There certainly is trouble for the US in Latin America and in the oil patch there as well as in Iraq, Iran, Nigeria and who knows where else it may spread.… So what can we make of all this, and what’s most likely to happen going forward.… The US is now spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to hold on to the oil treasure it stole by invading Iraq.… It’s also made it clear it has designs on those same resources in neighbouring Iran and may attack that country using nuclear weapons. And if that isn’t enough on one plate to digest, it faces a dilemma in Venezuela it’s tried unsuccessfully three times to solve.
Venezuela has even greater hydrocarbon reserves than Iraq or Iran (possibly the largest in the world even above Saudi Arabia’s) and is led by a courageous man unwilling to surrender his nation’s sovereignty (or its resources) to its imperial northern neighbour demanding it…And now the heavenly virus of the desire to be truly independent is beginning to spread to Bolivia, Peru if Hamala wins the runoff election, hopefully Equador and significant opposition groups outside the governments in other countries as well like Nigeria and Nepal.… These nations, or opposition groups in them, are demanding equity and justice for their people, and are beginning to raise their heads and demand the rights they’re entitled to.… If they all get them, that’s bad news for the US and the dominant corporate interests here that profit handsomely by exploiting the resources of underdeveloped nations and its cheap labour as well. Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales know this and have spoken out and acted courageously against these longtime abuses in defense the rights of their own people.… But their doing so is intolerable to the US which will do everything in its power to reverse the loss of its special privilege.…