honduras

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

lots of things going on here. so far my favorite story out of this is that Lanny Davis, remember that tiresome nob who campaigned for clinton in the primaries, long time adviser and counselor for the clintons? is the coup president's lobby and legal council in america. He's the fucking lawyer for the new dictator who deposed a democratically elected president, lobbying that u.s. policy accept the new government. Well its a good thing we have an uninvolved secretary of state! oh right....

http://gawker.com/5315444/lanny-davi...-two-countries

He's also reported to have ties to american multinational corporations who are also backing the new leader

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/15/honduras

Shocked but not surprised as they say.

On the one hand, there's the camp that will never get to hear about all this, or just know in their hearts that if it's true then the United States must surely be acting in God's will.

On the other, there's the rest of us who struggle to balance our incredulity with the paralysing cynicism of uttering to ourselves, "Nothing new here then".

Think Bulgaria... Slovakia... Albania... Venezuela... Haiti....

And of course it's not anti-American to recognize this consistency in US history. Helping to overthrow democratically elected governments is not so much "a USA thing" as "a most powerful nation on earth thing".

(That, and a Clinton thing, perhaps)