August 5
GUESTS: Yohana Beyene, organizer for Horn of Africa Pan-Africanists for Liberation and Solidarity, and Tunde Osazua, Coordinator of Black Alliance for Peace's U.S. Out of Africa Network, talk about the sordid history of US involvement in Somalia and Ethiopia.
Horn of Africa - Pan-Africans for Liberation & Solidarity
It's a powerful combination: US military aggression and the ignorance of the American people. The aggression part has been around since the end of the WW II, when government "leaders" decided to expand US hegemony to include the rest of the world. And that has been the underlying motivation of the CIA, created during the war to destroy fascist armies, but now transitioned to attack any country that strays from the US neoliberal agenda.
This has been especially damaging to emerging democracies in the Third World. In places like Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala, Chile, and many newly formed countries in Africa, Somehow, the US sees itself as above the law when it comes to subverting elected leaders or assassinating critics of the empire.
The CIA has made the transition from fighting the Nazi SS to becoming its United States equivalent. This agency should have been shut down after the war was won and our troops came home. Only our troops never came home from all the countries that our military liberated. And the CIA was vastly expanded so ensure that our bases multiplied and stayed forever. In that way, the US became the Third Reich, determined to last a thousand years, despite the yearnings of tens of millions to be free.
If the US empire ever falls, we will be left with the baggage of its war crimes: tens of millions killed and dozens of governments overthrown. The US will have spent all its vast treasures on war, with little to show for it besides a burning planet and the hundreds of billionaires who talk of escaping to outer space.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
