[lbo-talk] "Russian armed forces" behind quake-weapons report

[ken hanly]

Zelaya, remember him, was also treated in a similar way. Of course in some instances he himself did not help matters. There is nothing about Honduras in the news anymore. Micheletti never resigned. Zelaya was never reinstated. The coup leaders snubbed the US and OAS all along and now will be rewarded as the US will recognise Lobo the new president. Zelaya will probably end up going to the Dominican Repbublic as a private citizen. Everyone has lost interest in this triumph of reality over Obama rhetoric.

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--- On Sat, 1/23/10, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] "Russian armed forces" behind quake-weapons report
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 5:56 PM
> The treatment of Chavez in U.S.
> media, when he's mentioned at all,
> reminds me of the campaign (which at the time I fell for)
> to exhibit
> Mossedegh as a nutcase prior to his overthrow. And of
> course it also
> resembles the treatment of Aristide. Post-Cold War policing
> of nations
> that do not maintain a firendly climate for business is not
> easy to
> justify. Hence, perhaps, both the War on Terror and
> thepresentation of
> various rulers as dangeorus loose cannon, etc. 
> 
> Outside the core capitalist nations, the struggle is not
> for socialism,
> not for democracy, but for national independence. Possibly
> that is a mad
> goal and they should all fall in line. Capitalism offers
> rich recompense
> to the ruling strata plus the more privileged strata of
> other classes to
> nations that do fall in step. And of course such states can
> commit
> endless horrors on their population without either the
> governments, the
> media, or the liberal parties paying particular attention
> to them. Count
> up the number of posts on e-lists, blogs, etc which gave or
> ar givin
> great attention to Iran but are tut-tuttin about Egypt,
> Colombia,
> Indonesia, HOnduras, etc.
> 
> Resistance to overwhelming power is apt to generate varying
> degrees of
> paranoia, but even if the form tha takes is really 'nutty,'
> the fact
> remains that the U.S. the European powers, Japan are really
> "out to get
> them." I really think u.s. leftists shoud shut up about
> defects in
> nations (whatever their domesitic or foreing policies) that
> are
> atteempting to establish some real independence -- security
> against
> foreign intervention in their affairs.
> 
> Carrol
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