The US CIA and FBI HAD PLANNED to ASSASSINATE President Hugo Chávez
Posted: March 7, 2013 Filed under: Imperial Power | Tags: 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt, CIA Coups, Hugo Chavez, John Perkins 2 CommentsArticle originally published by Global Research in 2005, which points to previous attempts to assassinate President Hugo Chavez
by Kurt Nimmo
Published: March 6, 2013 – The 4th Media
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation. “How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup that overthrew Hugo Chávez?” asked historian William Blumin 2002.
“Same way we know that the sun will rise tomorrow morning. That’s what it’s always done and there’s no reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different.”
Now we have a bit more evidence the CIA and the FBI connived with reactionary elements to not only briefly overthrow Chávez, abolish the constitution and the National Assembly, but later assassinate the Venezuelan State Prosecutor, Danilo Anderson.
He was killed by a car bomb in Caracas on November 18, 2004, while investigating those who were behind the coup. Giovani Jose Vasquez De Armas, a member of Colombia’s right wing paramilitary group called the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, claims he was in charge of logistics for the plot to kill Danilo Anderson.
Guatemala — 1954: Behind the CIA’s Coup
Posted: March 6, 2013 Filed under: Imperial Power | Tags: CIA, CIA Coups, Guatemala, History, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, PBSUCCESS 5 Commentsby Kate Doyle
Published: 1997, Consortium News
Most historians now agree that the CIA-sponsored military coup in 1954 was the poison arrow that pierced the heart of Guatemala’s young democracy. Code-named “PBSUCCESS,” the covert operation overthrew Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, the second legally elected president in Guatemalan history.
Over the next four decades, a succession of military rulers would wage counter-insurgency warfare that also would shred the fabric of Guatemalan society. The violence caused the deaths and disappearances of more than 140,000 Guatemalans. Some human rights activists put the death toll as high as 250,000.
10 Reasons America Will Be Judged as the Most Brutal Empire in History
Posted: November 12, 2011 Filed under: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Afghan Opium, Agent Orange, Bush Doctrine, CIA Coups, Depleted Uranium, Drone Attacks, Surveillance Society, USA 12 Comments
Published: Nov. 07, 2011 – Activist Post
Good and evil doesn’t have a grey zone. Killing and stealing is bad. Violence is never “good” or necessary unless it is used to defend against killers and thieves. Indeed, that is the morality behind the “just war” principle as defined by international laws and treaties.
Yet, this simple concept of right and wrong gets muddled by differing ideas about religion, patriotism, economics and many other divisions. The “just war” rule has crumbled under the ambitions of empires throughout history. The American-led Anglo Saxon empire is no different.
This empire has been brutally conquering and colonizing territory since the fall of Rome. However, it has only gained an American face in the last century. The United States quickly emerged as the world’s “superpower” primarily through its economic might. For some time, many believed the U.S. to be a shining example of economic freedom for other nations to emulate. Indeed, America was eager to promote “economic freedom” globally to open new markets for U.S.-based corporations.
The war against Libya in historical perspective
Posted: March 31, 2011 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Africa, China, CIA Coups, Globalisation, International Banksters, Libya, Russia, UK, USA 12 CommentsFrom the Berlin Conference of 1884 to the London Conference of 2011
by Brian Becker
Published: Mar. 30, 2011 – Liberation News
The leaders of 14 capitalist powers in Europe plus the United States met for a conference in Berlin 126 years ago to decide how all of Africa’s land and vast resources would be divided as colonies and zones of control among themselves. No Africans were invited to the conference.
The 1884 Conference of Berlin, more than any other single event, became emblematic of the dynamic transformation of capitalism into a system of global imperialism.
By 1902, 90 percent of Africa’s territory was under European control. African self-governance was wiped off the map in most of the continent. Only Ethiopia remained an independent state. Liberia was technically independent too, but it was in fact under the control of the United States.
