Millions
of people around the world are overwhelmed and encouraged by the popular
uprisings against U.S.-imposed dictatorship regimes in the Arab world. Yet what
is lacking is any serious examination of the complicity of the U.S. government
and its allies in supporting murderous regimes. Far from promoting stability
and democracy, the U.S. is the source of instability and an enemy of democracy.
To serve its imperialist interests, the U.S. government
backed and financed murderous dictators around the world. From the fascist Augusto
Pinochet in Chile to the criminal regime of François Duvalier and his
son Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) in Haiti to the corrupt Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican
Republic to the murderous Ferdinand Marcos in the
Philippines to the criminal Mobutu Sese Seko of the Democratic Republic of
Congo (formerly Zaire) to Indonesia’s mass murderer Suharto to the vicious Shah
Reza Behlavi in Iran.
Today, the U.S. love affair with murderous
dictators and oppressive regimes – including Colombia, the murderous regime in
Iraq, King Abdullah of Jordan, the criminal regime of Zine Bin Ali in Tunisia, the
oppressive and ille… >>>
