Excerpts, editing, notes and comment by Carolyn Bennett
U.S. Government and Corporations continue pouring across Southwest/Central Asian borders now into Yemen. The Persian threat persists. We’re going to save these suckers for “democracy” even if we don’t practice democracy ourselves and even if we have to kill every one of them to achieve our ends. Feigning “democracy” as justification for war, Barack Obama pushes the Bushes-Clinton-Reagan precedent galloping across Persia, the Middle East/Southwest Asia in killing sprees. Taking out everything in their path ─ children, men and women, destroying lives and livelihoods, culture and art over and over again in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, as well as in African countries, incessant threats against Iran and other countries whose citizens practice Islam ─ on the pretext of transporting “democracy” and “saving the poor beggars.”
DEMOCRACY for simple minds
“The United States still works with an early prototype version of democracy – Democracy 1.0 Beta – which could have evolved into a modern representative democracy given the chance, but now seems to be devolving into a monarchy,” Dmitry Orlov writes in Reinventing Collapse. “There is the Bush dynasty, and next we might have the Clinton dynasty.” Orlov was writing before the election of Barack Obama, but the evidence of his “democracy”-mission-dripping-in-blood policies leads one to wonder whether candidate Obama had struck a backroom bargain promising to retain the Clinton/Bush dynasties.
“The evidence of two sparring royal families,” Orlov continues, “can be used to obscure the fact that they are both proxies for largely the same group of people.”
Orlov spells out the historical line, the precedent of America’s false mission of democracy. “In recent years, the United States has … attempted to stage-manage democratic revolutions in various unfortunate countries that were formerly part of the Soviet sphere of influence. These were the work of the Color Revolution Syndicate. They were well organized, foreign-financed events that involved mass production and shipping in of flags and t-shirts, promotion via international mass media, coordinated political pressure from Western governments and even catering services for the demonstrators, who were mostly young, bored and did not need much of an excuse to go and demonstrate.
“They demonstrated for freedom and democracy and while the freedom in question was mainly intended for foreign corporations and democracy was to stand for money politics and stage-managed elections, such subtleties were lost on their simple minds.”
Sources and Notes
Color Revolution
Color revolution is a term used to describe related movements that developed in several societies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (former USSR) and Balkan states during the early 2000s. Participants in the cooler revolutions have mostly used nonviolent resistance to protest against governments seen as corrupt and/or authoritarian, and to advocate democracy. These movements all adopted a specific color (Iranian ‘green’) or flower as their symbol. Color revolutions are notable for the important role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and particularly student activists in organizing creative nonviolent resistance. [wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution]
Orlov’s book
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov, Paperback: 176 pages, New Society Publishers, June 1, 2008, excerpts from pages 56 and 57
Yemen
Yemen’s critical geography: Republic of Yemen (Arabic Al-Yaman or Al-Jumhūrīyah al-Yamanīyah) is situated at the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
Most of its northern frontier with Saudi Arabia traverses the great desert of the peninsula, the ‘Empty Quarter’, and remains un-demarcated, as does the eastern frontier with Oman.
Yemen’s uncharted desert marches make its precise land area impossible to determine.
In the west and south, Yemen is bounded by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, respectively. The country’s territory includes a number of islands including the Kamaran group, located in the Red Sea near Al-Ḥudaydah; Perim (Barīm), in the Bab el-Mandeb, which separates the Arabian Peninsula from Africa; the most important and largest island, Socotra (Suqutrā), located in the Arabian Sea nearly 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) east of Aden; and The Brothers, small islets near Socotra. [Britannica]
Iran
The heart of the storied Persian empire of antiquity, Iran has long played an important role in the region as an imperial power and later—because of its strategic position and abundant natural resources, especially petroleum—as a factor in colonial and superpower rivalries.
Iran’s critical geography: A mountainous, arid, ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia, the world’s only Shiite state, Iran is bounded to the north by Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea, to the east by Pakistan and Afghanistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. Iran also controls about a dozen islands in the Persian Gulf. About one-third of its 4,770-mile (7,680-km) boundary is seacoast.
Much of Iran consists of a central desert plateau, which is ringed on all sides by lofty mountain ranges that afford access to the interior through high passes. Most of the population lives on the edges of this forbidding, waterless waste. Tehran, the country’s capital, is a sprawling, jumbled metropolis at the southern foot of the Elburz Mountains. Famed for its handsome architecture and verdant gardens, the city fell somewhat into disrepair in the decades following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, though efforts were later mounted to preserve historic buildings and expand the city’s network of parks. Tehran and cities such as Eṣfahān and Shīrāz combine modern buildings with important landmarks from the past and serve as major centers of education, culture, and commerce. [Britannica]
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