DOCUMENTARY – Nicaragua, a nation’s right to survive (1983) by John Pilger
Posted: January 15, 2011 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Documentaries, John Pilger, Nicaragua, USA 3 CommentsJohn Pilger’s 1983 film about the small nation of Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America. In 1979, the Sandinistas won a popular revolution in Nicaragua, putting an end to decades of the corrupt US-backed Somoza dictatorship. They based their reformist ideology on that of the English Co-operative Movement, but was to prove too ‘radical’ for the Reagan administration.
In this film, Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their “threat of a good example”.
Nicaragua: A Nation’s Right To Survive from John Pilger on Vimeo.
Related: (more documentaries by John Pilger)
DOCUMENTARY – The War on Democracy by John Pilger
DOCUMENTARY – Breaking The Silence – Truth and Lies in the War on Terror by John Pilger
DOCUMENTARY – New Rulers of the World, by John Pilger
DOCUMENTARY – Palestine is Still the Issue by John Pilger
DOCUMENTARY – Stealing a Nation by John Pilger -2004
DOCUMENTARY – FRONTLINE, In search of truth in war time by John Pilger, 1983 (52 mins.)
DOCUMENTARY – War by Other Means by John Pilger
DOCUMENTARY – “Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq” by John Pilger
DOCUMENTARY – Pepsi vs Coke in The Ice Cold War by John Pilger
What does Obama have planned next for Latin America?
Posted: July 25, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Latin America, Obama's Wars, US Army 1 Commentby Wayne Madsen
Published: Jul. 13, 2010 – Online Journal
President Obama’s Latin American policy resembles more Richard Nixon’s Operation Condor and its assassinations and covert operations than President Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress and its advancement of economic progress and democracy. Obama’s reactionary Latin American policies appear to be aimed more at currying favor with south Florida’s emigré right-wing exiles from Cuba, Venezuela, and Central America than in advancing democracy in the region.
The CIA: Beyond Redemption and Should be Terminated
Posted: July 25, 2010 Filed under: World Hegemony | Tags: CIA, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations 6 Commentsby Sherwood Ross
Published: Jul. 24, 2010 – Veterans Today
The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently.
Militarization of Central America and the Caribbean: The U.S. Military Moves Into Costa Rica
Posted: July 20, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA Coups, Costa Rica, Latin America, Multinational Corporations, Plan Colombia, US Army, Venezuela 2 Comments
by Mark Vorpahl
Published: Jul. 19, 2010 – Global Research
Nestled between Panama to its south and Nicaragua to its north, Costa Rica is a Central American nation roughly the size of Rhode Island.
If another nation were to send Rhode Island a force of 7,000 troops, 200 helicopters, and 46 warships in an effort to eradicate drug trafficking, it is doubtful that the residents of Rhode Island would consider this offer “on-the-level.” Such a massive military force could hardly be efficiently used to combat drug cartels. The only logical conclusion is that the nation whose troops now are occupying this other country had another agenda in mind that it didn’t want to share.
Militarizing Latin America
Posted: March 25, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power | Tags: CIA Coups, Colombia, Latin America, NATO, USA 5 Commentsby Noam Chomsky
First Published: Mar. 04, 2010 – ZSpace
The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in George Washington’s words. The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture, much like the vast expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. From the earliest days, control over the Western Hemisphere was a critical goal. Ambitions expanded during World War II, as the US displaced Britain and lesser imperial powers. High-level planners concluded that the US should “hold unquestioned power” in a world system including not only the Western Hemisphere, but also the former British Empire and the Far East, and later, as much of Eurasia as possible.
A primary goal of NATO was to block moves towards European independence, along Gaullist lines. That became still more clear when the USSR collapsed, and with it the Russian threat that was the formal justification of NATO. NATO was not disbanded, but rather expanded, in violation of promises to Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not even fully extend to East Germany, let alone beyond, and that “NATO would be transforming itself into a more political organization.” By now it is virtually an international intervention force under US command, its self-defined jurisdiction reaching to control energy sources, pipelines, and sea lanes. And Europe is a well-disciplined junior partner.
