They, or associated private or, ahem, public covert agencies and operatives, flip another country (after Honduras) from left to right, by means of coup d'etat, and they end up getting Venezuela's application for membership in Mercosur accepted! Their rightwing operatives in Paraguay's corrupt legislature cannot block Venezuela's membership any longer, since their midnight "impeachment" of President Fernando Lugo has destroyed their government's legitimacy.
They may live to regret Honduras as well. For all the murders and mayhem that the U.S.-supported coup regime has fostered and committed in Honduras--against trade unionists and other advocates of the poor--Honduras' courageous leftist majority may eventually make a comeback, so awful is U.S. domination, with its shit wages, slave labor, militarism, new Pentagon bases, "privatization" and corrupt, murderous, failed "war on drugs."
They create Al Qaeda to bother the Ruskies, and what do they get? A deadly enemy!
They (or parallel covert agencies) run guns to Mexico, to smash up and horrify Mexican society in the rightwing cause, and what do they get? The utter discrediting of their guy in Mexico City (Felipe Calderon)--whose "neo-liberal" PAN party isn't even a factor in this election--and leftist Manuel Lopez Obrador resurrecting from his 0.05% fraudulent defeat in 2005, to seriously challenge the PRI (old, corrupt, traditional party of Mexico). They may not even get a bribable government out of it. They may get a leftist government. And, in any case, Lopez Obrador is back!
They run guns (or money) to wherever they think they can create sufficient mayhem to gain power over governments, resources and peoples--say, to CIA-created "rebel groups" in Syria, or Libya--and the blowback is, well, blowback. The guns end up shooting U.S. soldiers or agents--or whole villages full of innocent people. And, in the chaos, far right Muslims gain power.
Sad, sad, the many mistakes of the CIA and allied chaos-makers--all in the interest of transglobal corporations and war profiteers. Sad, tragic, abominable. It is no wonder that the 4th of July seems a paltry, gloomy holiday these days. What is there left to celebrate about the "land of the free/home of the brave"? The "blowback" has come home in so many more ways than "9/11." The "blowback" has come home in vast poverty and ignorance HERE, in rigged elections and catastrophic loss of democracy HERE, in the promotion of fascism, racism and every kind of intolerance HERE. But I think that those consequences are intended. They are not mistakes. And they are generated by those behind the CIA and other covert or semi-covert agencies--powers who are even harder to see--as they deliberately destroy the heart of democracy and progress, the U.S.A.
The heart of democracy and progress has shifted, in the Americas, from north to south. We hardly have "heart" any more, in the north--so demoralized and disempowered have we become, as a people. As for "progress," we are heading straight back to the Dark Ages, on many fronts, and there is NO front on which we can say that progressive values are succeeding. Latin America is where it is happening today, and our common deadly enemies--transglobal corporate rulers and war profiteers--are bent on finishing us off, as a democracy, and turning back the great leftist democracy movement that has sprung up, seemingly miraculously, in the south. (Not really a miracle, though--it has resulted from hard civic work on honest elections and strong grass roots organizing.)
Such an irony!--as the spiders and snakes fly out of the mouths of our State Department liars, in their endless preaching about "freedom" and "democracy," that it is Latin Americans who have taken those words seriously, and are actually, seriously trying to create them--against the venomous opposition of that very State Department and the corporate powers behind it. It's kind of like the Pope preaching "Christ's love," when he only means protecting the rapists of little boys and acquiring vast wealth and properties from beloved rich donors. Some people take Christ's loving message seriously and are genuine good Christians--and it is the irony of all ironies that this ugly little cabal in Vatican City has co-opted that message for two thousand years.
The corporate powers (who take their governing model from the Vatican) have CO-OPTED the words "freedom" and "democracy" and they have turned the 4th of July into a meaningless sham. And I don't say that lightly, because I think that MOST people celebrating the 4th really do believe in democracy and progress and have been stripped of both--conned, propagandized and robbed. Their ideals are not fake. But the wars, militarism and corporatization that exploit patriotism, that parade as patriotism, that "sell" patriotism, IS a sham. They want cannon fodder and slave labor, period. And they are loyal to NO ONE.
Anyway, good work, CIA (et al)! You got Venezuela into Mercosur--and now the leftist bloc in that trade group is unassailable, and they WILL fight your damnable, anti-democratic, corporate monopolistic, war profiteering projects every way that they can.
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