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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: November 11, 2018, 12:24 pm
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November 10, 2018 TD ORIGINALS
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Maj. Danny Sjursen is a U.S. Army officer and former history
instructor at West Point. He served tours with reconnaissance
units in Iraq and Afghanistan...[/quote]
[quote]Editor’s note: The past is prologue. The stories we tell
about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we
think we are and help determine public policy. As our current
president promises to “make America great again,” this moment is
an appropriate time to reconsider our past, look back at various
eras of United States history and re-evaluate America’s origins.
When, exactly, were we “great”?
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SNIPPET:
According to the old historical narrative, the U.S. has always
been a democratic republic and only briefly dabbled (from 1898
to 1904) with outright imperialism. And, indeed, even in that
era—in which the U.S. seized Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii and the
Philippines—the U.S. saw itself as “liberating” the locals from
Spanish despotism. This wasn’t real imperialism but rather, to
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/>euphemism!
The truth, of course, is far more discomfiting. The U.S. was an
empire before it had even gained its own independence. From the
moment that Englishmen landed at Jamestown and Plymouth Rock,
theirs was an imperial experiment. Native tribes were conquered
and displaced westward, year in and year out, until there were
no sovereign Indians left to fight. In 1848, the U.S. Army
conquered northern Mexico and rechristened it the American
Southwest. Yes, the U.S. was always an empire, what Thomas
Jefferson self-consciously called an “Empire of Liberty.” Only
the American Empire looked different from the British and
Western European variety. Until 1898, the U.S. lacked the
overseas possessions and expansive naval power that have come to
define our contemporary image of empire. That was the British,
French and Spanish model. No, the U.S. was a great land empire
most similar (ironically) to that of Russia, but an empire
nonetheless.
Still, there is something profound about 1898 and the years that
followed. For it was in this era that the American people—and
their leaders—became sick with the disease of overseas
imperialism. With no Indians left to fight and no Mexican lands
worth conquering, Americans looked abroad for new monsters to
destroy and new lands to occupy. Britain and France were far too
powerful and were not to be trifled with; but Spain, the
deteriorating Spanish Empire in the Caribbean and Pacific,
proved a tempting target. And so it was, through a
brief—“splendid,” as it was described—little war with Spain,
that the United States would annex foreign territories and join
the European race for colonies.
1898 is central to our understanding of the United States’
🦍 contemporary role
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/>in the world, for it was at that moment that the peculiar
exceptional millenarianism of American idealism merged with the
Western mission of “civilization.”
The result was a more overt, distant and expansive version of
American Empire. And, though the U.S. no longer officially
“annexes” foreign territories, its neo-imperial foreign policy
is alive and well, with U.S. military forces ensconced in some
800 bases in more than 80 countries—numbers that by far exceed
those of other nations. Furthermore, the remnants of America’s
first overseas conquests are with us today, as the people of
Puerto Rico, Guam and Samoa are still only partial
Americans—citizens, yes, but citizens without congressional
representation or a vote in presidential elections. How ironic,
indeed, that a nation founded in opposition to “taxation without
representation” should, for more than 100 years now, hold so
many of its people in a situation remarkably similar to that of
the American colonists before the Revolutionary War.
In retrospect, then, 1898 represents both continuity with
America’s imperial past and a bridge to its contemporary
neo-imperial future. This era is key because it stands as a
moment of no return: a pivot point at which the United States
became a global empire.
One can hardly understand contemporary interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan without a clear account of 1898 and what followed.
The Spanish-American War and the occupation of the Philippines
are two of America’s fundamental sins, and their consequences
resonate in our ever uncertain present.
The Closing of the Frontier (1890)
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Agelbert RANT:
From the above article:
[quote]"...social Darwinism, the notion that “survival of the
fittest” applied to man as well as beast, that certain races
were scientifically superior to others. It was all snake oil, of
course, but it was a predominant ideology..."[/quote]
Social Darwinsim is, EVEN MORE SO TODAY, the predominant
CANCEROUS ideology destroying our biosphere. The Social
Darwinsit cheerleaders 👹 for Profit Over People and
Planet, BECAUSE THESE Empathy deficit disordered, might is right
worshipping barbarians have NEVER been able to add and subtract
in biosphere math, ARE the embodiment of the 'Perpetual Growth
AND Greed is good' CANCER ☠️ destroying America.
