By Lee Gottlieb
ANOTHER REASON FOR CHANGING THE AMERICAN SYSTEM TO A DIRECT DEMOCRACY
GLOBAL DEMOCRACY
In his 2005 inaugural address, President Bush declared:
"It is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.”WOW! Since when has this been a policy of any U.S. leader toward any nation anywhere on the globe?
Certainly not in the Pacific in 1898…during the contrived war with Spain, when our leaders had U.S. troops invade the Philippine Islands upon the pretense of freeing them from Spanish rule, but then, despite the insistence of the Filipinos that they didn't want to be a protectorate of the U.S. anymore than they had wanted to remain slaves to Spain, U.S. rulers immediately declared the islands a protectorate of the U.S.
The armed resistance that followed lasted until 1904 and resulted in the unnecessary deaths of more than 50,000 Filipinos and nearly 4,000 American boys: many times more than lost during the swift war with Spain.
Certainly not in Europe in 1917 at the end of WWI…when Russian peasants and factory workers had finally revolted against the Tsar's tyranny, and thrown the royal family and Russian aristocracy out of power and withdrawn Russian troops from the battlefields of WWI claiming the conflict a war of imperialist powers having nothing to do with the welfare of the Russian people. After the fighting in Europe stopped, the men who controlled this country had American troops remain in Russia to fight the People's Army of Russia. There were angry protests in New York City condemning the action.*
Nor in 1947...when America's leaders sent American troops
into Greece to aid British forces fighting ELAS, the Greek Liberation Army. Why were these Western allies fighting and killing tens of thousands of this group that had played such a big part in driving the Nazis out of Greece? Because the U.S. and English leaders feared the popularity of ELAS and its political arm, EAM, which had been created and maintained primarily by the Greek Communist Party. It was feared that should EAM win elections, it would form a popular "peoples" government and show favoritism toward Russia. The western leaders, however, preferred the friendly prewar Greek elitist government, although it was oppressive toward its own people. The American media cooperated with official policy by labeling members of ELAS as "terrorists" and members of the prewar government as "patriots," although many were ex-Nazis or collaborators.
Certainly not in Latin America in 1961…when a U.S. supported coup overthrew the constitutionally elected Brazilian government of Joao Goulart.
Why the coup? Goulart had insisted upon remaining neutral in the “Cold War” between the U.S. and Russia, and because some of his cabinet leaned toward socialism or communism, and were anti-American. In addition, his administration had limited the amount of money foreign corporations (American) could take from the country, and had nationalized a subsidiary of ITT.
Nor in 1961...when the U.S., shaken by Marxist candidate Salvador Allende's near win in Chile's 1958 presidential election, activated a covert program to assure Allende's failure in future elections.
A U.S. Senate investigative committee revealed the CIA had funded more than half of an opposition party's campaign, and had initiated a massive anti-communist scare program aimed primarily at Chilean women who, being traditionally more religious than men, were more prone to being frightened by CIA messages of godless communism. The propaganda campaign saturated the country with dozens of radio spots daily, news commentaries, newspaper articles, and in some instances the Agency created its own publications to spread its poison.
It also funded the services of a Jesuit priest, who established a network of social organizations to support Allende's opponent and spread the fear of a communist takeover of Chile. Allende lost the election.