8 Bloodthirsty Dictators Who Benefited From U.S. Aid
Posted: February 9, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA Coups, USA 5 Comments
by Dan Berry
Published: Feb. 08, 2010 – Jotter of a Rotter
Many of the world’s most repressive dictators have been friends of America. Tyrants, torturers, killers, and sundry dictators and corrupt puppet-presidents have been aided, supported, and rewarded handsomely for their loyalty to US interests. Traditional dictators seize control through force, while constitutional dictators hold office through voting fraud or severely restricted elections, and are frequently puppets and apologists for the military juntas, which control the ballot boxes. In any case, none have been democratically elected by the majority of their people in fair and open elections.
They are democratic America’s undemocratic allies. They may rise to power through bloody ClA-backed coups and rule by terror and torture. Their troops may receive training or advice from the CIA and other US agencies. US military aid and weapons sales often strengthen their armies and guarantee their hold on power. Unwavering “anti-communism” and a willingness to provide unhampered access for American business interests to exploit their countries’ natural resources and cheap labor are the excuses for their repression, and the primary reason the US government supports them. They may be linked internationalIy to extreme right-wing groups such as the World Anti-Communist League, and some have had strong Nazi affiliations and have offered sanctuary to WWll Nazi war criminals.
Why the CIA is the World’s Number One Terrorist Organization (With Video)
Posted: February 6, 2010 Filed under: Human Rights, World Hegemony | Tags: Bush, CIA, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Crimes Against Humanity, Iraq, JFK, Multinational Corporations, Oil, Pakistan, You Tube Videos 13 Comments
by Len Hart
Published: Feb. 04, 2010 – The Existentialist Cowboy
The time has come to abolish the CIA —t into a thousand pieces –as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is probable cause, CIA members should be investigated and tried for crimes against humanity.
The CIA, itself a ruthless, terrorist organization inspires terrorism in response. In some cases, notably the CIA and al Qaeda, the relationship between the CIA and terrorism is symbiotic. The CIA perpetuates an “American Holocaust”, the deaths of some 6 million people from its inception to the year 1987. For as Long as the CIA Exists, the US will never be safe from terrorism. It has long been time to realize JFK’s dream of smashing the CIA into a ‘thousand pieces’.
Mossadegh and Ahmadinejad
Posted: February 3, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Iran, UK, UN Sanctions, USA 1 CommentIran faces almost the same dilemma as 1953
by Ardeshir Ommani
First Published: Feb. 01, 2010 – Iranian
There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah. In the period between 1951-53, the U.S. in a close collaboration with the British colonial power through their channels within Iran’s military and political apparatus, particularly the Shah’s court, was able to contrive division within the ruling circle and as a result the society at large.
The U.S.-U.K. sanctions of Iran’s oil export at the time pursued a multitude of purposes: political instability, economic hardship, and international isolation. In the final year of Mossadegh’s rule, the government was unable to pay the salaries of the civil servants in full, which had resulted in resentment towards the Prime Minister’s policy of oil nationalism and his capability to rule. Secondly, Iran could not import consumer and industrial goods necessary for maintaining the normal course of economic and social reproduction. Thirdly, a layer of the ruling class whose interests were the extension of the U.S.-U.K. domination over Iran’s natural resources and political system, made every effort to turn the wheels back or make the political system unmanageable. As a result, during the first eight months of 1953, Iran was in constant political turmoil and the ground was being prepared for a coup d’etat by the forces hostile to Iran’s nationalization plan, as well as to its independent direction in its domestic and foreign policies.
The US game in Latin America
Posted: February 2, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA Coups, Haiti, Honduras, Latin America 6 CommentsUS interference in the politics of Haiti and Honduras is only the latest example of its long-term manipulations in Latin America
by Mark Weisbrot
Published: Jan. 29, 2010 – Guardian
When I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these countries to try and control or topple their governments. These are small, poor countries with little in the way of resources or markets. Why should Washington policymakers care who runs them?
