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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA quote from President Dwight D. Eisenhower: April 16, 1953
Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.".....
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, speech April 16, 1953:
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)enough
(13,237 posts)DhhD
(4,695 posts)Covert United States foreign regime
change actions
1949 Syrian coup d'état
1953 Iranian coup d'état
1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion
1964 Brazilian coup d'état
1973 Chilean coup d'état
1976 Argentine coup d'état
197989 Afghanistan, Operation Cyclone
1980 Turkish coup d'état
198187 Nicaragua, Contras
Privatization of a foreign country brought to us on behalf of the Merchant Bank of United States of America.
Merchant Bank - see Revelations, Chapter 18.
New Merchant Activities:
Privatization of PEMA, through the US State Department 2011-12.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)http://fpif.org/mexicos-oil-privatization-risky-business/
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The privatization and break-up of Pemex has long been a chief aspiration of neoliberal planners in North America. Promoters of the free-market model and supporters of NAFTAincluding the World Bank, the State Department-funded Wilson Center, and the Mexican business association Coparmexhave predictably celebrated the reforms.
more at link
http://www.iatp.org/files/NAFTA_and_the_FTAA_Impact_on_Mexicos_Agricultu.pdf
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The Women's Coalition: Impact on the workers
NAFTA and the FTAA: Impact on Mexicos Agriculture Sector
NAFTA was created with the explicit goal of reducing poverty in Mexico by
creating a large, middle income population in the country. However, that goal has not been accomplished - many of Mexicos poor have become poorer. Now NAFTA is the blueprint for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a trade agreement that will
cover the entire western hemisphere.
more at link
different equation
(69 posts)I believe this is an important quote.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)he wasn't a true blue pacifist, today he would be labeled as one.
different equation
(69 posts)Today he would not be considered a Republican.
Delmette
(522 posts)"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." Source unknown.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... just what is it the defense budget is defending?
avebury
(10,946 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Akamai
(1,779 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)And .... didn't he have some carefully-crafted warnings.... at the end of his second term.... about the acute danger to the republic posed by " the military-industrial complex."?
Poor IKE. Starry-eyed dreamer. Not an actual commie.... some red-baiter of the period said ( was it Robert Welch of John Birch Society?)... but " a little pink around the edges."
Vinca
(50,170 posts)Gman
(24,780 posts)Stuart G
(38,365 posts)Further, his ideas now, would be totally rejected by "todays Republican Party.".........Why?..
because Ike fought against the Fascist Assholes, and that is what "today's Republican Party" is.
He also warned about the "Military Industrial Complex" and he was correct about that too..
a link to that speech:
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)farewell address of President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 17, 1961
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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Today's Republican party would use every tool in the book to get rid of anyone talking like this. And it wouldn't matter if he were a general in some war that killed 50,000,000. And their attack would be relentless and vicious. Combine this statement with the one in the OP and the so called republican leaders would attack this speaker as a "Communist Sympathizer" who's only aim is to "Weaken American and have it taken over by the Communist Devils"