😱
DEFINITION OF THE CANCER ☠️ destroying America AND
most of the BIOSPHERE (that Human Civilization relies on to
survive) ► Fervent Social Darwinsts ☠️ =
CAPITALISTS ☠️ who believe that we must expand
continually or "atrophy" from "non-manly = leftist, socialist,
peaceful, environmentalist against polluting businesses, etc.
you get the idea" behavior. 🤬
Religion is just the clever disingenuous 😇 😉 fig
leaf these Consciense Free BASTARDS 😈 use. The CORE
RELIGION of Social Darwinists is that MIGHT, no matter how
irresponsible, no matter how unprincipled, no matter how
unethical, no matter how destructive to the biosphere in general
and fellow humans in particular, IS RIGHT. 🤬
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 1, 2018, 6:25 pm
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History of US Rule in Latin America; Elections and Resistance to
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 3, 2018, 7:24 pm
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SNIPPET:
In 1508 Emperor Maximilian I attempted to force his bankers to
invest in bonds to support another of his wars. Fugger was
furious at this, and wrote a letter back to the Emperor.
Steinmetz explains:
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all. [img
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/>Hinting at the allure of tax havens (the Swiss border was only
sixty miles away), he declared that other countries show
businessmen more respect.
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failed to understand that “it is for the common good that
honourable, brave and honest companies are in the realm.
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It is no surprise that when the German Peasants’ War broke out
in 1524, that wealthy men like Jakob Fugger were accused by the
people of corruption and stealing from the poor. At one point
during that year Jakob had to flee his home in Augsburg because
of the threats from protestors. Fugger did all that he could to
support the nobles trying to put down the revolt, which would
only end after 100,000 people were dead.
Read a LOT more and feast your eyes on some videos about the
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fireplaces in EVERY ROOM at a time whern most people NEVER got
enough to eat in their ENTIRE LIVES. The influence
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Great post !
I'd read about Fugger before.
The potantate's back in the day used to use court jesters &
actors to form a barrier between "them" & the peasants, for this
very reason. revolt or rage against the machine.
Fast fwd to today & the same practice is used. The Master's use
politician's, actors & sports figures to keep the useless eaters
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I LOVE websites like medievalists. Great stuff.
[quote]Jakob Fugger the Elder was the next person to handle the
family business, but when he died in 1469, control went to his
wife, Barbara Basinger. [/quote]
One wonders if Ms. Basinger might fairly have been called,
"Mother Fugger."
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I hadn't read about the Mother Fugger before. ;D It was long
after his time, of course, that Capitalism began to demonize
Socialism with, oh so clever baloney like, "The trouble with
Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's
money" (credited to Margaret Thatcher 😈, but considering
she was every bit as dumb as she was greedy, Reagan was probably
the one who passed that on to her from a note Saint Milton
Chicago School Fascist Friedman 👹 gave to Reagan
🐒).
Then there's that one Reagan liked about, "I'm here from the
Government. I'm here to help.", delivered in his most
professional actor sarcasm.
Ya know, these bastards seem to have studied Owellian discourse
before Orwell invented it!
As far back as 1508, it was crystal clear to the casual observer
that, THE TROUBLE WITH CAPITALISM, IS THAT YOU EVENTUALLY RUN
OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. At that point you have to kill off
a bunch of angry peasants who are starving or start a war (which
you make peasants fight, of course) to find new sources of asset
stripping plunder to put a bandaid on the cratering economy you
destroyed with CAPITALISM.
Eventually you run out of people to kill and sources of
EVERYTHING out there on the PLANET, that is plunderable, to
plunder.
It's hard to fit all that in a sound bite but ya get the idea.
As to Reagan's favorte bit of clever BULLSHIT, it applies now
quite well to the FIRE sector.
[center]I'm here from the F.I.R.E. (Finance, Insurance, and Real
Estate) sector
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I just read this yesterday. It really gets to the heart of why
people fall for all this Capitalist BULLSHIT. For the average
person, it is hard to differentiate between socially beneficial
freedoms and socially detrimental ones. The Capitalist CROOKS
make sure to muddy the difference as much as possible with happy
talk propaganda. This snippet from a recent Chris Hedges article
pretty much exposes the CAPITALIST siren song CON.
[quote]The economist Karl Polanyi understood that there are two
kinds of freedoms. There are the bad freedoms to exploit those
around us and extract huge profits without regard to the common
good, including what is done to the ecosystem and democratic
institutions.
These bad freedoms see corporations monopolize technologies and
scientific advances to make huge profits, even when, as with the
pharmaceutical industry, a monopoly means lives of those who
cannot pay exorbitant prices are put in jeopardy.
