> It's also happening in Venezuela, where classic CIA destabilization
> is underway using oligarch-controlled media & corrupt union bosses
> etc, and the repeatedly elected government of Chavez is already
> being called "authoritarian" & accused of endangering "freedom of
> the press" and so on. It will be interesting to see who - if
> anyone - here will start spouting this stuff ...
i was wrong, it wasn't interesting - just Nathan :)
> Quoting the very knowledgable Jim Petras (in a piece to be
> published in MR in May) on the question that Doug asks: "The
> reversion to client military dictatorships with a civic facade will
> not prevent the Bush Administration from claiming to be 'defending
> democracy and free markets'. The U.S. mass media can and will
> embellish on this and any variety of related motifs."
this prescient piece by Petras ("U.S. Offensive in Latin America: Coups, Retreats, and Radicalization") is now up on the MR website at http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502petras.htm
john mage