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It’s hard to believe that Henry Kissinger is still alive. He is 100 years old now. For some reason, war criminals live to ripe old ages. Augusto Pinochet, the dictator who ruled Chile with a tyrannical iron fist for decades after the coup, lived to be...
by David B
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 09:09 AM PDT
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The people of Chile went to the polls on Sunday to ratify or reject a new, progressive Constitution drawn up by a constituent assembly over the past couple of years. The size of the rejection vote, at around 62%, surprised many people. The new...
by senorjoel
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 06:52 PM PDT
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As we’re all well aware, effective election preparations are all about good messaging (and the self-fulfilling prophecies that often come with it), and the “Latinos are re-aligning towards the GOP” is one of the dumber and more inaccurate media memes...
by Tweedledee5
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on Thu Jul 28, 2022 at 10:23 AM PDT
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In 1926 Ernest Hemmingway published his novel The Sun Also Rises, which has this extraordinary bit of dialogue about how change happens in most aspects of life — and how governments rise and fall. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. ”Two ways,” Mike...
by thomhartmann
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on Sat Nov 13, 2021 at 09:18 AM PST
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This past Sunday, July 4th, the constituents of Chile’s new Constitutional Convention elected Elisa Loncón to lead the Convention process. Ms. Loncón is a linguistics professor at the University of Chile and a Mapuche community leader. The Mapuche are...
by senorjoel
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on Thu Jul 08, 2021 at 03:57 PM PDT
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Remember the Jade Helm 15 military training exercise that begat the conspiracy theory that then president Barack Obama was coordinating the military to take over the state of Texas? The beginning of martial law was upon the Lone Star State and the rest...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Jul 17, 2020 at 09:31 AM PDT
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Media in the United States is obsessed with Venezuela , and corporate special interests also like to use Venezuela as a boogeyman to make people fearful of any kind of change.
The story is: “Be ...
by David Akadjian
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on Sun Oct 27, 2019 at 11:00 AM PDT
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The Guardian reports that our Panem President has decided to expand his xenophobia to anyone not part of the “American Race”. Immigrants applying for US visas will be denied entry into the country unless they can prove they can afford health care...
by El Mito
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on Sat Oct 05, 2019 at 02:22 AM PDT
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Once upon a time the people of a South American nation elected a Marxist president against the wishes of the US ruling elites.
This was that man, Salvador Allende,
and this was ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Tue Sep 11, 2018 at 07:13 AM PDT
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In 1985, at age 41, I visited Disney World for the first time. I remember the experience for two things: the endless lines so...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Sep 14, 2017 at 11:01 AM PDT
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Anne Petermann is the Coordinator of the International Campaign to STOP GE Trees. She is attending (and spying on) the week-long Tree Biotechnology conference of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) in Concepcion, Chile....
by Anne Petermann
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on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 06:03 PM PDT
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When I was in High School I attended a talk by a survivor of the Chilean Coup d'état of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, which was overthrown by a CIA-backed coup d'état in 1973. The Coup survivor was making the point that the...
by DannyG123
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on Tue Oct 11, 2016 at 01:32 PM PDT
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It's one thing for the United States to profess a desire for peace and prosperity for peoples around the globe, but it's a whole different matter when our consequent actions put the lie to our words ...
by Jerry Anderson
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on Sat Apr 18, 2015 at 11:12 AM PDT
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I worked 3 blocks from the World Trade Center, and was there that day when downtown workers in NYC got terrified we were next when the towers roared and crumbled as we waited in lobbies to be told ...
by MillieNeon
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on Sun Sep 14, 2014 at 08:23 AM PDT
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Many people are familiar with the fact that 9/11 is a date of great sadness not just for the people of the United States. It was on September 11th, 1973 a military junta funded and supported by US ...
by EdieMeowgwick
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on Fri Oct 11, 2013 at 12:15 AM PDT
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L et’s start at the beginning: Salvadore Allende is making his farewell radio address to Chile. In the background, you can hear the sounds of guns firing. It’s September 11, 1973. Elements of ...
by Shef
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on Tue Jul 23, 2013 at 06:54 AM PDT
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A Guardian writer does a nice job of calling out the Wall St. Journal.
Wall Street Journal says Egypt needs a Pinochet – can it get away with that?
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published ...
by Richard Lyon
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on Sat Jul 06, 2013 at 10:42 AM PDT
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Today millions of Americans will pause from their barbecues and family gatherings to remember the American heroes who fought and died in the service of their country. This is altogether fitting, for ...
by JackMcCullough
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on Mon May 27, 2013 at 06:24 AM PDT
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David Brooks' eulogy for Margaret Thatcher today reveals a lot more about Brooks than it does about Thatcher. Brooks exhibits many of the qualities that have made him the quintessential pompous ...
by Upper West
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on Tue Apr 09, 2013 at 11:17 AM PDT
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The New York Times reports that Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singer’s 1973 Murder After Military Coup
SANTIAGO, Chile — Eight retired army officers were charged on Friday with the murder of a ...
by BOHICA
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on Sat Dec 29, 2012 at 06:04 AM PST
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