US Foreign Policy

‘They Let Everybody Know The US Was On The Side Of This Coup’

September 17, 2016 Janine Jackson, www.fair.org Educate! Brazil, coup, US Foreign Policy

By Janine Jackson for FAIR - A crawler at the top of the New York Times website announced “Breaking news: Dilma Rousseff, accused of misconduct as president, has been impeached, ending the power struggle consuming Brazil.” That sounds like an unlikely outcome, even to those who haven’t been able to follow all the twists and turns of events in Brazil. But what accounts for the difference between those who see something being resolved in recent political events, and those who see something being violated?

US Triples Special Operations Deployment To Latin America

September 16, 2016 Neil Hardt, www.wsws.org Educate! Latin America, US Foreign Policy

By Neil Hardt for WSWS - From 2007 to 2014, the United States tripled the deployment of special operations forces to Latin America, according to documents obtained via FOIA request by the non-profit Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). The deployment of Green Berets, Navy Seals and other elite units to Latin America is bound up with American imperialism’s preparations to suppress the outbreak of social struggle in Central and South America and is also aimed at countering the growing influence of China in the region.

The Real US Syria Scandal: Supporting Sectarian War #SyriaWar

September 1, 2016 Gareth Porter, www.middleeasteye.net Educate! Syria, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

By Gareth Porter for MEE - The main criticism of US policy in Syria has long been that President Barack Obama should have used US military force or more aggressive arms aid to strengthen the armed opposition to Assad. The easy answer is that the whole idea that there was a viable non-extremist force to be strengthened is a myth – albeit one that certain political figures in London and Washington refuse to give up. But the question that should have been debated is why the Obama administration acquiesced to its allies funding and supplying a group of unsavoury sectarian armed groups to overthrow the Assad regime.

How The Pro-Coup US Is Undermining Brazil’s Democracy

August 30, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Brazil, coup, US Foreign Policy

By Staff of Tele Sur - The U.S. has been actively supportive of the interim government, with many of its Cabinet members already close to the U.S., according to WikiLeaks documents. The United States has been essential in legitimizing Brazil’s impeachment process—widely described by others as a soft coup—and has played a hand in propping up the interim government. Many members of interim President Michel Temer's government have enjoyed close relations with the U.S., which is “supportive of the Brazilian interim government beyond being silent,"

Declassified Docs Detail US Role In Argentina Dirty War Horrors

August 13, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Argentina, US Foreign Policy, Wars and Militarism

By Staff of Tele Sur - In a much-awaited step toward uncovering the historical truth of the U.S.-backed Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970’s and 80’s, the United States has delivered over 1,000 pages of classified documents to the South American country. But critics argue that there are major gaps in the files, including the exclusion of CIA documents, that keep in the dark important details of the extent of human rights violations and the U.S. role in such abuses. The Argentine government delivered the newly-declassified documents to journalists and human rights organizations on Monday after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented the files to President Mauricio Macri during a state visit last week.

US Accused Of Scorched Earth Policy In Syria Killing Civilians

August 10, 2016 Lizzie Dearden, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Syria, US Foreign Policy

By Lizzie Dearden for Independent - Members of the US-led coalition have been accused of deploying a “scorched earth policy” in Syria by activists who claim to have documented scores of civilian deaths. One group of anti-Isis activists, called Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, has said air strikes supporting a key offensive in Manbij are killing innocent families. “The international coalition is using a scorched earth policy in the city and supporting the Syrian Democratic forces that have been surrounding the city for two months,” the group said.

Rep. Rick Larsen Bases Russia Policy On Myth

July 25, 2016 David Swanson, www.opednews.com Educate! Russia, US Foreign Policy

By David Swanson for OEN - Elizabeth Murray served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council before retiring after a 27-year career in the U.S. government. She is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) and an occasional writer at Consortiumnews.com which has covered recent U.S. propaganda re Russia as well as any media outlet out there. Murray has recently returned from a trip to Russia organized by the Center for Citizen Initiatives which has resumed the sort of U.S.-Russia cultural exchanges that it organized during a previous peak in the cold war.

On Coup Anniversary, Examining U.S. Role In Honduras

July 2, 2016 Pamela Spees, www.ccrjustice.org Educate! coup, Honduras, US Foreign Policy

By Pamela Spees for Center for Constitution Rights - Tomorrow, June 28, 2016, marks seven years since the coup d’etat in Honduras – the day that former President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped by the Honduran army and then flown out of the country from an air field controlled by the U.S. military. That event sent shockwaves through the region and the world and was denounced by the United Nations, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the European Union. Honduras was suspended temporarily from the OAS.

Call For A National Debate On U.S. “Regime Change” Policy

June 21, 2016 Staff, www.ccisf.org Resist! Regime Change, US Foreign Policy

By Staff of Center for Citizen Initiatives - “More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria, urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent violations of a cease-fire in the country’s five-year-old civil war. The memo, a draft of which was provided to The New York Times by a State Department official, says American policy has been “overwhelmed” by the unrelenting violence in Syria.

U.S. Sets Stage For Libya-Like Regime Change In Eritrea, “Africa’s Cuba”

June 16, 2016 Glen Ford, www.blackagendareport.com Educate! Africa, Regime Change, US Foreign Policy

By Glen Ford for Black Agenda Report - The U.S. is moving towards war against Eritrea, a fiercely independent African nation of only six million people. Washington has deployed its UN “human rights” proxies to justify another “humanitarian” military intervention, remarkably like the UN-sanctioned aggression against Libya, in 2011. The UN panel charges Eritrea with “enslaving” and murdering its own people – a pack of imperial lies. Obama is set to add another war to his bloody legacy.

U.S.-Backed Offensive Against Venezuela Intensifies

June 4, 2016 Staff, www.answercoalition.org Educate! United States, US Foreign Policy, Venezuela

By Staff of Answer Coalition - More than 500,000 Venezuelan soldiers and civilian militia members took part in the largest military exercises of the country’s history last weekend to prepare against growing threats from U.S. and other imperialist forces. Venezuela’s revolutionary government is at a crossroads as it struggles to overcome economic crisis and aggression by Washington, and the opposition is intent on overthrowing the government.

Operation Condor: Cross-Border Disappearance And Death

May 30, 2016 J. Patrice McSherry, www.telesurtv.net Educate! History, Latin America, US Foreign Policy

By J. Patrice McSherry for teleSUR - Operation Condor was a covert, multinational “black operations” program organized by six Latin American states (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, later joined by Ecuador and Peru), with logistical, financial, and intelligence support from Washington. In the Cold War climate of the 1960s and ’70s, when U.S. leaders and Latin American militaries regarded popular movements and political dissidents as “internal enemies,” any methods were considered legitimate in the “war against subversion.”

NSA Pushed Latin America Toward ‘US Objectives’

May 22, 2016 Telesur, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Latin America, NSA, Regime Change, US Foreign Policy

By Telesur. National Security Agency documents revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden on Monday show that the NSA offered tailored training to staff on national security issues in Latin America in an effort to steer the region toward U.S. interests. A June 2003 edition of the SIDtoday newsletter, an internal publication run by the Signals Intelligence Directorate, the electronic eavesdropping division that The Intercept describes as “arguably the NSA’s most important,” announced a training opportunity for NSA staffers on Latin American strategic intelligence issues. The course, titled “Latin American Futures Project” and offered through the Strategic Intelligence National Intelligence Officer Council and National Cryptologic School, promised to “analyze potential developments in the Andean region and Brazil over the next five years along with their implications for U.S. interests in the region.”

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