PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2994
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America: Imperialist Rogue State .
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Thl' US and George Bush claim to be custodian~ of tk'nll>stors? WJwm shrr/1 I Ct'lt'lm1tt'~ \VIIcr,· ~11,;11 I fi11d 1/w .
~.1w 1/Wtcncll' !v1y first American ancc'Sfor, gc'lllft'num, was all l11dm11 -an .
c\Jr!y Indm11; your mzcestors skiuned him aliPe, a11d 1nm m1 orp!Iall. Not .
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mt' drop of my blood flows in tltat Indian·~ 1'1'ills loday. I slrHltl hen', Ioili' I · 111d for/om . wit/rout a11 f1.11Ct~for. The first slat't' bro11ght into Nt"il' Engln11d tlrd of A{rim by your progenitors wns an m1cestm o{ mim... " ' .
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· Mark Twai~New York Times, 1881 .
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ln order to clear the land for the white settlers, blankets full of genns of fatal diseases and food full of poison 'vere distributed amongst the Indian original .inhabitants, those who sunrived were massacred. Later, who provided the labour for the plantations in America? TI1ousands of African ml!n, women and children, captured from African jungles and brought shackled in ships. .
US Military: Making the World 'Safe for Democracy or Safe for US Corporate Loot? .
:·our industries hllVe e:qmzded to such a point that they will burst their jackets ~'::::!;~..,'"" if t~t!lJ cannot fiud a frte outlet to the markt'ts of the world ...doors of the nations "1T-rwnl~~..,.~ whrch are closed must be battert'd dow11 ...even if the sovereignty of unwilling \\ t· ~not "'" Saddrun nations bP outraged in the process...'' .
llu,s..'iJ tu1 lu~.Jllll.llh.. Woodrow Wilso_n, US President 1907 .
\\'l' " iU 'Mobi h .tl' tu Jfll!d Uli > "hrcwlf)ll\(" tl'f'.t.llt t;; until Woodrow Wilson famously declared that the US believed in the necessity of .,, G hlc-\Jilmmn turaml'd. war to 'make the world snfe for dt>mocracy'. . .
no~r ~'n 1' (n Here is the first-hand statement of a fanner US soldier, which makes it clear .
1.-lhl\5! lhoJ.I. \\\' E liJmh1~ tQ that the wars were only to 'make the world safe' for US corporate loot : .
l ·r1. "~ ;w. -"I spe1lt most of my time being n high class muscle-man for Big Business, for . . Wail-Street and for tlu Bankers. /11 short, I was a racketeer a gnn c:ter for ~·1pttnlt->lll.. llte/ped make Honduras 'riglzt' for Amt'rican fruit companies in l90J I h 1 d ' lee Mg.· . ,r. .
lor Alllc'nccm oil interests in 1914 I hRlped n1a'··· Hat.tt' and C l d I . e pe ma extco sa;e .
· ... u um a ecent p ncefior th N t' l Ct1 8 k .
to collt>cl rc'nubl'c fio A . g louse . 1 Down Brothers m 1909-.1912, I .
. · ·r 1 r mencnn 5ugar l11terests 111 1916." .
MaJor General Smedley Butler, author of War as a Rack t · · .
.
e m a speech tn 1933. .
The ::.aga of LS war for corporate profit continues· the war f · · . .
\\'hat US Brig. General William Looney had t · b or oil m Iraq ts the latest example.Listen to .
o sav a out Iraq way back d . th 1999 b ..
before Lhe US 0ccupied Iraq: · c urmg e ombmg, even .
They Orn1p'} know we own their cou11try. We ow11 their air , . A11d that's ,£/tat's great about America right now It'· ;pn~~ ... we d~ctnte the way thelj live and talk. .
0.
tlwre we lll!t'd." (Quoted in William Blum, Rogu~ St~t:, ~15~;mg, rspecrally when there's a lot of oil out .
USA: Best Friend of Dictator~ and Murderers .
Back in 1948, this is what a central ol' .
say: P tcymaker for the US State Department had to .
"We havt' about 50 percellt of the world's w>alfl b t .
this situation, we cannotfiai/ to b b' 1 ,/' u only 6.3 percent ofits populatioll .../11 .
. . t 111-t , o JI?Cf O; t'IIVY and re t t 0 . .
commg pPnod is to devise a ptrttt'nt of ,1 1. f . . . se.n men . ur re.nl task m lht> .
