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Obama's choice of Biden as VP reminds me of JFK's choice of LBJ as VP. An intelligent, good-hearted, pro-peace, pro-poor people, honest, gracious and charming populist candidate CANNOT be permitted to run the empire without the empire's dark side covered by a wily, dirty, war profiteering, Corpo/fascist old pol, because the former might, oh, negotiate the first nuclear non-proliferation treaty, balk at a war on Cuba, withdraw U.S. military 'advisers' from Vietnam, and re-direct the country's "military-industrial complex" from war to peaceful uses, like putting men on the moon.
It is no accident, in my opinion, that 11 months after JFK was assassinated, the "Gulf of Tonkin" incident was staged, precipitating a war in which 2 million people were slaughtered, and over 55,000 U.S. soldiers died, for nothing. For the war profiteers.
Is some similar plan in motion now, with regard to South America's oil, and also smashing the awesome democracy movement in South America that has resulted in the creation of the South American "Common Market," UNASUR, sans the U.S.?
I fear so. I fear that the Corpo/fascists who are running things have designs particularly on the northern Venezuelan state of Zulia, on the Caribbean. Zulia is vulnerable to the newly reconstituted U.S. 4h Fleet, contains much of Venezuela's oil, is adjacent to Colombia (U.S. client state; $6 BILLION in U.S. military aid, rife with rightwing paramilitary death squads and a an out-of-control military), and currently has an anti-Chavez fascist as governor, who is known to be in cahoots with secessionist fascists. The fascists in Zulia could declare their "independence" from the national government--as Bush-supported Bolivian fascists recently did--and, with U.S./Colombia forces responding to their plea for support, we would have civil war in Venezuela. I'm not sure who would win it. Chavez has lots of friends and allies in South America. But the goal of the Corpo/fascists would be to secure Venezuela's oil, as a valuable resource with which to create a leftist-free zone in the Caribbean--using the oil to bully leftist countries like Nicaragua, and those tending left, like Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, back into line. They could cut off cheap oil supplies to Cuba, and they could cripple Venezuela as a progressive force in the region. It would be a "circling of the wagons" in the Caribbean/Central America region against the coming powerhouse of the South American "Common Market."
Brazil recently proposed a common defense, in the context of their "Common Market." This is why. Brazil's president has stated that the 4th Fleet is also a threat to Brazil's new oil fields off the Atlantic coast. But they all know that Venezuela's Zulia region is the most vulnerable. In a probable Bushwhack test run, the Bushwhacks have been actively trying to destabilize Bolivia, and split off fascist mini-states there, in control of Bolivia's gas reserves, which could be used to bully Chavez allies Brazil and Argentina (Bolivia's chief gas customers). UNASUR has acting swiftly and unanimously, in its first big crisis and opportunity, in support of the Morales government in Bolivia (which threw the U.S. ambassador out of the country, for meddling). Brazil and Argentina flat out stated that they will not trade with any fascist secessionists in Bolivia. And Chile's president presided over an emergency meeting of UNASUR at which unanimous action was taken to investigate the fascists' machine-gunning of 30 unarmed peasants in Bolivia, and to send a commission to Bolivia to make the UNASUR's position clear to the Bush-supported fascists (who are also white separatists) that they will not tolerate the split-up of Bolivia.
This is how things are going for the U.S. in South America. The U.S. faces a near unified front against U.S. meddling. And it may be why the Corpo/fascists who are running things here decided that the U.S. needs a prettier face with which to regain control of South American resources. That's one track--Obama and his notion of flooding South America with peace corps volunteers and consulates in "remote places." But another track may be Oil War II.
One fear I have is that they will move on Oil War II soon--before the oil men are out of the White House--and hand Obama a war-in-progress for Venezuela's oil, much as they tried to hand JFK a war-in-progress in Cuba, in his first months in office. Kennedy balked. Will Obama? I think Obama has made a similar "pact with the Devil" by choosing Biden as his running mate. Can the U.S. be put back on a progressive track, or a semi-progressive track, with the Corpo/fascists and war profiteers now fully in control of our government, even unto the 'TRADE SECRET' code in all the Bushwhack-controlled corporate voting machines? No. The best that a progressive like Obama can do is a gradualist approach, in league with the Corpo/fascists, who are on the outs in South America (and much of the world) and want to reclaim territory. Enter Biden (and back then, LBJ).
I do think JFK was a progressive, though he sounded, early on, like a typical "Cold Warrior." He had an open mind, and he became more and more progressive, and more into world peace, on a steep trajectory over his three short years as president. I think he really did speak for the "new generation," and inspired--or was harbinger of--the vast rebellion of the later 1960s. And I think there are many parallels in Obama, who is way more peace-minded and progressive than Biden, but needed Biden to get Diebold & brethren, and the Corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies, to back off. Without Biden--or someone like Biden--he would simply not be permitted into the White House. Same with JFK and his VP, LBJ.
Barred from Iran--by various contingencies and forces (mainly, China and Russia, and U.S. military strategic judgment)--the Corpo/fascists MUST HAVE MORE OIL. And there it sits, largely undefended (vis a vis the U.S. military), right on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela. It is no wonder that Chavez has invited the Russians to naval maneuvers in the Caribbean. He is responsible for securing the northern flank of the South American "Common Market," while UNASUR works on a common defense. It is a warning off.
One of the tragedies of the Bush Junta era is that we could have been part of this great democratic awakening in South America. It is horrifying--and excruciatingly counter-productive--that the U.S. has taken this anti-democratic, anti-progressive position. The South Americans are doing exactly what our better leaders have always been telling them to do: DEMOCRATIC CHANGE. They now have far more transparent elections, and far better democracies, than we do! Ain't it sad that we cannot recognize our best selves in the South American DEMOCRATIC left?
Obama seems blind to it, although I can't quite believe what I hear from him--and his statements do have a lesser belligerent edge to them than the Bushwhacks' (and the Clintons and the Bidens). I think he understands perfectly well what JFK's fate was all about, and the Corpo/fascists now have much more sophisticated tools with which to produce that result, than high-powered rifles. I don't expect much from him, by way of reform, because I think he knows the score perfectly well, and is playing the game, but I do think that, just like JFK, he has already sparked a rebellion in the U.S., and that may have far reaching consequences, possibly even restoration of semi-democratic, semi-progressive government here, in time. It will be a long hard struggle. And if it doesn't start with getting rid of the "TRADE SECRET" voting machines (which can still be done at the state/local level), it will fail. But what Obama has inspired--not what he says, and not what he can do, but what he has inspired--may be revolutionary.
And we also should not discount the influence that the vast democracy movement in South America (and on the move in Central America) may have here. People hearing (on the grapevine, mostly) about oil profits being used to help the poor, and about transparent vote counting, and other South American advances, could well wonder why we can't have a progressive government that serves the majority and protects the interests of the poor and the middle class against global corporate predators. Talk about inspiring! Is it any wonder that our Corpo/fascist press lies through their teeth about the South American left?
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