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is going to be the defining issue of the next decade, and possibly the rest of the century--especially with the recent establishment of UNASUR, the South American "Common Market" (which does not include the U.S.), Brazil's proposal of a common defense (which does not include the U.S.), and a great, overarching, leftist, democracy movement that has swept leftist governments into office all over the continent, and is now on the rise in Central America as well--despite every effort of our Bushwhack government to prevent it. This movement has three main goals: social justice; the self-determination and sovereignty of Latin American countries, vis a vis the bully to the north; and political/economic integration into a powerhouse "Common Market" of the South. They have the resources--the oil, the gas, the forests, the fresh water--and the populations hungry for education and decent jobs. And they have the growing unity and excitement of a region that is finally coming into its own. Our Corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies have kept us ignorant of these developments, or have tried to turn us against them, but they are going to greatly affect us, and whether they do so for good or ill is up to us, and who we manage to get past the Corpo/fascist gauntlet of lies and stolen elections, into positions of power in our government.
Our government's policies are vitally important to the untroubled success of this remarkable democracy movement in South America. Will we stay hostile, like the Bushwhacks? Will we keep trying to destabilize and overthrow their governments? Will we use military or other means to try to create a leftist-free zone in the Caribbean and Central America, as an exploited buffer against South America? Or will we INTEGRATE with South America, and create a socially just powerhouse of a hemisphere, north and south together?
I don't mind citizens of other countries, who are profoundly affected by what our government does, expressing an opinion about our leadership. In fact, I have proposed that Iraqis be able to vote in our elections at least for president. We are no longer an insulated, provincial "republic" and we haven't been since at least WW II. We were the architects of the United Nations and the post-WW II "Pax Americana," and have now become a global corporate predator empire. To talk about "our" elections, as if they have no relevance to others, is unrealistic. In any case, we have enough to worry about--what with corporate predators like Diebold and ES&S controlling our election system with "TRADE SECRET" code, and the financial meltdown that could bring Great Depression II upon numerous countries and regions, and the Saudi Arabians and the Chinese owning our monstrous debt--to be offended by a "foreign" opinion of Obama. $6 BILLION of our non-existent tax dollars have been stuffed into the pockets of war profiteers in Colombia, where over 40 union leaders have been murdered this year alone, by rightwing paramilitary death squads with the close ties to the government and by Colombian security forces. That alone entitles Colombians to express an opinion.
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