Making your bones in Honduras

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The piece below, published in 2010, was was retrieved from the Wayback Machine. Howard Zinn would have given it two thumbs up.

Be forewarned - it is a long piece. That's because it represents an enormous amount of research.

The first comment on the article expresses my reaction to a "T":

"If I had to use a single piece of literature to educate the average American about their own policy, this would be the one I’d choose.

"So many in the US actually believe just getting the ‘right’ candidate into office will make a difference. They truly have no idea what’s going on and how deeply entrenched the roots of this corrupt system are. It’s true, anyone who makes it into the lawmaking arena, who could actually wield some power for ‘main street’ is so trumped by Wall Street and every other special interest group operating on behalf of the wealthy, it’s a lost cause. They must comply to ensure their own survival and many do so quite cheerfully."

Hillary’s Bones – A Coup Tutorial

This is a story, based on some facts… different than the stories we hear from the media. Facts can be arranged to make a story. The media had one story. This is another.

On June 28th, 2009, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was dragged out of bed in his pajamas by Honduran soldiers, bound and beaten , flown out of Honduras using the US military’s Soto Cano airfield, and sent into exile. There was immediate and universal condemnation of the coup, including from the United States. President Barack Obama condemned the coup. So did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The story faded from the news. The Hondurans had some kind of election. Everything is okay now.

This story is different, different than that story.

In this story, a powerful public/private alliance, which included the government of the United States of America, not only had prior knowledge of the coup, it was deeply involved in the planning and execution of it. The head of the principle government agency involved in this coup d’etat was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

http://web.archive.org/web/20130313211841/http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2010/09/30/hillarys-bones-a-coup-tutorial/