Secret Wars of the CIA: John Stockwell Lecture (Part 2)

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Many, who supported the Reaganite view, claim the Sandinista regime was neither democratic nor harmless, but rather a Communist dictatorship in the making, supported both militarily and economically by Cuba and the Soviet Union. The administration refused to participate in the World Court proceeding.

Due to the pressures of the covert Contra war, the Sandinista President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, eventually held the country's second elections, which he and his party lost, thus ending Nicaragua's brief period of socialist rule. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, a former Junta member who led a 19-party "anti-Sandinista" alliance was elected in his place.

Through its desire to combat leftist governments and Marxist insurgencies in the region the Reagan administration was accused of sponsoring right-wing military dictatorships throughout Latin America. The CIA and U.S.-based School of the Americas, similarly were accused by some as having trained Honduran and other Latin American military officers and future death squad paramilitary members in torture and assassination techniques to fight insurgencies.

Reagan increased funding to many other Central and South American states throughout his two terms. Financial aid to Colombia's military and right-wing paramilitary groups skyrocketed in the eighties, even as Colombia compiled one of the worst human rights records in the hemisphere. A similar situation existed for El Salvador. Congress attempted to put constraints on aid to the government of El Salvador and make it contingent on human rights progress. Even as tens of thousands of civilians were slaughtered by government and governmentally-allied forces in the early eighties Reagan stated that El Salvador was making "progress." Elliott Abrams, an administration official indicted in the Iran Contra Affair, also denied the existence of human rights violations and massacres in El Salvador like the El Mozote massacre. When congress tried to renew the human-rights stipulation to aid for El Salvador Reagan vetoed the bill.

This pattern of funding right-wing military and paramilitary groups would continue in Guatemala. In 1999 a report on the Guatemalan Civil War from the UN-sponsored Commission for Historical Clarification stated that the American training of the officer corps in counter-insurgency techniques was a key factor in the genocideEntire Mayan villages were attacked and burned and their inhabitants were slaughtered in an effort to deny the guerillas protection. According to the commission, between 1981 and 1983 the Guatemalan government—financed and trained by the US—destroyed four hundred Mayan villages and butchered 200,000 peasants.

In Panama this funding was more covert. Manuel Noriega, the dictator of Panama, was on the payroll of the CIA as of 1967. By 1971 his involvement in the drug trade was well known by the DEA but he was an important asset of the CIA and so was well-protected. CIA Director George H. W. Bush arranged to give Noriega a raise in 1976 to a six-figure salary. The Carter administration dropped the future dictator from its payroll but he was reinstated by the Reagan administration and his salary peaked in 1985 at $200,000. Noriega allowed CIA listening stations in his country, provided funding for the Contras, and protected covert U.S. and U.S.-funded air shipments of supplies to the Contras.

Reagan offered controversial support to the rightist El Salvador government throughout his term; he feared a takeover by the FMLN during the El Salvador Civil War which had begun in the late 1970s. The war left 75,000 people dead, 8,000 missing and one million homeless; some one million Salvadorans, fleeing the war and government backed right-wing death squads, immigrated to the United States. He backed attempts at introducing democratic elections with mixed success.

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[WhiteLion8403]

so they topple a semi-evil regime and who do they install , the most evil regime they can find

[cliffworks4321]

so even with all of these facts nothing was done to stop the illegal acts of the powers that be, the message is clear, no matter how much one can prove illegal immoral unethical acts committed by any gov't or group of people nothing can be done, we can only complain / report about it ex post facto, no heads will roll, no one will be held accountable, no one will be punished, imprisoned, the suffering the victimization will continue, there is no hope.

[SUpersaiyajinjerkbag]

Man, the problem with intellectual is that they're often elaborating on what you already know

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 2: Saddled with huge debts, these countries came under the control of the United States government, World Bank and other US-dominated aid agencies that acted like loan sharks—dictating repayment terms and bullying foreign governments into submission. His extraordinary real-life tale exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities that have dire consequences for American democracy and the world.

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 1: John Perkins "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" exposes highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder. John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries that were strategically important to the US to accept enormous loans for infrastructure development, and to ensure the lucrative projects were contracted to US corporations.

