Lucio Urtubia
Nobel
War I've never been very good for mathematics, but the following calculation is quite simple: Add up 10,000 new troops to Afghanistan, systematic violations occupations in this country and Iraq, two genocides conspiratorial silence, one in Gaza, the other in Sri Lanka (where there are still 300,000 people in concentration camps), a coup in Honduras where U.S. involvement has been an open secret (although they have left the backfire), seven new military bases in Colombia and what do we have an outcome? A Nobel Prize for Peace "for U.S. President Barack Obama.
Actually, I do not lose sleep over what they do or do not do with a prize worth very little, and that the only merit it has to get it is the political calculus. It is true that this award People have been of great value as Perez Esquivel, Rigoberta Menchu, Martin Luther King or Desmond Tutu. But these cases are indeed exceptions. The list of those who have received is a witness. In this list, we find people like Theodore Roosevelt (1906), who popularized the formula of the carrot and the stick when referring to the international relations of the U.S. in the early stage of imperialism, who applauded the judicial murder of the Martyrs of Chicago in 1886 (for daring to fight for the eight hours) and who was characterized by brutal treatment of the entire labor movement of its time.
Woodrow Wilson, another American president, also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Do your merits? Participated in the creation of the League of Nations. Certainly not taken into consideration the following "details" was the president who told the U.S. war during the First World War, invaded during his administration, Mexico de Zapata, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Panama. As if this were not enough, he was openly racist and defender of the virtues of slavery was openly opposed to that black students could be refused and the U.S. Southern States may be entitled to vote. In fact, he was opposed to blacks from voting in any part of the "land of freedom "and established in federal agencies, under his rule, racial segregation. No wonder that, as a corollary to his racism, was also an apologist for the Ku Klux Klan. Another
winners of the Nobel "Peace", is neither more nor less than Henry Kissinger (1973), who as a cruel paradox, received the award on the very year when, as Secretary of State U.S. , engineered the overthrow of Allende and the rise to power of Pinochet, who for 17 years spread death and terror in Chile. The prize was awarded for having negotiated the withdrawal of U.S. troops who had invaded Vietnam. A sinister character as Kissinger received the Nobel "Peace" is truly tragicomic and reveals the limited value of this award: his record includes massive bombing of Cambodia and Vietnam, where thousands of human beings were burned by napalm, unrestricted support for the brutal Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia and military support to its genocidal invasion of East Timor, support for paramilitary groups in Angola (UNITA) and Mozambique (RENAMO), feeding their criminal actions that took the lives of over a million people actively supporting dictatorships Southern Cone of Latin America and its "Plan Condor", which sealed the cowardly murder, torture and disappearance of thousands of leftists Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil. Not to mention his advice to George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
But what is the reason for giving this award to His Majesty Obama? Apparently his alleged role in enhancing cooperation in the world, or something. I guess I've missed something, because the damned military bases in Colombia we put together a piece about the conflict in South America and have fueled "the winds of war blowing between the Andes and the Amazon, and we have gotten into a career arms otherwise disturbing. Obama, with these bases, has stoked the fire of the ultra-right regime of Uribe, who is dotted for his ties to the genocidal paramilitary. His permissive attitude to the systematic violation of Israel to the Palestinian people has been a constant, and today we received the news that his government was actively opposed to the Goldstone report on war crimes perpetrated by Israel in the January offensive against Gaza, making numerous diplomatic to influence the vote of the members of the UN Human Rights. However, this pressure failed and is likely to continue boycotting the establishment of truth and some measure of redress to the people starved and bombed in the Security Council of the UN or higher levels. What a service to peace! Not to mention its decision to continue the policy of war and its aftermath of endless violations of collateral damage against the people of Afghanistan. If the award is for efforts to "Peace", something that does not fit ...
No wonder, Eyad Bornat, Palestinian leader B'ilin People's Committee, which for years have opposed the Israeli occupation and the wall of apartheid that divides their communities and locks and animals, wrote the following words from his heart, with pain and irony:
"The U.S. still in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Palestine is under occupation have not seen (...) no change. Why the committee has not given this award to Bush? I remember nine years ago, Bush delivered an excellent speech on the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2005. After his speech, Sharon invaded the mosque of Al Aqsa, and the U.S. invaded Iraq. Why then did not give this man a prize, and instead, all we got was a shoe? This is injustice! Sorry
Mister Bush. You worked hard for eight years, killing children, launching wars and supporting the occupation, and yet have given the prize to another man. "[1]
adding and subtracting, apparently, the only merit that is becoming this "peace to the brave" is their bombastic speech about a "world without nuclear weapons" ... by the way, until today, the U.S. has not taken the step to dismantle even one of the many nuclear warheads they have, which in total add up to a military power capable of destroying planet Earth eight times ...
There is not room for shame, but Obama, replicating the very words of Kissinger, has received the Award with "humility." As the old peasant song "The Devil in Paradise," which held the "world upside down" now are the warmongers, imperialists and those who systematically violated human rights on behalf of the elastic arguments of national security and the war on terror, those who are confused with doves of peace ... Things you must see! If this is peace of the capitalist system, it is no wonder that the boys of Paris during the uprising of the French May 1968, write on the walls of their city for a weekend of capitalist peace was infinitely more bloody than a month complete revolution. Today that statement has more clarity and accuracy than ever. José Antonio Gutiérrez D.
October 17, 2009
source:
www.anarkismo.net
"The instruments of war
play a role in peace," Barak Obama
"Peace Of Obama" - A report by International Vision 7 ( Canal 7, Argentina)
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