Eternal Punishment: Obama Leads Third Century of Imperial Revenge on Haiti
Sunday, April 3, 2011
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Leaving behind for a while, the trials and tribulations of that testament to man's folly, the nuclear installation at Fukushima Japan, I thought it time I caught up on a writer I have sadly neglected since I was away blogging other things.
That writer, and much neglected on my part, the unique Arthur Silber. Let me borrow the same few lines that I used recently to introduce both Arthur Silber and his philosophical piece: Of Abortion, and Women as the Ultimate Source of Evil.
This introduction, serving both purposes as it does, the promise of things to come from Mr Silber, and to introduce you to the writer of those few words, Chris Floyd. Who I have to say, judging by this one article alone, ain't too shabby in the literary department himself.
Arthur Silber coming soon, I just need to find my something of choice, your item of interest, out of what I can only describe as a monumental output of material from Arthur Silber's pen. All of it most readable.
That writer, and much neglected on my part, the unique Arthur Silber. Let me borrow the same few lines that I used recently to introduce both Arthur Silber and his philosophical piece: Of Abortion, and Women as the Ultimate Source of Evil.
As I've said here many times before, no one that I know writing today is making the kinds of profound connections that Arthur Silber makes, year after year: drawing out the deeper implications of the operations of power on every level of our lives, from the global scope of high politics to the still, dark night of the individual psyche.- Chris Floyd
This introduction, serving both purposes as it does, the promise of things to come from Mr Silber, and to introduce you to the writer of those few words, Chris Floyd. Who I have to say, judging by this one article alone, ain't too shabby in the literary department himself.
Arthur Silber coming soon, I just need to find my something of choice, your item of interest, out of what I can only describe as a monumental output of material from Arthur Silber's pen. All of it most readable.
Eternal Punishment: Obama Leads Third Century of Imperial Revenge on Haiti
Written by Chris Floyd
Saturday, 02 April 2011 00:41
The blood and thunder (or is it thud and blunder?) of the American-led intervention in Libya has obscured one of the more revealing episodes of our times -- especially for those many millions who still cling to the idea that Barack Obama is somehow an improvement, however slight, over the ruthless, lawless, corroded souls who preceded him in the post of imperial manager.
We speak of course of the American rigging of the election in battered, helpless Haiti -- a brazen effort to disenfranchise the majority of the population and ensure the election of a vicious -- but acquiescent -- client to the presidency. This sordid episode comes complete with a personal intervention by the Nobel Peace Laureate himself to try to continue the exile and persecution of the democratically elected Haitian president overthrown by George W. Bush in a brutal coup.
Even as he was scheming with the CIA to put covert American "boots on the ground" in the Libyan civil war, Obama and his dream team have been maneuvering like mad to put one of a pair of right-wing fanatics into office in Haiti while excluding any other candidates from the running -- including those from Haiti's biggest political party. Obama also personally called South African President Jacob Zuma to ask to keep holding Bush-ousted former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Africa and prevent him from returning to his native land before the election.
With the sublime hypocrisy that has become the hallmark of this most mendacious militarist administration, an Obama spokesman said the Peace Laureate opposed Aristide's return due to "deep concerns that President Aristide's return to Haiti in the closing days of the election could be destabilising," adding that the defender of freedom and democracy believes "that the Haitian people deserve the chance to choose their government through peaceful, free and fair elections."
Even from Team Obama, this is pretty rich. After blocking the largest political party from running, then forcing a run-off between two former supporters of vicious coups, Obama said he didn't want Haiti's democratically elected former leader to return to the homeland he was trundled from at gunpoint by Bushist goons in order to give the Haitian people "a free, fair election."
The result has been a record-low turnout and run-off so riddled with corruption that it may be weeks before one of America's hand-picked stooges is declared the winner. Meanwhile, Aristide did return -- Zuma told Obama plainly that Astride was a free man, he had a passport from his home country, and "I cannot hold him hostage." He did not interfere with the election, he endorsed no candidate. Most of his supporter simply boycotted the election, because of its blatant illegitimacy.
So this is what Barack Obama and his partner in imperialism, the globe-trotting Hillary Clinton, have been up to on the side while they are killing children in Libya and bluntly declaring to Congress that Obama will not acknowledge any restriction on his imperial will to wage war where whenever and wherever he damn well pleases. As John Caruso notes in a blistering post: more
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