Wallece
stelt terecht dat Bolivia het laatste slachtoffer is van het smerige
kapitalistische spel van de VS zoals Smedley dat zag, al is
tegenwoordig de term neoliberalisme meer gebruikt, daar dit in feite
nog een paar stappen verder gaat dan het vermaledijde
kapitalisme.......
Khadaffi
en Hoessein worden genoemd als slachtoffer van het buitenlandbeleid
van de VS, echter er zijn nog veel meer voorbeelden te bedenken en
telkens blijkt dat de heersers en regeringen tegen wie de VS het
opneemt, de belangen van de grote bedrijven en/of de
militair-strategische belangen van de VS schenden, dan wel op grote voorraden belangrijke grondstoffen zitten, zoals olie en gas....* Zo zou
Morales nog maar onlangs een contract met een Duitse firma hebben
opgezegd, een contract over delving en export van lithium, een
belangrijke grondstof voor accu's in de breedste zin van het woord,
dus zowel voor auto's als die voor de smartphone...... Bolivia zou in haar bodem rond de 70% van de totale wereldvoorraad aan lithium bezitten...... In feite nationaliseerde Morales de voorraden lithium
en nationalisatie is een woord waardoor in Washington alle seinen op knalrood gaan.......
Gegarandeerd
dat de VS als eerste de opstand in Bolivia heeft georganiseerd en
geregisseerd, dit met de opzet een staatsgreep te forceren, wat zoals we weten is gelukt...... (een manier van handelen die de VS al vaak heeft gebruikt.....) Zeker ook
dat de VS contact had met de oppositie (van de minderheid, dus de
nazaten van de kolonisten) en dat deze oppositie besprekingen voerde
met de CIA, onderwerp: het afzetten van Morales......**
NOVEMBER
15, 2019
A Gangster for Capitalism: Next Up, Bolivia
Drawing
by Nathaniel St. Clair
“War is a racket. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.”
This
sounds like a modern day comment from the US far left, but the source
is hardly that. It’s from a man who was the most decorated Marine
ever at the time of his death. He was an expert on the topic. He
served in WW I as well as the Mexican Revolution. Smedley Butler was
doomed to be a largely forgotten voice in the rush to gloss over the
true causes of war and regime change. He pointed out the techniques
used to win public approval and the subsequent serving of the
corporate needs by entering these ever-repeating violent conflicts.
He described his military career as that of “a high class muscleman
for Big Business, Wall Street, and the Bankers. In short, I was a
racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
This
man mapped it all out for us around a hundred years ago, yet the
jingoism prevails. The latest bipolar foreign policy evidenced in
Bolivia is just the latest chapter of the US pushing for and actively
installing those who would further the interests of Big Business.
Always at the cost of the poor. In this case, the cure for the
bipolar policy is probably going to be lithium.
The
moment that leaders begin to step out of a corporate-friendly lane,
shit gets real. Fast. A treasured ally becomes the perpetrator of
election fraud or the nexus of humanitarian affronts to their people.
True, pretty much anyone who ascends to a leadership position has
issues that can be dissected and critiqued, but even the most
horrible actions can be quietly dismissed as quickly as a bone saw
can dispatch a pudgy journalist to pieces—if you play the game.
Amazing and graphic affronts to decency are ignored when the leaders
keep the machinery oiled. Literally oiled.
Gaddafi
was a bit of a back and forth US darling until he flirted too much
with a gold-based dinar currency aimed at competing with the
petrodollar. But things are much better now that he was murdered in
the open-air and now Libya can be an open-air slave market. “We
came, we saw, he died.” Hilarious***. Now those that took over have
some very easily refinable oil, if not refined manners.
Saddam
Hussein was a similar friend to the US, even an ally– his behavior
during the war with Iran was considered nifty. I don’t recall the
US going in when he gassed the Kurds either. Maybe someone in DC
frowned? Those Kurds sure don’t ever get a fair deal, do they? I
can understand why they only trust mountains. And the moves that
seemed to be regime threatening in Iraq involved that pesky
petrodollar again.
I
guess we’ve moved to a greener foreign policy when lithium regime
change is replacing petroleum regime change. Thank you green economy.
Didn’t
Morales recently step out of a joint deal with a German firm to
export lithium (which Bolivia claims to have over 70% of the world’s
reserves)? I think he did that like a second before he was
discarded. Nationalized resources are not okay and the global south
is supposed to be a poverty-stricken supplier. Teslas are for
well-heeled Northern Californians, not Bolivians wearing those bowler
hats! Ridiculous.
And
all through the meddling, as well as the overt actions that cause
increased misery in the world, the US public largely continues to
believe in it all. The examples are all around us.