P.osition of disparity without po .·t ·vrtdn '0!"' 1tp:;, whtch Wt/1 permit us to maintain this .
hn . ~11 e C'1rmtt'lll to our t · 1 · .
ve to drspense with all srntimmfalitt alld dnt . na tona secunty. To do so we about vague a11d ...uurea/ objectiv y h ydreammg.... We should cease to talk .
es sue as human rzgllts, the raisittg of liviug .
... .
staudards aud democrntiz:n tiou." .
George Kennan in Jack Nelson P,dlm<·ycr cftt .../ r...1 A .._,_s · (N y ._ 0 b o. ,__ (j{ .
. ' · ,.., J" "'' ' In.'~ >01.S, II)) J) .
In the half century smce then, not mur.h hil. chiln.,,.d Behind all US t I' 0 f' h d , 1h h,1c; only been the cold-bloodccl concc·rn of Jlrolr·ct7rw f ·s m'f·· !'fr 1a~ pr~~~h.ng em1cx;,~acvl, kcre .
-,.., ..J, 1 1.c1. 7 an( cor; m~rctar m.t.:rests ar.t.: a (){) at some of t~e rn.any ~ass murderer.., nnd dJctatf,rS ·... ho have bce:n trusted fnenils of the US, ,md the many clcmocrfi[ICCllh elected leader and (,fl\'(>rnmr-rt Wti(ffi thf ur t.. .,., th -A .
, · , 11n.-; uvc: uwln or a "BSSJnilh.."\.i .
.
Greece: ~n 1967, l~ prev~nt liberal leader Cc·(Jrgt Papa;-;dre-ou from bemg voted to pm-.·er, the ClA and .
the US m1l1tary stationed m Greece -;upportt~IJ.c.d the mfam(>US dictator Marcoe; The .
country is now one of the largest LS military bav!S. .
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Kore~: In May 1980, .us backed Chun Doo th!Jan in th!-brutal sllppression of students ana ·.vorkers .
protestmg marhallaw tn Kwangju; 2000 peopl!! tiUed .
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Iran: ln 1953, the CIA a long with .the ~ritfsh,ov.erthre·..v the democratically elected PM Mossadegh; the .
Shah of Iran came to power, resulting m 25 years of repression and torture. .
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Middle East : Between 1956-58, the US tv11Ce med to oventl.."o'·vtf"te Syriangovemmeno.. tried to mtimidate .
people opposed to the US-supported governments in Jordan ann Leba:non,tried ro 0\ierthrO\.'¥ and assassinate .
NasserofEgypt and defeat his Middle-East nationalism. .
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Indonesia: In 1965, USA plotted against Sukamo, and helpee !o install the milital) dictator Suharto, .
who massacred thousands of Commurusts a.r..rl dissidents.. In 1995, a semor official of the .
Clinton administration, speak'm~ of Suharto, said. "'He's O'..t.r kind of guy" (Rogttt' State, p .
147) .
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Thailand: This country was used as a US milita:.j base "'"·hen it ""·as bombing Laos and Vietnam. In 1966, the Washington Posl commented, 'In mrJJ of some obserVt'rs, continued dictatorship in Thailand suits the US, sina i! ll.$S1il?5 a continuation of Ammcan bnses in the countnj and that as n US official put it b!untly. ~is cr..Jr real interest in this place". .
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H a iti: In 1959, t'he US trained troops of dictator Francois Duvalier, and smashed .
attempts of a group of Haitians to overthrow the dictatm. 30 years later, reformist priest Jean-Be-rtrand .
Aristide came to power, only to be ousted by ret another <:otq:}. .
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East Timor: When East Timor ·won independence from Portugal" a left movement Fretilin came to .
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power in Nov 1975. 9 days later, Lndonesia, '~'ith US militw York states: .
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.
"Tit, M · t ·11 ,. t 1> ·limi11atc· th.· ldl?tlli,ta-> to dc'mons trnfe tlwir effc'ctiw co11trol of the .
t extcan governmeu WI 11ct t t c .
11ali01tal territory and of ~~·writy policy .. [1111dl wtll ttct'd to ro7tstdcr carefully wlzetlrer or uot to allow .
.
opposition v ictories iffairly w o11 nt tlw l111llot ben. (Rosw: Stnlt', p 161) .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2994
.
America: Imperialist Rogue State .
.
