Misleading AmericaBy David Swanson

Prepared remarks for Veterans For Peace Convention 2012.Prepared to follow remarks by Nicolas "Sandy" Davies

Convention theme: "Liberating the Americas: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean"

Remarks theme: "U.S. Military Expansion since the End of the Cold War"

Jefferson and Monroe

Libya

Chile

LeGendre and Roosevelt

Hawaii

Costa Rica

Kellogg-Briand Pact Nations

August 27, 1928

Now, don’t say the obvious.

Edward Bernays

Smedley Butler

Ronald Ray Gun

At Quantico

Rafael Correa

$80 million / year

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