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and bigotry against gays, against brown immigrants, against poor blacks, against woman, against "liberals," against the poor in general--the most despicable form of politics* They're trying to "divide and conquer" in Iraq as a deliberate policy of pitting one tribal/religious group against another, and in the Middle East in general, pitting Israelis against Arabs/Islamics and exacerbating that conflict as much as possible, in the interests of war profiteers and greed. It is their M.O. So it shouldn't surprise us that they are trying to "divide and conquer" in South America, where the biggest poor brown population in the world at last has champions in the political system, the most remarkable among them being the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales, but also including leftist/socialist presidents and governments in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, and growing leftist/socialist movements in Peru and Paraguay and even in Columbia (not to mention Mexico to the north). This very profound leftist (majorityist) revolution is not going to go away, and cannot be stopped by anything but all out war, which the Bushites don't have the resources for. They are spending all our money, and the money of future generations--and all available cannon fodder--in an effort to put the Bush Cartel in charge of Mideast oil fields. So, they are using their corporate news monopoly tools to create a "demon" in Chavez (the most affable man on earth, from what I can see--relentless, absurd, even laughable propaganda against him, throughout the U.S. corporate news monopolies), and they are using economic tools as well (for instance, to try to split off Morales from Chavez), in addition to the traditional U.S. death squads (including the so-called "war on drugs," still operating in Columbia) and efforts like the 2002 US-backed attempted military coup in Venezuela, and the successful coup in Haiti. But the bulk of the U.S. death squads are tied up in Iraq. And now this: trying to strongarm Michele Batchelet--who was tortured by the U.S. dictator Pinochet--to oppose Venezuela's rightful temporary seat on the UN Security Council.
I do hope Venezuela wins that seat. It looks like Chavez has a lot of support for it in South America (Mercosur--the S/A trade organization--just endorsed Venezuela's bid for the UN Sec Council seat). I would love to see John "death squad" Bolton have to sit eye to eye with a genuinely elected president. It makes me a little nervous that Batchelet has to announce Chile's independence of the Bushites. I imagine they've "tortured" her again, in every way possible short of dogs, electroshock, waterboarding and piled bodies, to force Chile to oppose it. I don't know what their tools might be (--don't know much about Chile's economy or infrastructure/ military projects that the Bushites could use for extortion purposes). I hope she holds fast, or drives a truly hard bargain if she doesn't.
Chavez is right. The best course for South America is Bolivarianism--regional cooperation and self-determination. (The revolutionary hero Simon Bolivar favored a United States of South America, but died too young to realize it. The place got carved up along colonial lines--and it's been "divide and conquer," and brutal exploitation, ever since.)
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*("Divide and conquer" racial, class and sexual tactics are remarkably ineffective on most North Americans, but they do work as pre-written election narratives to "explain" Diebold/ES&S outcomes. The effect of this is to DEMORALIZE, DISEMPOWER and, above all, DISENFRANCHISE the great North American progressive majority. People go around thinking that other Americans are crazy, bigoted, 'christian' wingers. That group remains the tiny extremist minority that it has always been, but its views are now greatly magnified by the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, and used to "explain" stolen elections. This is the most baffling Bushite success--that many progressives think they are in the minority. ALL opinion polls--and other data--show otherwise. An interesting example is the 2004 election, in which the Democratic grass roots blew the Bushites away in new voter registration, nearly 60/40. Yet the Rove/Cheney line, after the election--touted throughout the corporate news monopolies--was the Bushites' "invisible get out the vote effort" in the churches. There is ZERO evidence for any significant success of that effort, if it existed at all. ('Christian' fundamentalists were likely already pretty much signed up with the Bushites.) The key groups were the independents, the former Nader voters, and the unusually large group of new voters--and all three of these groups went overwhelmingly for Kerry. So...WHO elected Bush? The numbers just don't add up. And when you realize where the Bush victory numbers came from--that it was BUSHITE electronic voting corporations using TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, counting all the votes, with virtually no audit/recount controls (a coup of the voting system that occurred between 2002 and 2004, as the result of a $4 billion Bushite Congress boondoggle to convert the country's voting system to privately controlled electronics), things begin to make sense. The American people want peace and justice, just like everyone else. Their will was thwarted--and they are having a hell of time realizing it, because of the relentless rightwing propaganda machine that American journalism has become.)
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