The good freedoms—freedom of conscience, freedom of speech,
freedom of meeting, freedom of association, freedom to choose
one’s job—are eventually snuffed out by the primacy of the bad
freedoms.
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 4, 2018, 7:48 pm
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BY Michael I. Niman, Truthout
PUBLISHED December 4, 2018
SNIPPET:
We’re supposed to speak kindly of the dead. And we’re supposed
to bury our dead presidents with the type of fanfare and
reverence that the colonial forebearers of this nation’s white
settlers reserved for royalty. Today, as we prepare to bury the
nation’s 41st president, George H.W. Bush, the American press
corps is carrying on this tradition, eulogizing him primarily by
celebrating his polite demeanor and his successful
self-representation of civility. Yes, the 41st president
presented as a nicer person than the 45th, or his son, the 43rd.
But for the people whose countries or lives were destroyed by
his violent actions, he’ll always be a monster. Sanitizing his
story amounts to historical revisionism.
Below are just eight of the many reasons why, beneath the
civility, George H.W. Bush was a detestable president.
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: December 18, 2018, 6:53 pm
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Bush[/center]
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Published on Jun 11, 2010
Wilkerson on Cheney Pt.4: The greatest shift of wealth from the
middle class to the top 1 percent
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
By: AGelbert Date: January 13, 2019, 4:46 pm
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JAN 12, 2019 OPINION
By Maj. Danny Sjursen
Maj. Danny Sjursen is a U.S. Army officer and former history
instructor at West Point. He served tours with reconnaissance
units in Iraq and Afghanistan...
[center]From Isolationism to a 2nd World Conflagration
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/> The author left out the AMERICAN FASCIST ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
represented partly by Prescott Bush and Henry Ford. The American
business (and media SEE: NYT love affair with fascists from then
until the PRESENT
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/>community LIKED HITLER AND MUSSOLINI AND FRANCO.
THAT is the reason the USA was "neutral" in Spain. THAT is the
reason for the Munich debacle.
Last, but certainly not least, is the FACT that the American
Industrialists that made HUGE FORTUNES from U.S. involvement in
WWI were SALIVATING at the prospect of MORE WAR in Europe.
Let's be clear here, shall we? The American public did not have
ANY SAY in whether the USA went into WWI or WWII, PERIOD. It was
the CAPITALIST (i.e. FASCIST) Profit Over People And Planet
OLIGARCHS that made those decisions BEFORE the media
propagandists were tasked to sell that CRAP (see: Bernays) to
the American Public.
SHAME on the author for leaving all the above out of the
historical reality of that time. 👎 😠
Unless you view that particular time period of history in the
proper context, you cannot begin to understand how political
'business as usual'
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in the USA has studiously ignored the will of we-the-people EVER
SINCE!
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Re: Key Historical Events ...THAT YOU MAY HAVE NEVER HEARD OF
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Communication Studies at UCLA. He has taught at the University
of California since 1968...
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A book by James W. Loewen 👍👍👍
In the introduction to his magnificent critique of American
historical education, James Loewen starts provocatively: “High
school students hate history. When they list their favorite
subjects, history always comes in last. They consider it ‘the
most irrelevant’ of twenty-one school subjects commonly taught
in high school. Bo-o-o-oring is the adjective most often
applied.”
Since the initial publication of “Lies My Teacher Told Me” in
1995, I have regularly read this passage to my UCLA students in
my course on the history of social protest. The overwhelming
majority of my students have enthusiastically concurred with
Loewen.
Many decades ago, I too sat in my high school history class,
listening to Mr. Jones drearily reciting an unremittant litany
of historical facts, mostly without context, intended to be
memorized and regurgitated for future examinations. I also
drifted off into my own world, thinking about things that
teenage boys think about.
This book is subtitled “Everything Your American History
Textbook Got Wrong.” In this third edition published last year,
the text retains sociologist Loewen’s sharp critique of the 12
American history textbooks he surveyed in his first edition as
well as the six books he examined for the second edition. He
found, as he describes, “an embarrassing blend of bland
optimism, blind nationalism, and plain misinformation, weighing
in at an average of 888 pages and almost five pounds.” He showed
persuasively how American history textbooks—these ponderous
tomes—lied to millions of American students by sugarcoating
historical events and persons, encouraging mindless patriotism
and faith in unending American progress, and negated any serious
critical thinking.
Most strikingly in his new preface, Loewen notes that more
recent U.S. history texts merely promote the illusion of
critical thinking. But they rarely encourage students to
assemble real data to back up their opinions about historical
controversies. Indeed, they actually promote the false notion
that all historical opinions are somehow equal, and fully
deserve respect.
