chapetmarunga Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 (edited) How US overthrew democratically elected leader in Chile in 1973 & put Pinochet a fascist dictator in charge who killed thousands of people. One of many instances of US overthrowing a democratically elected leader to replace them with brutal dictators who acted in US interests. Edited October 31, 2017 by chapetmarunga Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandeep Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 The Chile example is just one among many. US did a lot of things in the name of fighting communism all over the world. Currently, the hot news story in the US is the declassification of documents related to the massacres done by the Indonesian army in the late 60s and 70s, with US weapons, with the full knowledge of the US government. It was basically what the Pakjabis did to the Bengalis, but instead of religion, fighting communism was the reason for the bloody purge and murder of hundreds of thousands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 Manufacturing consent by Noam Chomsky A class in how our news media is dominated by a few monopolies who control the opinions of hundreds millions of people in a democratic society. How western media empires do propaganda. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 5 minutes ago, sandeep said: The Chile example is just one among many. US did a lot of things in the name of fighting communism all over the world. Currently, the hot news story in the US is the declassification of documents related to the massacres done by the Indonesian army in the late 60s and 70s, with US weapons, with the full knowledge of the US government. It was basically what the Pakjabis did to the Bengalis, but instead of religion, fighting communism was the reason for the bloody purge and murder of hundreds of thousands. True. The US knew its weapons would be used to slaughter people & they agreed with the Indonesians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 Naomi Klein - The shock doctrine In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advocated by the economist Milton Friedman) have risen to prominence in some developed countries because of a deliberate strategy of "shock therapy". This centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance. The book suggests that some man-made events, such as the Iraq War, were undertaken with the intention of pushing through such unpopular policies in their wake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 the milgram experiment The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience; the experiment found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of people were prepared to obey, albeit unwillingly, even if apparently causing serious injury and distress. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted October 31, 2017 Author Share Posted October 31, 2017 Citizen four In January 2013, Laura Poitras, an American documentary film director/producer who had been working for several years on a film about monitoring programs in the United States that were the result of the September 11 attacks, receives an encrypted e-mail from a stranger who calls himself, "Citizenfour."[4] In it, he offers her inside information about illegal wiretapping practices of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, accompanied by investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and The Guardian intelligence reporter Ewen MacAskill,[5] she travels to Hong Kong with her camera for the first meeting with the stranger in a hotel, who reveals himself as Edward Snowden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffee_rules Posted October 31, 2017 Share Posted October 31, 2017 And they make a big fuss when Russia engineers a Presidential election in USA. You reap what you sow. Gollum 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Yom Kippur war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chapetmarunga Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Trials of Henry Kissinger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trials_of_Henry_Kissinger he Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) is a documentary film inspired by Christopher Hitchens' 2001 book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, examining war crimes claimed to have been done by Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapetmarunga Posted November 7, 2017 Author Share Posted November 7, 2017 Unit 731 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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