Jan 08
20140
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Chile CIA Democracy Now Direct Action Imperialism ITT Lannan Foundation Mother Jones Salvador Allende The Nation Weather Underground
"Between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2011, for example, the producers of "Democracy Now!" accepted $1.4 million in “charitable grant”/blood money from the foundation that former ITT Director and ITT stockholder Lannan established: $375,000 in 2008; $350,000 in 2009; $375,000 in 2010; and $300,000 in 2011."
Jan 08
20140
Foundations, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
Chile CIA General Rene Schneider Chereau Imperialism International Telephone & Telegraph ITT Corporation Lannan Foundation Salvador Allende Weather Underground
“At 2 a.m., September 28 , the night telephone supervisor at the New York Times received a call. `Take this down because I’m only going to say this once,’ a man told her. `I am the Weatherman Underground. At the ITT-American building, a bomb is going to go off in 15 minutes. This is in retaliation of the ITT crimes they committed against Chile.’
The reason for walking out on aid, given in a January 26 2011 notification letter to UN from the country’s powerful Finance Minister, is that “aid only postpones the basic solutions to crucial development problems by tentatively ameliorating their manifestations without tackling their root causes. The structural, political, economic, etc. damage that it inflicts upon recipient countries is also enormous.”
Oct 29
20130
Capitalism CIA Cuba Grenada Humanitarianism Imperialism Marxists Military Industrial Complex neoliberalism New Democratic Party (NDP) Nicaragua Psyops Sandinistas Socialism Trotskyists
"Therefore it is with considerable nostalgia that I look back on this period, this before the Western left’s spinal cord had been surgically removed and its head compressed into its waist, forming a monstrous human starfish that reaches out in all directions (having little of its own). However, to end on a more productive note, the Latin American left has never been stronger, more dominant, and more unified..."
"Six former colonial powers in a coalition with five tyrannies, telling Syrians who they can’t have as president, supporting a group of exiles who wait in the wings for the signal to traipse onto the Syrian stage as Washington’s marionette, is hardly the picture of democracy-promoters. If you believe otherwise, then democracy is nothing but a euphemism for imperialism, an emotionally appealing word tossed around as a cover for the very negation of what the Friends of Syria profess to seek."
Sep 01
20132
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Syria, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"It’s all familiar…. Notice that nonstop “breaking news” on all the media outlets? How easily the current puppet in the belly of the beast of industrial capitalism dances to the tunes played by the corporate shareholders pulling their strings. Note how every single day, sometimes more than once a day, some new piece of “news” is brought to the public for all of us to swallow, just as Aldous Huxley predicted, when he said, "There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it."
"People who succumb to the illusions of revolutionary romanticism or who side with the apparent underdog, regardless of the underdog’s agenda, are being taken in by the tactics of present-day imperialism. But those who aspire to a more peaceful and more just world order, and who think that a precondition of this order is the weakening of U.S. imperialism, easily see through this camouflage. These two different world views divide both the Left and the Right: liberal interventionists and neoconservatives on one side, libertarians, paleoconservatives and traditional leftists on the other, and it may call for new and heterodox alliances."
"In the Obama administration, Power did nothing to contain the “runaway state,” indeed she helped secure inside the United Nations a “law,” R2P, that gives the United States permission to be unrestrained. That is the Konyism of Samantha Power."
Aug 13
20130
Foundations, NED | National Endowment for Democracy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, USAID
CIA Imperialism NED | National Endowment for Democracy Paraguay USAID
"La destitución de Gloria Rubin es una muestra más de la decadencia del poder imperialista de Estados Unidos en Paraguay, y un signo que por presión del pueblo los intereses regionales se afianzan sostenidamente en toda Sudamérica."