THE FARC FAKE

The news media (AKA: the American government) is making lots of noise about a memo the Columbian government supposedly found in a laptop computer during a raid into Ecuadoran territory in pursuit of FARC guerillas. The memo purportedly talks about $300 million that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave to FARC to support its search for uranium to create an atomic weapon.

To begin at the beginning, the American people are almost entirely ignorant of the conflicts endemic to South America. As a student at Iowa State University in 1962-63, I ran with a group of friends from Colombia. Even then, they talked of the freedom fighters in the mountains. The same group continues to fight against the government. That government is the right wing and nearly aristocratic ally of the right in North America.

Across the borders of Ecuador and Venezuela are governments that strongly disagree with the “free market” (read top down wealth garnering) right wing government of Colombia. Those governments are commonly portrayed in our press as evil because they often act to block our control of their resources and markets. Those governments are certainly not perfect, but their leaders do take the well-being of their citizens seriously and seek to govern at least to some extent in such as way as to use and distribute the wealth of their nations on behalf of the people. Of course, that flies in the face of the right wing belief in keeping the wealth at the top of the pyramid.

So how does the memo fit into all of this? According to Greg Palast, a BBC reporter on a very long leash, it is a completely bogus, but largely successful attempt by the Bush administration to add fuel to the right wing legend of Hugo Chavez, falsely accused as a “dangerous terrorist supporter”.

Palast is one of the voices of world journalism whom I have come to trust. Time and again he has reported the truth of the situation in Iraq. His stories have proven to be accurate and his analyses right on the money time after time. In the lead story on his webpage today, Palast translates the message for us and shows that the reports of its revelation of Chavez’ support for terrorism is completely bogus. (See: http://www.gregpalast.com/ $300 MILLION FROM CHAVEZ TO FARC A FAKE)

So what we have here is yet another cry of “Wolf” from the little boy in the Whitehouse. The sky is falling. There are WMDs under every bed. Send in the troops. Eradicate those horrible enemies, the governments of Venezuela and Guatemala.

Enough. Enough. I’ve had enough of our shallow press acting as shills for the killers we keep electing to lead our country, and I’ve sure had enough of those “leaders”. Show me the way out!!


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Individually we have little voice. Collectively we cannot be ignored.
But in silence we surrender our power. Yours in Peace -- BR

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