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2/6/13 10:4f The Evil Empire: Imperialist Devastation of Peoples and the Evils Done in our Names

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Of The Evil Empire:

Imperialist Devastation of Peoples and the Evils Done in our Names

By Manuel Valenzuela

01/11/06 "ICH" -- -- Let us for a few moments put aside our lavish lifestyles offortuitous endowment and providence that have made us blind to the realities of billionsof our fellow humans. Let us ignore our plasma televisions, our DVDs, our two-storycookie cutter homes and gas-guzzling SUVs. Let us promise to not open our overstocked

pantries and refrigerators, or to go out and eat at one of many corporate controlledfranchise restaurants offering vast assortments of gargantuan meals. We should ignore theopulence of our society that dwells permanently in our minds that makes us forget thesevere indigence and suffering that transpires beyond our shores and borders.

In short, we should come out of our luxurious bubble that has shielded us from the evilsinflicted on billions of humans that have not been as privy to a life of safety and security.Let us traverse the road of reality, sojourning through history and through mirages ofhidden truths. Let us dive into the making of the Evil Empire so that we may see what ourgovernment has and continues to do in our name. The road ahead will not be easy toswallow or comprehend, yet we must open our minds to the possibility that what has

happened is real and what is occurring is not fiction. Only then will we understand whyour hands are smeared in the blood of tens of millions of human cadavers and countlessmore whose lives and futures have been devastated at the hands of the United States ofAmerica. Only by knowing who and what we are can we correct ourselves.

Our society is ingrained with an appetite for violence. It is apparent in the over 11,000murders by firearm per year. It is apparent in Hollywoods gratuitous assembly-line ofblood and gore, violence, devastation and death. It is visible in the ever-growing numberof video games sold to our children depicting egregious violence, killings andbloodletting. Our society celebrates violence, be it through football, hockey or boxing,television, cartoons and music. Even Disney cartoon movies have as a main theme battlesof good versus evil and the plethora of violence, destruction and death associated withthem. The US military industrial complex supplies the world with 50 percent of allweapons for sale on the market.

Yet without public demand for violence none of the above would exist. It is the citizenry with complicit help from government and corporate media that drives the engine thatconditions us toward accepting and participating in our violent society.
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Violence in America is today a manifestation of our society and history, of a never endingthirst for blood, conquest, oppression and death that sprung from the first moment ofPuritan arrival. Before and after the Revolutionary war Americans participated in one ofthe greatest acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing the world has ever witnessed. Millionsupon millions of native Indians were slaughtered, raped and cleansed from the lands ofNorth America. Manifest destiny ransacked from Atlantic to Pacific like a devastatinghurricane, destroying everything native people thought precious and sacred. Wars against

native populations extinguishing the energies of men, women, children and elderly alike.The American thirst for violence had been born. The addiction for blood would becomeinsatiable and never ending.

Native peoples lands were taken from them; lies, manipulations and betrayals erasedtheir tribes from the homes they once knew and cherished. Replanted into hellholes calledreservations, Indians were left to rot away their existence, given only the evil of Firewaterto wash away their inner demons and scars in a land both alien and inhospitable. Hiddenfrom the voracious Anglo onslaught, Indians of talent and ability were left to dwell on afuture lost through the disappearance of opportunity. Disease, depression, lack ofeducation and incessant poverty soon followed. Demons of a life wasted and opportunity

lost consumed those who escaped the barrel of a gun and the virus of the white man.

Entire ethnicities, tribes, languages and cultures were eviscerated from the face of theEarth by those whose importance of property and ownership superceded the respect forhuman life. Beautiful peoples took with them to the grave lives living free, roamingpristine and untouched forests, deserts and prairies, being one with nature, respectingeverything that breathed and a spirituality that has much to offer our capitalisticcivilization. Advanced civilizations in wisdom and spirituality, yet seen as savages to themore sophisticated European people, native peoples way of life was vanished, never tofully flourish again. Millions ethnically cleansed, millions whose lives were made barren,

all making way for the destructive bulldozer ravaging land and man. The Evil Empire hadsprung to life, a trail of victims visible everywhere the giant walked.

Not satisfied with the killing of millions of native peoples, the citizens of America nextdecided to unleash hell onto each other. As a result the American Civil War of the latterpart of the 19th century killed more than 600,000 people, leaving the United Statesmourning for brothers and sons, fathers and grandfathers. Graveyards littered thelandscape; battlefields were transformed into fields of death and devastation. Divided aprospering nation stood, soaked in blood and agony, splitting apart families, creatingwidows and orphans. In the end, hundreds of thousands lay dead, many more maimed andwounded, all to quench the voracious appetite for violence, death and destruction.

