The money quote in this short Bloomberg piece comes from Micheletti's mouthpiece and pretty much sums it up: "Zelaya won't be restored. But just by signing this agreement we already have the recognition of the international community for the elections": http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a9weUnTDSA74
Flashpoints in Berkeley reported on Friday afternoon from the Brazilian embassy where Zelaya is being held. A real report - not mainstream bullshit: http://aud1.kpfa.org/data/20091030-Fri1700.mp3 No matter the topic, I fail to understand why any cheerleading and/or stovepiping of rope-a-dope 'reporting' and passive-voice speculation in the lying bourgeois media doesn't pass through a more rigorous bullshit detector before list-members hit the submit button. The Obama love-fest defies comprehension when his voice in the region, Thomas Shannon, served as "Consular/Political Rotational Officer" in Guatemala City between 1984-1986. (Stan Goff always said an embassy's 'political' section was a euphemism for CIA). Put simply, neither he, nor 'Wal-Mart' Clinton, nor her hatchet-man Lanny Davis are really are our allies. Really. The United States' first Black president could have demanded Zelaya's restoration with concrete action for more than 4 months. Instead, his gift for sophistry has helped him DO precisely the reverse. His Blackness doesn't mean a damn thing to Pedro Munoz. My 14-year-old students, who did a unit this quarter on Honduras, Wal-Mart, and export processing zones, understand the nature of this conflict better than do some members of the Marxmail listserv. Solidarity, Shawn ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