Click here
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/>to read long excerpts from “Lies My Teacher Told Me” at Google
Books.
As Loewen perceptively observes, the absence of useful
historical textbooks augments the challenges for young people in
the Trump 🦀 era. He pointedly identifies President
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/>as purveyors of lies and falsehoods: the age of “alternative
facts.”
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The preface shows the photographs of the inaugural crowds of
President Barack Obama in 2009 and President Trump in 2017.
Former press secretary Sean Spicer claimed that 2017 saw the
largest audience to witness an inauguration. Kellyanne Conway
defended this absurd assertion. The photographic evidence
clearly revealed the falsehood of the claims. The insidious
combination of inadequate and deceptive historical education and
a national administration that denigrates the free press
represents a grave threat to democracy.
Some of the chief things that American history textbooks get
wrong are their lies by omission. As Loewen repeatedly shows
throughout the book, the focus is on those men (rarely women) in
American history who have represented the dominant power centers
of social, economic, and political life. Rarely do these
textbooks mention the people who have resisted power and spent
their lives fighting for structural change. And even when a few
are mentioned, it is often in highly sanitized form.
For several years in my social protest class, I have done a
brief exercise at the outset by identifying some major American
agitators and asking students if they have ever heard of them. I
often start with Ida B. Wells because about half or more of the
150-plus students have heard of her. Then, I move to the other
figures on my list. Emma Goldman. Joe Hill. Eugene Debs. A.
Philip Randolph. Mother Jones. Saul Alinsky. Paul Robeson. Harry
Hay. Fred Korematsu. JoAnne Robinson. E.D. Nixon. Dorothy Day.
Fannie Lou Hamer. Stokely Carmichael. Reies Tijerina. Dolores
Huerta. Several others.
The results are strikingly similar each academic year. Three or
four students, or fewer, can identify these figures. The rest
have no clue. I note that they are rarely mentioned in
historical textbooks and, for the large part, many history
teachers are likewise unfamiliar with them and their radical
social and political work.
I then provide my class with a dramatic example from the first
chapter of Loewen’s book. He writes about the case of Helen
Keller, whom every student knows. They all know about the blind
and deaf girl who overcame her handicaps. They know the story of
her teacher, Anne Sullivan, who helped her to read, write and
speak. Almost no one, however, knows what Loewen writes in his
book: Helen Keller was a radical socialist, a supporter of the
IWW, of the ACLU, of Eugene Debs, of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and
so forth. Keller’s commitment to socialism emerged from her
personal disabilities and from her deep sympathies with all
handicapped and oppressed people. This is missing from the
textbooks and from historical education. Instead, students get
the same warm and fuzzy stories that network news provides for a
few minutes each day at the end of their broadcasts.
This lack of knowledge about America’s radical past cripples
today’s students by failing to inform them of the long
historical tradition and record of resistance to injustice,
racism, sexism, homophobia and capitalism itself. “Lies My
Teacher Told Me” is replete with examples throughout its pages.
The book highlights how students learn distortions and
inaccuracies in their texts and throughout their “educational”
experiences.
Take the case of John Brown. The radical abolitionist who led
the raid at Harpers Ferry in 1859 and was executed for his role
is regularly portrayed in history textbooks as a religious
fanatic who was likely deranged. Yet among African-Americans of
the era, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, John
Brown was hardly thought of as crazy; rather, he was seen as a
man of principle willing to go to the gallows for what he
believed was morally right: eliminating the unspeakable evil of
slavery. Loewen’s corrective about Brown is hugely important.
Students should sympathize with Brown’s righteous fervor about
racism instead of dismissing it as the ravings of a mad
extremist.
Similarly, American history textbooks devote little if any space
to the disgraceful persecution of civil rights figures,
including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover. “Lies My Teacher Told Me”
touches on how history texts follow the Hollywood approach to
civil rights. Loewen cites the dishonest film “Mississippi
Burning” as the exemplar of highlighting white people as the
heroes of civil rights advances and progress. This romanticized
and misleading information about civil rights in the United
States does a profound disservice to students, and retards
efforts to redress the virulent racism that continues to pervade
the nation’s institutions.
Loewen’s treatment of such events as imperialist adventures and
invasions of Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and other
Latin America countries, the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the
Iraq War and other dubious American historical events throws
into relief the propensity of traditional textbooks to see no
evil. This propensity is disastrous for students. Without a
comprehensive understanding of history, they are simply
unprepared for a life of active public citizenship. “Lies My
Teacher Told Me” is powerful; indeed, it is an essential
complement to Howard Zinn’s iconic “A People’s History of the
United States.” Like that remarkable work, it serves as a
crucial counter-textbook to provide a more realistic and
critical narrative about the American past.
