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History

‘Extreme Option: Overthrow Allende’

The National Security Archive –  George Washington University Edited by Peter Kornbluh —————————- Nixon’s “Make the Economy Scream” Order issued 50 years ago Genesis of Nixon’s Infamous Regime Change Directive on Chile Recorded in Declassified…

History

Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America

By Giles Tremlett* – The Guardian During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice The last time…

Intelligence

Major General Dennis Laich: Pentagon Needs a Bad Guy

By Paul Jay * – TheAnalysis.news Paul Jay Hi, my name is Paul Jay, and welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. It’s not often I get a chance to talk to an American general, okay, I’ve never had a chance to talk to an American general.

Elections

Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book

By  Josh Dawsey* – The Washington Post President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral…

Health

Trump Has No Secret Intel on the Coronavirus’s Origins

By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The current administration is smearing China in the same way Bush fabricated intelligence on Iraq. There’s a meme that appears now and then on Facebook and other social media: “Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it.

Armed conflicts

Afghanistan: Failure of the US or Curse of History

By Saber Azam*              GENEVA, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) – The fourth and last presidential election in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019 was yet another setback to the democratic process. Not only did it take months…

Intelligence

The American Cowboy – Iranian Mullah Showdown

By Hall Gardner* –  Wall Street International Magazine Countdown to World War Trump IV I. Now that he possesses only a small kitchen cabinet full of “yes men” to advise him, it should not have been surprising that President Trump opted for the drone assassination of Iraqi…