Something
I noticed recently: This Veteran’s Day a spot on PBS spoke to
issues of Native American participation in the military. The slant
was broadly complimentary to military service (duh, of course it was
on V-Day), but it was perhaps one of the worst widespread examples of
Stockholm Syndrome I’ve seen. They were glorifying the sacrifices
made by Natives in serving the US government, taking these dignified
and proud individuals and supplanting the US Imperialism on the young
people who had signed up. Don’t get me wrong, the tribal members
were totally having it, deriving enormous self-worth from the
experience. Even at the expense of PTSD and lost family members. It
was a mind-fuck for sure. I worked on the White Mountain Apache
reservation long ago and saw the manipulation first-hand–the desire
many had to fit into the broader culture that had back-stabbed them
and their ancestors. The end of the piece did a bit on individuals
fighting against fracking and made mention that Standing Rock didn’t
stop the pipeline, that the government prevailed, but it was framed
like this was part of a personal journey for the veterans. I
would say this was an example of a warrior culture using that power
to try to protect something sacred, the environment—to battle for
something that matters, not being hijacked to go kill ________
(insert poor people of choice in latest military misadventure). It
was a confused piece, made to tug at the heartstrings. Clearly you
can be a minority in this country if you are a useful part of the
machine is what I got out of it. This is how consent is manufactured,
of course. You are revered if you do what you are supposed to do in
that it helps the business of business. They get control of resources
and you might get a body bag, but they will frame it as beautiful
sacrifice and those of us who aren’t buying it are the ogres who
hate rainbows,sunshine and motherhood. And this is just one small
arena of propaganda.
The
corporate agenda will continue to be pushed and despite all evidence,
the average American won’t wonder why one ally can perpetrate
horrific acts and another gets cast out for Trumped up reasons. Hell,
most people are so tired they can’t think straight, let alone think
critically.
Bolivia
had a record of success in lifting many out of poverty and
illiteracy. This will certainly go the other direction now that
Jeanine Añez is at the helm. She seems to be quite adversarial to
the indigenous, and they comprise 65% of Bolivia’s population. She
has the saccharine hucksterism of a 40’s bible salesman. Definitely
Trump ally material, maybe even Trump wife material?
Much
like the scientific process strives to look towards the truth of how
things really work, Smedley Butler gave us a framework that should be
taken seriously—he described correctly how it all works and how
these similar situations keep producing repeatable miserable results
that keep the world in line for business extraction. He was a
principled man who deserves to be remembered—his prescient warning
regarding additional regime meddling and outright war have not lost
the luster of truth. It’s going on as we speak.
More
articles by:KATHLEEN
WALLACE
Kathleen
Wallace writes
out of the US Midwest.
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* Zie:
'VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII........' Tot het jaar 2000, waar deze eeuw intussen al meer dan 2,5 miljoen moorden aan toe zijn te voegen, moorden begaan door de VS en de NAVO (deze terreurorganisatie stond en staat onder militair opperbevel stond de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde...)....
'List of wars involving the United States'
'CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi's beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz.........'
'VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........'
'De war on drugs is veel dodelijker dan over het algemeen gedacht'
** Zie:
*** Dat zei hare kwaadaardigheid en oorlogsmisdadiger Hillary Clinton achteraf over de in feite door haar bij elkaar gehitste oorlog tegen Libië, waar dit land onder Khadaffi het rijkste land was van Afrika, waar man en vrouw gelijk waren en waar praktisch alles gratis was, zelfs studeren in het buitenland (inclusief een toelage om de huur te betalen en in het levensonderhoud te voorzien) en dat voor jongens en meisjes.... Na het ingrijpen van de VS en haar oorlogshond NAVO, is Libië één grote chaos en bijna het armste land van Afrika, waar het de bewoners aan alles ontbreekt en waar de vrouw terug is achter het aanrecht (meisjes mogen zelfs niet meer naar school...)...... 'Leve de westerse terreur!!'
'Bolivia: OAS heeft gelogen over verkiezingen: Evo Morales onterecht afgezet middels staatsgreep!'
'Bolivia: de coup heeft alles te maken met grondstoffen'
'NOS liegt weer over Evo Morales (Boliviaanse president) die met coup werd afgezet'
'Bolivia coup een 'CIA job', aldus anonieme Duitse veiligheidsanalist, met lessen voor de toekomst'
'Bolivia: misdadigers die vechten voor het kapitalisme'
'NOS met fake news over Bolivia'
'Bolivianen eisen hun president terug'
'Bolivia: staatsgreep maakt eind aan succesvol presidentschap Evo Morales'
Bolivia’s Remarkable Socialist Success Story: President Evo Morales has transformed his country’s economy with an unapologetically left-wing agenda.
'NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO........'
'VS couppleger in Venezuela belooft VS Venezolaanse olie als hij de macht heeft overgenomen'
'Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij 'regime change' in Venezuela' (zie de links in dat bericht naar meer artikelen over Venezuela)
'9 'ex-FARC rebellen' vermoord door leger Colombia: FARC-EP opgericht'
'Mensenrechten- en milieuactivisten worden massaal vermoord in Brazilië en Colombia, waar het laatste land NAVO bases heeft.......'
'Koenders heeft vrijlating gegijzelde Spoorloos makers in Colombia bewerkstelligt....... AUW!!!'
'Paus Franciscus in Colombia om vrede te prediken......'
'People of Brazil: my sincere condolences with 'your' fascistic, psychopathic president Bolsonaro......'
'VS commando's vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog.........'
'NAVO naar Zuid-Amerika? Weg met dit agressieve, terroristische bondgenootschap, NU!!!'
'Bolton geeft toe dat de VS een fascistisch beleid voert......'
'Bolsonaro, de fascistische nieuwe president van Brazilië, werd volgens Avaaz en fake news brengers als de NYT gekozen door manipulatie via WhatsApp'
'Bolsonaro wint Braziliaanse verkiezingen >> weer zijn we een fascistisch geleid land 'rijker...''
'Braziliaanse verkiezingen: democratie versus (neo-) fascisme, ook een groot gevaar in Europa'
'Katy Sherriff (Radio1 correspondent Z-Amerika) brandt socialistische partij Brazilië af......'
