The only danger for the people of the United States are in the United States March 15, 2015
Posted by rogerhollander in Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Imperialism, Latin America, Venezuela.Tags: imperialism, Latin America, nobel peace, Obama, perez esquivel, pogo, roger hollander, Venezuela
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Nowadays a Nobel Peace Prize is no guarantee that you are going to get someone worthy of the honor. To wit, Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, warmongers responsible for the loss of thousands of lives. However, Argentine human rights activist, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, is the real deal. He won the Nobel for Peace in 1980 for his struggles against the US supported Argentine military dictatorship. He recently commented in response to Obama’s (absurdly) declaring Venezuela a security threat to the United States. My translation:
“The only danger for the people of the United States are in the United States. They are the corporate, military and financial lobbies who consider that a region without war and with resources they cannot control is a danger for their economic interests and profoundly antidemocratic power.”
The simple truth in a single paragraph. Walt Kelly’s classic Pogo comes to mind: we have seen the enemy and he is us.
roger hollander 
“The only danger for the people of the United States are in the United States. They are the corporate, military and financial lobbies who consider that a region without war and with resources they cannot control is a danger for their economic interests and profoundly antidemocratic power.”
The painful, honest truth in A Nutshell!!!
Finally an honest and worthy Nobel Peace Prize winner who speaks truth to power-