Textbook publishers are integral parts of the American
capitalist industrial apparatus. They exist to make profits;
they are, to be sure, not entirely indifferent to the truth, but
that principle always gives way to the bottom line. High school
history textbooks in particular are designed for mass sales and
must conform to the specific requirements of state textbook
selection committees and commissions, many of which are
dominated by conservative forces and personnel. Bland,
noncontroversial, patriotic language is the safe approach
because that leads to the highest probability for adoption and
sales.
Loewen reveals another disconcerting truth: Textbooks appear to
be authored by major academic authorities with strong, even
stellar reputations as historical scholars. But they are not the
real authors of the texts. Freelance writers are paid to
ghostwrite many or all chapters with the dull, fact-heavy
material that students must digest in their perennial quest for
high grades. Publishers merely “rent” academic names to go on
the cover (some of whom are actually dead or long retired). This
essentially fraudulent practice underscores the basic thesis of
Loewen’s entire book.
Moreover, teachers for the most part are perfectly content to
continue using these tomes. Burdened with multiple
responsibilities, they reflect the same inertia of all
institutional settings. They have used these textbooks for years
and they are generally familiar and comfortable with them.
Changes requiring them to institute and teach true critical
thinking skills would take serious effort, time and emotional
energy. Regrettably, not enough high school history teachers
want to move in that direction.
Inadequate history courses supported by misleading and deceptive
textbooks lead to adult citizens unable to make critical
judgments and decisions in a complex society beset with multiple
social, economic and political problems. This is especially
troublesome in the Trump 😈 era of alternative facts.
George Orwell put it all too well in “1984”: “Who controls the
past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the
past.”
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A core concept of “Americanism” is the belief that the United
States has a God given right to control all of the Americas in
the name of democracy and freedom–but in reality, for plunder
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PAUL JAY: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay.
The supposedly right of the United States to interfere in the
affairs of Venezuela has deep roots in American economic history
and culture. This painting, American Progress from 1872 by John
Gast, is a representation of the modernization of the new west.
Columbia, the woman in the white robes, is a personification of
the United States and is shown leading civilization westward
with the American settlers. She’s shown bringing light from the
east into the west, stringing telegraph wire, holding a school
textbook that will instill knowledge, and highlights different
stages of economic activity and evolving forms of
transportation. As she moves westward, Indigenous people and a
herd of buffalo are seen fleeing her and the settlers.
With the ushering in of these developments, the Indigenous
people living in the west and their way of life is cast out. The
Monroe Doctrine of the 1820s, which was originally meant to keep
European colonizers and competitors out of South America, later
became a rationale for asserted U.S. power and interest
throughout the Americas. This deep-seated belief, the right of
the United States to bring democracy and freedom, just as
Colombia did in the west, without regard for international law,
and in real terms, assert American commercial interest in South
America without regard for international law, is a core concept
of American exceptionalism. And just before I introduce the
guest, let me give some credit to Wikipedia for this, and I
think I donate to Wikipedia because it’s often very useful.
Now joining us to discuss the historical context of the
Venezuela U.S. attempted coup is Gerald Horne. Gerald holds the
John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American
Studies at the University of Houston. His many books include
Storming the Heavens and The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism.
Thanks for joining us, Gerald.
GERALD HORNE: Thank you for inviting me.
PAUL JAY: So put the Venezuela attempted coup, intervention,
into a historical context. I mean, whole sections of the
corporate media, certainly the corporate leadership of the
Democratic Party, the foreign policy establishment, it just goes
without saying somehow the United States has a right to do what
it’s doing. They can dress it up in the fight for democracy, but
with the exception of a small number of progressive
congresspeople who have put a resolution, H.R. 1004, calling for
non-intervention in Venezuela, the whole foreign policy
establishment just seems to accept that the Americans have a
right to do this. So give us some of the history of this.
GERALD HORNE: Well, first of all, the United States prides
itself on its alleged anti-colonial origins, born in an uprising
against the British Empire in 1776. But if you look a bit more
closely, the conclusion you will arrive at is that the newly
formed United States of America in the late 18th century began
the overthrow itself of Native American polities stretching from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Monroe Doctrine that you just
referenced also should be viewed in that context. That is to say
that keeping European nations out of the Americas was seen to be
in the naked self-interest of the United States of America. For
example, when England and the United States came to blows, came
to war, during the War of 1812, London basically helped to
sponsor Native American uprisings and uprising amongst enslaved
Africans. And that helps to give rise to this impulse to keep
London out of the Western Hemisphere.