The Evil Empires cannibalism was only the beginning of a much greater disease.

Lands and People of Asia

As the Empire grew stronger so too did its addiction for expansion. War with Spaincommencing in 1898 brought forth new lands, colonies and treasure. Yet it also broughtforth death and destruction. American violence had not dissipated; it had only evolved,


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with new forms of warfare and destruction arising with the passage of time. Tens ofthousands died on both sides. In the end, the United States had conquered both man andland, thereby increasing its power and prestige. The Empire was growing, prospering andlearning that force was the means by which to achieve its ends. Force was weapons,intimidation, violence and war. It was victory and imperialism. It was the means tobecoming the most powerful nation on the planet. The Evil Empire had grown up, as thePhilippines would soon learn.

In 1899 Filipino forces seeking independence from Spain confronted in armed struggleAmerican forces intent on maintaining the colonization of the nation. A ruthless war ofattrition between the two forces began. For the next three years tens of thousands ofnative resistance fighters died at the hands of the much more technologicallysophisticated and economically powerful American military. Numerous war crimes werecommitted by American soldiers. Destruction and looting of property, shooting ofcaptives, rapes of women, torture of prisoners and civilians, devastation of theenvironment and the forced social engineering of the people were thrust upon the nationin an orgy of occupier lawlessness.

In addition, over 200,000 civilians perished due to the brutal scorched earth policyimplemented by the US military that destroyed agriculture, fertile land and villages. Inaddition, many thousands died from cholera arising out of economic devastation ofinfrastructure. The harsh subjugation of the Filipino people was a form of collectivepunishment that America used as a weapon of war in order to pacify the independentlyminded population. The American intervention in the Philippines indiscriminately erasedfrom the face of the Earth hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. This is calledgenocide, and the Evil Empire got exceedingly good at it.

The reality of what happened over 100 years ago is comfortably hidden away from us

today. The American war in the Philippines is today but an asterisk in our history books,yet the gravity of the malevolence cannot be forgotten. It certainly is not included in theeducational material of our children, or in those of our own childhood, however. Why isthis? What the US government does in our name cannot be made known lest thepopulation rage in anger at the wickedness that America exports abroad. Genocide,collective punishment, scorched earth policy and ethnic cleansing leading to the deaths ofhundreds of thousands of human beings is not something to be proud of. Not when Stalin,Hitler and the Nazis did the exact same thing.

In the Philippines the Evil Empire was only getting warmed up. For the next 100 years itcontrolled all aspects of the Philippine government. The US installed minions and

puppets that kept the populace in dire poverty, robbing the nation blind and fostering anera of inept and corrupt leaders handpicked by America. Ferdinand Marcos, who ruled asdictator of the beleaguered nation from 1965 until his ouster in 1986, is the best exampleof American complicity in the utter devastation of both the people and economy of thePhilippines.

Marcos ruled with extreme harshness, subverting democracy, robbing the nation blind(some estimates have him stealing anywhere from $3 to $30 billion dollars) and killing


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thousands of dissenters and opposition members who dared speak out against theinjustices and inequalities. He brought onto the nations masses untold suffering,indigence and slave labor, wages and conditions. Hundreds of thousands have died formmalnourishment, disease, poverty and exploitation. The nations debt amassed underMarcos is today responsible for the dire circumstances of the population, and is a reasonfor the growth of Muslim and Marxist revolutionary groups prospering and threateningthe government.

The beneficiary of the evil spawned by Marcos you may ask? The Evil Empire, whichestablished military bases that helped expand the Empire geopolitically, collectedhundreds of millions of dollars in debt, exploited slave labor for the manufacture of cheapproducts sold back in the US and controlled a subjugated populace through neo-liberaleconomic policies that privatized and made available to American corporations nationalindustries and utilities. The Evil Empire and the Corporate Leviathan are one and thesame, after all, their interests not mutually exclusive.

The Evil Empires claws of incessant violence soon expanded to other nations ofSoutheast Asia. When its addiction for destruction was not satisfied with the firebombing

of Tokyo that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians, it turned to that most evil ofhuman creations: the atomic bomb. After becoming the only nation to ever use atomicweapons on innocent populated areas, killing hundreds of thousands and unleashing utterdevastation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, America soon launched its appetite for blood inthe Korean Peninsula after it entered the war, creating vast killing fields of both soldiersand civilians. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers on all sides perished along with upwardsof three million Koreans (North and South) who were caught in the crossfire of ideologiesand human wickedness.

