> From Michael Parenti: > > _Against Empire_, 1995, pp. 27-28: > 'Since World War Two, the U.S. government has given over $200 in > military aid to train, equip, and subsidize more than 2.3 million > troops and internal security forces in some eighty countries, the > purpose being not to defend them from outside invasions but to > protect ruling oligarchs and multinational corporate investors from > the dangers of domestic anticapitalist insurgency. Among the > recipients have been some of the most notorious military autocracies > in history, countries that have tortured, killed, or otherwise > maltreated large numbers of their citizens because of their > dissenting political views, as in Turkey, Zaire, Chad, Pakistan, > Morocco, Indonesia, Honduras, Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, > Cuba (under Batista), Nicragua (under Somoza), Iran (under the Shah), > the Philippines (under Marcos), and Portugal (under Salazar). > > U.S. leaders profess a dedication to democracy. Yet over the past > five decades, democratically elected reformist governments in > Guatemala, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, > Syria, Indonesia (under Sukarno), Greece, Argentina, Bolivia, Haiti > and numberous other nations were overthrown by pro-capitalist > militaries that were funded and aided by the U.S. national security > state. > > The U.S. national securty state has participated in covert action > or proxy mercenary wars against revolutionary governments in Cuba, > Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Portugal, Nicaragua, Cambodia, East > Timor, Western Sahara, and elsewhere, usually with dreadful > devastation and loss of life for the indigenous populations. > Hostile actions also have been directed against reformist > govermments in Eygpt, Lebanaon, Perus, Iran, Syria, Zaire, Jamaica, > South Yemen, the Fiji Islands, and elsewhere. > > Since World War II, U.S. forces have directly invaded or launched > aerial attacks against Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, North Korea, > Laos, Cambodia, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Libya, Iraq, and Somolia, > sowing varying degrees of death and destruction. > > Before World War Two, U.S. military forces waged a bloody and > protracted war of conquest in the Philippines from 1899 to 1903. > Along with fourteen other capitalist nations, the United States > invaded and occupied parts of socialist Russia from 1918 to 1921. > U.S. expeditionary forces fought in China along with other Western > armies to suppress the Boxer Rebellion and keep the Chinese under > the heel of European and North American colonizers. U.S. Marines > invaded and occupied Nicaragua in 1912 and again from 1926 to > 1933; Haiti, from 1915 to 1934; Cuba, from 1898 to 1902; Mexico, > n 1914 and 1916. There were six invasions of Honduras between 1911 > to 1925; Panama was occupied between 1903 and 1914.' > > > _Dirty Truths_, 1996, p. 74: > 'Tallying only the death toll inflicted by U.S. armed forces or U.S.- > backed surrogate forces around the world, the estimates are as follows: > 3,000,000 in Vietnam, 1,000,000 in Cambodia, 1,000,000 in Mozambique, > 500,000 to 1,000,000 in Indonesia, 600,000 in Angola, 300,000 in Laos, > 250,000 in East Timor, 200,000 in Iraq, 200,000 in Afghanistan, 150,000 > in Guatemala, 100,000 in Nicragua, 90,000 in El Salvador, and tens of > thousand in Chile, Argentina, Zaire, Iran (under the Shah), Colombia, > Bolivia, Brazil, Panama, Somalia, South Yemen, Western Sahara, and other > countries.' > > > Lenin wrote somewhere that, politically, imperialism tends toward > violence and reaction...'humanitarianism' my ass...Michael Hoover
