Trump
has presided over a major crime against humanity
Washington
Has Disassociated America from Good and Deprived
Her of Moral Basis
By
Paul Craig Roberts
November 12, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- Not
long ago I read that a US Assistant Secretary of
State, or perhaps it was a member of the
National Security Council, said that now that
Washington had reestablished control over
Ecuador, it would not be long before the
governments of Bolivia, Venezuela, and Cuba
would be overthrown.
Venezuela is proving to be hard for Washington
to crack. Washington was banking on its NGO
forces paid to stage protests, together with
monetary bribes to the Venezuelan military, to
chase Maduro out of office. But so far the
Venezuelan military has refused to desert their
country for Washington. Washington can, of
course, raise the offer to the generals. Perhaps
the generals are awaiting larger bribes.
However, the Bolivian military took the money
and on the basis of protests organized by
US-financed NGOs and the National Endowment for
Overthrowing Democracy forced Evo Morales out of
office. This is a huge loss for Bolivia.
Morales
is the first president since the founding of
Bolivia to come from the indigenous population.
His seventy-nine predecessors were all members
of the Spanish colonial elite allied with
Washington. Together they plundered the country.
Washington considers Morales “leftist” because
he focused on using Bolivian resources to reduce
Bolivian poverty and to create a better life for
Bolivians instead of for the profits of US
corporations and banks and the Spanish elites
who ruled Bolivia for Washington.
Self-determination in the southern hemisphere is
simply not permitted by Washington or by its
overthrow agent, the misnamed US “National
Endowment for Democracy,” which is a
well-financed organization for overthrowing real
democracy.
Now
that Bolivia is back in Washington’s hands, you
can count on Wikipedia to rewrite Morales
biography and cast him as a corrupt politician
who was oppressing the Bolivian people.
Indeed,
president Trump has already disposed of Morales
as a man of the people. The hapless American
president has praised the corrupt Bolivian
military, which accepted Washington’s money to
force out of office a president who represented
Bolivia instead of Washington, as an agent of
freedom and democracy.
The
coup engineered by Washington used an election
disputed only by Washington and its NGO
protesters to charcterize Morales as an
illegitimate president who tried to “overtride
the Bolivian constitution and the will of the
people.”
Trump
actually described America’s overthrow of the
democratic governemnt in Bolivia as “bringing
the world one step closer to a completely
democratic, prosperous, and free Western
Hemisphere.”
Trump
went on to describe the American overthrow of
democratic government in Bolivia as a warning to
the “illegitimate regimes in Venezuela and
Nicaragua that democracy and the will of the
people will always prevail.” What Trump means by
“democracy and the will of the people” is the
interests of the New York Banks and American
corporations known for their exploitation of
Latin America. A “free Western Hemisphere” means
free for exploitation by US business interests.
An “illegitimate government” is one elected by
the people instead of one put in office by
Washington.
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The former Ecuadoran president, Rafael Correa,
who gave Julian Assange asylum and has been
forced to seek safety abroad from Lenin Moreno,
the corrupt tyrant Washington has imposed on
Ecuador, said that the elected president of
Bolivia was forced out in a Washington coup and
that the Organization of American States is an
instrument of US domination. He is correct.
Moreno himself is proof of it. Moreno, a
Washingon imposition unacceptable to the people
of Ecuador, has been driven out of the capital
by protesters. Nevertheless, Washington
still claims that Lenin Moreno, who sold Julian
Assange to Washington for a $4.3 billion IMF
loan, brought freedom back to Ecuador.
The Venezuela government sees the
situation the same as Rafael Correa.
Trump
has presided over a major crime against
humanity. This would be a valid reason to
impeach him.
I will
receive emails from some readers wanting to know
how I can attack Trump and still endorse him.
Such letters show the failure of American
education. I have never endorsed Trump. I
endorsed the goals that got him
elected—normalization of relations with Russia
and bringing the offshored American middle class
jobs home. I predicted accurately that Trump
knew nothing of Washington and would be unable
to appoint anyone capable of serving his agenda.
Trump undertook to drain the swamp while
staffing himself with the proprietors of the
swamp.
In my recent columns—https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/07/a-successful-coup-against-trump-will-murder-american-democracy/
and
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/11/08/only-donald-trump-can-save-american-democracy-and-only-with-our-support/
— I do not endorse Trump. I endorse American
Democracy and truth. If an elected American
president can be removed in an orchestrated coup
as Morales was, the American people will have
lost all control over their government. Both
political parties seem to desire this result.
Those Democrats and progressives who just want
Trump out of the White House and those
Republicans who won’t defend him from false
charges do not comprehend the price to democracy
of removing an elected president via
orchestrated coup.
That
some Americans are unable to comprehend the
difference between endorsing Trump and endorsing
accountable government is frightening. How can
our country survive in accordance with our
Constitution if Americans are incapable of
rational thought, if they cannot understand
their clearly written native language, if they
cannot understand that a coup is a coup against
democracy?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News
Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet columns
have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts'
latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire
Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West,
How America Was Lost,
and
The Neoconservative Threat to
World Order.
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==See Also==
Bolivia
walks away from lithium project with German
company:
The
decision followed a decree emitted by President
Evo Morales. Bolivia is sitting on the
second-largest reserve, estimated in nine
million tonnes, or around 25% of the world’s
known reserves.
Media
‘whitewashing coup’ in Bolivia, & CIA surely
celebrating Morales’ departure – pundits
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