Following the Korean War America soon found itself immersed in yet another war, this

time in Vietnam. Decades of war led to the death of 58,000 American soldiers, over100,000 South Vietnamese soldiers and close to one million North Vietnamese soldiers.Estimates place the number of civilian deaths at anywhere from 400,000 to two million. Ifthe illegal American bombing of Cambodia and Laos orchestrated by Henry Kissinger isconsidered, in which civilian targets were selected and bombed, upwards of two millionmore Southeast Asians can be added to the Evil Empires macabre statistics. Furthermore,many more died as a result of the total devastation of land and infrastructure thebombings and war created, including the continued death and disease of land and mandue to the lingering effects of Agent Orange and through the enormous amount ofunexploded bombs and ordinance still littering the ground.

Indonesia is another nation that, through the American imposed and supported dictatorMohamed Suharto, suffered tremendously thanks to the meddling by the Evil Empire.Under Suhartos watch, anywhere from 500,000 to two million people were killed in a1965 alleged coup attempt, most of them dissenters, leftists, communists or oppositionmembers. In 1975, with American blessings and weaponry, Suharto invaded East Timorin order to stop an insurrection by the native people, killing 250,000 people out of apopulation of 650,000. During Suhartos stay in power he detained and executedhundreds of thousands of Indonesian opposition members. His reign ended in 1998.


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During this time corruption was endemic, as was the subversion of democracy, freedomsand rights. In 1999 it was found that the Suharto family fortune totaled $15 billion, mostof it coming from those government funds created thanks to international loans and thelabor of the masses.

Lands and People of Latin America

The Evil Empires omnipotent reach has had devastating effects in Latin America as well.The US government has interfered with the internal governance of several Central andSouth American nations in its quest to maintain its form of democracy and capitalism.The US has meddled in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia,Argentina, Chile, Peru and Brazil, not to mention Cuba, Haiti and the DominicanRepublic in the Caribbean. The Evil Empire has imposed coups and US friendlydictatorships and leaders in many of the above mentioned nations. In Central America itsupplied death squads with military support and logistics. In Chile, Argentina and Brazil,dictators, with the consent of their American masters, initiated a war against leftistdissenters and opponents, leading to the disappearance of thousands of men and women.In Panama, Manuel Noriega, a former CIA puppet, betrayed his American masters and

hell was unleashed on Panama City by the US military. Anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000civilians died as the Evil Empire pursued the capture of one man.

Today, the Evil Empire is once more interfering in the destabilization of Latin Americannations. Haiti is but the latest but by no means the last country to be burned by the searingclaws of Americas might. President Aristide, a champion of the poor and a seeker ofequality and justice, stepped on US shoes with his defiance of neo-liberal threats imposedon him by Haitis elite and the Bush administration. In essence, he sealed his own fate,and the clandestine coup sponsored by the US removed Aristide from office. As a result,Haiti, which has been the slave shop for US corporations for decades, will remain poor

and exploited, a cesspool of poverty and hopelessness for its citizens.

Colombia has, thanks to the US, become a militarized zone where hundreds of people arekilled on a yearly basis. Civil war has ensnarled the nation, instability runs amok and thelivelihood of rural peasants has been destroyed by the coca eradication program enactedthe America that has ruined arable land. With the potential of large oil reserves presentunder the nations lands and the already discovered exploitable natural resourcesprevalent throughout the countryside, Colombia has become a target for US interests. Oiland energy companies, along with their growing infrastructure, are already protected bythe US military as they continue their exploitation of the nation.

Meanwhile, the Evil Empire already has its sites set on destabilizing Venezuela and aharsh critic of the US, Hugo Chavez. Forces now at work, supported and maintained bythe US, are slowly setting in motion mechanisms that, it is hoped, will unseat Chavezfrom office, whether by force or other means, thereby installing a friendly US pro-neo-liberal puppet that will allow for the pilfering of Venezuelan oil by the Evil Empire. Acoup, assassination and or invasion are not out of the realm of possibilities, especiallywhen the Devil's excrement is involved.


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What the Evil Empire has done to Latin America and its hundreds of millions of people isthe imposition by its proctors in high office and its bullying threats involving capital of market colonialism that has had the effect of imprisoning and enslaving the masses.Neo-liberal ideology has indebted most third-world nations, not simply those of LatinAmerica, and it has furthered indigence, lack of education, the corrosive caste systemupon which millions are born into, inequality, injustice, hunger, disease, suffering, loss ofopportunity and death.

