Reply #7: Excellent analysis at NarcoNews! They've really been on top of this one, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

with live reporting from Honduras and brilliant analysis as well. Al Giordano's analysis of the US State Dept briefing is particularly enlightening. Zelaya's return was most certainly coordinated by Brazil and the U.S. (--and others--Venezuela provided the plane that got Zelaya as far as El Salvador and lord knows how many countries and people got him over the mountains, through the valleys, and into the Brazilian embassy in the trunk of car!) But the startling thing is that the US (Obama/Clinton) seem finally to have gotten a handle on the situation within our own government, and are doing the right thing! Hallelujah! At last!

I'm more and more convinced that the coup was a rightwing plot hatched in this country--by McCain, Negroponte, Reich and that lot, working with Bush moles in the State Dept., diplomatic corps, CIA, Pentagon and other US entities--a) to sabotage Obama's stated policy of peace, respect and cooperation in Latin America, and b) as part of a Rumsfeld-era oil war plan in South America. The US role in returning Zelaya to Honduras is the first sign that Obama does not agree with the war plan, and possibly a sign that Clinton--no matter what her personal inclinations might be--is genuinely trying to implement the President's stated policy, and that they have gotten hold of the situation. If an internal struggle has occurred within the US government, this might also explain why Obama/Clinton never designated this coup as a military coup, which would not only have triggered an automatic cutoff of aid, but would also--importantly--have required that Congress endorse the designation, and Congress is full of Puke and "Blue Dog" vipers who support the coup.

Another possibility is that Clinton changed, under intense international and local Honduran pressure--that she was at first inclined to wink at the coup or maybe was even collusive with it, but soon realized--with Latin America and world reaction, and the grass roots democracy movement by the Honduran people--that her agenda in Latin America (i.e., the US corporate agenda) would soon be dead in the water, as a result of this coup, which was widely perceived as a US coup, despite US statements to the contrary. I really don't know for sure what may have occurred, internally--just that something changed over the last few weeks, and the US ended up on the right side (the pro-democracy side ) of this conflict, after dithering around for months (or seeming to dither around--if a "hawks vs doves" struggle was going on, they weren't dithering; they were trying to find their way around the Bushwhack plot) .

Anyway, Al Giordano and the other reporters at NarcoNews have been truly excellent on this unfolding story. There could not be a better demonstration of what they mean by "authentic journalism."