From: harelb@MATH.CORNELL.EDU (Harel Barzilai)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,talk.politics.misc,alt.desert-storm
Subject: RE: The Gulf "War", Chomsky, and the Washington Party Line
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:21:45 GMT


 [continuation from:]

    (7)# Nicaragua's repudiation of leftist terror exports to other countries 
    #has allowed US to start to flow again, as well as UN credits. 
     In reality, when the decades-long U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship
    collapsed in Nicaragua (the same Somoza who cooperated in the CIA
    overthrow of Guatemalan democracy in 1954), Washington worked hard to
    maintain the Dictator's dreaded National Guard for the usual reasons
    ("stalibity" etc) namely, to ensure that there would be no threat of a
    deviation from the satellite status of Nicaragua and it's subservience
    to U.S. corporate interests -- as is maintained so well in the
    death-squad "democracies" of El Salvador and Guatemala where
    Washington's concern for human rights shines through, or in Honduras
    where farmers go hungry while land is used for it's natural purpose:
    enriching U.S. corporations by using export-crops with some crumbs
    going to local elites who benefit from the system which maintains the
    vast majority in poverty and near-starvation.
 In reality, there was indeed massive terrorism -- on the part of
Washington, in setting up, training, and supporting Somoza's National
Guard, and the "clique of assassins masquerading as an army" [in
former U.S. ambassador White's words] in the state-sponsored
death-squad regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala -- and of
Washington's terrorism in organizing, arming, training, and funding
the bandits left over from Somoza's National Guard into the "contras"
whose job was to blow up bridges, health clinics, agricultural
cooperatives, etc, to make life misserable to ruin the revolution
which was the thorn at Washington's side: the revolution which
although it improved human rights vastly over the former U.S.-backed
Somoza regime, was also guilty of the crime of independent development
and the "logic of the majority" in  health care, literacy, and
self-sufficiency, not the "central american" mode of subservience to
U.S. hegemonic and corporate interests as found in El Salvador,
Guatemala, and Honduras, these horror chambers and starvation
exeperiments respectively being very much to the liking of Washington
which has perpetuated such regimes for decades.
 The extent of the lies about Central America is such that Orwell would
turn in his grave many times over, so there is little one can do but
sigh and offer the several dozen files from the Automatic Archiver
which, taken together, can finally document the truth and lift away
the veil of lies. [file listing enlcosed, followed by how to use the
GET command]
 *
* =========
* Nicaragua
* =========
*
  CONTRA   TERROR    Contras' origins; make-up; practices - documented
  FSLN     H-RIGHTS  Documented HRs comparison w/Somoza,Guat,ES,others
  FSLN     MISKITOS  Sandinista treatment of Miskitos;Charges & Realit
  FSLN     NICAJEWS  Debunks charges of Sandinista 'Anti-Semitism'
*
  OXFAM84  NICARAG   Oxfam America's 1984 report on Nicaragua, in full
  FSLN     ACHIEVE   Documented: achievements of the Nica. revolution
*
  NICA-84  ELECTION  Documented: Fair under Sandinistas; US subversion
  FAIRNESS NICA-USA  Flwup:`Is Nicaragua More Democratic than the US?'
  NICRAGUA ELECTION  Study in US subversion of '90 Nicaraguan election
  DEMOCRAT DECLINE   Noam Chomsky,excellent,on the 1990 Nica. election
*
* ===================
* U.S. Foreign Policy
* ===================
*
  CHOMSKY  VICTORS1  Who won Cold War? Encyclopedic survey of domains
  CHOMSKY  VICTORS2  of the Cold-War `victors';why aren't people there
  CHOMSKY  VICTORS3  celebrating? conditions there, incl. vs. EastBloc
  E-EUROPE C-AMERIC  Comparisons and contrasts by Guat. journalist
*
  OXFAM    HONDURAS  Oxfam's Bulletin on "Why Farmers Go Hungry"
*
* =============
* Latin America
* =============
*
  LAT-AMER HMNRTS90  A comparison of HR reports ; surprizing results
  AFSC     GUATMALA  _Understanding Guatamala_, an AFSC pamphlet
  AI_REPT  GUATMALA  Amnesty's 1989 comprehensive (~70pp) HRs report
  NUN_TORT GUATMALA  US nun alleges US involvement in Guat. Death Sqd
  HRWATCH  COLOMBIA  HR Watch: "drug war" = repression in Colombia
  JEWS-AND C-AMERIC  "Jews&C.A.: The Need To Act" by New Jewish Agenda
*
* ===========
* El Salvador
* ===========
  AI_REPT  ELSALV    Amnesty:So-called `death-squads' are run by army!
  JOYA     BACKGRND  Salvadoran `Death Squad' deserter: US involved
  JOYA     MARTINEZ  Followup, incl. US efforts to deport Martinez
  DEATHSQD ES_US     ES Death Squads: a pattern of US complicity
  BEHIND   DEATHSQD  Behind The Death Squads in ES (frm _Progressive_)
  GRNBERET TORTURE   Two accounts of US 'aid' to El Salvador (1980/82)
*
  WITNESS  2WAR      Story of Quaker doctor in El Salvador
  FMLN     BACKGRND  origins, authenticity, support; FMLN/Army abuses
*
  BRENDA   HUBBARD   police terrorize COMADRES(mthrs of pol prisoners)
  COINTPRO CISPES    The FBI's campaign to repress CISPES
  HRCOMM   ELSALV    A. Cockburn on the Salv. Hum. Rights Commission
 ##################################################################
how to use the GET command
##################################################################
     ======================================
    To get a file named FILE NAME from the
    archiver (files are two words  separa-
    ted by a space), send the 1-line message
     GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L
     to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
    [or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
    ======================================
     Use GET with the file ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
    files available with the GET command.

e.g., send GET ACTIV-L ARCHIVE ACTIV-L to LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET to be
emailed the index of archived files.

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