Reply #18: AP has nothing better to do? Where are their articles on the mass graves in Colombia,

[Peace Patriot]

filled with the bodies of union organizers, peasants and political leftists, or the recently revealed close ties between the rightwing paramilitaries who have been torturing and murdering innocent people, and engaging in drug trafficking, and the Uribe government (Bush's pals), including the head of the military, the former chief of intelligence and many top Uribe office holders? Where are their articles on the plot against Chavez's life that was recently uncovered among these paramilitaries? Where are their investigative reports on the use of the billions and billions of US taxpayer dollars that Bush has poured into Colombia?

Where are their articles on the USAID/NED (US taxpayer) funding of the recall election and other opposition campaigns against Chavez in Venezuela? Where are their exposes on the World Bank/IMF ruination of Argentina's economy, or their reporting on how Argentina recovered, and why it's doing so well today? (--creation of the Bank of the South, by Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay, to COUNTER the World Bank/IMF's ruinous loan policies). Where are their articles on the improvement in the quality of life for the vast poor population in Venezuela--on every social indicator (income, education, literacy, medical care, housing)?

Chavez is the elected president of Venezuela, and the commander in chief of its military. There is nothing unusual about a president and commander in chief speaking to his troops, warning them of potential threats against their country and against lawful government, and trying to inspire them to do their job. Why an AP article on this?

It's just another shred of pig food on the pile of garbage that AP and our war profiteering corporate news monopolies are shoveling at the U.S. middle and upper classes, to get them to buy it--so that when John "death squad" Negroponte--Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America--makes his move, on behalf of the super-rich and the corporate, we will be fast asleep under this pile of garbage, and won't notice or care. Who cares if another "dictator" in South America is overthrown, hm? This article is part of an intense corporate media campaign to foster that attitude, and to create an entirely false picture of Venezuela and its president, so that we don't care. The fact that Venezuela has far, far, FAR more transparent elections than we do, the fact that the Bolivarian revolution is a real and true, peaceful, democratic social justice movement with huge support throughout South America is never illustrated, discussed or referred to. The voices of the millions and millions of people who support it are never heard. Instead, these corporate reporters follow Chavez around, looking for photo ops with which to distort who he is, to fit their campaign of vilification.

And their other reason for this disinformation campaign against Chavez is that they don't want US to get any ideas about social justice here, or transparent vote counting, or widespread participation in government, or the use of resources to benefit the poor and the middle class, or lawful, constitutional government, or denying use of the public airwaves to corporations who fail to use their broadcast license in the public interest.

We need to fight this sneaky kind of disinformation (distorted images, omitted context, black holes of redacted news) every day. Every time we read a newspaper, every time we turn on the TV news, we are hit with this kind of crap, not just on Chavez but on EVERYTHING. Personality politics. Trivialization of the issues. Failure to report what's really happening and what people really think. Promotion of the latest corporate/war profiteer "villain." And ignoring of all the real villains and villainy in the world.

To counter the disinformation on this particular topic--Chavez--I recommend www.venezuelanalysis.com, and also the DVD "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (available at www.axisoflogic.com). Please realize that the corporate media are lying to you, that million of peoples' lives could be horribly affected if their lies succeed, and get informed.

The Bushites and their corporate puppetmasters want unfettered access to the oil, gas, minerals, forests and other resources of the Andes region, and I don't think we need to be reminded that they will torture and kill many thousands of people to get it. Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, has said, "We want partners, not bosses." But the Bushites and their corporate brethren don't want to be "partners." We know this. And they are using OUR MONEY to insure--by violence or by stealth--that the people of South America don't have the power to insist on fair play. And they are using corporate monopolies on the news in this country to keep us stupid about these issues.

PLEASE get informed! PLEASE don't let them get away with it THIS TIME, the way they did in the Reagan era, that resulted in the tortures and deaths of tens of thousands of people, and the destruction of democracy throughout Latin America. They're planning to do it AGAIN. All these anti-Chavez articles in the corporate media are prep for it. Get informed! Think! Analyze! Understand the history of this fascist Reaganite/Bushite cabal. And apply recent lessons, such as Iraq. Did they lie to you about Iraq? Why? Resources! Are they bald-faced lying to you about Chavez as well? Why? Resources! This is the Corporate Resource War, part II: South America.

Don't be fooled by baseless assertions that Chavez is a "dictator." Look into the matter for yourself! Who they are REALLY demonizing is the PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA, and the people of other Andes democracies, who have dared to challenge U.S./corporate power in South America. Chavez is one leader. There are many others. And they have the overwhelming support of the people of the region.