arévalo
was elected President—85% of vote
Arévalo
Intellectual and educator
Inspired by FDR’s New Deal
Do things characterized as
independent nationalism
Good for democracy—bad for business
Jacobo Arbenz
Elected to the Presidency in 1950
Objectives:
1)“To convert
economy into a economically independent country;
2)to transform our nation from a
backward nation with a predominantly
feudal economy into a modern capitalist country; and
3)to accomplish this
transformation in a manner that brings the greatest
possible elevation of the living standard of the great mass
of people.”
Also,
foreign capital welcome as long as…
Arbenz's
intent
Democracy is just as
threatening as communism
Strategy to achieve goals—import-substitution
industrialization
Expand purchasing power of
population
Land reform
United Fruit Company
(US owned corporation growing bananas)
1952 Agrarian Reform
Law
Expropriated
all idle land holdings over 223 acres
Arbenz even expropriated
Expropriated
400,000 acres of UFC’s land
100,000 peasants families received 1.5 million acres
Compensation by
governments bonds
This prompted the US to overthrow the
government of
Guatemala
CIA’s Guatemalan
overthrow was codenamed "Operation Success"
Begin a reign of terror
that would claim 200,000 lives
US denied any
responsibility or involvement
Perhaps
even more important is how the American people were manipulated to
fear
communists in
Bernays’
book Propaganda published in 1929
The decisive issue was the expropriation
of the land of the UFC
Threat of a good example
US State Department Official said
in 1954
Had Arbenz
remained in office
His downfall
1)
2)
3)
In
Fidel Castro
US would
not let these countries progress
As a consequence, the only thing
left was
How
would the
Single most significant even in
National Security Act changed the nature of the
Democracy impossible
Created the CIA with power to
Covert operations
By 1953
Function
of the CIA
Ralph McGhee, a 25 year veteran of
the CIA, says in his book Deadly Deceits
that:
The CIA is not intelligence agency
CIA is a covert action
agency—secret army of President
Acts as anti-intelligence
agency
1) James Bamford
2)
3)
CIA's propaganda network
extensive
Third of budget
propagandizing Americans
Own
Operation Mockingbird
Former CIA
director William Colby said
Cooperation with media
Dan Rather
Philip Graham
Media—corporate entity
with close ties to CIA
Summary:
No history of supporting
democracy
Michael Parenti
Overthrow
The
Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987
William
Blum--American Holocaust
Public
propaganda:
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles
Reality:
“There are no rules in such a
game. Hitherto accepted norms of human
conduct
do not apply....If the
concepts
of fair play must be reconsidered....We must learn to subvert,
sabotage and destroy our enemies by more clever, more
sophisticated,
more
effective methods than those used against us.”
End justifies the means
CIA’s major
covert operations follow the same script over and over again
Overthrow of government of
The
Provided economic aid to LA
To spark economic development
Strategy classic western
liberalism
But in LA did not work
1)
2)
3)
Military training and equipment for LA
military
1) Civic
Action Program
2)
Standardization
3)
Counterinsurgency Training
a)
b)
Before
1960 LA military was trained and directed toward
After
1960 the
Origins
of the Death Squads in LA
The 1968 Tet
Offensive in
Torture was routinely used in
the interrogation process
A former
military-intelligence officer in
Michael Uhl
testified that
Ex-CIA agent John Stockwell
Program was highly successful
Ex-CIA director William Colby
admits
It was not important that many innocent people were killed
Death squads not new for US
Answer to problems facing LA
brought on by Cuban Revolution
US train LA military
Guatemalan officers trained
at the G-2 headquarters in the Guatemalan by CIA
Former chief of staff,
General Morales
General
Victores--military dictator from 1983 to 1986
So death squads
Edward Herman
Most of the counterinsurgency training given to LA military was done so
at the
In 1996 it was officially
admitted by the
Recently released training manuals
reveal
SOA has trained
Majority of human rights abusers in
LA were graduates of the School in
Senators Dewine and Voinovich
Assumption:
What is wrong with this
assumption?
Real purpose of the SOA
So has the SOA accomplished its purpose?
Edward Herman
Attempts
to close the School of Americas
Name changed to the Defense
Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation
No longer teach torture
Counterinsurgency
Who are the insurgents?
