PATRICE GREANVILLE—Perhaps naively, President Allende had tried to make a revolution relying chiefly on parliamentarism, the “Chilean Way”, basically a top-down revolution, but the limitations of this approach, using the bourgeois state playbook and a largely bourgeois Congress to overthrow itself, soon became evident when national and international capital, led by the US, proceeded to systematically sabotage his proposals, inevitably plunging the nation into severe shortages and social turmoil. It’s worth recalling that economic and political sabotage is an old tool of imperialism to maintain its grip on any insolent nation (we see that in abundance these days in the cases of Venezuela, North Korea, Iran and even China and Russia—all subject to illegal sanctions beefed up by trade and information wars). The manufactured chaos was the pretext used by Allende’s conservative opponents at home and abroad to justify their internal coup planning. The coup option received the green light, so to speak, when Allende, despite the terrible problems afflicting the whole nation, in fact managed to increase his share of the popular vote in the Chile’s midterm elections.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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In December 1949, 12 members of Japan’s Kwantung Army faced trial in Khabarovsk for the atrocities they’d committed while developing biological weapons and testing them on prisoners of war. But Shiro Ishii, the head of the unit, never faced the tribunal. Instead, he was offered immunity and taken to the US, where he masterminded biological warfare during the Korean War. Until today, the US continues developing biological weapons in its dual-purpose labs, like the Lugar Laboratory in Georgia, and multiple facilities in Ukraine, whose activities have been causing alarm. Shiro Ishii’s successors allegedly continue their experiments on human subjects.
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It is hardly a revelation to savvy people that the American media lie and omit important news 24/7, and so it is now with the BIGGEST strike in history, as 250 million farmers and workers are on the streets of India protesting the rightwing government’s cave-in to multinationals economic gangsterism. But, again, as we said earlier, the average American never heard of it, his mind swamped, as usual, with all sorts of stupid, highly misleading and irrelevant “news”.
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COVID Relief Bill is a CRUEL JOKE.
An astonishing abomination. Theft in broad daylight, testament that the ruling class does not fear the wrath of the people, nor exposure. They feel their propaganda and police can shield them from repercussions for their betrayals. But the pandemic is accelerating the moment when the crisis of political representation and system legitimacy will hit the fan, and the problem afflicts most US allied nations. -
LEE CAMP—The stimulus bill Congress asked us to accept would not solve any of the problems that working people are facing right now. In a Moment of Clarity segment Lee dissects (and exposes) the cynicism and lies behind the oligarchs shills latest slap in the face of working Americans.