Noam Chomsky in Venezuela: 'A better world is being created' By: derrick (17 replies) August 28, 2009 - 12:33pm
- "how do you know all these By: Michael_25 (Jan 4 2010 - 8:40pm)
- nice solid sources By: thanks (Oct 26 2009 - 7:28pm)
- I read several Venezuelan By: m_astera (Oct 26 2009 - 6:21pm)
- how do you know all these By: thanks (Oct 25 2009 - 9:04am)
- In the last elections for By: m_astera (Oct 24 2009 - 2:11pm)
- it seems the people keep By: thanks (Oct 24 2009 - 1:41pm)
- @thanks- You will find no By: m_astera (Oct 23 2009 - 9:51am)
- aside from all the arguments By: thanks (Oct 23 2009 - 8:53am)
- rabbitnexus, you lost By: m_astera (Aug 31 2009 - 1:08pm)
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- Sure Astera, I have seen you By: RabbitNexus (Aug 31 2009 - 1:52am)
- Hey, rabbitnexus, you ever By: m_astera (Aug 31 2009 - 1:52am)
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- Well, rabbitnexus, you would By: m_astera (Aug 31 2009 - 1:36am)
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- Well said, davidasposted. By: m_astera (Aug 30 2009 - 9:14pm)
- In progressive politics, the By: davidasposted (Aug 29 2009 - 9:27pm)
You can also stop putting crap on Castro and Cuba. Being Americans you see them as bad, because you mistaklenly see yourselves as the good guys. The fact it was NOT your country and YOUR country was never under any threat, it was just more of your greed and national arrogance expressing itself. Many people the world over, and that also includes many Americans recognise Cuba and Castro as the good guys in the dispute, and you, the USA, the ETERNAL aggressor, as the bad guys.
I see how terribly you needed to destroy Vietnam eh? After killing millions, devastating the land for generations, and finally losing and running, Vietnam did not signal the "expansion" of communism across Asia, supposedly even Oz was in "danger". BULL! Colonialists ALWAYS have seemingly rational, TO THEM, excuses for their oppression. It isn't hard. If your country is fighting in ANY other country, for any other reason, than that country launched an aggression against you, then YOU are the aggressor. With one notable exception and with some allowance, since the USA had already instigated a blockade against Japan, an act of war), Pearl Harbor was the last time the USA was subject to such an aggression. That exception was the deliberate and cowardly Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. That was of course swept under the carpet and has been ever since, giving some indication of the power of the Israeli lobby in the USA. The truth is not deniable, unless you call the entire surviving crew for anti-semites (which is of course done and that includes Jewish crew members), it means calling the captain and the investigating officers and several CIA people AND at least one of the Israeli pilots involved, for liars also..
Which is of course done, because there simply is no other way to maintain such a lie. The "big lie" as it is called is popularly atributed to Hitler, from his book. However what is rarely mentioned, is that he was referring to "they who must not be named" and stating that it is THEIR way of doing things. The USS Liberty incident is just one such instance and many smaller ones come to mind, such as the so called "Lavon Affair".
Americans are the proudest people on earth, yet these days they have the least reason of anybody. Financialy on the brink of doom, owned by countries they hate and look down on, militarily stymied on every front, against seemingly vastly smaller forces and a political system which it is gradually dawning on even the average Joe, is totally independent of him and most average Americans and their interests. You are universally seen as completely under the control of a nasty little country which has zero concern for ANY of the vaunted rights and freedoms that most Americans associate with their country and that control is unshakeable evidently, despite it leading to worse and worse serious harm to US interests. you even shell out millions of dollars a day to them and hand over your best technology and military hardware, often for free. Just try and bleat that the USA is not controlled by Israel, it is always amusing to see denial against impossible odds.
Venezuela is a country which seeks to forge a future for its people, the majority of them and on an equal footing. That means euql in rights and that includes having a say in how their country is run. Sure a minority of those who stand to lose by such re-distribution hate it and they are making a lot of noise and stirring up a lot of trouble, and this leads to street protests and this leads to police violence and arrests. However, the disturbances include shootings, looting, bombings and violent mob attacks on police and counter demonstrators. THIS is the movement being supported by the USA, and there is no point in denying it. It is notable however, if you follow the proceedings, that Chavez has intervened for leniency in judicial proceedings agionst people who frankly should have been imprisoned for life, and would have been in the USA in the same circumstances. Venezuela is not the enemy of the USA, though many forces want to make it so. Chavez ensures cheap heating oil to poor Americans your own government and system cannot or do not help. That may seem like him propagandising to you, but the heat is no less real for those people who need it. It is also perfectly consistent with the socialist agenda, which weird and threatening as this always sounds to brainwashed American sheep, is a good and very human thing. It doesn;t deny the rights of people to enrich themselves, it simply ensures that the strong do not enrich themselves at the expense of the weak.
Indeed such a system may eliminate mega billionaires and the very richest, but we have ample history behind us to argue that this is a very good outcome. NO man's grasp should ever equal his reach, least of all a megalomaniac's.