BlackAgenda Report plaatste gisteren een boekbespreking van Danny
Haiphong over een nieuw boek van Dan Kovalik, schrijver, arbeids- en
mensenrechtenadvocaat, maar vooral een anti-imperialist. In zijn
derde boek ‘The
Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the
Outcome of Elections Around the World’,
gaat Kovalik in op het beïnvloeden door de VS van verkiezingen
elders, een zaak die de VS belastingbetaler al vele miljarden heeft
gekost*. Terwijl de VS nu juist Rusland beschuldigt van dergelijk gedrag (daarover zo meer)……
(foto bij het originele artikel op Black Agenda Report)
Mochten
de resultaten van dergelijke smerige beïnvloeding door de VS niet naar wens
zijn, kan je er bijna zeker van zijn, dat de VS een
staatsgreep in een dergelijk land zal organiseren, het liefst via een opstand,
zodat men haar smerige machinaties kan legitimeren……. Veelal gebeurt dit door eerst een ‘stille’ economische oorlog tegen zo’n land te beginnen (door sterke druk uit te oefenen op grote bedrijven die bijvoorbeeld winkelketens in zo’n land hebben en hen te dwingen de winkels niet langer te bevoorraden, zie wat dit betreft Venezuela….), ‘stil’ daar de VS dit uiteraard niet aan de grote klok hangt, gevolg is dan wel dat de bevolking de straat op zal gaan uit ontevredenheid over de persoonlijke (financiële) omstandigheden…..
Wat betreft directe staatsgrepen: neem
Honduras in 2009, destijds hebben Hillary Clinton en de CIA daar een staatsgreep
georganiseerd tegen de democratisch gekozen linkse regering…… Een
staatsgreep die intussen aan duizenden het leven heeft gekost,
daarnaast zijn er veel Hondurezen verdwenen, ofwel ook vermoord door
de Junta die de VS daar parachuteerde….. Voorts zijn een enorm
aantal mensen op de vlucht geslagen, o.a. richting VS (zoals het
grootste deel van de Karavaan die al op weg was naar de VS, vóór de
midterm verkiezingen in dat middels een genocide gestolen
land…….)
Kovalik
noemt ook Rusland als een land waar de VS de verkiezing van de
corrupte alcoholverslaafde Jeltsin in 1996 veiligstelde met een
slordige miljard dollar….. Je zou zelfs kunnen stellen dat de VS
mede verantwoordelijk is voor de ‘oligarchen’ die Rusland destijds hebben
leeggestolen…..
Hoe
durven politici in de VS en de rest van het westen, alsmede de
reguliere massamedia in het westen, nog met de vieze vingers naar
Rusland te wijzen als grote manipulator van de VS
presidentsverkiezingen, terwijl er geen enkel bewijs werd en wordt
geleverd voor deze leugen en de VS zelf overal waar het haar
uitkomt opstanden (zoals gezegd gevoed met een stille economische oorlog), staatsgrepen en illegale oorlogen organiseert,
waar overigens honderden meters aan dossiers met bewijzen voor zijn
te vinden, neem alleen al WikiLeaks en dan m.n. de Vault 7 en 8 documenten op deze (echte) klokkenluiderswebsite……..
Hier de
boekbespreking door Haiphong, door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:
How
the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the
World
January
7, 2019 at 8:54 am
Written
by Danny
Haiphong
(BAR) — The
U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments
that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests.
“There
is plenty of evidence that the United States is the most depraved and
dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of other nations that history
has ever known.”
Dan
Kovalik is a labor and human rights lawyer, but most of all he is an
anti-imperialist and an author of three books. Kovalik’s first two
books tackled the specific US war drives against Russia and Iran. His
third installment, The
Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the
Outcome of Elections Around the World,
addresses the broad scope of US election meddling abroad. The book
provides much needed political and ideological life support to an
anti-war movement in the U.S that has been rendered nearly invisible
to the naked eye.
