[Peace-discuss] State Department Terminates Aid to Honduras Coup Regime

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Digging deeper, It seems that the United States was involved in 
precipitating the Military Coup from
its base in Tegucigalpa.

Pepe Escobar notes in Asian Times:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KI03Df01.html
> The beauty of Plan Colombia is its one-size-fits-all status - from 
> AfPak to Mexico. Few people know that in April 2007, the former US 
> ambassador to Colombia, William Wood, was sent to Afghanistan to 
> implement ... a Plan Colombia, that is, counter-insurgency disguised 
> as a war on drugs. Colombia is a mirror of Afghanistan - and 
> vice-versa. It goes without saying that counter-insurgency-heavy 
> Afghanistan - now under the supreme boot of former death-squad 
> operator to General Davis Petraeus in Iraq, General Stanley
> <http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KI03Df01.html#> McChrystal - 
> still produces over 90% of the world's opium.
>
> And inevitably that's where NATO comes in. The only part of the world 
> where NATO is still not active is ... South America. Few people also 
> know that a few months ago, the head of the Pentagon's Southern 
> Command, Admiral James Stavridis, became NATO supreme commander. Three 
> of the past five NATO top military commanders - Stavridis, Bantz 
> Craddock and Wesley Clark - moved to NATO glory from ... the Southern 
> Command, certainly adding another meaning to the gloomy expression 
> "School of the Americas".
>
> No wonder Bolivian President Evo Morales said in Cuba, in mid-July, "I 
> have first-hand information that the empire, through the US Southern 
> Command, made the coup d'etat in Honduras." And all this while not 
> only Mexico and Argentina - but also Brazil and Ecuador - are on their 
> way to decriminalizing drugs.
>
> War on drugs? So much for the cover story. More like the Pentagon 
> stuck in the business, to quote Galeano, of insulting Latin America's 
> intelligence for a long time to come.

Escobar also makes some notes about the grand plan of US Hegemony that 
drives the war machine...
> The New Great Game is not only focused on the face-off between the 
> United States and strategic competitors Russia 
> <http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KI03Df01.html#> and China - 
> with Pipelineistan as a defining element.
>
> The full spectrum dominance doctrine requires the control of the 
> Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Horn of Africa to 
> western China. The cover story is the former "global war on terror", 
> now "overseas contingency operations" under the management of 
> President Barack Obama's administration. 
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