Today's World: U.S.Must Back The Protesters In Egypt And Help Get Rid Of A Dictator

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

U.S.Must Back The Protesters In Egypt And Help Get Rid Of A Dictator

It isn't hard to believe that the Obama administration is waiting to endorse the revolution in Egypt because America has a long history of supporting dictators if they protect the interests of capitalists and lobbyists.Here is a list of dictators the U.S.A has supported since 1930.

Country	Dictator	Dates	Statistics
Chile	Gen. Augusto Pinochet	1973-1990	3000 murdered. 400,000 tortured.
Argentina	Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla	1976-1981	30,000 murdered. more
Indonesia	Suharto	1965 coup against left-leaning Sukarno, 1975 support of East Timor genocide	500,000 dead after 1965 coup; 100,000-230,000 dead in East Timor; more, more, more.
Guatemala	Armas, Fuentes, Montt	1954-
Iran	The Shah of Iran
	Ayatollah Khomeini was on the CIA payroll in the 1970s in Paris
Egypt	Sadat, Mubarak	1978-today
Iraq	Saddam Hussein
Nicaragua	Anastasio Somoza & sons	1937-1979
Paraguay	Stroessner. US supported throughout (state.gov says US has supported Paraguayan development since 1942) ($142M between 1962 and 1975)	1954-1989
Bolivia	Col. Hugo Banzer overthrew elected leftist president Juan Jose Torres	1970-
Angola	Jonas Savimbi/UNITA (didn't actually win his revolution, but killed or displaced millions)	1975-1989
Zaire	Mobutu
Saudi Arabia	Saud family
Kuwait	a monarchy
Morocco
Tunisia
Algeria
Jordan
Panama	Noriega was US-supported for years
Haiti	Papa Doc, Baby Doc
Dominican Republic	Trujillo, a military dictator for 32 years with US support for most of that time; Belaguer, Trujillo's protege, installed after US Marines intervened to put down an attempt to restore the democratically elected government of Juan Bosch	1930-61, 1965-78
Honduras
El Salvador		1980s
Nepal	monarchy	since 1948
Cuba	Fulgencio Batista	pre-Castro
Brazil	Gen. Branco overthrew elected president Goulart with US support	1965-67
Uzbekistan	Kamirov "The Boiler", $150M from the Bush administration for an air base.(Veatch)	1965-67

I understand a cold war between the U.S. and Russia/China existed during many of these years but not every political movement on the left in these countries were destine to have a ruling class and secret police.Many of the countries listed just wanted income equality and representation on economic and political issues.They also wanted control of their own natural resources like all Americans want .By supporting dictators who ruled the majority through fear and oppression,the U.S. lost numerous opportunities to expand democracy and support a world economy that eliminated the exploitation of workers.Our companies,with their bought representatives,showed no respect for the welfare of these countries where their natural resources were taken cheaply and safeguarded by the violent police in each dictatorial nation.

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Wisconsin Public Unions

As we witness the members of the public unions of Wisconsin and their supporters in the streets,one must remember their fight for democracy in the workplace helps all Americans(90% non-union workers) who work for smiling,insensitive dictatorships that would cast workers out into the cold for voicing their opinions and standing up to injustice.The corporate,conservative mindset hates real democracy because it gives ownership to the powerless and respect to the oppressed. Our fathers and mothers had ownership when one third of the American workforce was unionized.Work councils(in fifty percent of Germany's companies)provide equality and democracy between management and labor while making all the decisions for a productive,profitable company.Germany is one of the leading exporters of the world.This new form of capitalism must be replicated on our shores.

William Goonan

From "The Wrecking Crew" by Thomas Frank

The longing for permanent victory over liberlism is not unique to the Anglo-Saxon world.In country after country,business elites have come up with ingenious ways to limit the public's political choices.One of the most effective of these has been massive public debt.Milton Friedman,dean of free-market economists, stated that deficits were a way to smash a liberal state that voters could not be persuaded to part with otherwise.The famous "supply-side" theory that states less tax will unleash economic growth has been used by Republicans to increase the deficit.Reagan and Bush#1 increased the national debt from 914 billion to 4 trillion by 1992.Geroge W Bush,with tax cuts, unpaid wars and bank bailouts,increased the deficit by another 6 billion.Reducing the public's faith in government is the final goal of the Republicans.

Corporate Watch Blog

One of the most glaring examples of this continues to be the ability of corporations to cheat the public out of tens of billions of dollars a year by using offshore tax havens. Indeed, it's estimated that companies and wealthy individuals funneling money through offshore tax havens are evading around $100 billion a year in taxes -- leaving the rest of us to pick up the tab. And with cash-strapped states all across the country cutting vital services to the bone, it's not like we don't need the money

Democratic Socialist USA Statement

WE OPPOSE TOTALITARIANISM IN ITS SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS FORMS. Communism is a horrible, destructive parody of socialism. "Communism" is the most dangerous enemy of democracy and free Labor in the world. We rejoice in its collapse of the Soviet Union with formerly enslaved nations now joining the society of democracy. SD,USA proudly opposes Communist totalitarianism and opposes religious extremism arising in many religious traditions, especially in the Islamic world.
WE AFFIRM THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC/DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MOVEMENT SHALL ALSO BE A ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE FRAGILE ECOLOGY OF THIS PLANET. We commit ourselves to working with labor and environmental coalitions like the Blue Green Alliance, begun by the unionists and environmentalists to preserve our planet and create new jobs in renewable energy and mass transit.

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