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As the old adage says, be careful what you
\n wish for, because you just might get it. Those anti-isolationists who
\n long for
\n a concerned, engaged and internationally aware US government are undoubtedly
\n somewhat uneasy with the current trend of getting involved in any
\n foreign sovereign nation where things might not be going our way. Several
\n examples from today’s news illustrate"<\/p>\n
In Iraq, despite our desperate efforts to cobble together some kind A US general will be in charge of all military forces in Iraq even Meanwhile, in Equatorial Africa, the strange case of the aging 727 stopped The governments of both Zimbabwe and Guinea, which is holding an "advance \n HARARE, Zimbabwe — Threatening to execute about 60 suspected mercenaries "They were aided by the British secret service, that is MI6, [the] American Associates of the men say they are innocent mine guards swept up in A British Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "I have no information Closer to home, whatever one thinks about President Aristide or Catholic The latest on this story – Denied a hearing in the halls of government CBS\/AP – Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s legal team Aristide believes he is still president of Haiti and will use the courts But Venezuela is close to our shores, and a rich, developed nation with Things are coming to a head, and if the fall US Presidential elections On Tuesday, Chavez told foreign oil executives that economic ties Chavez had earlier vowed to halt oil exports to the U.S. and wage a "100-year U.S. officials disapprove of Chavez’s increasingly close ties with Cuba’s Fidel So stay tuned, folks, it looks like your government has been very, very As the old adage says, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Those anti-isolationists who long for a concerned, engaged and internationally aware US government are undoubtedly somewhat uneasy with the current trend of getting … Continue reading
\n of functional or at least presentable puppet government before the
\n self-imposed June deadline, we find ourselves in the embarrassingly
\n transparent position of opposing elections, democratic reforms and
\n the formation of political parties. As to our "exit strategy", according
\n to the BBC…<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n after the end of the occupation, a senior British official said on
\n Wednesday.
\n American and British forces will remain in Iraq "for at least two
\n years",
\n the official said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n in Harare, Zimbabwe with 60 white South African "mine guards" equipped
\n with camouflage uniforms, sleeping bags, compasses, and wire cutters
\n aboard, en route to the tiny oil-producing nation of Equatorial Guinea, gets stranger.<\/p>\n
\n party" of 15 related soldiers of fortune captured in their capital, have
\n accused the men of being mercenaries in the pay of US Intelligence and
\n multinational
\n business
\n interests. Their objective; to remove by force Guinea’s left-leaning
\n government and replace it with one more sympathetic to Western interests
\n (oil). This from Reuters:<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n detained this week, Zimbabwe accused US, British, and Spanish spy
\n agencies yesterday
\n of involvement in a plot to topple Equatorial Guinea’s government.<\/p>\n
\n Central Intelligence Agency, and the Spanish secret service," Kembo
\n Mohadi, Zimbabwe’s home affairs minister, told a news conference.<\/p>\n
\n a bizarre misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
\n on whether any security services were involved at all. But we certainly
\n wouldn’t comment on our security services anyway."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n priests in general, he was the democratically elected President of Haiti,
\n and he was unceremoniously given the bums rush by the considerable US
\n armed presence in Haiti, even before the Marines landed. It seems
\n remarkable disingenuous of Secretary of State Colin Powell to protest
\n "How can he say we kidnapped him, if it was his own security detail
\n that drove him to the airport!" One has to have read the background articles
\n to realize that for the past two years Aristide’s personal security detail
\n has been provided by a PRIVATE US SECURITY FIRM with connections to the
\n CIA and which, coincidentally, refused to send down reinforcements when
\n Aristide asked for them as the situation spun out of control.<\/p>\n
\n or the mainstream press, President Aristide is preparing to sue the Bush
\n government in US and international courts. From CBS<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n
\n is preparing cases accusing authorities in the United States and France
\n of abducting him and forcing him into exile. <\/p>\n
\n during his fight to return home, U.S. lawyer Brian Concannon said Wednesday
\n in Paris after meeting Aristide in exile in Central African Republic. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/flaggs.gif\")
Finally, an emergent hot spot to keep an eye on – Venezuela. Another
\n oil-producing nation with a leftist government, the Bush administration
\n has been uncomfortable with Venezuela since it took office. Unfortunately,
\n intervention in Venezuela would be neither easy nor neat. Venezuela is
\n too big, too white, and too wired to sweep under the rug or mess up with
\n smoke and mirrors. Current policy seems to be similar to what the
\n CIA advised in the early years of Castro’s Cuba, when he was just a leftist
\n reformer and hadn’t become a rabid Communistic. Isolate, marginalizes,
\n punish anyone who tried to work with them, and mobilize public opinion
\n in preparation for a future intervention contingency. Look how well it
\n worked in Cuba!<\/p>\n
\n many ties, treaties and co-nationals with the US. The situation
\n there is deteriorating fast. Convinced the US is covertly undermining the
\n nation, Chavez had threatened to stop all oil shipments to the US. Convinced
\n that the mainstream media, in the hands of rich business interests, are
\n working
\n with the US
\n in favor of a takeover, Chavez is funneling millions of dollars to small
\n newspapers and short-range "Ham" radio stations in an audacious move to
\n create an effective alternative press.<\/p>\n
\n are close, the Dowbrigade would not put it beyond the current administration
\n to push the situation to a crisis in order to put the Marines into Venezuela
\n to "protect US interests." We all know how the loyal American electorate
\n rallies round the President when American boys (and girls) are taking fire
\n in the uniform of the US military. This from SFGate.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n
\n between the United States and Venezuela should remain stable despite
\n Washington’s
\n alleged efforts to overthrow his "revolutionary" government.<\/p>\n
\n war" if Washington ever tried to invade Venezuela.<\/p>\n
\n Castro and his criticism of U.S.-led negotiations for a free trade zone of the
\n Americas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n busy lately, all around this glorious orb of ours. Some of this business
\n may never come to light, but in these freewheeling and increasingly transparent
\n times, don’t be surprised when you find out we really DO care about the
\n rest of the world. Despite what sometimes seems to be selective deafness
\n on the part of US officials, it turns out they ARE listening to the rest
\n of the world, at least when the rest of the world talks back. Never forget,
\n historically an Engaged America is usually an Enraged America.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"