Unfortunately they do care. A lot. They care enough about Haiti to have overthrown the elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide not once, but twice. The first time, in 1991, it was done covertly. We only found out after the fact that the people who led the coup were paid by the US Central Intelligence Agency. And then Emmanuel Constant, the leader of the most notorious death squad there – which killed thousands of Aristide’s supporters after the coup – told CBS News that he, too, was funded by the CIA.
The kidnapping of Haiti
Posted: January 28, 2010 Filed under: Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power | Tags: Bush, CIA Coups, Clinton, Haiti, Hounduras, Obama, Oil, US Army, US Military Spending, Venezuela 9 CommentsWith US troops in control of their country, the outlook for the people of Haiti is bleak
by John Pilger
Published: Jan. 28, 2010 – New Statesman
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in a US naval blockade and the arrival of 13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and mercenaries, none with humanitarian relief training.
The airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is now a US military base and relief flights have been rerouted to the Dominican Republic. All flights stopped for three hours for the arrival of Hillary Clinton. Critically injured Haitians waited unaided as 800 American residents in Haiti were fed, watered and evacuated. Six days passed before the US air force dropped bottled water to people suffering dehydration.
Oil in Haiti – Economic Reasons for the UN/US Occupation
Posted: January 23, 2010 Filed under: Economy, Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Bush, CIA Coups, Clinton, Cuba, Haiti, Multinational Corporations, Oil, United Nations, USA, Venezuela 10 CommentsThis article was first published in October 2009. – Another economic reason for the ouster of President Aristide and current UN occupation (Haiti’s Riches:Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti)
Oil in Haiti and Oil Refinery – an old notion for Fort Liberte as a transshipment terminal for US supertankers
by Marguerite Laurent
First Published: Jan. 13, 2010 – Open Salon
There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin.
There is also good evidence that these very same big US oil companies and their inter-related monopolies of engineering and defense contractors made plans, decades ago, to use Haiti’s deep water ports either for oil refineries or to develop oil tank farm sites or depots where crude oil could be stored and later transferred to small tankers to serve U.S. and Caribbean ports. This is detailed in a paper about the Dunn Plantation at Fort Liberte in Haiti.
US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti
Posted: January 20, 2010 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Blackwater, CIA Coups, Contractors, Haiti, Multinational Corporations, Shock Doctrine 11 Commentsby Jeremy Scahill
Published: Jan. 19, 2009 – The Nation
We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans, and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about “looters.” After Katrina, the number of private security companies registered (and unregistered) multiplied overnight. Banks, wealthy individuals, the US government all hired private security. I even encountered Israeli mercenaries operating an armed checkpoint outside of an elite gated community in New Orleans. They worked for a company called Instinctive Shooting International. (That is not a joke).
Now, it is kicking into full gear in Haiti.
Bush, Clinton and the crimes of US imperialism in Haiti
Posted: January 19, 2010 Filed under: Imperial Power, World Hegemony | Tags: Bush, CIA Coups, Clinton, Haiti 12 Commentsby Patrick Martin
Published: Jan. 18, 2010 – WSWS
The Obama administration has announced that former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will head the fundraising for relief efforts in the wake of the Haiti earthquake. In his radio speech Saturday, Obama declared: “These two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and the world. In a moment of need, the United States stands united.”
The message of the Clinton-Bush appointment is indeed significant, but hardly what the White House and the American media have suggested. In selecting his two immediate predecessors, those who have set US policy in the Caribbean since 1993, Obama demonstrates that the devastating human tragedy in Haiti will not bring any alteration in the rapacious role of US imperialism in that impoverished semi-colonial country.
For eight years apiece, Clinton and Bush were directly and deeply involved in a series of political machinations and military interventions that have played a major role in perpetuating the poverty, backwardness and repression in Haiti that have vastly compounded by the disaster that struck that country last Tuesday. Both men have the blood of Haitian workers and peasants on their hands.
