pray there is no justice
Posted January 29, 2012 by Wayne Gilbert Myers
your fear got the best of you, gained momentum and broke against the gates of Baghdad with a terrifying sound: Murder. words of love and freedom stirred your tongue but all that issued from your mouth was rockets; we produce lots of rockets, you and i.
even if you ride a bicycle to a minimum-wage job you’ve still purchased at least one (1) projectile, it is deadly and it is accurate and it is your personal gift to the children of the earth.
we are the poisoned well from which the world drinks; we are the rib-showing dog with teeth they cannot trust; we are the dying oak leaning, leaning against the nations.
finally, above it all loiters the flag, the flag which has cast it’s shadow over more corpses than Jehovah; whether you burn it or kneel to it it’s red, white and blue helix is knotted around your soul.
every tank of gas you buy, every soda you drink, every tax you pay, every newspaper cast upon your doorstep exposes you for what you are: a Goddam American.
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(taken from a Michael Parenti lecture on The American Empire)
Since 1945 -
The US has been a key force in overthrowing reformist democratic governments in
Guatemala
Guinea
Dominican Republic
Brazil
Chile
Uruguay
Syria
Indonesia
Greece (twice)
Argentina (twice)
Haiti (three times)
Bolivia
- replaced with military regimes.
The US has actively pursued covert actions and proxy military wars
against popular revolutionary governments in:
Cuba
Angola
Mozambique
Ethiopia
Portugal
South Yemen
Nicaragua
Cambodia
East Timor
Western Sahara (territory)
Iraq (CIA overthrow of democratically elected government in late
1960's, installing Saddam Hussein who brutally murdered his
opposition)
The US has actively destabilized and moved against reformist governments in:
Egypt
Lebanon
Peru
Jamaica (Michael Manley)
Venezuela (Hugo Chavez)
Iran (CIA overthrow of Mossadegh 1954)
Syria
Zaire
Fiji Islands
Afghanistan (before the Russian invasion of 1980's)
US direct military invasion or aerial bombings (or both) in:
Vietnam
Cuba
Dominican Republic
North Korea
Laos
Cambodia
Yugoslavia
Lebanon
Grenada
Panama
Libya (twice)
Iraq (twice)
Afghanistan
Somalia
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770.
US diplomat, politician and the Second President of the United States of America (1735 - 1826)
atty1chgo (anonymous profile)
March 11, 2012 at 11:36 a.m. (Suggest removal)