Likewise, when the United States says that it does not want
European nations in this hemisphere, it was also responding to
the fact that at the time of the Monroe Doctrine circa 1823, you
also saw an effort by Russia creeping down what is now the West
Coast of the United States of America and Canada. Recall that
one of the major arteries in Northern California as we speak is
called the Russian River. It was seen as important to keep
Russia out of the Western Hemisphere as well. And likewise, note
that patriots like Jose Marti of Cuba oftentimes called for a
united Latin America. It was felt on the part of the United
States of America that Latin America should be balkanized, that
it should not be part of any empire, not necessarily because
this was an anti-colonial impulse, but because a balkanized
Latin America would make the individual nations much more
susceptible to U.S. encroachment, which is precisely what
happened to Mexico when a good deal of its territory was
snatched by the United States during the war of 1846 to 1848,
including the now most populous U.S. state that is California.
So I think that this conflict with Venezuela needs to be seen in
this wider context of the United States seeking domination and
hegemony in this hemisphere. It has been seen as crucial to the
growth of the United States for the last two hundred years. And
in some ways, it reflects the United States’ present approach to
the European Union. Recalled that Mr. Trump has oftentimes
expressed disdain for the E.U. He would like to deal with
European nations one on one, and sees the fact that Europe is
united as an impediment to United States’ manipulation of
individual European states. A similar impulse helps to govern
U.S. relationships with Latin America, leading to this attempt
to overthrow the duly constituted government in Caracas,
Venezuela.
PAUL JAY: One of the things that seems to be at the core of this
idea of American exceptionalism and the American’s right to
violate what would be norms of international law in South
America because it’s “our backyard,” if you look at that
painting again, while she’s not carrying a Christian cross, part
of this idea was that this manifest destiny was a God-given
right to the United States, to colonize the West, to cast out,
as I said, the Native peoples who were not Christian. This kind
of overt use of what was clearly a colonizer’s slogan
everywhere, where the Europeans colonized to bring Christianity
to the Pagan unbelievers, whether it’s Africa or Latin America
or Asia, it seems that that idea, number one, still has some
currency about the God-given right, especially given how much of
Trump’s support is within evangelical and Christian sections of
the population.
And number two, the code word now, or similar use of words,
instead of God and Christianity, it’s now democracy and freedom
to essentially justify the same kind of grabbing of land and
resources and such.
GERALD HORNE: Well, I would make a friendly amendment. I would
say that more than Christianity, we’re talking about the
Protestant sect within Christianity. That is to say, if you look
historically at the antipathy that has been expressed by
Washington towards other nations in the hemisphere, you cannot
separate that from the religious wars between London and Madrid
that left London as the victor. And with the United States of
America as a successor state to that Protestant impulse, and
given the fact that much of South America is dominated by
Catholicism, and given the fact that anti-Catholicism has been a
core component of U.S. history going back to the 1820s at the
time of the Monroe Doctrine, when convents were being burned to
the ground and when Catholics were being persecuted.
Once again, this was not only an expression of religious
bigotry, it was also an attempt to loot predominantly Catholic
countries the way that Mexico was looted during the War of 1846
to 1848 and the way that Washington intends to loot, plunder,
and pillage Venezuela, as national security adviser John Bolton
made clear during a now infamous interview with Fox Business
just a few weeks ago, when he suggested that the interests of
the United States in Venezuela is taking its oil. That is to say
that we have to take with more than a grain of salt, perhaps a
shaker of salt, the evangelical Christianity that is said to
undergird U.S. foreign Policy, which in many ways is just a
cover and a veneer for a naked lust for profit.
PAUL JAY: There also is a lot of growth in Latin America of the
evangelical church and variants of, to a large extent financed
by the United States. In fact, I think evangelicalism is the
fastest growing religion now in Latin America.
GERALD HORNE: Well, that is true. I mean, keep in mind that with
the rise of liberation theology in Latin America a few decades
ago and the option for the poor that at one time the present
Pope was sent to represent, you have had a contrasting tendency
within Christianity of so-called evangelical Christians,
so-called Protestant sects who have sought to combat liberation
theology on behalf of Washington, on behalf of Wall Street, on
behalf of U.S. imperialism. And you see that same impulse at
play, not least with the arrival in Bogota, Colombia of late, of
Vice President Michael Pence, who is the political
representative of that evangelical Christian tendency, a
heartbeat away from the presidency.