Latin American nations have been made worse off since the inception of neo-liberaleconomic models forcefully imposed by the Evil Empire. As a result, labor has beenmade cheaper for US corporations, translating into cheaper goods for its citizens.Through the back-breaking slave labor, conditions and wages Latin Americans areexploited so that we in the rich north can consume to our hearts content. Yet millionsupon millions live in squalor, surviving day to day, usually earning less than two dollars aday, living in feeble conditions and without the chance of ever improving their lives dueto the non-existence of opportunity.

The Evil Empires domination of Latin America (for more detail please see my January

12th article, Not in Our Backyard) has resulted in the mass migration towards ourborders. When mechanisms such as NAFTA and neo-liberal tools are put in place incountries such as Mexico, only the elite benefit and profit. Everyone else is made worseoff; jobs are meager, scarce and dehumanizing. US subsidies to agriculture havedevastated rural farmers and workers in Latin America. When these people leave for thecities they find that employment is non-existent and life unbearable. The push to migratenorth, where natives no longer perform the jobs of hard labor, is tremendous.

Thus, today we see millions of undocumented workers living in the US. It is the EvilEmpires imposed economic models and trade mechanisms that have created the eruption

of Latin slave labor in our nation. Is it any coincidence that the mass migration northbegan after NAFTA was imposed on the region? The only entities that have benefitedfrom NAFTA, both in the US and Mexico, are the corporations and the few ruling elite.Everyone else has been thrust into the realm of exploitation and failure.

The near enslavement of Latin America for the benefit of the Evil Empire has devastatedmillions of lives, talent and ability. It has created colonized economies, based on UScrony capitalism that has exploited both man and land. Public companies and utilitieshave been privatized and subjugated to fit the Leviathans goals. The rich have becomericher while the poor poorer, and this has led to the greatest disparity in wealth the regionhas ever seen.

The Evil Empire has created a region that has for the last fifty years been subservient tothe US. Its many puppets and proctors have helped devastate lives and subjugate themasses. Democracy has historically been an illusion. Fraud, coups, assassinations,destabilization, dictatorships and a state of perpetual wretchedness have been used by theEvil Empire as tools to control Latin America. When the will of the people triumphs,such as in Chile with Allende, Venezuela with Chavez or Haiti with Aristide, the EvilEmpire imposes its will in order to decimate democracy and maintain a system that


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turning toward resistance and resentment that is manifesting itself in a growing hatred ofboth the Saud monarchy and American Crusaders despoiling sacred Muslim lands.

In Turkey, the Kurdish minority has for years been ethnically cleansed by the Turkishgovernment. Hundreds of thousands of people have died and many more maimed andinjured thanks to the vast, modern and sophisticated array of weapons and militaryhardware provided by the Evil Empire, who has turned a blind eye to the genocide and

repression that has brought misery and suffering to the Kurds of Turkey. The Empiresfailure to act in the face of such crimes against humanity and its approval of arms sales tothe Turkish military makes it complicit in the systemic annihilation and plight of theKurdish people.

Through one-sided political support for the crimes against humanity being perpetrated byIsrael against the occupied and oppressed Palestinian people, the Evil Empires hands aresmeared in the blood of a people robbed of their land, raped of their livelihood anddehumanized of their existence. It is American Apache helicopters, Abrams tanks,Caterpillar bulldozers, fast missiles, smart bombs, weapons and bullets that aredecimating an entire population, making prisoners of millions who now live in

Bantustans and ghettos.

This, along with billions of dollars in financial and military aid to the Israeli governmenthas morphed the crimes of the IDF with the interests of the Evil Empire, forming aMolotov cocktail of destruction, dehumanization and death. The apartheid wall beingbuilt today that is usurping Palestinian land, crops, water, homes and lives is in large partpossible thanks to American taxpayer money. The Evil Empires role in Israels treatmentof the native Palestinian people is apparent in the geopolitical protection afforded thecountry by the US and its role in vetoing UN condemnations of Israeli behavior and by itstacit support for Israeli actions in the occupied territories.

The Evil Empire is once more involved in the devastation of millions of people who havebeen robbed of their lands and lives, live in utter decay and dehumanization, suffer severeforms of collective punishment and are being ethnically cleansed in a most meticulousand abhorrent way. Palestinians are today living in a state of apartheid, in ghettosresembling large concentration camps, under the watchful eyes of a trigger-happyoccupying force, struggling to survive on the measly crumbs Israel throws their way andwith the knowledge that their endemic and ruinous plight is endorsed by the greatestpurveyor of democracy and defender of human rights the world has ever seen.

