Edward Herman On Foreign Policy Guided By Corporate Interests

Very good article as Herman links America's "interests" with support of foreign dictators, and how democracy inhibits these American interests. He provides some historical context as well. Herman also discusses US class warfare.

This is precisely the type of article and analysis that a staunch conservative would use to exemplify the notion that "Chomsky (or fill in the blank) hate or hates America" or some such other nonsense. In the authoritarian hierarchy, you don't question an established authority, you merely give unconditional allegiance to it.

Its important to point out that Democratic as well as Republican presidents have worked equally hard to maintain pro-American interests. This is an aspect of our economy, and if there is anything about America that is significant it is our economy.

ZNET: Toward a Homeland "Favorable Climate of Investment"

Unfortunately, quelling "populist" tendencies often requires harsh measures. For many decades these were regularly provided by U.S.-sponsored and supported military dictatorships and regimes of state terror. Latin America became a hotbed of "national security states" (NSS) in the 1950s-1980s, right in the U.S. backyard (the real terror network). But somehow the mainstream media and liberal America never saw a causal relationship between U.S. dominance, interests, aid, military training, and diplomatic support, and the rise of the NSS, as they did with the character of the puppet regimes in the Soviet Union's backyard in Eastern Europe. The Frontispiece of The Washington Connection, entitled "The Sun and Its Planets," showed that an estimated 26 of the 35 countries using torture on an administrative basis in the 1970s were U.S. client states, all receiving military aid and training, most of them getting police training as well, with dollar flows shown on lines running from the sun to the 26 planets.