While in High School I showed my contempt for the whitewashed fabrication I was being fed by using my history book as a pillow and sleeping through the lectures. Second semester I was sent out of class and ended up spending the summer swallowing my obstinacy, attending summer school. The act of defiance that resulted in my dismissal from class began with the teacher glossing over the border raids of Pancho Villa, which was later used as justification for the unsuccessful U.S. invasion of Mexico. What the teacher left out was that General Pershing failed to capture Pancho Villa, who easily escaped American forces on an Indian motorcycle. Based on his experience and failure in Mexico, Pershing led a campaign to promote mechanization of the military. This significant part of history later played out in an international arms race. The First World War, although presented in American History texts as retribution for an assassination, the true incentive for the war was mechanization of armies and navies. Countries in Europe and Japan were in the business of empire building. Without easy access to petroleum the war machines would not operate and Britannia would cease to rule the waves. Most of the petroleum was however controlled by the Ottoman Turks, who were allies of the Austrian Hungary Empire and Germany. World War I was an effort to gain access to the Middle East oil fields. Prior to the war Rockefeller and Rothschild merged their oil interests in what became the Exxon corporation. Rothschild then secured rights from the English government (who had already made plans for the carving up of the Middle East) to establish the Zionist state of Israel, his own private Idaho. Just months before America’s entry into the war, the newly established Federal Reserve, owned by Rockefeller, Rothschild and a number of other wealthy families, provided the needed financing for the war, and so the stage was set. As far as Pancho Villa and Mexico the truth has been largely ignored. Pancho Villa was part of a 500 year Zapatistas Revolution in Mexico that continues today and can be traced back to the European invasion of the Americas. During those five centuries, indigenous communities lost control of historic lands and were often forced into various forms of slavery and/or virtual slavery. Many rebellions occurred during this period, making the Zapatista uprising part of a long history of struggle and resistance. By the late 20th century, indigenous communities in the southern providence of Chiapas lived on the most marginal and isolated lands in the state. High levels of poverty and lack of health care and education plagued these communities. The Zapatista uprising was a direct consequence of these conditions. A major accomplishment of the revolution, led by Pancho Villa in northern Mexico, was land reform. The large haciendas became dedicated to community use. In the 1970s, pressure from the U.S. ended the land reform measures and forced peasants off the land to work the industrial sweat shops to produce cheap U.S. products. When those industries began moving to Asia, these people were left without any means of support for them or their families. Mass migration of Mexican refugees began to flood the United States. Thirteen families rule Mexico. These thirteen families are consistently among the top 20 wealthiest people in the world. Mexico ins not poor it is exploited.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:21:45 +0000
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