The State Department finally concluded 3 weeks of ambiguity on its determination of whether or not a coup d'etat has taken place in Honduras. Despite the United Nations, European Union, Organization of American States and every Latin American nation clearly condemning the events as a coup d'etat, the United States government has today stated it doesn't consider a coup has taken place. The Obama administration joins only with the coup regime and its supporters (other coup leaders and/or executors of coups) in that determination.
Here is the statement made today by Phillip Crowley, spokesman for the Department of State:
"QUESTION: Have you ruled this as a coup d'état there legally --
MR. CROWLEY: No."
Crowley also made this statement, which appears to be a not-so-veiled attempt to tell President Zelaya and any other head of state overthrown by US allies that they better have learned their lesson: Washington will back (fund, support, design) coups against governments that align themselves with Venezuela. Breathe deep. And please do remember, this is Obama's State Department, not Bush's. Here it is:
"QUESTION: Coming back to Honduras, we’re getting some reports out of the region that there might be some sort of rift now between Zelaya and the Venezuelan Government. Is that Washington’s understanding? And if so, is that something that can be leveraged as these negotiations move on? To put it another way, is Chavez out of the way, and does that make Washington happy?
MR. CROWLEY: (Laughter.) We certainly think that if we were choosing a model government and a model leader for countries of the region to follow, that the current leadership in Venezuela would not be a particular model. If that is the lesson that President Zelaya has learned from this episode, that would be a good lesson.
QUESTION: When you say that the Venezuelan Government is - should not be an example of government for any leader --
MR. CROWLEY: I’m a believer in understatement.
QUESTION: Can you say that again? (Laughter.) It’s like - it’s justifying, sort of, the coup d’état, because if any government try to follow the socialist Government of Venezuela, then it’s fair, then, that somebody can try to make it - you know, defeat the government or something like that? Can you explain a little bit where we’re - what was your statement about Venezuela?
MR. CROWLEY: Well, I think, as we have talked about and as the Secretary has said in recent days, we have, on the one hand, restored our Ambassador to Venezuela. There are a number of issues that we want to discuss with the Venezuelan Government.
On the other side of the coin, we have concerns about the government of President Chavez, not only what he’s done in terms of his own country - his intimidation of news media, for example, the steps he has taken to restrict participation and debate within his country. And we’re also concerned about unhelpful steps that he’s taken with some of this neighbors, and interference that we’ve seen Venezuela - with respect to relations with other countries, whether it’s Honduras on the one hand, or whether it’s Colombia on the other. And when we’ve had issues with President Chavez, we have always made those clear."
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This is what a decadent empire looks like in the mass-communications era... one for the history books, for sure.
It's important for the Left to realize here that the widespread, open, arrogant support for this coup in the bourgeois world has in fact flushed out many if not all of our phony "democratic" class enemy and their supporters as being no democrats at all, when it comes right down to it. So let's not only not forget this -- but let's use this to demonstrate to the Planet again and again the true nature of a supposed "democratic" Western imperialism. Of course this was a coup d'état -- and no amount of lying and mass-media propaganda barrage will turn this sow's ear into a silk purse. We can really, finally hurt yanqui imperialism at the ideological level by keeping our focus on this brutal, in fact, obvious truth. We have these bastards here. We really do.
But do we have the leadership to take this opportunity and drive it home now..?
Chilling. Cowley's like Glenn Beck, but without the hysterics.
"1984," was a training guide for Bush/Cheney. "Open Veins of Latin America," is a training guide for Obama/Biden. Kissinger, Reagan, Obama. A fine tradition. There are only two political parties now in America: The racist corporate party, and the non-racist corporate party.
El Che: Too bad that most americans are so apathetic, so ignorant of what is happening in this world and within USA itself. Too bad that most people in America, most average joes, only care about their own personal stupid irrelevant lives. People in America have this idea that government affairs are only for corporate, rich, old, white-haired elites who live around Washington, DC, NY and important cities of America and that everybody else should just "get on with their own lives".
This is the stupid mentality ingrained by Alexander Hamilton on all american citizens and this is still the way people think in this country.
And the immigrants from Latin America are no better. They are brainwashed by Univision, Telemundo and CNN en español.
We are doomed as a human species. I really don't see a light at the end of the tunnel for this world, but a big train heading against us which will crash us all. Because most people in this world even the poor people are supporters of their own exploiters and oligarchic oppressors.
We are doomed with the slave-mentality that most humans have.
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All a twitter.
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