Thl' US and George Bush claim to be custodian~ of tk'nll>stors? WJwm shrr/1 I Ct'lt'lm1tt'~ \VIIcr,· ~11,;11 I fi11d 1/w .
~.1w 1/Wtcncll' !v1y first American ancc'Sfor, gc'lllft'num, was all l11dm11 -an .
c\Jr!y Indm11; your mzcestors skiuned him aliPe, a11d 1nm m1 orp!Iall. Not .
.
mt' drop of my blood flows in tltat Indian·~ 1'1'ills loday. I slrHltl hen', Ioili' I · 111d for/om . wit/rout a11 f1.11Ct~for. The first slat't' bro11ght into Nt"il' Engln11d tlrd of A{rim by your progenitors wns an m1cestm o{ mim... " ' .
t .
· Mark Twai~New York Times, 1881 .
. . .
ln order to clear the land for the white settlers, blankets full of genns of fatal diseases and food full of poison 'vere distributed amongst the Indian original .inhabitants, those who sunrived were massacred. Later, who provided the labour for the plantations in America? TI1ousands of African ml!n, women and children, captured from African jungles and brought shackled in ships. .
US Military: Making the World 'Safe for Democracy or Safe for US Corporate Loot? .
:·our industries hllVe e:qmzded to such a point that they will burst their jackets ~'::::!;~..,'"" if t~t!lJ cannot fiud a frte outlet to the markt'ts of the world ...doors of the nations "1T-rwnl~~..,.~ whrch are closed must be battert'd dow11 ...even if the sovereignty of unwilling \\ t· ~not "'" Saddrun nations bP outraged in the process...'' .
llu,s..'iJ tu1 lu~.Jllll.llh.. Woodrow Wilso_n, US President 1907 .
\\'l' " iU 'Mobi h .tl' tu Jfll!d Uli > "hrcwlf)ll\(" tl'f'.t.llt t;; until Woodrow Wilson famously declared that the US believed in the necessity of .,, G hlc-\Jilmmn turaml'd. war to 'make the world snfe for dt>mocracy'. . .
no~r ~'n 1' (n Here is the first-hand statement of a fanner US soldier, which makes it clear .
1.-lhl\5! lhoJ.I. \\\' E liJmh1~ tQ that the wars were only to 'make the world safe' for US corporate loot : .
l ·r1. "~ ;w. -"I spe1lt most of my time being n high class muscle-man for Big Business, for . . Wail-Street and for tlu Bankers. /11 short, I was a racketeer a gnn c:ter for ~·1pttnlt->lll.. llte/ped make Honduras 'riglzt' for Amt'rican fruit companies in l90J I h 1 d ' lee Mg.· . ,r. .
lor Alllc'nccm oil interests in 1914 I hRlped n1a'··· Hat.tt' and C l d I . e pe ma extco sa;e .
· ... u um a ecent p ncefior th N t' l Ct1 8 k .
to collt>cl rc'nubl'c fio A . g louse . 1 Down Brothers m 1909-.1912, I .
. · ·r 1 r mencnn 5ugar l11terests 111 1916." .
MaJor General Smedley Butler, author of War as a Rack t · · .
.
e m a speech tn 1933. .
The ::.aga of LS war for corporate profit continues· the war f · · . .
\\'hat US Brig. General William Looney had t · b or oil m Iraq ts the latest example.Listen to .
o sav a out Iraq way back d . th 1999 b ..
before Lhe US 0ccupied Iraq: · c urmg e ombmg, even .
They Orn1p'} know we own their cou11try. We ow11 their air , . A11d that's ,£/tat's great about America right now It'· ;pn~~ ... we d~ctnte the way thelj live and talk. .
0.
tlwre we lll!t'd." (Quoted in William Blum, Rogu~ St~t:, ~15~;mg, rspecrally when there's a lot of oil out .
USA: Best Friend of Dictator~ and Murderers .
Back in 1948, this is what a central ol' .
say: P tcymaker for the US State Department had to .
"We havt' about 50 percellt of the world's w>alfl b t .
this situation, we cannotfiai/ to b b' 1 ,/' u only 6.3 percent ofits populatioll .../11 .
. . t 111-t , o JI?Cf O; t'IIVY and re t t 0 . .
commg pPnod is to devise a ptrttt'nt of ,1 1. f . . . se.n men . ur re.nl task m lht> .
