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Salaam All...So let's read history...This book UNDER THE EAGLE was written in 1982. BUT... it could've been written today. I was 22 years old then and at 58 I still have it in my possession.
Just how those flags that daft Taft wanted to be planted and continue to be planted is told with marvelous clarity in this book by Jenny Pearce. A popular history of the battering that Central America and the Caribbean have taken from their neighbour to the north is long overdue. And it turns out to be highly readable not just because it is well written but because she allows many other people to join in and tell the story with her.
What this book shows is the nearly absolute subjugation of the Caribbean and Central American region to US interests. It lays bare the state-corporate network that exists within and between the US and this region, how the US arrogantly calls this entire chunk of the globe its "backyard". And here they come to Guyana AGAIN with EXXON. How Guyana was exploited by the CIA is made clear. Please read this 2016 article titled Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones with this question that ends it: The question is: Why on God’s-NOT-so-green-Earth-
(It must be repeated over and over that OIL IS DEAD). Guyana's govt (whoever that is) and the Guyanese people are living in a fool's paradise...but this will be dealt with in other emails.
Under the Eagle should be studied in all of our schools. Rather than the propaganda from TV and the numerous fake pieces on the Net that brainwashes our children they need access to real history. To understand the deception of the US government.
Ask any religious leader (Muslim, Hindu or Christian) if they have read this book and the answer most likely would be NO!!! They all hide behind some "fake god" whilst ignoring the social justice struggles that need to be undertaken. Unfortunately, they have their thousands of followers beseeching their "fake god" for help...help that never comes. Muhammad, Jesus, Abraham & Moses...now those were leaders that prayed to the REAL GOD whilst engaging the corrupt leaders on all fronts. AND WINNING!!!
Part I - The Eagle Rises (1823-1962)
Part II – The Eagle Rampant (1961-1976)
Part III – The Eagle Retrenches (1973-1979)
Part IV – The Eagle Reborn (1979-1981)
Part V – El Salvador: The Eagle’s Reckoning?
A brief historical background in Part I provides the backdrop for the post Cuban Revolution series of events that occupies the rest of the story. There are several photos, maps, and tables and as with all of the Latin American Bureau (LAB) publications, a solid underpinning of economic data helps expose the brutality of the neo-liberal agenda.
The enormous sums of money spent on military provisions, personnel and training; CIA covert operations, establishing institutions like The School of the America’s (known as the School of the Assassins), and providing enough cash for the bribing of local elites, could easily have been put toward improving living conditions for the poor and that does not even take into consideration the mountains of profit drained out of the region by the corporations and banks on whose behalf the military always became involved. The cost to the American government itself was substantial, leading the CIA into a highly publicized creative accounting scandal, the Iran-Contra affair, when it was revealed money from weapons sold to Iran were used to buy drugs that were funneled into North American cities, the proceeds of which were used to fund the Contras (Counter-revolutionaries) against the Sandinistas of Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra affair still lay into the future when this book was published in 1981, however far from being out of date, Under the Eagle reveals the policy-in-the-making thinking that has influenced United States action worldwide down to the present day. Apologists will say that this was the height of the cold war and that every precaution had to be made against a very cunning adversary, namely the Soviet Union, but the advent of the CIA’s ‘Team B’, which is mentioned in the book, exposes the cold war propaganda for what it was; a lie.
Central to that policy refinement is the startling admission (on page 168), made in the Monthly Review, April 1980 under the title; The Third World Threat.
“In order to understand US foreign policy in the period ahead, we must first identify the forces which threaten the status quo in ways likely to upset the stability and profitability of the US economy.
As we have already seen, the answer is not the Soviet Union . . .
The source of these changes . . . was in every case national liberation movements in the Third World, usually combining nationalistic and social revolutionary elements and in all cases carrying threats to US economic and political interests in the countries affected. All signs are that these movements are active in various parts of the world today, (South Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean) and are likely to become so in others (South America, the Middle East, Southern Asia) in the not distant future. Deteriorating economic conditions and mass living standards in all but a few Third World countries virtually guarantee that what may be called the revolt of the Third World will grow steadily in intensity during the 1980s.
This and not superpower rivalry is the number one contradiction in the world today and in the foreseeable future, hence also the primary concern of US foreign policy.”
So there we have it, with startling clarity for our present malaise. Latin America Bureau publications shine a well-researched light on the Eagles enormous effort and contribution to the collapse of fragile Third World economies through coups, usurious interest on national debt, currency manipulations; economic embargoes, drug laundering and out right military invasion – all blueprints for the 21st century. Only self-interest, not self-reflection, is permitted.
What the USA did to Guyana is included in this book....and it's UGLY.
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Shamal (225-9031; zamalsgy.com)...