The
Plot to Control the World is
as detailed in its critique of U.S. imperialism as it is concise. In
just over 160 pages, Kovalik manages to analyze the various ways that
the U.S. political and military apparatus interferes in the affairs
of nations abroad to achieve global hegemony. He wastes no time in
exposing the devastating lie that is American exceptionalism,
beginning appropriately with the U.S. imperialist occupations of
Haiti and the Philippines at the end of the 19th century and
beginning of the 20th. The U.S. would murder millions of Filipinos
and send both nations into a spiral of violence, instability, and
poverty that continues to this day. As Kovalik explains regarding
Haiti, “While the specific, claimed justifications for [U.S.]
intervention changed over time- e.g., opposing the end of slavery,
enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, fighting Communism, fighting drugs,
restoring law and order — the fact is that the interventions never
stopped and the results for the Haitian people have been invariably
disastrous.”
“Kovalik
wastes no time in exposing the devastating lie that is American
exceptionalism.”
US
expansionism has relied upon the ideology of American exceptionalism
to silence criticism and weaken anti-war forces in the United States.
American exceptionalism claims that the U.S. is a force for good in
the world and completely justified in its wars of conquest draped in
the cover of spreading “democracy and freedom” around the world.
Kovalik challenges American exceptionalism by showing readers just
how much damage that US expansionism and militarism has caused for
nations and peoples in every region of the planet.Russia, Honduras,
Guatemala, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vietnam and many
other nations have seen their societies devastated by U.S. “election
meddling.” In Honduras, for example, a U.S.-backed coup of
left-wing President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 made the nation one of the
most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, indigenous
person, or trade-union/environmental activist. Thousands of
Hondurans have been displaced, disappeared, or assassinated since the
coup.
Another
important aspect of The
Plot to Control the World is
its exposure of U.S hypocrisy surrounding the subject of “election
meddling.” Since the end of the 2016 Presidential elections, the
U.S. military, political, and media branches of the imperialist state
have accused Russia of virtually implanting Donald Trump into the
Oval office. The U.S. public has been fed a steady dose of
anti-Russia talking points in an apparent effort on the part of the
elites to beat the drums of war with the nuclear-armed state. No
evidence has been presented to prove the conspiracy, as a
recent National
Public Radio (NPR) analysis states
plainly. However, there is plenty of evidence that the United States
is the most depraved and dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of
other nations that history has ever known.
“The
author shows readers just how much damage that US expansionism and
militarism has caused for nations and peoples in every region of the
planet.”
Just
ask the much-vaunted Russians. Kovalik devotes an entire chapter to
the 1996 Presidential election in Russia that re-elected the wildly
unpopular Boris Yeltsin. The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 began
an era of “shock therapy” in the newly erected Russian
Federation, a euphemism for the wholesale theft and transfer of
socialized wealth into the hands of oligarchs and multinational
corporations. Millions would perish in Russia from an early death due
to the sudden loss of healthcare, housing, jobs, and other basic
services. In 1996, President Bill Clinton ensured that Yeltsin
maintained his near total grip on state power in Russia by providing
the Russian President with a team of U.S. political consultants and
over a billion dollars’ worth of IMF monies directly to the
campaign. U.S. political and monetary support allowed Yeltsin to rig
the election in his favor despite his dwindling popularity. Kovalik
shows that if anyone should worry about election meddling, it should
be the people of Russia and not the US elites that control
Washington.
The
Plot to Control the World takes
readers into the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the CIA’s coup
of revolutionary Patrice Lumumba continues to haunt the resource rich
nation in the form of endless US-backed genocide. It travels to
Guatemala, where the CIA overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz led to a
U.S.-backed slaughter of a quarter million Guatemalans under the
auspices of several military dictatorships. Kovalik shows us that the
election of the fascistic Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil was no aberration,
as the U.S. was primarily responsible for the rise in fascism in
Brazil through its direct role in placing the nation under the
control of a military dictatorship in 1964. The military dictatorship
predated the CIA’s ouster of Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973,
which handed the once socialist state to Augusto Pinochet’s
murderous and repressive leadership.
“The
mission is always the same: to destabilize independent nations that
refuses to bow down to the dictates of U.S. imperialism.”
