Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Insights into a Terrorist-Supporting Coun

Consequences Of Empire
Fifty years of U.S. war and intrigue in the Middle East
by Larry Everest
Z magazine, November 2001

Americans are asking, 'Why do they hate us'?" President Bush stated in his nationally televised call to war. His answer was that "they hate our freedoms; our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other. "
I've covered the Middle East for more than 20 years-traveling to Iran, Palestine, and Iraq to investigate, first-hand, the impact that U.S. actions have had on the people in the region. I came away with a totally different understanding than this myth of " freedoms " told by George Bush.
Most people I met, and this included people from many different political trends, didn't hate "us"-they made a distinction between the U. S. government and people living in the U.S. But they did not view the United States as a place of "freedom." To them, the United States was an arrogant, cold-blooded, and hegemonic power-which has wreaked havoc with lives of the people in this region.
Beneath the earth, the vast oilfields of the Middle East and the Caspian Sea lie in an area of the planet that stretches from Algeria and Libya in the West to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east, from Kazakhstan and Russia in the north to Saudi Arabia and Yemen in the south.
Before World War II, Britain and France had divided the region into " spheres of influence " and ruled them as colonies. But World War II severely weakened these old school colonialists, while the U.S. imperialists-who had deliberately maneuvered to come out on top of rivals and allies alike-emerged from the war ready to pick up the pieces of empire.
In the mid 1 950s and early 1 960s, U. S. imperial ambitions confronted a world where struggles for self-determination and national independence were sweeping the formerly colonized countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A new rival-the once socialist Soviet Union-was mounting the stage and also seeking to expand into the Middle East.

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[itsacorporatething]

I would rather listen to someone who possibly killed one person than to someone who openly kills thousands upon thousands.

[jcjamrock]

Free Mumia!

[usy44u]

usa funded the soviet union, japan imperialism, nazi Germany and when Americans were fighting the Vietnamese, their government was paying for weopens to soviet union which they passed on to the Vietnamese. search eustace mullins and anthony sutton. America is a host nation which the parasite feed off and uses once dried up it will be dumped soon. Israel will take over this is the real dirty super power aka Rothschild the bastard banker

[nikonxxx]

omg this guy is predicting the future

[Checo384775]

long live world wide revolution the world has to change.

[HannibalFL86]

What about the consequences of 100 years of French and British rule of the area, surely that made them just LOVE the west?!

Up yours, signed - The US of A.

[LvDaMuzic]

which para in quran - can you provide the paragraph and sentence? Need to validate your argument, if not, accept it, YOU JUST LIED.

[yokehuatgoh]

what's the fuss about? terrorists -- stop terrorizing or be terrorized back. historians -- stop saying "i told you so" becos, back then, russian imperialism was the main concern. "i told you so" will not stop russian expansion. stop russian expansion one day, deal with terrorists today. they're disconnected. anyone cares to thank the US for helping afganistan to free it from russia? no?... anyone heard of "jihad ingrates"? new concept? holy fighters? or ungrateful backstabbing dangerous killers?

[kpmastu]

hahaha u all die and go nowhere lol

[UcanbeGOD]

Muahahahahah motherfucker.

[Ecothearcy]

see. its there again.

the demon speaking.