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The Assassinations of John Kennedy and Orlando Letelier

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This week the Washington Post carried a fascinating front-page article entitled “This Is Not an Accident. This Was a Bomb” about the assassination of Orlando Letelier, the former official in the Allende administration who, along with his 25-year-old assistant Ronni Moffitt, was murdered on the streets of Washington, D.C., in 1976. The article includes several interesting photographs, including of Letelier and Moffitt. Some historical events will just not go away, perhaps because something about them just keeps gnawing at people. The Letelier assassination is a good example. So is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Letelier assassination necessarily must be viewed within the context of the Chilean coup, which took place on September 11, 1973, approximately ten years after Kennedy was assassinated. In 1970 Chilean voters delivered a plurality of votes to presidential candidate Salvador Allende, who was an avowed communist and socialist. Since he had not received a majority of the votes, the election was thrown into the Chilean ...

The Horror of Endless Interventionism

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When the U.S. government invaded Iraq in 2003, I wonder how many U.S. officials contemplated the possibility that the cycle of death and destruction that they were initiating would be continuing 13 years later. And yet, here we are — more than a decade after Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched — and U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are, once again, battling over control of Mosul. The battle for Mosul is being met with considerable indifference or nonchalance among many Americans. After all, there are so many more important things to talk about, such as sex scandals. But the fact that U.S. troops are still fighting, killing, and dying in Iraq 13 years after the U.S. invasion of the country (and 26 years after the U.S. government’s Persian Gulf intervention) is truly remarkable. Not surprisingly, the U.S. mainstream press and the U.S. national-security establishment are doing their best to put their best spin on the upcoming battle for Mosul. They are showing how ...

The Path to Total Dictatorship

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“Today the path to total dictatorship in the U.S. can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a well-organized political-action group in this country, determined to destroy our Constitution and establish a one-party state.... The important point to remember about this group is not its ideology but its organization… It operates secretly, silently, continuously to transform our Government.... This group ... is answerable neither to the President, the Congress, nor the courts. It is practically irremovable.”— Senator William Jenner, 1954 speech Unaffected by elections. Unaltered by populist movements. Beyond the reach of the law. Say hello to America’s shadow government. A corporatized, militarized, entrenched bureaucracy that is fully operational and staffed by unelected officials who are, in essence, running the country, this shadow government represents the hidden face of a government that has no respect for ...