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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Hillary Clinton: “We came, we saw, he died.”

ANNOTATED NEWS, IMPERIALISM

Oct 232011

THE BLOODY AND CYNICAL INTERVENTION in Libya to reestablish a relationship of colonialism in Africa—not to mention grab at gunpoint the enormous oil deposits in that region and elsewhere— is permitting glimpses behind the hypocritical mask worn by the sanctimonious leaders of the “Free World.” Here’s Clinton and Cameron gloating on the occasion of Gaddafi’s lynching. The Clinton clip is especially jarring, showing the actual face of American liberalism: comfortably ensconced in the folds of the capitalist system, insulated from real harm by many layers of power, this upper-middle-class matron, acting as if she was at some cocktail party, and surrounded by sycophants, is happy to be filling the imperial script. It’s quite obvious Clinton—after all formally a high US government official— does not mind at all the sordid death of someone Washington thought expendable. It says something about Democrats who continue to revere the Clintons as some sort of progressive duo, and the true nature of the American government.

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"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.