New bill before Congress: H.R. 1820
to close School
Other Training and Assistance
More than 150 training
centers in the
100,000 each year
1) The Office of Public Safety's
Trained policemen from around
the world to combat communism
2)
3)
Other Agencies that Train or Equip LA Military
International Narcotics
Control (INC)
Funding of equipment, training, eradication and other
programs of the State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement (INL)
International Military Education and Training (IMET)
Funding for courses given
both in the
Expanded IMET
IMET that pays for training in non-combat subjects
Foreign Military Financing (FMF)
Grants and loans for defense articles, training and services
Drawdowns
Presidential authority to grant defense articles, training and services
from the
Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
Government-to-government sales of defense articles, training and services
Direct Commercial Sales (DCS)
Sales from
Leases
Defense articles leased by the
International Criminal Investigations and Training Program
(ICITAP)
Law-enforcement training provided by the Department of Justice
Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA)
Weapons, equipment and training for prevention and management of terrorism
Discretionary Funding
Counter narcotics support from the White House's Office for National Drug
Control Policy
Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities (EIPC)
A policy initiative, using funds from other programs, to improve militaries'
peacekeeping skills
Major Non-Nato Ally (MNNA) Status
Conclusion
Since WWII, $200 billion, training 2.3
million from 80 countries
Primary purpose of training
Training foreign soldiers pushed after
Result in increase in human rights abuse
In LA this responsible for 80-90% of the
killing
Could not happen without acquiescence and
tax dollars of American people
Eisenhower
Responsible for the CIA coup in
CIA train 1400 Cuban exiles to
invade
CIA maintained
US aircraft
Kennedy
Invasion a disaster
Results:
Castro's army
Kennedy lied
Cuban exile blame Kennedy
Kennedy felt deceived by CIA
MkUltra
Cuban Missile Crisis Oct 1962
To deter the
Kennedy had three options
1)
2)
3)
Kennedy rejected diplomatic
solution
Turned down the simple
solution
Chose third alternative
Needlessly brought world
close to nuclear war
Khrushchev willing to accept
humiliation
1992 conference reveal how close
the world came to nuclear war
CIA was wrong
Other things that could have
trigger nuclear war
Castro’s Cuba must be destroyed because
it is a Threat of a Good Example
A CIA report said of
In July 1961 the CIA warned
Kennedy
tried to get all LA countries to declare that
hemispheric security
It
was Kennedy who said in 1962 that
It
was Kennedy that made the position of the
was a danger of a Castro, then
we will always support a
US
Terrorism Against
3,500 Cubans killed
A few of the schemes to kill or discredit
Castro:
The Second Coming of Christ
Operation Mongoose—to disrupt Cuban
economy
Robert Kennedy
Examples:
Richard Helms, direction of CIA
Orland Bosch bomb Cuban airliner
killing 73 people
Body of Secrets by James Bamford
Operation Northwoods—create
pretexts to justify invasion of
US tries
to blame
Chemical weapons
Connection to terrorism
Shark attacks
US
still classifies
Center for International Policy
What
the American people were told
Kennedy said
Angered because President Velasco
would not break relations with
CIA agent Philip Agee documents
what was done in his book Inside the
Company
In 1964 the
Goulart's
crimes:
Detect the pattern of kinds of governments US against
US conspired with military to seize
power
At first denied
Decisive victory for freedom
The military would institute a 20
year period of repression and torture
The official investigation of
the murder and torture in
the
first officials to introduce [torture] into
19 year old blame
Spend $2 billion to protect $1.6
billion
Plan Lazo "The Noose Plan”
The
Juan Bosch elected President
When Bosch would not come down hard on the Left
Failed Duck test
Nixon
Transferred from
Demonstrations using beggars
His motto was, "The precise
pain, in the precise place, in the precise amount, for the desired
effect."
Kidnapped by the Tupamaros
At his funeral White House spokesman,
Ron Ziegler, said,
Allende, a socialist, threatened
Plot to overthrow began when Donald Kenadall of Pepsi called President Nixon
Nixon called
CIA cable to US State Department
Ex-CIA chief John McCone
David Rockefeller
Allende
could not be tolerated
Contrary to claim
The only thing worse
Kissinger would say
$10 million allotted to destroy
Chilean economy
Began plotting with military
for a coup of Allende
Nixon and Kissinger made it known that
The coup was carried out by General
Pinoche
Torture not important
Threat of a good example
Recently declassified secret
documents reveal that the CIA may have given
Pinochet's government the go-ahead to
murder
Two
One newly declassified memo said,
Retied
Chilean air force officer Rafael Agustin González
President Ford said
Kissinger's had meeting with
Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on
Kissinger
Guzzetti
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
Get over our "inordinate fear of
Communism"
Attempted to make human rights the fulcrum
of
In spite of the fact that very little was
actually done to support human rights in
LA—it had a significant impact in
LA
In the end the policy was a failure
Carter an aberration—wait out
Carter not willing to endure
instability
Reagan
After he was elected but before he took office, he sent
a transition team to
Speech in 1983 called
Reagan not going to let
Policy now is to “rollback”
Communism in LA
Most of the massacres took place in the
1980's during the administration of Rios Montt
Reagan told the
Godfather of the death squads
Sandoval Alarcón
The
The
In
American Catholic missionary
Sister Dianna Ortiz
SOA graduate
General Hector Gramajo
Gramajo explained his new humanitarian policy
Reagan condemns
The report of the UN Historical
Clarification Commission
Council
on Hemispheric Affairs
A million dollar a day for ten years
Elites steal and put in
Reagan’s ambassador to the UN, Kirkpatrick,
Alexander Haig,
Chief of Staff, said
The Massacre of Mazote
The Reagan administration did
everything they could to cover it up
No one in congress really wanted to
hear the truth anyway
Rationale
The military of
The Jesuit journal in El
Salvador, the Proceso, compared how the
its satellites treated their
dissidents with the way the
Guatemalan journalist Julio Goday wrote that
Evidence that US actually participated in the torture
A Salvadorian deserter gave
testimony to Raymond Bonner of the New York Times
A U.N. Truth Commission report
US create, trained, and covered up death
battalion
Torture training--Richard Stolz, then deputy director for operations
John Negroponte
Sandinistas in
State Department official in 1981
boasted that we would
Secretary of State George Shultz
called the Sandinistas a
If the Sandinistas succeed in
consolidating their power, then all the other LA countries will be
emboldened to follow—the threat of a good example
against and the kinds it supports
But us allies in
US allies
According to US foreign policy agenda,
why does this make sense?
