We are posting the following article by Nathaniel Flakin of Left Voices in the USA. This is response to all the nauseating hypocrisy coming from the Democrats and other neo-liberals about the USA’s great democratic traditions.
“THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR” – EXCEPT, UH, IN LATIN AMERICA
Top Bolivian coup plotters trained in the School of the Americas* in Columbus Georgia
The United States has long supported right-wing protests to subvert elections. This is so common that there’s a joke about it: Why has there never been a military coup in the U.S.? Because there is no U.S. embassy there.
“This is not what America stands for.” That’s what Thom Thillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina, wrote on Twitter while a right-wing mob was marauding through the Capitol. This sentiment was echoed throughout the liberal media and by members of both the Republican and Democratic Parties, who repeated the refrain that “America is better than this.” The right-wing riot was clearly not a “fascist coup attempt” by any stretch. But the images coming out of the Capitol looked eerily similar to actions that the U.S. regime regularly supports in other countries, especially in Latin America. Continue reading ““THIS IS NOT WHAT AMERICA STANDS FOR” – EXCEPT, UH, IN LATIN AMERICA”
