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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Atlantic: 'Barr must resign'
"Bill Barrs America is not a place that anyone, including Trump voters, should want to go. It is a banana republic where all are subject to the whims of a dictatorial president and his henchmen. To prevent that, we need a public uprising demanding that Bill Barr resign immediately, or failing that, be impeached."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/donald-ayer-bill-barr-must-resign/606670/
malaise
(269,023 posts)Every single one was imposed on Central American countries on behalf of US national interests (i.e. banana companies like United Fruit Company and the US government). Now the US billionaires are demanding the same at home.
Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
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"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
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"Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras 'right' for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
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"During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion. Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents."
Maj. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC (ret.)
malaise
(269,023 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)I DARE anyone to take time to read these two articles:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/donald-ayer-bill-barr-must-resign/606670/ (the one shown in this post)
and
http://www.stonekettle.com/
Really.
Read them - go back and read them again.
After all of that you MUST realize that we are in serious trouble.
We MUST get rid of IQ45 and ALL of those that he has put into place to help drive his destruction of the United States as we know it.
We are so far gone already - a Senate that will not fight to save us.
It is up to US!
GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!!
triron
(22,006 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)He is doing exactly what Trump appointed him to do.