A New World War for a New World Order
Posted: December 18, 2009 Filed under: II Cold War, Imperial Power, New World Order, Propaganda, World Hegemony, World War III | Tags: AfPak, Africa, Central Asia, China, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Georgia, Henry Kissinger, Hounduras, Hugo Chavez, IMF, Iran, Latin America, Media, Multinational Corporations, NATO, Neocons, Obama's Wars, Oil, Pentagon, Russia, School of the Americas, US Army, World Bank, Zbigniew Brzezinski 26 CommentsThe Origins of World War III: Part 3
This article is Part 3 in the Series, “The Origins of World War III.”
Part 1: An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III
Part 2: Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Published: Dec. 17, 2009 – Global Research
Introduction
In Parts 1 and 2 of this series, I have analyzed US and NATO geopolitical strategy since the fall of the Soviet Union, in expanding the American empire and preventing the rise of new powers, containing Russia and China. This Part examines the implications of this strategy in recent years; following the emergence of a New Cold War, as well as analyzing the war in Georgia, the attempts and methods of regime change in Iran, the coup in Honduras, the expansion of the Afghan-Pakistan war theatre, and spread of conflict in Central Africa. These processes of a New Cold War and major regional wars and conflicts take the world closer to a New World War. Peace can only be possible if the tools and engines of empires are dismantled.
Documentary – U.S. Foreign Policy: Secret Wars of the CIA
Posted: December 4, 2009 Filed under: Human Rights, Illegal Occupation, Imperial Power, War Crimes, World Hegemony | Tags: CIA, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, CIA Drug Operations, Crimes Against Humanity, Depleted Uranium, Documentaries, Iran, Iraq, Latin America, Operation Paperclip, School of the Americas, UN Sanctions, US Army, Vietnam War 33 CommentsThe history of the terrorism conducted by the CIA, since the end of the World War II when countries in Asia and Latin America, were trying to make changes to improve their economical and political situation, the Unite States of North America realized that it was not good for their status as new super power; and began a new campaign, with only one rule, Anything Goes. This is the story of the terrorism of the CIA.
Related:
CIA: Secret Operations, Drug Money
A History Of CIA Coups And Atrocities
Global Warfare USA: The World is the Pentagon’s Oyster
DOCUMENTARY – The War on Democracy by John Pilger (94 mins.)
Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy
An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III
Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III
The Militarization of Latin America
The Honduran coup: another US destabilization operation
DOCUMENTARY – “Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq” by John Pilger (75 min.)
The CIA’s involvement in Iran Today: A Realistic Assessment
The Responsibility of the US in Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium
US Strategic Interests in Latin America: The Militarization of Colombia
Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War III
Posted: November 5, 2009 Filed under: Imperial Power, New World Order, World Hegemony, World War III | Tags: CIA, CIA Coups, CIA Destabilization Operations, Colour revolutions, Georgia, Media, NATO, Oil, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, USA, Zbigniew Brzezinski 12 CommentsThis is Part 2 of the Series, “The Origins of World War III”
Part 1: An Imperial Strategy for a New World Order: The Origins of World War III
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Published: Nov. 03, 2009 – Global Research
Introduction
Following US geo-strategy in what Brzezinski termed the “global Balkans,” the US government has worked closely with major NGOs to “promote democracy” and “freedom” in former Soviet republics, playing a role behind the scenes in fomenting what are termed “colour revolutions,” which install US and Western-friendly puppet leaders to advance the interests of the West, both economically and strategically.
Part 2 of this essay on “The Origins of World War III” analyzes the colour revolutions as being a key stratagem in imposing the US-led New World Order. The “colour revolution” or “soft” revolution strategy is a covert political tactic of expanding NATO and US influence to the borders of Russia and even China; following in line with one of the primary aims of US strategy in the New World Order: to contain China and Russia and prevent the rise of any challenge to US power in the region.
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