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Above The Law: The Invasion Of Panama & The World’s Lone Superpower

December 22, 2014 By Matt Peppe 8 Comments

Twenty five years ago, before dawn on December 20, 1989, U.S. forces descended on Panama City and unleashed one of the most violent, destructive terror attacks of the century. U.S. soldiers killed more people than were killed on 9/11. They systematically burned apartment buildings and shot people indiscriminately in the streets. Dead bodies were piled on top of each other; many were burned before identification. The aggression was condemned internationally, but the message was clear: the United States military was free to do whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted, and they would not be bound by ethics or laws.

The invasion and ensuing occupation produced gruesome scenes: “People burning to death in the incinerated dwellings, leaping from windows, running in panic through the streets, cut down in cross fire, crushed by tanks, human fragments everywhere,” writes William Blum.

Years later the New York Times interviewed a survivor of the invasion, Sayira Marín, whose “hands still tremble” when she remembers the destruction of her neighborhood.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: Berlin Wall, blowback, Central American Human Rights Commission, CIA, COEDHUCA, Contra, corporate media, El País, France, George H.W. Bush, history, Human Rights, imperialism, international law, Iran, James Peck, journalism, Juantxu Rodríguez, labor, Los Angeles Times, Manuel Noriega, Maruja Torres, Military-industrial complex, New York Times, Nicaragua, Noam Chomsky, Operation Just Cause, Organization of American States, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama City, Pentagon, propaganda, Russia, Sabrina Virgo, Sayira Marín, School of the Americas, Soviet Union, The Cold War, The Panama Deception, United Kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, US imperialism, US Invasion of Panama, War, war crimes, William Blum

The Truth About The Marshall Plan

November 26, 2014 By Burkely Hermann 3 Comments

For years, politicians and commentators have said that their policies are just like the Marshall Plan, officially called the European Recovery Program (E.R.P.), in order to tout their polices as positive.

Just a few examples: Al Gore called for a “global Marshall Plan” to combat global warming in 1993; writers for the Worldwatch Institute called a “Marshall Plan” to advance human security and control terrorism; history professor Charles Maier called for a “Marshall Plan” for Germany; and UNCTAD having a 62 page report describing how a “Marshall Plan” could be developed for the world’s poorest countries. Even Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who is known by environmentalists for opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, touted his vision for “shock therapy” in Russia, which hurt many Russians after it was implemented in 1995, as based on the Marshall Plan [1]. Another great example of this is Naomi Klein’s argument that George W. Bush’s Iraq reconstruction plan was the “anti-Marshall plan.” [2] This article aims to set the record straight about the Marshall Plan and to assess if it is right to invoke it today.

The view expressed by Jeffrey Sachs is a clear example of the common view of the Marshall Plan. This plan, which was simply the allocation of $2.6 billion for Europe “to reconstruct its infrastructure and industry after the Second World War” was described by Sachs as showing “how a modest amount of monetary infusion created a base for [Europe’s] economic recovery to take hold.” [1]

Learning the whole story and truth about the Marshall Plan is important. This article aims to contribute to that story and open up new ways of understanding what the Plan was really about.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Al Gore, Albert Einstein, Catholic Workers, Chalmers Johnson, Chris Harman, CIA, communism, Communist Party, Dean Acheson, Dwight MacDonald, European Recovery Program, France, George Marshall, George W. Bush, Germany, Harry S. Truman, Henry Wallace, history, Howard Zinn, imperialism, Iraq, Italy, Jeffrey Sachs, Keystone XL, Korea, Lance Selfa, Lawrence S. Wittner, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, pacifism, Russia, socialism, Socialist Party, Stalin, The Marshall Plan, Tim Weiner, Tuskegee experiment, W.W. Rostow, West Germany, William Blum, William O. Kellogg, World War II

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