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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2019-15
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
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There are freshmen from Michigan and Minnesota in Congress who recently made some news with comments about the Zionist lobby. Some anti-imperialists and progressives lauded them for their efforts and defended them against attacks. But these are wolfs in sheep clothing.
Rep. Ilhan Omar Verified account @Ilhan – 1:31 utc – 16 Mar 2019
The people of Syria revolted against Assad's repressive dictatorship 8 years ago today, demanding a more just and free government. Peace loving people around the world stand in solidarity with them in this struggle!
Rashida Tlaib Verified account @RashidaTlaib – 23:46 utc – 16 Mar 2019
The anniversary of the uprising against the oppression in Syria was yesterday. We must recognize the struggle of those who organized and stood up against injustice. It is my hope that we can see a Syria that is truly free one day.
On might guess that the checks from the Muslim Brotherhood, the Turkish and the Qatari lobbies arrived.
As Ilhan Omar once wisely said:
‘It’s all about the Benjamins baby’
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Use as open thread …
Does anyone else see the similarities between the current push in Venezuela and the Haiti coup in 2004?
“Canada’s Liberal government was instrumental in gathering together an exclusive coterie of international players to lay the foundation for Haiti’s coup.
“Their first meeting, the so-called “The Ottawa Initiative on Haiti” (January 31 – February 1, 2003) was held at the federal government’s conference centre on Meech Lake near Canada’s capital.
“We now know, thanks to Access to Information, that this confab on “the current political situation in Haiti” was “envisaged to be of a restricted and intimate nature….in order to facilitate a free exchange of views and brainstorming among the invited participants.”
“Those invited to this so-called “free exchange” did not include a single Haitian, not even from the wealthy corporate elite that was so instrumental in facilitating the coup. Besides El Salvador’s Foreign Minister, participants were exclusively from North America and Europe. They were also homogenous in their opposition to Haiti’s President Aristide and in support of replacing him with an imposed, occupation government.
“The meeting’s host was Denis Paradis, a Quebec Liberal MP who was Chrétien’s Secretary of State for Latin America, Africa and the Francophonie. Canada’s future Foreign Affairs Minister, Pierre Pettigrew, was also there, as were two U.S. State Department officials, Mary Ellen Gilroy and Otto Reich — a long-time coup plotter, propagandist, and veteran of the Contragate scandal. Also on hand were the US representative to the Organization of American States, France’s Minister for Security and Conflict Prevention and the Francophonie’s Administrator General.
“The Ottawa Initiative” was presumably supposed to remain secret, but in March 2003, Paradis leaked some details to journalist Michel Vastel, who wrote about it in L’Actualité (March 15, 2003).
“Canada used every conceivable diplomatic trick to bring down Aristide’s elected government and then legitimise the coup-installed regime.
“On February 5, 2004–while a murderous band of ex-military and death-squad leaders launched a campaign attacking Haitian government facilities, police stations and health clinics–Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Pettigrew met with Paul Arcelin. Described as the terrorist’s “political mastermind” and “spokesman,” Arcelin also served as diplomatic representative in Cana
“At the UN Security Council on February 26, Canadian, U.S. and French diplomats dismissed Caribbean Community (CARICOM) calls for a multinational force to protect Aristide’s elected government from a coup. While Jamaica’s Foreign Minister warned, “Immediate action is needed to safeguard democracy [and] to avert bloodshed,” U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham told Aristide to resign.
“Canada, the U.S. and France immediately recognised the illegal coup regime, but CARICOM’s 15 member states, Venezuela and the African Union’s 53 governments all refused diplomatic recognition and demanded an investigation into Aristide’s exile….”
http://coat.ncf.ca/Haiti/Canada_in_Haiti.htm
Two things strike me about it.
First, that Canada was reassuring the US that, despite not being able to join in the attack on Iraq, it remained a loyal, arse licking vassal.
Second, that the coup was carried out to prevent a conjunction, already begun, between the Chavez government in Caracas and Aristide’s immensely popular government in Haiti.
Historically the precedent, of Simon Bolivar seeking asylum in Haiti and liberating Venezuela with the assistance of the Haitians, is important.
It is ironic that Haiti’s current crisis stems, in every sense, from the cooperation between Aristide and Chavez, not to mention their popular constituencies. It is sinister that, once again, a “Liberal” government takes the lead in providing ideological cover for the brutal-Conradian-Empire.
Posted by: bevin | Mar 18 2019 16:55 utc | 93
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