PAUL JAY: The use of this religious imagery and grammar, and as
I say, the use of the words democracy and freedom are akin to it
for I guess a more secular audience, it’s part of the strategy
of this modern version of the Monroe Doctrine. But I think it’s
about the plunder of the resources and the reestablishment of
the oligarchs in power, especially in the countries that were
part of that pink tide, Brazil and Venezuela and they’re hoping
for Bolivia and Nicaragua. But there’s another element to it
which I think is important. When Tillerson was Secretary of
State, and he was one of the more recent invokers of the Monroe
Doctrine, what he was very concerned about, and I think U.S.
policy is very concerned about, was the extent of which, because
of these pink tide governments, China had become a major power
in Latin America, I think Brazil’s number one trading partner,
maybe the number one trading partner of Argentina.
And the geo strategy of trying to push back Chinese power and
influence, this Venezuelan attempted coup needs to be looked at
in that regard too, because both Russia, and particularly China,
had loaned lots of money and were making real inroads into the
Venezuelan oil sector. Let me add one other little piece to
this. I mentioned this in another interview, but the largest
source of heavy crude in the world, the reserves, is Venezuela,
and one of the biggest refineries of heavy crude is owned by the
Koch brothers in Texas. And Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State, is
a Koch brothers creation. His businesses were financed by the
Koch brothers, his political candidacy in Congress as a Tea
Party candidate, number one donor the Koch brothers, and now the
Koch brothers have him as Secretary of State. So both oil
objective, but geo strategic objective of pushing China out of
its very strong position in South America and Latin America.
GERALD HORNE: Well, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.
First of all, as is well known, Michael Pompeo hails from the
prairie region of Kansas, is exactly what you said, a creation
of the Koch brothers. In fact, there’s been some talk about him
running for the U.S. Senate for an open Senate seat from the
state of Kansas. Second of all, with regard to China, you not
only find heavy Chinese influence in Venezuela in terms of oil,
but also, as you noted correctly, with regard to Brazil and
Argentina. In fact, during the G20 summit that took place a few
months ago in Argentina, you had the conservative president of
Argentina reprimand a U.S. spokesperson who made a critique of
the Chinese role in Latin America precisely because the
Argentine government is very close financially to the Chinese
government.
But it’s not only in South America. If you look right off the
shores of southern Florida, with regard to the Bahamas, you’ll
find that China has become a major and important investor. Cuba,
as is well known, has very close ties, not only to China but
also to Russia. And indeed, it’s no accident that in demonizing
Maduro and the Caracas-based regime, there has been a related
demonizing of Cuba as a major supporter, particularly in the way
that it helps to influence the Venezuelan military. And even in
the Caribbean, Jamaica, for example, you see that the Chinese
have been very active, building a road from north to south,
which has been a long term wish of the Jamaican government going
back to independence in 1962. So certainly, with regard to
pushing out Venezuela, or that is to say the regime in
Venezuela, this has everything to do not only with Chinese and
Russian influence, but also the fact that in the waters off
Venezuela, Exxon Mobil has just “discovered” five billion
barrels of oil to recover. There is a territorial dispute
between Guyana and neighboring Venezuela.
The Guiado cabal, which is seeking to come to power in Caracas
has made clear–
PAUL JAY: Just quickly let me insert, Guiado is the guy who is
the President of the National Assembly who declared himself
president, something that was planned months before with the
Canadian-led Lima group and the U.S. CIA and State Department.
So Guiado is a part of this American scheme.
GERALD HORNE: And he’s made clear that he’ll be more willing to
play ball with regard to Exxon Mobil than the current patriotic
regime of Maduro in Caracas. So this is the actual situation
that I’m afraid to say that is not only being ignored by the
corporate media, but as well, you have many Democratic Party
chieftains who are somehow looking past this reality.
PAUL JAY: Talk a little bit more about corporate news coverage
of the current crisis in Venezuela and the extent to which the
sort of “corporate democrat liberal,” big quotations around the
word liberal, foreign policy establishment seem to have no
problem whatsoever syncing up being on board with people like
Elliott Abrams, who was responsible for war crimes and coups and
facilitating the invasion of Iraq, and on and on. Both corporate
TV news and these corporate Dems aren’t saying a word about
being in the same boat with Abrams and the neocons.
GERALD HORNE: It’s quite curious, is it not. I mean, here you
have Democrats, who accuse the 45th president of being a fraud
and a con-man, some Democrats say he’s actually a traitor and in
the pay of a foreign power, but yet they’re willing to go over
the cliff with him with regard to what’s happening in Venezuela.
