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faction of the Democratic Party leadership (which has never represented the interests of the majority of the party--or of the country, for that matter), when he started winning caucus primaries (notably NOT counted by Diebold & brethren), in order to get favorably vetted by the global corporate predators who rule over us and not get whacked by them (literally or by the corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies or Bushwhack NSA spies/dirty trickers). If Obama's team learned nothing else from Howard Dean, they learned what a "scream" tape can do.
And all the turkeys are coming home to roost. And they all point to a "free trade" deal for the Colombian death squadders and drug lords. This is the linchpin of Donald Rumsfeld's strategy* of economic warfare against the countries with the oil in South America (Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia) and for 'divide and conquer' among their leftist allies--most of South America--Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, et al. The only two countries that are NOT allies of the Bolvirians are the fascist pigs running Colombia who love the U.S. corpo/fascists and even whack poor youths and dress them up like FARC guerrillas, to up their "body count" for their masters in Washington DC, and the corrupt 'free tradists' in Peru (with the 20% approval rating). And then, after economic warfare has destroyed these governments, Rumsfeld urges "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies in South America." This latter would be the fascist coup plotters in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, who are actively working on secessionist movements (to split off the oil rich provinces into fascist mini-states in control of the main resources).
Enriching the rich fascists in Colombia, and larding them with military aid, is the key to this Rumsfeld strategy.
Colombia knows how to take care of their "labor problem," too. The DLC wants to learn from them. Over forty union leaders whacked this year alone, by rightwing death squads. And, hey, Chiquita got the score up to four thousand murders of union leaders over a seven year period, by paying $1.7 million to rightwing Colombia death squads, and their execs got a "get out of jail free card" for this horrendous carnage, through the kind offices of none other than their corporate attorney, Eric Holder.
And guess who had a paid agent of the Colombian government as her chief campaign strategist?
We are looking at Oil War II: South America. The idea is to try to destabilize and topple the democratic governments with the oil, and grab the oil, one way or another--by fascist secession, or, if they get lucky, installing corpo/fascist dictators again on the entire country. The Bushwhacks just tried this strategy in its rawest form--a U.S. funded and organized white separatist insurrection in Bolivia this summer. But South America fought back. Evo Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, threw the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of Bolivia--after their local fascist colluders rioted, machine-gunned some 30 unarmed peasants and blew up a gas pipeline--and was unanimously supported by the new South American "Common Market"--UNASUR.
But that doesn't mean that the strategy is dead. It just failed its first test run. Venezuela's oil is a sitting duck, right on the Caribbean (in the Venezuelan state of Zulia), where the newly reconstituted U.S. 4th Fleet is now spying on Venezuela and harrying its coastline. Lula da Silva, president of Brazil, says that the 4th Fleet also threatens Brazil's oil reserves on the Atlantic coast. But Venezuela is the most vulnerable. And there is a fascist group in Zulia engaged in the same sort of secessionist activity as occurred in Bolivia. Further, Colombia--armed with $6 BILLION in U.S.-Clinton/Bush military aid--is right on Venezuela's border, ready to jump in, with military and rightwing death squad assistance, to detach Zulia and its oil from the control of Venezuela's leftist government.
I've been wondering what Obama thought about all of this. I'm still wondering, actually. Not sure. But his placement of people like Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton in the highest positions of our government bode very ill, indeed, for any change for the better in U.S./Latin American relations.
There are a lot of reasons why our global corporate predators are furiously bent on destroying democracy in South America. Restoring U.S. global corporate predator control of the oil is probably the main one. But there is also the huge and successful movement against World Bank/IMF loan sharks, against U.S. dominated 'free trade' (corporate plunder and looting), and against the corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" (big war profiteer/police-state boondoggle; also, a means of spying on and militarizing Latin America countries, and strengthening fascist elements).
We need to be realistic, and eyes open, about what Obama may have had to agree to, to become president. We don't know the extent of it yet. But do bear in mind that the Clinton prosperity was in large part built on the backs of the poorest workers in Latin America, and on stealing their resources, and that the Clinton administration prepared the way for the war on Iraq (one million innocent people slaughtered for their oil), executed by the Bushwhacks. What we seem to be getting now is many of those same 'neoliberal'/DLC operatives, returning to the White House, but with vastly expanded executive powers--including vast powers of repression here at home--compliments of Bush/Cheney.
I do think there is a more enlightened and genuinely progressive/leftist element around Obama. All I'm saying is that the early indications on major appointments are retro--back to FAILED policies of U.S. economic warfare against the poorest people on earth; and policies of "trickle down" economics, deregulation, and outsourcing of jobs and manufacturing that are hurting us now, and that began with Reagan, were furthered by Bill Clinton and fully flowered under the Bushwhacks in this Financial 9/11 that the rich of the earth have just pulled off. The economics of looting and plunder leads to war. That's where we are now. Are we going to go there again, in South America?**
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*(Op-ed by Donald Rumsfeld, Washington Post, 12/1/07. "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants like Chavez.")
**(Venezuelan by-elections this Tuesday, Dec 5. Chavez has been warning about a local secessionist plot in Zulia, which could be triggered if the rightwing loses significantly in these elections. Note: Venezuela has one of the most transparent election systems on earth--they put our own system to shame.)
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