Cynthia McKinney - How the US Creates Shithole Countries

HOW THE US CREATES SH*THOLE COUNTRIES

2018 Cynthia McKinney
ISBN: 978-0-9998747-1-4
EBOOK ISBN: 978-0-9998747-2-1
In-house editor: Diana G. Collier Cover:
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Names: McKinney, Cynthia, 1955- editor.

Title: How the US creates sh*thole countries / [edited] by Cynthia McKinney.

Description: Atlanta, GA. : Clarity Press, Inc., 2018. | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018032527 (print) | LCCN 2018034208 (ebook) | ISBN

9780999874721 | ISBN 9780999874714 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Developing countries--Foreign relations--United States--21st

century. | United States--Foreign relations--Developing countries--21st

century. | United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy. |

United States--Politics and government--2017- | Imperialism.

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327.7301724--dc23

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Peace Movement Whose Time Is Now /
Mike Gravel

A Deeper Look at Trumps Epithet, Sh*thole Country /
Cynthia McKinney

Toward an Understanding of
US Foreign Policy

2017, A Year of Overt ImperialismAnd 2018? /
Alberto Rabilotta

Trumps Neo-Neocon Deep State /
Wayne Madsen

The End of Washingtons Wars on the Cheap /
The Saker

Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions /
James Petras

What is a Sh*thole Country, and Why is Trump Obsessed with Haiti? /
Mark Schuler

Why Are We in Afghanistan? /
Paul Craig Roberts

US Imperialism Plagues the Philippines /
Jose Maria Sison

One Mans Atonement in an Ocean of Grief /
Chuck Searcy

Life After Agent Orange /
Thomas Cox

How the US Perpetuates the Palestinian Tragedy /
Sami Al-Arian

Africa and Western Multinational Corporations /
Baffour Ankomah

Is Somalia the U.S. Template for All of Africa? /
Cynthia McKinney

Disaster Capitalisms Greatest Carnage of Them All /
Keith Harmon Snow

The United States and the Rwanda Genocide /
Charles Onana

What Goes Around, Comes Around /
S. Brian Willson

From Reliable US Oil Supplier to Extraordinary Threat /
Alba Carosio

Sh*tholing a U.S. Colony Before and After Hurricane Maria /
Maribel Aponte-Garca

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System /
David Peterson & Edward Herman

Western Imperialism and the Use of Propaganda /
Christopher Black

Cruise Missile Left Complicit in American Escalation Toward World War III /
Danny Haiphong

The Shi*hole Phenomenon at Home and Abroad /
Richard Falk

The Costs of American Narcissism /
Kevin Barrett

US Capitalism and the Opioid Epidemic /
Robin Eastman Abaya

Report of the UN Special Rapporteur
on extreme poverty and human rights
on his mission to the United States of America /
Philip Alston

| FOREWORD |

A PEACE MOVMENT WHOSE TIME IS NOW

Senator Mike Gravel

I am a peace activist. And when given the option, every time my vote will be for peace. Thats why in 1971, after serving in our countrys military, I used the power of my position as a United States Senator from Alaska to block renewal of the draft, filibusteringaloneagainst legislation to renew it. My filibuster lasted five months, eventually resulting in the end of the military draft in the U.S.

At the time, the U.S. was involved in a war in Vietnamnot to support the liberation of the Vietnamese people from colonialism, but to extend their servitude to America instead of to France. Despite my service in the militaryand perhaps because of itI knew in my heart that the U.S. needed to be on the side of self-determination. Just as our Founding Fathers in the U.S. chose their right of self-determinationso too, should other countries around the world, including Vietnam, be able to do. Subjugating and oppressing the people of Vietnam, in my opinion, is not what the U.S. military should be used to do.

It was this kind of thinking that led me to do, in the U.S. Senate, something Ive also become well-known for: releasing all 4,100 pages of the Pentagon Papers to the U.S. public by inserting each and every page into the Congressional Record. Every Member of Congress can release official documents to the public during the course of official business. I used this prerogative to release the Pentagon Papers because the people of the U.S. had and have the right to know how their tax dollars are being used. The people of the U.S. have a right to know what their military is doing in far off lands. And the Pentagon Papers, first disclosed by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, told us more than we wanted to know about the crimes that our country committed in the prosecution of the Vietnam War. The only thing worse than soldiers dying in vain is more soldiers dying in vain. And our soldiers were dying in vain in Vietnam. Just like in Iraq. And everywhere else our soldiers are deployed, like in Niger, that dont make them safe and make all of us more unsafe. What on heavens earth is our countrys military doing in Niger right now?

Back in 1971, I was not afraid to take a stand for peacealone. But, this time, I am not alone. This book demonstrates that something new is happening in our country when known activists and professors from the populist left to the populist right and everything in between are able to come together and provide invaluable research about the effects of U.S. wars around the worldboth on us and on our victims. This book represents a departure in that from left to right and everything in-between, we now take a stand against wartogether. We are ready to emerge from the fabricated and sometimes real ideological silos constructed for us to state categorically our opposition to the current U.S. wars around the world. So, Cynthia and these Contributors seized this important political moment to concretize how pervasive anti-war sentiment is throughout U.S. public opinion.

I am proud of the anti-war legacy that I left in the U.S. Congress. I only wonder where is the Mike Gravel of today in that body?

I have since begun to question the very nature of the U.S. political system that allows policies to be made that clearly do not represents the wishes or the outcomes desired by the electorate. Can we really believe that, if U.S. citizens only knew, they would agree to their government debasing and ruining defenseless third world countries for the enrichment of a few corporations, many of whom pay minimal or no taxes in the US and dont manufacture their products here?

China is moving its citizens out of poverty while U.S. citizens fall deeply into poverty. China is building roads and bridges and railways while the U.S. policy makers take our tax dollars and blow them up! There is something terribly wrong with a system that creates war as its energy and industrial policy, immigration as its labor policy, and debt as its investment policy. Somehow, the U.S. political system has inserted a banker between the student and his or her professor; an insurance bureaucrat between the doctor and his or her patient. The U.S. is seriously on the wrong track, and we need revolutionary political thought to come to grips with what we are presently doing in order to begin thinking about how to put us back on the right track.