P.osition of disparity without po .·t ·vrtdn '0!"' 1tp:;, whtch Wt/1 permit us to maintain this .
hn . ~11 e C'1rmtt'lll to our t · 1 · .
ve to drspense with all srntimmfalitt alld dnt . na tona secunty. To do so we about vague a11d ...uurea/ objectiv y h ydreammg.... We should cease to talk .
es sue as human rzgllts, the raisittg of liviug .
... .
staudards aud democrntiz:n tiou." .
George Kennan in Jack Nelson P,dlm<·ycr cftt .../ r...1 A .._,_s · (N y ._ 0 b o. ,__ (j{ .
. ' · ,.., J" "'' ' In.'~ >01.S, II)) J) .
In the half century smce then, not mur.h hil. chiln.,,.d Behind all US t I' 0 f' h d , 1h h,1c; only been the cold-bloodccl concc·rn of Jlrolr·ct7rw f ·s m'f·· !'fr 1a~ pr~~~h.ng em1cx;,~acvl, kcre .
-,.., ..J, 1 1.c1. 7 an( cor; m~rctar m.t.:rests ar.t.: a (){) at some of t~e rn.any ~ass murderer.., nnd dJctatf,rS ·... ho have bce:n trusted fnenils of the US, ,md the many clcmocrfi[ICCllh elected leader and (,fl\'(>rnmr-rt Wti(ffi thf ur t.. .,., th -A .
, · , 11n.-; uvc: uwln or a "BSSJnilh.."\.i .
.
Greece: ~n 1967, l~ prev~nt liberal leader Cc·(Jrgt Papa;-;dre-ou from bemg voted to pm-.·er, the ClA and .
the US m1l1tary stationed m Greece -;upportt~IJ.c.d the mfam(>US dictator Marcoe; The .
country is now one of the largest LS military bav!S. .
.
.
.
Kore~: In May 1980, .us backed Chun Doo th!Jan in th!-brutal sllppression of students ana ·.vorkers .
protestmg marhallaw tn Kwangju; 2000 peopl!! tiUed .
.
.
.
Iran: ln 1953, the CIA a long with .the ~ritfsh,ov.erthre·..v the democratically elected PM Mossadegh; the .
Shah of Iran came to power, resulting m 25 years of repression and torture. .
.
.
.
Middle East : Between 1956-58, the US tv11Ce med to oventl.."o'·vtf"te Syriangovemmeno.. tried to mtimidate .
people opposed to the US-supported governments in Jordan ann Leba:non,tried ro 0\ierthrO\.'¥ and assassinate .
NasserofEgypt and defeat his Middle-East nationalism. .
.
.
.
Indonesia: In 1965, USA plotted against Sukamo, and helpee !o install the milital) dictator Suharto, .
who massacred thousands of Commurusts a.r..rl dissidents.. In 1995, a semor official of the .
Clinton administration, speak'm~ of Suharto, said. "'He's O'..t.r kind of guy" (Rogttt' State, p .
147) .
.
.
Thailand: This country was used as a US milita:.j base "'"·hen it ""·as bombing Laos and Vietnam. In 1966, the Washington Posl commented, 'In mrJJ of some obserVt'rs, continued dictatorship in Thailand suits the US, sina i! ll.$S1il?5 a continuation of Ammcan bnses in the countnj and that as n US official put it b!untly. ~is cr..Jr real interest in this place". .
.
.
H a iti: In 1959, t'he US trained troops of dictator Francois Duvalier, and smashed .
attempts of a group of Haitians to overthrow the dictatm. 30 years later, reformist priest Jean-Be-rtrand .
Aristide came to power, only to be ousted by ret another <:otq:}. .
.
.
.
East Timor: When East Timor ·won independence from Portugal" a left movement Fretilin came to .
.
.
power in Nov 1975. 9 days later, Lndonesia, '~'ith US militw York states: .
.
.
.
"Tit, M · t ·11 ,. t 1> ·limi11atc· th.· ldl?tlli,ta-> to dc'mons trnfe tlwir effc'ctiw co11trol of the .
t extcan governmeu WI 11ct t t c .
11ali01tal territory and of ~~·writy policy .. [1111dl wtll ttct'd to ro7tstdcr carefully wlzetlrer or uot to allow .
.
opposition v ictories iffairly w o11 nt tlw l111llot ben. (Rosw: Stnlt', p 161) .
.