Reagan said
Could not use US troops to invade
1983
Power of American people if they
know
The other way was the Contras
Terrorist organized and funded by
the CIA--later called
Force FDN
Made up of ex-National
Guardsmen
Poor Nicaraguans and Honduran made up the fighting
units
Recruit by kidnapping
Reagan would refer to them as the
"democratic resistance" and as "freedom fighters"
National guard
made up most of the unit commanders
CIA hired a
a positive
image for the Contra
Contra purpose to wear out Nicaraguans
Its target were soft targets
Edgar Chamorro,
Ex-CIA John Stockwell
Former director of the CIA, Stansfield Turner called the Contras terrorists
Number of dead
Total cost for US
Drugs
That the Contra supply network also
operated as a pipeline to get illegal drugs into the
Gary Webb of the Mercury News
Oliver North
The country of Costa banned
US personnel as drug traffickers
This is standard procedure of
CIA
The so-called War on
Drugs is not really a war—strategy to manage economic and political interests
1) $300 billion
2) Intervention
3) Distracts
4) Population control
5) Private prisons
6) Drives down wages
Statistics:
US has 2,200,000 in prison as of June 2005
One in every 134 Americans
25% of world
Americans in correctional
supervision 6.9 million—one in every 32 Americans
African-American males
targetted
Conclusion
Drug war not lost--successful
1)
2)
1990 elections
US Strategy to demand elections
US
supports the opposition
Finances
opposition
Illegal
in the
Usually
successful
Public announcement
that democracy triumphed
Sandinistas consent to
US influence enormous
Money
War and embargo would
continue
Nicaraguan people gave US
what wanted
US has used same tactics
twice since
Since 1950 US interfered in 35
elections in 30 countries
But strategy worked
People tired or embargo and
war
Sacrifice of people
Hidden horror for American people
Invasion of
Operation Just Cause
Drugs
were not the issue
Real issue was that the
government
on
Up to 4000 civilian deaths
House of Rep passed a resolution commending
Bush for his handling of the invasion
Passed 389 to 26
Just 8 months later on
Bush responded by saying that
Did the
Guerillas FARC and
ELN threatening capital accumulation in US’s backyard
Drug
war is smokescreen for real target—the guerillas
President Hugo Chávez—won
Presidency by huge majorities
US was involved in an attempt to overthrow
Chávez in May 2002
Why is US trying to get rid of Chávez?
Using oil profits to help people
Refused to follow
Setting up an alternative to
capitalism
Standing up to US
Threat of a good example
Venezuela US’s 3rd
largest oil producer
Coup
on
Carried out by wealthy with
advice and consent of Otto Reich of US State Department
Wayne Madsen
US provided Intelligence
Financed by US
US military on border
Pedro Carmona
took over government
He immediately abolished the Congress, Supreme Court,
etc.—establishing a dictatorship
Every country in LA condemned the
coup as a violation of international law
Only the
Within two days the Coup was reversed by the people
Victory for people
Internet news
Not over yet
Miguel Bustamante Madriz
President Chavez
Next time
Paramilitaries financed by US drove out President Aristide
Aristide’s sin
In Your Name: A Soldier's
Story by Stan Goff
Like
Smedley Butler fought only for elites
Myth
vs Reality
Michael Parenti
Myth
Reality
Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt.
Col., USAF wrote to President Bush
Summary
William Blum says it best—American foreign policy is
driven by four motives:
1)
2)
3)
4)
Conclusion to US Involvement
in LA:
US brought about deaths in LA
Information is not in question
Truth painful experience
Most of time Americans do not know
what government is doing
Distinction between Americans and
government
Henry Kissinger
Depleted uranium
According to international law, people still responsible
Daniel
Goldhagen's 1996 book Hitler's Willing Executioners:
Ordinary Germans
and the Holocaust
Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson reminds us of
our responsibility in a
representative government
Edward Abbey
Still
responsible
Worst mau
yet to come