In Central Asia, the Evil Empire is systematically forging alliances with a new group of

tyrannical dictators that have subjugated their people to despotism. In these nations,democracy is dwindling, freedoms are hardly existent and the decay of liberties is beingexacerbated. Torture, death, misery and poverty are hallmarks of the new group ofdictators now entrenched in the pockets of the US government. It seems that when vastoil wealth is involved the US altruistic fight for democracy is a principle that is easilydisposed of and forgotten. The struggle for human rights and dignity the US so boldlydeclares as a priority is erased and ignored.


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The Evils Done in our Name

The devastation of peoples throughout the planet directly or indirectly sponsored by theEvil Empire, who through no fault of their own are denied rights, freedoms anddemocracy, are subjected to gross human rights violations and persecutions and facedeath or disappearance is a crime against humanity. It is state sponsored terrorism andgenocide. Market colonialism has decimated both countries and the lives of their

inhabitants. Economic genocide has wrought suffering and increased indigence, robbingmillions of education, healthcare, opportunity and livable wages. The worlds peoplehave in many instances been enslaved to cater to the interests of the Evil Empire and itsminions.

The evils done in our name have created worldwide animosity and hatred. They havegiven rise to desperation and humiliation that is today manifested by the growing numberof humans fighting the system that has been imposed onto them. From Al-Qaeda to Iraqifreedom fighters to the Venezuelan poor to enlightened Europeans to the growing numberof sprouting terror groups franchising around the world, the people of the world aregrowing frustrated at the Evil Empires devastation of peoples in order to suit its interests,

both corporate and governmental.

Billions are searing in anger at the US government and by indirect complicity at itscitizens as well. We are no longer welcome neighbors in the community of nations. To beAmerican is to be scorned and castigated, to be unwelcome in the lands of the exploitedand subjugated. The evils done in our name are beginning to have karmic repercussionsthroughout the globe, and the danger now present will affect us all who have been madeblind to the crimes against humanity and the planet being committed by the Evil Empire.

In the last 200 years the United States has killed, directly or indirectly, tens of millions of

human beings, surpassing the horrors of evildoers past and present. It has created untoldlevels of suffering and depravity, sending untold millions to the sewers of poverty anddehumanization. These truths are not easy to swallow, or to accept, yet they are as real asthe air we breathe. It is time we accept the evils done in our name.

George W. Bush is but the latest in a long line of presidents who have continued the cycleof violence our nation has such a propensity towards. America, it seems, gravitatesnaturally towards violence and destruction, perhaps due to the fact that besides 9/11, wehave never seen the true horrors of what man is capable of unleashing onto his fellowman. The reality that afflicts billions is to us a distant haze of blurriness. We have notbeen made privy to the suffering and misery, the death, disease and maiming of a land in

war, an environment in flames and a people in battle. Our luck has been the worldsmisfortune.

Our society has been made blind to endemic and ceaseless worldwide suffering at thehands of our government. Through years of conditioning we now fail to blink at thecarnage our military engenders around the world. From the cradle to the grave we aresubjected to incessant violence, whether real or fictional, that makes us immune to thetorment prevalent in the rest of the world. Through careful manipulation we are made to


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believe that war is peace, destruction is prosperity and murder is life.

The world burns while we live lives of consumption and production, happy worker beesstuck in hour long commutes working most of our productive lives. We live in peace andharmony at home, distracted from reality by our television screens and movie theatres, byour lavish lifestyles and wasteful society. In the land of the individual the communality ofpeoples is an alien principle. Content, conformist and passive thanks to our nation of

plenty, we care not for peoples outside our borders. We have everything we need, afterall, and a plethora of distractions in our daily lives prevents us from even considering thata larger world exists beyond our shores.

The impenetrable bubble we live in protects us from empathizing with billions whoselives have been made worse since the birth of the Evil Empire. We have been madeignorant to that which has been unleashed onto the world and that owes its existence toour continued lifestyle and complicity by acquiescence and failure to act. The EvilEmpire runs rampant through the planet, devouring all in its path, enslaving millions andconquering and despoiling lands.

Meanwhile, inside the belly of the beast we sit, basking in extravagance and splendor,complacent in life and circumstance, unwilling to open our eyes and minds to the evilsdone in our name.

Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international affairs analyst,current events observer, Internet columnist and author of Echoes in the Wind, a novelnow published by Authorhouse.com. His articles appear regularly at his blog,http://valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com/ and at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/as well as at other alternative news websites from around the globe. Mr. Valenzuelawelcomes comments and can be reached at [email protected]

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