[hplaserjet2001]

"Geopolitics around the world is controlled by big corporations. In the recent past, we have seen this world as this globe with roughly 200 countries of which a few had power, the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, but today you might better see they are dependent upon the consumers or are dependent upon getting tax dollars. It's not like the old empires where they were dependent upon military, these are stealth. -John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 9: ...you don't go out on the streets and protest, you don't cause any problems, you are trying desperately to hold onto your house, your job, to get a new job, to please the banks. You don't rebuild against this, debt is a real enslaving tool and that's just one of many examples of the techniques that we honed overseas and are now using in this country." -Keiser Report, February 5, 2010

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 8: ...are picking these houses up for 10 cents on the dollar and they'll refinance them, re-market them and sell them again so that they've actually sold the house twice. They are making a lot of money off this and people are being left out in the street without homes. And in the process, incidentally, when you have that kind of debt and you can't pay it, ...

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 7: ...when in fact they could only afford a $300,000 house, but the bankers said tighten your belts and pay the mortgage on this $500,000 house and in a few years, five years from now, it'll be worth a million dollars so you're going to get wealthy off this and, of course, that didn't happen. The bottom fell out of the market, that house now is only worth maybe $200,000. The poor guy who took out the loan is still paying the $500,000 or he's been foreclosed on. The banks...

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 6: ...come home to roost. You know as an example, just one of many examples, in third world countries we encouraged them to take on huge amounts of debt that they really couldn't afford and we said the collateral was the oil that was still in the ground and eventually they would be able to pay down their debts and become very wealthy in the process through their oil. Well, in the United States, the bankers went in and told people that they could afford a $500,000 house...

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 5: ...but what you are suggesting and what I think more people are seeing is the more obvious situation here is that same methodology used around the world by the US to subjugate foreign countries is basically being used by these Wall Street banks to subjugate Americans. Is that a fair statement?" John Perkins, "Ya absolutely, the same techniques Max are being used here, you know what comes around goes around. and the economic hitmen have really...

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 4: ...And, so the same techniques that have been in use in the third world in building this empire overseas are now being used against the American people." Max Keiser, "So in the United States when Barack Obama talks about these huge debts and he has to somehow get down the deficits and he talks about in terms people are familiar with, the business cycle and neoclassical economics and we need to increase savings and maybe try to increase production, ...

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 3: John Perkins: "Absolutely, you know what goes around comes around. And, I think, we in the United States accepted this for a long time, we accepted that these economic hitmen would go to other countries, be able to exploit their resources, bring us really cheap tennis shoes and T-shirts that are made in slave sweatshops, bring us cheap petroleum that comes from destroying rain forests. We accepted this, we turned a blind eye to it and now it's come home to roost....

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 2: John Perkins: "That's correct, it's the new form of empire building through debt rather than through the military, the military only comes in as a last resort." Max Keiser, "Ok, so that's a key point, is that when people think empire they're thinking 17th, 18th century empire building and this is the new empire building financial weapons, as it were, in debt to build these empires. The obvious question is, 'Is America in the throes of being subjected to economic hitmen?' "

[hplaserjet2001]

Part 1: Max Keiser, "John Perkins, in your first book "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" you lay out the case of how these economic hitmen work, basically they support local dictators in various countries, they load them up with a lot of debt and if they don't pay the debt, they send in, as you call them, the jackals and they whack these guys. So debt is used as a weapon to control these countries as part of this whole methodology of the economic hitman. Is that basically the framework?"

[ghpink]

@deadreck024 There is something more powerful. The internet. The net and social applications like facebook allow people to now mobilize and go between the large media houses. They can no longer lock down information. Look at what is happening in Egypt right now and how other countries are getting bold against the American government. I don't think its too late at all. The mass media has now been over taken by the internet. We must make sure we protect it at all costs. This is where the war is

[josephortizgarcia]

This man had truth in him. Hotep.

[deadreck024]

Its to late to do anything now if people would've stood up in 1913 we would've had a chance but since the american people became influenced by mass media they gave up the fight for a house with a picket fence.The government is so powerful now anyone who attempts to stand against it will surely fail.

[2JOHNNYT]

And the American Empire rolled on from Nicuiragua to Iraq, and Afghanistans and if we don't get back Jo - to ruin