Sam Hamod, Ph.D.

January 12, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" --- As an American citizen, born and raised in Gary, Indiana, I want America to be the beacon for democracy that Ialways felt we were and that or government said we were. Unfortunately, as I look at the world from events in my lifetime, it appears that after we defeated Hitler and Japan, we forgot about our true mission of democracy and its attendant morality.

The United States unfortunately, has a long record of fighting against democracy in the world. We showed some of this in Iran when we helped to overthrow a strong nationalist that was democratically elected, Mohammed Mossadegh. We put the corrupt puppet, the Shah back into power (this after the people had ousted him in a bloodless revolution). We did the same when we overthrew Allende in Chile.We replaced him with the mass killer, Pinochet. We did the same against the democratically elected government of Granada. We had all the leaders killed and replaced them; with "friendly" leaders. Everyone knows that Ho Chi Minh was the popular leader of Viet Nam, and was responsible for freeing Viet Nam from the French. The French even warned America that he was a popular socialist leader and not a Russian or Chinese satellite "communist,"—but because he was a nationalist, America went to war to defend a dictator in the south of Viet Nam who carried our colors and did our bidding in that ill-fated and immoral war.

Lately, we've labeled the democratically elected government of Palestine, Hamas, as "terrorists," before they had time to govern. George Bush and his regime refused to recognize them because America had wanted the corrupt Fatah regime to continue, with payoffs and pussyfooting to Israel and the U.S. demands. Add to that we subsidized and trained Ethiopian troops to go in to overthrow the legitimate government of Somalia, a government that had finally brought some law and order to the chaos that had followed the earlier American intervention that was so vividly portrayed in American films as, BLACKHAWK DOWN. Of course there is that old problem for America, the continued rule of Castro in Cuba; a man known to his people as their George Washington—a man revered by all those Cubans except those in Florida who benefited from the corrupt and mean-spirited Batista regime (another of our allies). Ironically, Castro has outlasted, and outlived Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan, and has seen the presidencies of George Bush Sr., Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and now George W. Bush, all fall by the wayside. Just as an aside, it is ironic that the only president of the U.S. who went against our desire to rule the world was Jimmy Carter, and he lasted only one term because the money people in both parties wanted to go back on the warpath (which he opposed).

Lest one think it is only the politicians who carry these wars on, one has to also realize our yellow journalistic media, TV, radio, newspapers and magazines are the first to fly the flag of intervention and empire. They rally the people behind this immoral escapades, and journalists like Helen Thomas, Walter Cronkit, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather and Bill Moyers are rarely heard above the din of the thousands of others in America who wave the flag as if it was holy and as if our use the of the "democracy," was the truth (all the time, knowing that it is, and has been, a lie).



We now have built the biggest embassy in the world in Baghdad, Iraq—covering over 104 acres of land—a virtual city of our own. America says it shows our "friendship," but every Iraq and every educated Muslim knows it is to keep a fort in the middle of the "oil patch" and to govern Iraq from that devilish domain.

Our record of "supporting democracies" is nil. We keep talking about Israel as a "democracy," yet even Israeli social scientists and historians keep pointing out that Israel is not a true democracy because, like America in the past with African Americans and Native Americans, the Arabs (both Christian and Muslim) are second or third class citizens not allowed the full rights of Jews, and the Ethiopian Jews who went to Israel are also treated in the same way "browns" were treated in South Africa, as second class citizens. They were useful to the Israeli propaganda machine to show that they were people of all colors, but the Rabbis of Naturi Karta have made clear, that only the Ashkenazim Jews are the first class citizens, and the Goyim of all sorts have no real rights; thus, it is not really a "democracy," no matter how much the Israeli government and the U.S. media crow that lie to the world.

It is time that America search again for its own democratic roots and take away some of the fascistic ways of the Bush administration, and also quit trying to destroy democracies and popular nationalistic governments around the world. If we don't, then our illness will continue to spread, with "democracy" being only a mask for our support of dictators, for the overthrow of democracies and popular governments, and our behavior will lead to more chaos and immorality and war in the world.


C: Sam Hamod, Ph.D.