rah rah America!

[Alexandre Fenelon]

At 15:56 16/09/99 +0100, you wrote:
>In message <v0421010cb4056a4723ab@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood
><dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>>[this guy can't quote Brad De Long enough!]
>>
>>Financial Times - September 15, 1999
>>
>>America rules OK
>>
>>Given the alternatives, the world should be grateful for the hegemony 
>>of the US throughout the 20th century, writes Martin Wolf 
>><Martin.Wolf at ft.com>
>
>>This was 
>>the American century. Given the grim alternatives to US hegemony, the 
>>rest of the world should, for once, express its gratitude.
>
>The short [Anglo-] American Century
>
>(This is just from memory, other subscribers can add in the details of
>Panama, Guatemala, Cuba and the extensive CIA involvement in Africa.)
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>1916 Joins in the imperialist slaughter in Europe
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>1918 Military invasion of the Soviet Union
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>1930s economic blockade of Japan
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>1942 Non-appearance of the 'second front' widely seen as Roosevelt's
>decision to let Hitler clean up the partisans before imposing a new
>order on Europe (Soviet troops would say when they opened the American
>tinned meat rations 'let's open the second front').
>
>1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki despite full
>intelligence reports that Japan had already decided to surrender
>
>1946 Plans drawn up to permanently divide Germany (see C Eisenberg,
>Drawing the Line, The American Decision to Divide Germany 1944-49). 
>
>1946 Support for General Scobie's disarming of the Greek partisans and
>the imposition of a dictatorship.
>
>1948 Creation of the state of Israel on Palestinian land
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>1949 Chiang Kai-Shek's seizure of Taiwan
>
>1950 onwards US increasingly involved in Vietnam war leading to the loss
>of one million Vietnamese lives
>
>1951 Macarthur provokes Korean war (see I Stone, The Secret history of
>the Korean War)
>
>1954 Overthrow of Iran's radical leader Mossadegh
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>1956 Suez crisis: Israel seizes the Negev and the canal is permanently
>blocked
>
>1965 CIA backing for Suharto's bloody coup against Sukarno and the left
>
>1967 Victory over Arab states for US-backed Israel
>
>1973 Kissinger endorsed takeover of Chile and another beating for the
>Arabs, followed by the sustained destabilisation of Lebanon.
>
>1976 support for Indonesian invasion of East Timor
>
>1979 onwards contra war against Nicaragua
>
>1980 military intervention in Iran
>
>1982 Israeli/Falangist massacres of Palestinian refugees at Sabra and
>Chatila
>
>1988 bombing raids on Libya killing Col. Ghadaffi's adopted daughter,
>intervention in Lebanon
>
>1991 Gulf War. The British Medical Journal estimated lives lost in the
>initial bombing alone at 180 000. Intermittent bombing of Iraq ever
>since, alongside an economic blocade that is starving the country to
>this day.
>
>1993 Operation 'restore Hope' in Somalia leads to an air war against
>Somali civilians with thousands killed.
>
>1994 US trained RPF guerillas invade Rwanda signalling the start of a
>bloody civil war.
>
>1999 Sustained bombardment of the Yugoslav Republic in Kosovo war
>
>
>-- 
>Jim heartfield

Let's add some things:

1964: Support to overthrow of President João Goulart, in Brazil,
which led to a 20 year dictatorship.

                                Alexandre
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