The
entire skeleton of the U.S. military state is on full display in The
Plot to Control the World.
The U.S. military state utilizes an array of tools to overthrow
democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to
corporate interests. These tools include the U.S. intelligence
agencies, so-called Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) such as the
National Endowment for Democracy, and the various branches of the
military itself, to name a few. Regardless of the tools employed, the
mission is always the same: to destabilize independent nations that
refuses to bow down to the dictates of U.S. imperialism. Thus, while
Nicaragua, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Vietnam may possess
unique histories, their economic and political development has been
shaped by the destructive interference of the United States.
Dan
Kovalik is not likely to be reviewed in the New
York Timesor
other corporate outlets. That’s because Kovalik unapologetically
speaks out against U.S. empire and all that upholds it. In doing so,
Kovalik’s The
Plot to Control the World walks
in the footsteps of anti-imperialists such as Michael Parenti and
William Blum. Blum, a former State Department employee, spent his
post-State Department life providing humanity with knowledge about
how US imperialism operates on the global stage. The New
York Times wasted
no time in slandering
Blum in their obituary .
This showed the great lengths that the ruling elites will go to
discredit, defame, and condemn critics of the military industrial
complex and how important it is for those who oppose war let go of
any expectation that the corporate media will cover Kovalik’s work
or anyone else who speaks out against war.
“White
supremacy is the biggest lie of all and is completely embedded in the
ideology of American exceptionalism.”
With
that said, one of the reasons that the left in the U.S. is so weak is
because it has been numerically and politically isolated by the lies
of the Empire. White supremacy is the biggest lie of all and is
completely embedded in the ideology of American exceptionalism.
Despite the ruthlessness of the austerity and incarceration regimes,
many Americans continue to be convinced that the U.S. is the most
exceptional nation in the world and do not balk when its military
wages wars abroad at the expense of U.S. tax dollars and civilian
lives. U.S. imperialism has made sure that Americans feel that they
are special colonizers who see the victims of the U.S. military state
as savages worthy of slaughter. The
Plot to Control the World is
based on a different premise: internationalism. The book links the
struggle against US imperialism to the needs of the oppressed and
working class living in the heart of empire, making it an essential
read for those who are sick and tired of the prevailing narrative of
American exceptionalism and want to be armed with knowledge that is
essential toward changing it.
By Danny
Haiphong /
Republished with permission / Black
Agenda Report / Report
a typo
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*
Zo heeft Hillary Clinton als minister van buitenlandse zaken onder
‘vredesduif’ Obama 4 miljard dollar uitgegeven voor het organiseren
van een opstand in Oekraïne, de bloedige opstand die moest leiden tot
de coup tegen het democratisch gekozen Janoekovytsj regime, een beproefde VS methode die ook in dit geval lukte (in Syrië liep het spaak)….. Daarmee is de VS dan ook
verantwoordelijk voor de oorlog die de door haar geïnstalleerde
neonazi-junta, o.l.v. de zwaar corrupte schoft Porosjenko, voert tegen de
bevolking van Oost-Oekraïne…… Een bevolking die volkomen terecht hun democratisch
gekozen president terug wilden en zich derhalve hebben afgescheiden van
Oekraïne….. Wie met een gezond verstand wil er onder een fascistisch regime leven?? Een
dergelijke coup in het westen van Europa had tot grote consternatie
geleid, maar niet in Oekraïne, hoewel alle EU staten weten dat er een
dictatoriaal fascistisch regime regeert in Kiev, doet men graag ‘zaken’ met deze junta, puur en alleen daar deze junta anti-Russisch is…….. (van de miljarden die Oekraïne als hulp kreeg van de EU en de VS is niets meer over, voor het grootste deel verdwenen op de buitenlandse bankrekeningen van de Porosjenko junta, voorts werd een deel uitgegeven aan oorlogsvoering tegen de bevolking van Oost-Oekraïne….)
Zie waartoe de VS, de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, in staat is:
‘VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘ (het cijfer tot het jaar 2000, intussen zijn dat er al meer dan 22,5 miljoen….)
‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘
