#Pinochet

Stefania Maurizi

SMaurizi

1. Last September,I gave evidence as a witness of fact in the Julian #Assange #ExtraditionHearing, and I reconstructed, among other things, how the US #Cables allow to reveal what happened

Baker Street Herald #W3CU

bakerstherald

Sep 16th 2007 conference in BucharestGrover Norquist, Dr Andrei Illarianov (Putins ex Chief Economist), Matthew Elliott, Barbara Kolm & Jose Pinera (ex minister for Labor & Social Security for Augusto

Cornbread

Bootlicker9000

The coup wasn't CIA backed, the CIA were planning a coup through their congress and a different general. They didn't know much about Pinochet until he took over.https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1304279611338043397 The original

Col. Gustavo Arellano

GustavoArellano

MY LATEST @LATIMES COLUMNA: Trump saw himself as a strongman leader. He ended up a weak-salsa president. RT, porfas!https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-08/donald-trump-caudillo-latin-american-dictator So for this one, I tried t

Cris van Eijk

crisveijk

Some 100% real Hansard quotes from my look at the history of space environmentalism in the 1950s-60s.1. M. Foot (16/05/1963): "Does [the PM] think that the United States Government have

Djinn & Tonic

HegelwCrmCheese

the fetishization of "participation" as the end-all-be-all of democracy by the commenters to this post is really annoying, they act as if the definition of democracy is both: (1) settled;

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

1. I would love to read a sympathetic (yet critical) essay that assessed a central claim made by Never Trumpers like @davidfrum--that conservatism today is an embarrassing bastardization of what

Emerican Johnson - Self-Declared Antifa

EmericanJohnson

Tuning out of Twitter for the night. If you're here to dogpile, may I suggest you look into our actual position. Of course liberals aren't LITERALLY fascists. Of course most

Ziyad F. I.

Ziyad_F

(1/10) If you are a progressive, you *must* see the need for a truce with some class enemies - to challenge even more oppressive forces. If Bhagat Singh got this

Ben Norton

BenjaminNorton

On September 11, 1973, the USA orchestrated a military coup to overthrow Chile's elected socialist President Salvador Allende and install a murderous dictatorship combining fascism and neoliberal capitalism.Nicaragua's Sandinista go

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

To be clear: Trump would love to pull off a coup d'état but he doesn't have the ability.Pinochet had the army with him.Trump couldn't even strongarm Ukraine (a vulnerable country)

We Will Be Ruthless As We Deck The Halls

RuthlessWe

We know where this "Proud Boy/Neo-Nazi" got his "6 million Jews wasn't enough" t-shirt."Fat Enzo T-Shirts" in West Palm Beach Florida *Action Items Included And as if the "6MWE" wasn't

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ What most vividly shows the difference between Ron DeSantis and Xavier Becerra? The crusade, and then the failure of that crusade, to make America into a fully authoritarian nation,

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

This month US Americans got a small glimpse of what a coup might feel like, and they are rightly outraged. One might hope this would provoke some reflection on the

Ben Norton

BenjaminNorton

Now that US Attorney General William Barr has stepped down, it's a good time to remind people that he is a far-right theocrat who was on the board of directors

Teri Kanefield

Teri_Kanefield

Yes, this is dangerous--not because a military coup would succeed between now and Biden's inauguration (Biden will be president) but because a major political party and so many voters continue

By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.