I think that you should draw a lesson with regard to the
bipartisan nature of the backing and support of U.S.
imperialism. And quite frankly, it’s rather disappointing that
you have people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who
take progressive domestic positions, referring to Mr. Maduro as
a quote “dictator,” giving aid and comfort to the coup mongers
in Washington. And in fact, one of the few Democrats who’s
spoken out vigorously against this impending coup attempt, or
attempted coup in Caracas, is Congresswoman Omar of Minnesota,
who has been demonized herself because of what she has raised
with regard to the Israel lobby.
PAUL JAY: Just to mitigate a bit the Sanders thing, although I
agree with you, I think especially he came out today or
yesterday where he made a comment about the Venezuelan
government should let the foreign aid through, supposed aid.
Even serious progressive Venezuelan critics of Maduro, people
like Edgardo Lander who are very critical of the Maduro
government and critical even of the 2018 elections and so on,
have denounced this foreign aid as a scheme to promote U.S.
intervention. Sanders came out and called for allowing this aid
through, so either he’s very badly informed or he’s caving to
some of the pressure on this Venezuela issue.
On the other hand, at least he has opposed the intervention, and
this bill I mentioned, H.R. 1004, has 33 members of the
Progressive Caucus have signed on, calling for no U.S. military
intervention. We’ll see how far that bill gets. So there are a
small section of these progressives who have come out
straightforwardly against intervention, which is not
unimportant, but certainly the majority of the Democratic Party
and the leadership are totally on board with the neocon vision
for Latin America.
GERALD HORNE: Well, I think that that’s understandable in light
of the fact that even the New York Times has suggested that the
so-called opposition lacks a plan B. That is to say, they
expected the Maduro regime to collapse like a house of cards.
That has not happened, and therefore they’re flailing and
floundering, looking for a way to push the regime out of power.
But I would like to warn Washington and would like to warn Mr.
Trump himself, personally, that it would be a grave error, and
indeed a catastrophe, to contemplate a military intervention,
not only because the Venezuelan military thus far is holding
firm, but also recall that there are Colombian militants inside
Venezuela who would like nothing more than to give Uncle Sam a
bloody nose if Washington is so bold and outrageous as to
contemplate a military intervention. Not to mention the fact
that the most battle-hardened troops in the hemisphere, those
are precisely Cuban troops and Cuban military advisors who work
hand in glove with the Caracas-based regime. And so, I think
that to a degree, this Democratic Party dovishness with regard
to military intervention is understandable and certainly
supportable.
PAUL JAY: Let me just add one thing. I’m going to show you some
pictures here. This massive rally, demonstration, which is far
as the eye can see, took place just a couple of days ago on
Saturday. This is a pro-Chavista demo, protest, opposing any
U.S. intervention, opposing Guiado. Our colleague that’s down
there, Sharmini Peries is down there, and she says it’s as big
as she’s ever seen. She was guessing at perhaps a million and a
half people because it looked like as big as at the height of
the Chavez years. There was also a large anti-government
protest. I don’t know the numbers. It may even have been as big,
but corporate media completely ignored the million and a half
people or so that came out to oppose American intervention.
And you know, there’s a lot of people in that protest that I
would guess have a lot of critique of the Maduro government, but
their demand is that this is up to the Venezuelan people to sort
this out, and the Americans should have nothing to do with it.
And of course, they’re completely behind Guiado and were
completely behind the coup in 2002. And it was people like this
million and a half people that came out and defended Chavez in
2002 and prevented the coup from succeeding and brought Chavez
back, literally, from a firing squad. And if the Americans ever
try to use military intervention in Venezuela, they’re not just
going to be facing the Venezuelan army, this million and a half
people that are in the streets are likely going to be fighting
them as well.
GERALD HORNE: Well, as is well known in Venezuela, there are
militias that are comprised of many neighborhood groups that I
think would be more than willing to go toe to toe with U.S.
invaders. And likewise, I think the U.S. military invasion would
split the opposition. It would split the Lima group as well. I
think it would also help to split the European Union, which has
thus far, generally speaking, been rather supportive,
surprisingly enough, of the Trump team and their coup-mongering
in Caracas, despite the fact that it’s well known that Mr. Trump
has a bone to pick with the European Union as well.
PAUL JAY: All right. Thanks for joining us, Gerald.
GERALD HORNE: Thank you.
PAUL JAY: And thank you for joining us on The Real News Network.
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