November 25
GUEST: Brian Willson, Viet Nam veteran, lawyer, and current resident of Nicaragua, talks about the recent elections there and why the US empire is trying to overthrow President Ortega and the Sandinista Revolution.
As Nicaragua Resists Regime Change
I was very happy to get Brian as a guest. He lives now in Nicaragua, and is an invaluable source of anti-imperialist opinions. Biden has proven to be just as hawkish as Trump and Obama. No change in pushing for a new cold war with Blinken in charge of the State Department. Why can't either party challenge our huge expenditure on the military? Why is the US still acting aggressively towards any country that tries to be the least bit independent?
It is certainly not to further the cause of democracy in the world. The US sends arms to a vast number of dictators and tyrants, as long as they play nice with our major corporations and allow us to build military bases in their homelands. The motivation is exactly the opposite; the policy of the US is to overthrow governments that try to put their people above US mining, oil, and banking profits.
Nicaragua has a history of teaching its people to read and giving them access to free healthcare. And that makes the country just too socialist for the kleptocracy class in the US empire. What if those ideas started to spread in the very belly of the beast?
The picture above is Brian right before he was run over by a train, full of mentions that were bound for the Contras. That was another decade, of course. But the US backed terrorists are at it again in Nicaragua, with the full consent and even enthusiasm of The New York Times and Democracy Now. So Brian and others fighting for Nicaragua's freedom are especially important now. Perhaps it is time to revive Mark Twain's Anti-Imperialist League, with its pox on both political parties.
