Sol Invictus
11-05-2009, 06:42 PM
Published: November 5, 2009
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2009/110409Lendman.shtml
At a time of growing US poverty, hunger, homelessness, and despair, imperial wars without end, and the Obama administration even worse than its predecessor, Venezuela:
— is a model participatory democracy;
— holds free, fair and open elections;
— respects the rule of law, civil liberties, and human rights;
— doesn’t intimidate its neighbors;
— uses its resources responsibly for the people;
— provides essential social services for the needy;
— champions judicial fairness and the rule of law;
— has a model free and open media;
— wages no foreign wars;
— doesn’t torture or imprison its adversaries;
— conducts effective operations to halt illicit drugs trafficking;
— promotes global peace, solidarity, equality and social justice; and
— its only threat is its good example that shames its northern neighbor.
In contrast, America:
— is a serial belligerent and world class bully;
— spends more on militarism than the rest of the world combined at a time when it has no enemies;
— backs the world’s worst dictators and fake democrats like Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe, a man closely linked to the country’s paramilitary death squads and drug cartels; and
— through the CIA, has actively engaged in global drugs trafficking since the agency’s 1947 founding; it profits hugely from its dealings with local traffickers; so do major US banks and other powerful business and financial interests.
In addition, Washington
— serves the rich at the public’s expense;
— tolerates corruption at the highest levels;
— subverts democracy through electoral fraud;
— has a closed, corrupted dominant media system serving the powerful, not the greater good;
— incarcerates hundreds of political prisoners;
— uses torture as official policy; and
— wages state-sponsored terrorism and global wars.
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2009/110409Lendman.shtml
At a time of growing US poverty, hunger, homelessness, and despair, imperial wars without end, and the Obama administration even worse than its predecessor, Venezuela:
— is a model participatory democracy;
— holds free, fair and open elections;
— respects the rule of law, civil liberties, and human rights;
— doesn’t intimidate its neighbors;
— uses its resources responsibly for the people;
— provides essential social services for the needy;
— champions judicial fairness and the rule of law;
— has a model free and open media;
— wages no foreign wars;
— doesn’t torture or imprison its adversaries;
— conducts effective operations to halt illicit drugs trafficking;
— promotes global peace, solidarity, equality and social justice; and
— its only threat is its good example that shames its northern neighbor.
In contrast, America:
— is a serial belligerent and world class bully;
— spends more on militarism than the rest of the world combined at a time when it has no enemies;
— backs the world’s worst dictators and fake democrats like Colombia’s Alvaro Uribe, a man closely linked to the country’s paramilitary death squads and drug cartels; and
— through the CIA, has actively engaged in global drugs trafficking since the agency’s 1947 founding; it profits hugely from its dealings with local traffickers; so do major US banks and other powerful business and financial interests.
In addition, Washington
— serves the rich at the public’s expense;
— tolerates corruption at the highest levels;
— subverts democracy through electoral fraud;
— has a closed, corrupted dominant media system serving the powerful, not the greater good;
— incarcerates hundreds of political prisoners;
— uses torture as official policy; and
— wages state-sponsored terrorism and global wars.