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In 1949, The U.S. turns Eastern Europe espionage over to Ex-Nazi Richard Gehlen. What the U.S. then did in Greece becomes the model for the Vietnam War: to “defend�� a country against its own population. The United States in many ways picked up where the Nazis left off with replacing town resistance with fascists and also its Operation Paperclip which involved the U.S. hiring of war criminals like SS officer Klaus Barbie. 100,000 anti-fascist Koreans were killed (30,000 to 40,000 in Cheju Island only) when the U.S. brought fascists back to power in South Korea Post-WWII. In Latin America, the U.S. for decades battled the “dangerous heresy�� - “the idea that the government has direct responsibility for the welfare of the people.�� According to planners, any country believing the heresy was branded communist. The Cold War real threat wasn’t the smoke screen of communism, it was third-world nationalism and the need to eradicate “the dangerous heresy��. As planner George Kennan clearly stated, “We should not hesitate before police repression by the local government.�� The threat in Vietnam wasn’t Communists conquering Asia by force, “but that they might set a dangerous example of national independence that would inspire other nations in the region�� a.k.a., the threat of successful third world nationalism. The State Department would not let Mennonites send pencils to Cambodia, it rejected both OXFAM’s solar pumps, and India’s offer of 100 water buffalo. Heck, our country even stopped shovels from going to Laos to dig up the many unexposed land mines we put there! Since 1970, the U.S. has also been #1 in vetoing Security Council resolutions. We are now #1 at opposing the rest of the world.

We know previously from Noam that the U.S. prefers to fight the most defenseless countries because victory is more assured. But here Noam points out the smaller the country, the more its independent success will cause larger/stronger countries to say, “Damn, if they can defy the U.S., WHY can’t we?�� George Kennan allowed Japan to industrialize because we controlled oil imports and so we would always have them by the balls if Japan stepped out of line. The death toll by U.S. backed forces in Central America is 200,000. “As Stalin used to say, we’re ‘dizzy with success.’�� Here’s the military training forced on one group of U.S. backed Salvadorian soldier trainees: they were forced to kill dogs by biting their throats or twisting off their heads. They had to watch torture: fingernail removal, cutting off heads, “chopping their bodies to pieces and playing with dismembered arms for fun.�� Our U.S. taxpayer dollars at work.

The U.S. invaded South Vietnam, yet nowhere will you see that written; it is still unspeakable. The U.S. achieved its objectives in Vietnam because the country was effectively destroyed and will never pose as a successful model. But lest we think the U.S. mellows out in time, the U.S. in 1991, “renewed the embargo and sanctions against Vietnam.�� Russia publicly admitted that their invasion of Afghanistan was illegal; imagine the U.S. ever admitting the same about Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The Cold War was two powers controlling their own populations by focusing only on the crimes of the other.

Let’s talk drug fatalities. Every year 300,000 die from tobacco and 100,000 from alcohol, and so the governments job is to focus tons of money on only illegal drugs which kill around 3,500 annually. We are the world’s leading drug peddler because no one will touch U.S. Tobacco. Bakunin predicted how the Russian Revolution turned out. The Bolsheviks destroyed socialism and both they and the U.S. then pretended what was still left was called socialism. Today, those in power can easily live with you going to the occasional demonstration. What they don’t want is sustained organized pressure. Thus, the path we must choose is clear��