{"id":99019,"date":"2020-02-16T15:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99019"},"modified":"2020-02-16T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T22:47:29","slug":"usa-active-involvement-in-state-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/16\/usa-active-involvement-in-state-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT IN STATE TERRORISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

There are a series of publications based on\nin-depth studies on USA involvement in State Terrorism. The following are\nhighlights on the contents of two of the prominent publications: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) State Terrorism and Neoliberalism (2009), by Dr. Ruth Blakeley, Professor (<\/strong>University of Kent) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) State Terrorism and the United States: From\nCounter-insurgency to the War on Terrorism\u201d (2004)\nby Frederick H. Gareau (Professor Florida State Univ.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Terrorism and Neoliberalism (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author: Dr. Ruth Blakeley\n(<\/strong>University of Kent)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a book that explores the direct and\nactive involvement of the USA in state terrorism in other countries. The book\nexplores state terrorism as used by USA and European imperialists to secure\nterritory and to defeat national liberation movements. It enumerates the use of\nstate terrorism by the US throughout the Cold War to defeat political movements\nthat would threaten US elite interests. It assesses the deceitful and\natrocious  practices of the USA and most\nEuropean states in the ‘War on Terror’, showing that these so-called\ndemocracies, have been active in state terrorism, including through\nextraordinary rendition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several scholars have\naccused the United States of conducting state terrorism. According to them, state terrorism is used to protect the interest\nof capitalist<\/a> elites, and the U.S. organized a neo-colonial<\/a> system of client states<\/a>, co-operating with regional elites to rule through terror. Western\nliberal democracies, as former imperial powers, frequently used terrorism in\nthe invasions and occupations of their colonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book shows how the international media\ntends to ignore this deplorable of USA and other so-called Northern\ndemocracies. Media appears to be focusing instead on terrorist threats to US\nand Northern interests from illiberal actors. The book accounts for the absence\nof USA and Northern state terrorism from many terrorism studies and popular\nmedia reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given the fact that USA and its western\nallies have been active in supporting international terrorism, it is\nunderstandable why the USA accuses the government of Sri Lanka and its heroic\narmed forces, for successfully countering the three decades long menace of\nTamil terrorism in Sri Lanka, and for eradicating terrorism for good,\nespecially with the elimination of the ruthless Tamil terrorist leadership in\n2009, despite, perhaps the direct but definitely the indirect support they\nreceived from USA and its allies including the misled so-called Tamil\nexpatriates who sought refuge in the West. . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Terrorism and the United States: <\/strong>From\nCounter-insurgency to the War on Terrorism\u201d<\/strong> (2004)\n                   <\/strong>Author:\nFrederick H. Gareau (Professor: Florida State University.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this widely read book by Professor\nFrederick H. Gareau, what is highlighted is the continuous support that the USA government has given right-wing\ndictatorships that committed terrorism especially during the cold war and war\non terrorism. Washington\u2019s support for state terrorist regimes typically has\ntaken the form of training their troops in counterinsurgency,\u201d now\ncounter-terrorism,\u201d and by providing funds and loans, military equipment, and\ndiplomatic backing. The study indicates that Washington helped the Saddam\nHussein regime and the apartheid regimes in South Africa successfully develop\nweapons of mass destruction. The author rejects the narrow definition of\nterrorism insisted on by Washington that exempts terrorism committed by\ngovernments (state terrorism) from the definition, and for political reasons\nrestricts the term solely to the private terrorism committed by private\nindividuals or non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USA\nsupport for terrorists has been prominent in Latin America<\/a>,\nthe Middle-East<\/a>,\nand Southern Africa<\/a>. USA\nprovided<\/a> weapons,\ntraining, and extensive financial and logistical support to the Contra<\/a> rebels\nin Nicaragua, who used terror tactics in their fight against the Nicaraguan\ngovernment. USA provided training, arms, and funds to terrorists among the\nCuban exiles. Among the reasons given to justify such support include\ndestabilizing political movements that might have aligned with the Soviet Union<\/a> during\nthe Cold War<\/a>,\nincluding popular democratic and socialist movements. Support was also geared\ntoward ensuring a conducive environment for American corporate interests\nabroad, especially when these interests came under threat from democratic\ngovernments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Selected Publications on USA\ninvolvement in international terrorism <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1). The Darkest Sides of Politics, State Terrorism, Weapons of\nMass Destruction and organized Crime (2017), by Jeffrey M. Bale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2)Contemporary State Terrorism \u2013 Theory and Practice (2009),\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0by Richard Jackson<\/a>,\u00a0Eamon Murphy<\/a>,\u00a0Scott Poynting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3)The Political Economy of Human Rights<\/a>\u00a0(1979),by Noam Chomsky<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Edward S. Herman<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4)The Real Terror Network\u00a0(1985) by Edward S.Herman\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5) State Violence and Genocide in Latin America, The Cold War Years(2009), by\u00a0Marcia Esparza<\/a>,\u00a0Henry R. Huttenbach<\/a>,\u00a0Daniel Feierstein<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6) Counter-Terrorism and State Political\nViolence- The War on Terror (2012) by Scott Poynting<\/a>, David Whyte<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7) Evaluating Counter-terrorism Performance \u2013 A\ncomparative Study (2011) by Beatrice de Graaf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8)\nWestern State Terrorism (1991) by Alexander\nL. George<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9)\nAmerica’s Other War (2005) by Doug\nStokes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane There are a series of publications based on in-depth studies on USA involvement in State Terrorism. The following are highlights on the contents of two of the prominent publications: 1) State Terrorism and Neoliberalism (2009), by Dr. Ruth Blakeley, Professor (University of Kent) 2) State Terrorism and the United States: From Counter-insurgency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-daya-hewapathirane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}