PAST:
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guerrilla warfare in 3rd world countries against brutal exploitation.
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while Americans are propagandized to see themselves as a gifted and benevolent leader among nations.
A DIFFERENT STORY EMERGES
(further to Assange, Manning, Snowden, Greenwald, etc.)
John Perkins, former economic hitman, explains how the American NSA, CIA bring the resources of other countries under control. Subterfuge to further American corporate interests. The countries become impoverished.
Chris Hedges explains from his perspective as a decades-long journalist covering uprisings in poor countries.
John Perkins (author, Confessions of an Economic Hitman). Interview Democracy Now: Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption.
Chris Hedges interview by Abby Martin: War, Propaganda & the Enemy Within
WHAT IS THE REMEDY? . . . MAKE THEM SCARED
Citizens in many countries are rebelling against the free trade deals, which benefit corporate interests. The propaganda promoting the deals as beneficial to citizens isn’t working. It seems to me that many governments risk overthrow if they ratify the trade (& “investment”) deals. Just one example.
An estimated 311,000 people rallied in New York City on Sept 21, 2014 to motivate American legislators to take action on climate change.
In the years following the December 2009 Copenhagen Talks, the amount of NSA spying on the delegations of other countries, the U.S. manipulation of the Talks, became known. Google for details. Groups are working to stop the Fossil Fuels industry from participating in the upcoming round of Climate Talks, December, in Paris.
How many protestors were there, around the world, for the Climate Talks, December 2009, Copenhagen? I haven’t found a combined number – just some individual ones, e.g. 50,000 in Australia. I expect that this December the numbers will be significantly higher.
4. Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything I saw the film last night. Naomi and Avi Lewis pull things together. From locations around the world, they build from
what’s happening, to
the hopeless efforts of individual local people to prevent the destruction of their land, to
people banding together and fighting, to
communities putting the run on Police with weapons (not without loss of life).
The movie (and book) importantly unite people around the Planet. It doesn’t matter whether you are in a poor country, or a rich. We are together in a battle against the forces bent on extreme exploitation of Nature, putting us all in peril.
Klein/Lewis do not spare Canadians. In case you think we are “different”, I suggest you watch the film!
There happened recently to be a PBS special on the tactics and then the eviction of the British Empire from India. I imagine that the Brits in the time of the Empire were largely ignorant to the effects of their imperialism. The same as the Americans have been propagandized into unawareness of the brutality of their Empire.
The British Empire disintegrated. I don’t see how the American Empire can withstand the revelations of its role in the world. Especially not now, as Americans find themselves in an increasingly unequal and violent society.