day, the United States has been theleading global sponsor of the most terrible atrocities committed worldwide, byrate and extension. As one expert onthis issue, Edward S. Herman (1982) notes:Now,in point of fact, U.S. government aid to, and support of, the police states ofBrazil, Chile and Guatemala, among many others, measured by role inorigination, police training, military training, provision of militarysupplies, diplomatic and economic sustenance, and even the provision of thenames of individuals to be picked up and interrogated as subversives, exceedsby a huge margin Soviet support of the Irish Republican Army, PLO [PalestineLiberation Organization] or the Red Brigades. Since the 1950s the United States of America has beenencouraging right-wing extremists around the world into power, but only those,of course, that show their subjection to the will of Washington. Guatemala, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador,Nicaragua, Indonesia, Angola, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, South Africa: thelist of dictatorial and oppressive regimes that the U.S. has favored througharms, diplomatic, technical (including torture techniques) and financialassistance, is endless. In the name of afiction called democracy, and against another fiction called communism,peasants, nuns, priests, workers, academics, students, politicians andcivilians were killed, tortured, arrested, or exiled when they, the few, couldafford to. The tactics of torture andpersecution were openly offered by the United States military and police[4]. The Brazilian police and military forces, forexample, were created before the military coup in accordance with U.Sexpertise, and directly instituted by the U.S.[5]. By 1975, people in the city of Sao Paulo weremore afraid of the police (an opinion poll showed seven out of ten) than ofnon-official violence[6]. In Central America, hundreds of thousands ofpeople were killed, in the name of democracy, through the Reaganadministrations counter-insurgency brutal techniques. In Chile, where the socialist, democratic andmass-approved government of Salvador Allende was deposed by the 1973 coup ofWashington-sponsored Augusto Pinochet, at least 20,000 people were killed,sometimes taken to a soccer stadium for mass exterminations. Why is it that the American public is sounaware of what its government has done in the name of its people? For how long is the American going to believethat all the U.S. has done was and is for the better sake of other people? This is part of the grief and anger thatpeople around the world feel against America. In the name of democracy and against communism, the U.S. hasperpetrated the rule of the minority elites of countries throughout theworld. It has used the term communismas a justification for an intervention to promote democracy when in fact themajority of the people in Brazil, for example, already understood themselves tobe living under democracy, with an elected president that was doing arelatively good social service to its workers. Now, here lies the threat: the local elites and the foreign businesscorporations do not want to see workers organized in unions and requestinghigher wages and government support. Whenever the people start organizing and participating in the politicalsphere when they democratize themselves the threat of communism is usedas a justification for the oppression and domination of those people. As Herman (1982) notes:The number ofcommunists in Brazil in 1964 was small; communism had no significantorganizational base; and