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Another Look At Jimmy Carter’s Blood-Soaked Legacy

May 25, 2016 By Matt Peppe 6 Comments

In August, I wrote an article titled “Jimmy Carter’s Blood-Soaked Legacy” about how the former President’s record in office contradicted his professed concern for human rights. Despite campaigning on a promise to make respect for human rights a central tenet of the conduct of American foreign policy, Carter’s actions consistently prioritized economic and security interests over humanitarian concerns.

I cited the examples of Carter’s administration providing aid to Zairian dictator Mobutu to crush southern African liberation movements; financially supporting the Guatemalan military junta, and looking the other way as Israel gave them weapons and training; ignoring calls from human rights activists to withdraw support from the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia as they carried out genocide in East Timor; refusing to pursue sanctions against South Africa in the United Nations after the South African Defence Forces bombed a refugee camp in Angola, killing 600 refugees; financing and arming mujahideen rebels to destabilize the government of Afghanistan and draw the Soviet Union into invading the country; and providing aid to the military dictatorship in El Salvador, despite a letter from Archbishop Oscar Romero — who was assassinated by a member of a government death squad weeks later — explicitly calling for Carter not to do so.

This list was not meant to be exhaustive, but merely to highlight some of the most prominent contradictions between Carter’s ideals and his actions. After subsequent research and reader feedback, I realized there were many examples I had not mentioned. Their significance to the history of American foreign policy, and the repercussions they produced, is worth exploring in a subsequent analysis.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Cambodia, history, Jimmy Carter, Middle East, Vietnam

VIDEO: Bloody-handed CODEPINK Activists Confront Henry Kissinger

January 31, 2015 By Eleanor Goldfield 2 Comments

“I have been a member of this committee for years and I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable …”

You know that feeling you get when someone says something that is just so laughably absurd that you feel yourself stuck in this mental and emotional limbo between anger and hysterical laughter, typically settling somewhere in between; a murderous chuckle, perhaps.

Well, that’s the place my mind settled Thursday at about 9:30am EST when John McCain said those words about a group of activists, myself included. In a government run on logic, justice, freedom and honesty, McCain would have of course been directing those comments to the lizard-faced Kissinger. But alas, those four tenets are about as absent from these hearings as youth and common sense.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, National News Tagged With: activisma, anti-war, Cambodia, Chile, citizen's arrest, Code Pink, CodePink, Congress, East Timor, free speech, freedom of speech, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Human Rights, Indonesia, John McCain, Laos, Madeleine Albright, military, peace, protest, Senate Armed Services Committee, South America, United States Senate, Vietnam, War, war crimes

Broken Countries Policing: American Terrorism & Racist Violence

December 30, 2014 By Matt Peppe 1 Comment

Despite being disproven as a strategy for reducing crime, the broken windows policing theory is still used in New York and throughout in the United States to crack down on disorder and nonviolent crime. To think that harsh enforcement of this type of “crime” would prevent serious crime like homicide and assault is patently absurd on its face. If you want to rid society of the most serious crimes, you should be enforcing the most serious crimes, like aggressive war.

Call it broken countries policing.

In the United States in 2014, you may be arrested for selling loose cigarettes, jumping turnstiles, dancing on the subways, and having small amounts of marijuana, but not for assassination, torture, anal rape, illegal surveillance, or invading, occupying and bombing sovereign countries.

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Afghanistan, Agent Orange, agriculture, American imperialism, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World, apartheid, assasination, Barack Obama, Bill Bratton, Bill de Blasio, broken windows policing, Cambodia, cannabis, capitalism, CIA, CIA torture, class war, Convention against Torture, Corporate America, criminal justice, democracy, discrimination, Douglas Blackmon, drones, drug war, endless war, Eric Garner, Ferguson, George W. Bush, Global War on Terror, Grenada, Henry Giroux, history, homeless, Human Rights, I can't breathe, illegal occupation, immigration, injustice, Iraq, Jr., kill list, Korea, labor, Laos, Libya, marijuana, Martin Luther King, Michael Brown, Michelle Alexander, Military-industrial complex, Molotov cocktail, napalm, New York, New York City, New York Police Department, Noam Chomsky, Nuremberg Trials, NYPD, oppression, Pakistan, Panama, police, police brutality, poverty, prison-industrial complex, prisons, quality of life crimes, racism, rape culture, Raven Rakia, Riverside Church, Secret Wars, segregation, Senate Torture Report, Shadow Government: Surveillance, slavery, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II, solidarity, Somalia, surveillance, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Tom Engelhardt, torture, torture report, Truthout, United States Civil War, Vietnam, War, war crimes, war on drugs, We tortured some folks, Yemen

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