What happened to the U.S.
businesses that collaborated with fascism? The Rockefeller family's
Chase National Bank used its Paris office in Vichy France to
help launder German money to facilitate Nazi international trade
during the war, and did so with complete impunity. Corporations
like DuPont, Ford, General Motors, and ITT owned factories in
enemy countries that produced fuel, tanks, and planes that wreaked
havoc on Allied forces. After the war, instead of being prosecuted
for treason, ITT collected $27 million from the U.S. government
for war damages inflicted on its German plants by Allied bombings.
General Motors collected over $33 million. Pilots were given
instructions not to hit factories in Germany that were owned
by U.S. firms. Thus Cologne was almost leveled by Allied bombing
but its Ford plant, providing military equipment for the Nazi
army, was untouched; indeed, German civilians began using the
plant as an air raid shelter.
In pursuit of counterrevolution
and in the name of freedom, U.S. forces or U.S.-supported surrogate
forces slaughtered 2,000,000 North Koreans in a three-year war;
3,000,000 Vietnamese; over 500,000 in aerial wars over Laos and
Cambodia; over 1,500,000 million in Angola; over 1,000,000 in
Mozambique; over 500,000 in Afghanistan; 500,000 to 1,000,000
in Indonesia; 200,000 in East Timor; 100,000 in Nicaragua (combining
the Somoza and Reagan eras); over 100,000 in Guatemala (plus
an additional 40,000 disappeared); over 700,000 in Iraq;3 over
60,000 in El Salvador; 30,000 in the "dirty war" of
Argentina (though the government admits to only 9,000); 35,000
in Taiwan, when the Kuomintang military arrived from China; 20,000
in Chile; and many thousands in Haiti, Panama, Grenada, Brazil,
South Africa, Western Sahara, Zaire, Turkey, and dozens of other
countries, in what amounts to a free-market world holocaust.
Official sources either deny
these U.S.-sponsored mass murders or justify them as necessary
measures that had to be taken against an implacable communist
foe. Anticommunist propaganda saturated our airwaves, schools,
and political discourse. Despite repeated and often factitious
references to the tyranny of the Red Menace, the anticommunist
opinion makers never spelled out what communists actually did
in the way of socio-economic policy. This might explain why,
despite decades of Red-bashing propaganda, most Americans, including
many who number themselves among the political cognoscenti, still
cannot offer an informed statement about the social policies
of communist societies.
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