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bvar22

(39,909 posts)
21. Exactly!
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:51 PM
Mar 2014

The campaign to undercut the emerging Transparent Populist Democracies in Latin America is especially egregious.

For a country that pays so much lip service to the words "freedom" and "democracy",
you would think that we would have more respect for the REAL thing.

But NO!
We remain committed to funding one of the last remaining Death Squad Police State Oligarchies (Colombia).
One of the issues upon which the Democratic Party and the Republican Party openly agree is the need to DEMONIZE & CONDEMN and fund the overthrow of the Populist government in Venezuela, and all the other emerging democracies in South America.

The predictable results of the openly hostile position is driving these emerging democracies and their emerging markets straight into the open arms of Russia, China, and Iran.
How STUPID does it have to get?

In Venezuela,
The POOR are celebrating,
and the RICH are protesting.
I would love to see that here.

VIVA Democracy!
...because WE outnumber THEM.

Same reason Japan was ready to take us to the brink of WW II! SharonAnn Mar 2014 #1
Ja. Remember ''The Sand Pebbles''? Octafish Mar 2014 #3
Nice To See Mention Of That Long Forgotten Bit Of History, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2014 #6
"Dear Vlad, The #Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you." Catherina Mar 2014 #2
McCain rotted in Hanoi Hilton for...Big Oil. Octafish Mar 2014 #4
Ugly, ugly stuff Catherina Mar 2014 #5
Kick for this ugly truth. Scuba Mar 2014 #7
The nice man on NPR said Fracking was helping America's gas producers... Octafish Mar 2014 #12
Big Oil, and Big Banks (IMF) is WHY we went to Iraq, bvar22 Mar 2014 #8
+1000000000000000 nt. polly7 Mar 2014 #9
+1000000000 woo me with science Mar 2014 #11
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Exactly! bvar22 Mar 2014 #21
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Vietnam was about oil? Interesting take. Pretzel_Warrior Mar 2014 #14
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It's the entitlements I tells ya! Enthusiast Mar 2014 #18
kicking this thread frwrfpos Mar 2014 #19
Kick + March 6, 2014 US Department of Defense Contracts bobthedrummer Mar 2014 #22
Who still believes in the invisible hand of the free market? Kick. n/t bobthedrummer Mar 2014 #23
Pipelines CAN cross Turkey. Former Sec. Gates is recommending this. HereSince1628 Mar 2014 #24
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