[A-List] Stephen Zunes on Iran - Iran's Do-It-YourselfRevolution

[Paul Wright]

We can look at some facts that are known: the US has tried for decades to
destabilize and overthrow the regime in Iran. Bush and Obama have both
approved covert action to do so. The US has a fairly successful history and
track record of rigging elections, manipulating media, etc., so that in the
end their favored people wind up running the show.

There have been dozens of books written by scholars and former CIA officials
on the latter, the corporate media has duly reported the former. This isn't
the stuff of conspiracies, rather it is a simple observation of what
imperialists do.

Do people who act in support of US imperialism necessarily know they are
paid stooges of imperialism? I don't know. The CIA organized and paid off
the numerous unions in Chile to destabilize Allende's regime and prepare the
ground for Pinochet. Whether it was the workers or their leaders taking the
CIA money is immaterial as the outcome was the same. Historically there has
never been a shortage of class and other traitors (i.e., blacks fought for
the confederacy and look at the colonial armies). the best stooges are the
ones who think they are acting independently. Think of the Italians who
voted the way the CIA rigged the 1948 election for them to vote.

Paul Wright, Editor
Prison Legal News
P.O. Box 2420
West Brattleboro, VT 05303
802-257-1342
pwright at prisonlegalnews.org
www.prisonlegalnews.org
 
Seattle Office:
2400 NW 80th St. # 148
Seattle, WA 98117
206-246-1022


-----Original Message-----
From: a-list-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu
[mailto:a-list-bounces at lists.econ.utah.edu] On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 11:37 PM
To: The A-List
Subject: Re: [A-List] Stephen Zunes on Iran - Iran's
Do-It-YourselfRevolution

Seriously, a lot of people in a lot of countries make big mistakes,
without anyone paying to make them.  It's really simple.
Yoshie

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:19 PM,
Leighm<the.buffalo.in.the.midst at gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple of 'Money quotes":
>
> " In any case, this limited amount of outside financial support cannot
cause
> nonviolent liberal democratic revolutions to take place any more than the
> limited Soviet financial and material support for leftist movements in
> previous decades caused armed socialist revolutions to take place. No
amount
> of money could force hundreds of thousands of people to leave their jobs,
> homes, schools, and families to face down heavily armed police and tanks,
> unless they had a sincere motivation to do so. "
>
> Got that? Civilians are unlikely to risk their lives for $$$ or foreign
> powers (Just ask the paid off 'herd of Chalabis' Dougie Feith *thought*
were
> just gonna walk into the Iraqi power vacuum and start 'pulling the levers'
>
> "Unfortunately, a surprising number of leftists in the United States and
> other Western countries, aware of very real imperialist machinations by
the
> U.S. government elsewhere, have argued that popular civil insurrections
> against autocratic regimes are part of some grand U.S. conspiracy."
>
> http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6218
>
> Again... on 'grand conspiracies':
>
https://sites.google.com/site/doingbizasdabuffalo/Home/IlluminatusTrilogy-Ro
bertAntonWilson.pdf
>
> (Every single one I'VE ever heard of all tied together into a workable
> plot... Including a Las Vegas pimp named 'Carmel' who contracts Anthrax
from
> one of his trick's Johns who works at a bio-chem lab, Bernadine Dorhn,
> Alasteir Crowley, The Shriners, a Yellow Submarine, an army of dead Nazis
> sunk to the bottom of a Bavarian lake to be revived by the sonic waves of
a
> massive youth concert, and a Dolphin named Howard who hails from
> Atlantis...)
>
> I
>
>
>