U.S. Welcomes Another Puppet-Dictator
Maldives President and Climate Advocate Forced at Gunpoint to Step Down
Maldives leader Mohamed Nasheed, called the “world’s most environmentally outspoken president” because of his calls for drastically cutting greenhouse gas emissions, was forced to resign—at gunpoint, he claimed. He had used stunts such as an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight his island nation’s vulnerability to sea-level rise.His resignation followed weeks of protests and was apparently motivated by internal politics unrelated to his environmental views.
In 2008 Mohamed Nasheed was elected president. The coup against him was by the military and a former president.He is calling for outside intervention to restore democracy.
What is the U.S. reaction one might ask? What is "democracy promoter" Obama going to do about this?
Yeah. You guessed that right. He recognizes the new military supported dictatorship:
The United States on Thursday recognized the new government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed as legitimate and urged him to fulfill a pledge to form a national unity government.
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Nasheed, the Indian Ocean country's first democratically elected president who has hunkered down at his modest family home in the capital Male since losing the presidency on Tuesday, has appealed for urgent foreign help.The United States is "also encouraging him, as we encouraged President Waheed that this needs to settled now peaceably through dialogue and through the formation, as the new president has pledged, of a national unity government," Nuland said.
Posted by b on February 10, 2012 at 9:20 UTC | Permalink
Does anyone seriously doubt that the US, far from being taken unawares by this coup, was actually instrumental in ordering, organising and executing it?
As to the bomb attack in Aleppo does anyone doubt that this too was carried out by agents of the US Empire?
A significant proportion of the violent deaths on this planet are approved and commissioned by the US government behind the white noise and smokescreens put up by mass media which is as much a part of the imperial armoury as the Air Force, and a great deal more lethal.
Posted by: bevin | Feb 10 2012 13:51 utc | 2
mark one more "stepping stone" in the Indian Ocean as secure for the US Navy to use when the war comes.
Posted by: moshe | Feb 10 2012 14:40 utc | 4
Democracy Now! covered this extensively yesterday. Towards the end they aired footage of a Q&A at the State Department.... pretty devastating stuff if you don't like monsters. http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/9/coup_in_maldives_adviser_to_ousted
I would like to know more about who is behind/funding the military and this coup.
Posted by: Eureka Springs | Feb 10 2012 15:21 utc | 5
I would like to know more about who is behind/funding the military and this coup.
an old the FUGS song delightfully redone might give a hint...
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 10 2012 17:29 utc | 7
there is little new here. I have been to the Maldives a few times and hope to return soon. If this news gets out it could drive down the prices a bit and that would be good for me. I remember talking to a brit some years ago and he told me that during one of the Labor governments that were trying to get rid of the UK's nukes that the brit military hid a lot of their special weapons on Gan because they obviously knew better than their elected government.
same as it ever was.
Posted by: dan of steele | Feb 10 2012 17:56 utc | 9
We are witnessing the birth of the Neo Dark Age. (VV at 8)
Great line, can I steal it.
Neo-feudalism is often thrown out there, but it doesn’t fit as feudalism was completely, intimately, tied to the land and its productivity, even if the land was far away and the hold on it was diffuse or tenuous.
The desperate hard work needed to keep things afloat and produce a surplus (for expansion, luxury, games, war, etc.) required smooth cooperation, i.e. then, very immutable social - work - ranking roles and positions. Close interaction between all the parties kept things in balance and stable / expanding, for a long time.
Though there are some similarities, Dark Ages is better.
Posted by: Noirette | Feb 10 2012 18:12 utc | 10
We are witnessing the birth of the Neo Dark Age. (VV at 8)
Great line, can I steal it.
Neo-feudalism is often thrown out there, but it doesn’t fit as feudalism was completely, intimately, tied to the land and its productivity, even if the land was far away and the hold on it was diffuse or tenuous.
The desperate hard work needed to keep things afloat and produce a surplus (for expansion, luxury, games, war, etc.) required smooth cooperation, i.e. then, very immutable social - work - ranking roles and positions. Close interaction between all the parties kept things in balance and stable / expanding, for a long time.
Though there are some similarities, Dark Ages is better.
Posted by: Noirette | Feb 10 2012 18:12 utc | 11
@3 - Morocco Bama
omg! i can't believe what Foxman said!
Abraham Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, added: "The troops who posed in front of this Nazi SS flag obviously had no idea what it truly symbolised."There is a need...for our troops to be sensitised to the meaning of such symbols and the general nature of hate."
well, yes, actually i can believe it. because Foxman is not a Jew, he's a Zionist. and Zionists are notorious for selling out Jews. it's things like this that make me worry there really will be a false flag attack in america, blamed on iran, but carried out either by mossad, cia, or both. luckily, i don't live near any of the target cities they list.
Posted by: Proton Soup | Feb 10 2012 21:33 utc | 12
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Mohamed Nasheed is one of the "good guys" (although I should declare that I went to school with him in England). He wants to do what is best for his country, including some long-term thinking (in his case, what to do when the sea level rises) that is notably absent in Western politics.
All this is mixed up with religion, too. No Maldive citizen can be a non-muslim. Spas at high-end resorts have been banned on charges that they constitute brothels. People don't fly to the Maldives for hookers, the resorts are all full of honeymooning couple types.
Posted by: Maff | Feb 10 2012 10:55 utc | 1