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USA lies and disinformation to support war for plunder is, sadly, nothing new
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VHeadline.com commentarist Chris Herz writes: No government of any country should blithely ignore the growing volume of threats and calumny now emerging from Washington and it's Colombian satellite. Least of all that of oil-rich Venezuela.
This weekend's VHeadline.com article on the actions of the Colombian government, and its recent purchase of armored vehicles of a type useless for any purpose but for a rush across the roads of western Venezuela toward Lake Maracaibo represent a grave threat to the sovereignty and independence of the country.
With the near-total commitment of US Army and Marine forces in the Mid-East and Central Asia, these proxy forces are what is available for the suppression of the Bolivarian Movement and the occupation of the most important oil-producing regions of the Fifth Republic.
To this threat we must couple the numerous statements of US President Bush and his advisors plus those of alternate imperial Presidential candidate John Kerry and his policy-wonks. Stir into this poisonous mixture today's remarks by Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson upon his return from Venezuela and we have all the disinformation and mendacity required for "plausible affirm-ability" — for self-righteous self-justification of yet another US attack on democratic efforts in Ibero-America.
Senator Nelson's remarks are particularly important for the reason that it is still more than likely that Democratic presidential candidate Kerry will probably yet manage to snatch defeat from victory in November … but Nelson will remain as minority leader of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, thus the most important "opposition" voice in any further expansionist military adventures by the corporate state.
The Miami Herald (always a good window into what we might with charity call the "thinking" of the US and their subsidiary elites), quotes Nelson as having blasted President Hugo Chavez Frias for aiding the Colombian FARC, blocking the recall petition, and ignoring a black-market in Venezuelan passports.
Senator Nelson reported that he raised the issue of Bolivarian support for the FARC with Foreign Minister Perez. The Herald article noted that Perez denied this accusation, but when Nelson stated that US intelligence had proof of this the Foreign Minister remained silent. The issue of Venezuelan friendship with Cuba was also raised.
Here we can see the construction … the deliberate manipulation of fact to build a new propaganda campaign in North American media to justify expansion of the war that has for a generation and longer raged across the whole of Central and South America.
Each time some new campaign of violence and subversion has been launched from Washington, it has been initiated with such a barrage of untruth.
Guatamala in 1954.
Cuba in 1959.
Brazil in 1964.
Chile in 1972.
And dozens, literally dozens of other atrocities.
Hundreds of thousands have been disappeared and murdered. Often in the most atrocious manner.
Lies and disinformation to support war for plunder is, sadly, nothing new in the history of my country.
It is easy to take down these US arguments.
Since the selection of President Bush in 2000, one of the prime objectives of our foreign policy has been to destroy the Treaty of Rome, establishing an International Criminal Court. A permanent organ of the United Nations, equipped with judges and prosecutors this court is charged with the enforcement of the Nuremberg principles — punishing international crimes such as aggressive war or genocide.
These evil men propose instead impunity for themselves and for their agents.
Were the USA truly the bastion of human rights and democracy as they claim, why would they need to attack the legal foundations of international law and order?
US documents detailing the stages of earlier campaigns of subversion and propaganda in Brazil and Chile are available from official archives. Historians have shown us all the sorry performances of US leaders which literally gave Cuba no alternative but to cast herself into the arms of the USSR — or suffer the fate of the Dominican Republic, Haiti or Guatemala. These things are not matters for dispute. Every detail, every step leading to the final murderous denoument is revealed from the records of the aggressor power itself.
The defensive problem for the Venezuelan government and forces is difficult.
With a long and rather undefended sea frontier, little by way of modern air power and an exposed frontier with Colombia, the dimensions of this problem are obvious. And there is much political and social disunity within as well. There is also the problem that the major oil-producing region, which is the US objective, appears to be rather easily separated by military invasion from the rest of the national territory.
It is not for me, a US citizen, to make unwanted suggestions to Venezuelans as to how to defend themselves and their democracy. But I can and I will warn that the US regime is in unity, with both its major factions demanding the total capitulation and subservience of the Venezuelan government and people — or else.
I can also assure all sectors of Venezuelan society that they will … if they surrender … live and die in our wonderful new empire like Haitians, Guatemalans, Colombians or Iraqis.
Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com
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