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The U.S. Executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 1

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In 1999, in response to an order issued by Bill Clinton to U.S. departments and agencies to release long-secret records of the U.S. national-security state relating to the 1973 military coup in Chile, the U.S. State Department released a memo that stated that during the coup, U.S. intelligence “may have played an unfortunate role” in the killings of two American citizens, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi Jr. “At best, it was limited to providing or confirming information that helped motivate his murder by the government of Chile.” The memorandum was an amazing revelation, not only because it revealed that an official U.S. investigation had secretly concluded that the U.S. national-security state had very likely participated in the murder of two U.S. citizens, but also because it challenged long-stated denials by officials in the U.S. national-security establishment that they had played any ...

Which American System is Exceptional?

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Throughout the Iraq War, U.S. officials steadfastly maintained, especially after they failed to find those infamous WMDs, that they were continuing to occupy Iraq out of love for the Iraqi people. Since U.S. troops were there anyway, they said, there was no need to apologize for having invaded a country and killed lots of people based on a wrongful premise. Might as well just shift gears and say that the continued occupation of the country would be based on a deeply seated concern for the well-being of the Iraqi people. In fact, isn’t that the official justification for all the U.S. government’s interventions in the Middle East? All the chaos, crisis, war, death, and destruction, we are told, have been to bring a paradise of peace, stability, and prosperity to the people of the Middle East. Of course, the justification has been a sham from the beginning. There certainly was no concern for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children who ...

The Ridiculous Cold War against Cuba

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Yesterday, Cuban President Raul Castro announced that Cuba is ready to name an ambassador to the United States, signifying that the United States and Cuba continue on the road toward reestablishing formal diplomatic ties. As the governments of the two nations move further toward renewing formal relations, it should become increasingly clear what a horrible fraud the U.S. national-security branch of the federal government perpetrated on the American people after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Soon after Castro took power after ousting the U.S.-supported Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, it became clear that Castro was taking Cuba in a communist direction, especially with his nationalization of businesses and industries, including those belonging to influential U.S. corporations. The CIA and the Pentagon told President Eisenhower, and later President Kennedy, that the “national security” of the United States “threatened” by a communist regime 90 miles away from American shores. Both Ike and JFK bought into the fear-mongering. While Ike was in office, the CIA developed ...