Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Iceland, etc. etc. etc. our world seems to be filled with countries who hate our guts. Why? Read the history of our imperialist foreign policy since 1898 and you'll understand.
Cuba, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, Chile, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, a half dozen African nations have all suffered as our foreign policy did their stuff to steal resources, exploit third world labor, and steal our way, all the time singing our National Anthem about freedom and justice. Ask a Saudi Citizen under the yoke of Arab potentates we've kept in power for decades because we care a helluva lot more about their oil than we do poor Arabs. Take Iran ... which we tried to do when we assassinated the country's first democratically elected leader in a CIA-led action because President Mossadegh nationalized the Iranian oil industry which had been stolen by Britain who was stealing g nearly all the profits of Iran's greatest resource. Face it, we wanted our own piece of the action -- and screw the Iranian people who stood in our way. So, under our leadership and money, we installed the Shah, 100% our puppet, who guaranteed the theft of his nation's oil riches, by oppressing the Iranian people with an army and secret police trained and funded by the U.S. It's called raw imperialism -- and eventually, as it always does, the disenfranchised citizenry reaches the breaking point and poof, the Shah is out and Khameini is in, and we're amazed they kidnapped our embassy people.
Look at how we've supported coups and corrupt governments to make profits in the countries of South America.
Ask a Bangladesh seamstress how wonderful it is to work in a slave-like factory building Walmart T-shirts -- one that was built by corrupt contractors who cheated on the rebar and cement, and whose six floors of workspace have locked exit doors during the workshifts.
Why is the history of our foreign policy overloaded with instances of our supporting tyrannical dictators in third world countries where the masses suffer from malnutrition, disease, and we train their leader's police, and even teach them our "enhanced" interrogation techniques so they can root out citizens crazy enough to wage their own revolutions?
The real America is the one who set out from the beginning to erase Native Americans in order to get all they lived on.
The facts are, the greatest democracy in today's world has blood all over its imperialist hands -- and we're still buying off elections and supporting tyrants, in pursuit of cheap resources and labor ... because we're Amerika Inc., and they're not.
No wonder so many countries are willing to take Snowden!
Even our friends (France, England, Australia, Canada) will tell us in private, they don't like us, they tolerate us because we have money and power. But read their books, look at their movies, talk to their people, and you'll quickly discover, these people love Americans but hate Amerika Inc.
We still haven't learned that while we can reap profits from suppoprting tyrannical, corrupt regimes who oppress their people, eventually these folks will overthrow their oppressors -- and express their hatred for us for many years.
The good news is Americans are liked and appreciated -- it's our imperialist government that is hated. After so many diplomatic foreign policy failures, you'd think our State Department would learn. But that's just wishful thinking. It's run by Amerika Inc. No wonder we're in so many wars!
Reality.
Cuba, the Philippines, Dominican Republic, Chile, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, a half dozen African nations have all suffered as our foreign policy did their stuff to steal resources, exploit third world labor, and steal our way, all the time singing our National Anthem about freedom and justice. Ask a Saudi Citizen under the yoke of Arab potentates we've kept in power for decades because we care a helluva lot more about their oil than we do poor Arabs. Take Iran ... which we tried to do when we assassinated the country's first democratically elected leader in a CIA-led action because President Mossadegh nationalized the Iranian oil industry which had been stolen by Britain who was stealing g nearly all the profits of Iran's greatest resource. Face it, we wanted our own piece of the action -- and screw the Iranian people who stood in our way. So, under our leadership and money, we installed the Shah, 100% our puppet, who guaranteed the theft of his nation's oil riches, by oppressing the Iranian people with an army and secret police trained and funded by the U.S. It's called raw imperialism -- and eventually, as it always does, the disenfranchised citizenry reaches the breaking point and poof, the Shah is out and Khameini is in, and we're amazed they kidnapped our embassy people.
Look at how we've supported coups and corrupt governments to make profits in the countries of South America.
Ask a Bangladesh seamstress how wonderful it is to work in a slave-like factory building Walmart T-shirts -- one that was built by corrupt contractors who cheated on the rebar and cement, and whose six floors of workspace have locked exit doors during the workshifts.
Why is the history of our foreign policy overloaded with instances of our supporting tyrannical dictators in third world countries where the masses suffer from malnutrition, disease, and we train their leader's police, and even teach them our "enhanced" interrogation techniques so they can root out citizens crazy enough to wage their own revolutions?
The real America is the one who set out from the beginning to erase Native Americans in order to get all they lived on.
The facts are, the greatest democracy in today's world has blood all over its imperialist hands -- and we're still buying off elections and supporting tyrants, in pursuit of cheap resources and labor ... because we're Amerika Inc., and they're not.
No wonder so many countries are willing to take Snowden!
Even our friends (France, England, Australia, Canada) will tell us in private, they don't like us, they tolerate us because we have money and power. But read their books, look at their movies, talk to their people, and you'll quickly discover, these people love Americans but hate Amerika Inc.
We still haven't learned that while we can reap profits from suppoprting tyrannical, corrupt regimes who oppress their people, eventually these folks will overthrow their oppressors -- and express their hatred for us for many years.
The good news is Americans are liked and appreciated -- it's our imperialist government that is hated. After so many diplomatic foreign policy failures, you'd think our State Department would learn. But that's just wishful thinking. It's run by Amerika Inc. No wonder we're in so many wars!
Reality.
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