By Nicolas J.S. Davies
AlterNet - March 10, 2014
The U.S. is backing Ukraine’s extreme right-wing Svoboda
party and violent neo-Nazis whose armed uprising paved the way for a
Western-backed coup. Events in the Ukraine are giving us another glimpse
through the looking-glass of U.S. propaganda wars against fascism,
drugs and terrorism. The ugly reality behind the mirror is that the U.S.
government has a long and unbroken record of working with fascists,
dictators, druglords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of
the world in its elusive but relentless quest for unchallenged global
power.
Behind a firewall of impunity and protection from the State
Department and the CIA, U.S. clients and puppets have engaged in the
worst crimes known to man, from murder and torture to coups and
genocide. The trail of blood from this carnage and chaos leads directly
back to the steps of the U.S. Capitol and the White House. As historian
Gabriel Kolko observed in 1988, “The notion of an honest puppet is a
contradiction Washington has failed to resolve anywhere in the world
since 1945.” What follows is a brief A to Z guide to the history of that
failure.Read more....
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