Washington’s Presumption

[Judi Lynn]

May 08, 2013
When Truth and Integrity are Dead-Letter Words

Washington’s Presumption

by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The new president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, is cast in Chavez’s mold. On May 4, he called US president Obama the “grand chief of devils.”

Obama, who has betrayed democracy in America, unleashing execution on American citizens without due process of law and war without the consent of Congress, provoked Maduro’s response by suggesting that Maduro’s newly elected government might be fraudulent. Obviously, Obama is piqued that the millions of dollars his administration spent trying to elect an American puppet instead of Maduro failed to do the job.

If anyone has accurately summed up Washington, it is the Venezuelans.

Who can forget Chevez standing at the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York City speaking of George W. Bush? Quoting from memory: “Right here, yesterday, at this very podium stood Satan himself, speaking as if he owned the world. You can still smell the sulphur.”

Hegemonic Washington threw countless amounts of money into the last Venezuelan election, doing its best to deliver the governance of that country to a Washington puppet called Henrique Capriles, in my opinion a traitor to Venezuela. Why isn’t this American puppet arrested for treason? Why are not the Washington operatives against an independent country–the US ambassador, the counsels, the USAID/CIA personnel, the Washington funded NGOs–ordered to leave Venezuela immediately or arrested and tried for spying and high treason? Why allow any presence of Washington in Venezuela when it is clear that Washington’s intention is to make Venezuela a puppet state like the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Japan, and on and on.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/08/washingtons-presumption/

[bemildred]

1. The real problem here is that our foreign policy wonks, reluctant to admit how

thoroughly they have alienated most of the planet, are clinging to the past, back when we actually had the clout and credibility to get away with it, to still be obeyed. Now people are telling them politely to fuck off off or just ignoring them and they don't know what to do. They have shot their wad with the military excess for the moment, and there is nothing else they apparently know how to do but spread money around and kill people.

[Catherina]

3. You nailed it my friend n/t

[Bacchus4.0]

2. why doesn't the author answer his own questions?

I think he makes this fairly accurate observation though:

I think the American left-wing lost its confidence when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Chinese communists and Indian socialists turned capitalist. Everyone misread the situation, especially the “end of history” idiots. The consequence is a world without strong protests of Washington’s and its puppet states’ war criminal military aggressions, murder, destruction of civil liberty and human rights, and transparent propaganda: “Last night Polish forces crossed the frontier and attacked Germany,” or so declared Adolf Hitler. Washington’s charges of “weapons of mass destruction” are even more transparent lies.
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the chavista crowd longs for a strong marxist anti-US state so are looking to South America for that.