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AnteUp8 months, 1 week ago
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Zero comments? Geez, how sad. Maybe it's because it is a long
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video - even I will have to come back later to watch all of it -
but this is a very worthy subject. I include myself when I say
that IMO most Americans have no idea of our grisly history in
Central and South America........"spreading Democracy".
It would be a good thing to truly understand how the USA
disemboweled any Good Neighbor policy - not to fight Communism -
but for corporate interests. Ugly, brutal decades in which
we were "THE" major player.
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vettenut8 months, 1 week ago
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Yes, ignorance of the USA's treatment of our Latin American neighbors is dangerous.
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It is almost as dangerous as a British reporters slanted and biased portrayal of the situation in Nicaragua during and after the turbulent decades of the 70's and 80's.
Yes, Anastasio Somoza's reign as "President of Nicaragua" needed to be ended. After all, his policies were very self-serving, and he disregarded and de-valued the worth of Nicaraguans, especially the poor ones in that country.
But the sad thing is that Somoza has been replaced by Daniel Ortega and his cohorts, who have shown by their policies that, beside being consumed by hate for the USA, their policies are very self-serving, and they have disregarded and de-valued the worth of Nicaraguans, especially the poor ones in that country.
Same song, different singer................
How sad that Mr. Pilger does not do a follow-up interview this year. And this time, maybe he should do a factual and balanced one to offset the wrongfulness of the one he did more than two decades ago..........
And perhaps he could begin by at least learning to correctly pronounce the name of the country on which he is "reporting....."
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blowback8 months, 1 week ago
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> During the U.S. war against Nicaragua in the 1980s, the CIA supplied the Contras (the counterrevolutionary anti-Sandinista army) with a manual titled Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare. The manual called for the use of assassinations, kidnapings, extortions and other forms of "selective use of violence for propagandistic effect." One Contra leader, Edgar Chamorro, said that after a CIA agent provided the text of the manual and money for its production, another CIA operative told him that that manual was a "mistake." But the "mistake," according to the CIA agent, was not the actual content of the manual. Chamorro was told that "you should never write that down. You do it, but don't write about it." It was also revealed that the CIA-Contra manual was a rehash, including some word-for-word translations, of lesson plans used by the psychological operations department of the U.S. Army Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg during the Vietnam War.
http://revcom.us/a/firstvol/886/sos.htm
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vettenut8 months, 1 week ago
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blow:
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Thanks for your reply.
Nowhere in my comment did I state that I believe the CIA's hands or involvement to be blameless or above reproach.
What is clear is that the CIA operative's comment was correct: the Contras and the CIA were doing exactly the same things that the Sandinistas were doing in Nicaragua, what the Communist Revolutionaries did in Russia in their 1917 revolution, what Castro and his cronies did and still do in Cuba, what Pol Pot did in Cambodia, and what the Red Army did in China.
The difference is that the CIA "wrote it down."
Same song (written down or not), different singer.
How sad for the people of Nicaragua.......
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