#chomskyandherman — Public Fediverse posts

> The Vietnam War has been digested by the U.S. political system with hardly a trace. Essentially the same people manage national affairs, and possess virtually exclusive access to the mass media; the critics of the war have lapsed, or been forced, into silence; and the media have not allowed the vast accumulation of sordid details about our Vietnam involvement to disturb the myth of U.S. benevolence and concerned pursuit of democracy abroad.
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> Robert Shaplen, the Asia correspondent of the New Yorker, commented..on East Timor in.. “Letter from Indonesia,”..[in] 1977.. his reconstruction.. “Indonesian troops intervened, somewhat crudely and clumsily, in December of 1975, in a war for independence which the East Timorese were ostensibly waging against Portugal.” The idea that the East Timorese were fighting Portugal is a novel contribution..

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> In a shop in Phomsavan... recycled shells are offered for sale as containers. #NikWheeler
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> ...Most Lao are subsistence farmers.

The "most bombed per capita" people in the world are "defenseless peasants" in the 1970s words of #ChomskyAndHerman in #PEHR #AfterTheCataclysm.. #SubsistenceFarmers, I wonder when this term came into use? I'm guessing after the 70s...
https://apjjf.org/russell-ciochon/3171/article

#Phomsavan #Laos #ShellCasings #UXO

> .. massacre. The same technique was used to good advantage later in Chile under Allende. In following years the United States expanded its military aid and training of the military and police. The Country Officer for Indonesia in the State Department, #DavidTKenney, is capable of saying, with a straight face, that one purpose of U.S. military aid to Indonesia is “to keep that area peaceful” .. ; this, in testimony on the Indonesian invasion of #easttimor
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> The hypocrisy and sheer silliness of much political commentary.. is.. remarkable..the.. absurdity.. the Wall Street Journal deriding the “simple-minded myths” that “the problems in Indochina stem from things like American imperialism and its military-industrial complex” (editorial, 31 August 1978). Such phrases as “American imperialism,” ordinarily under a strict taboo, are occasionally permitted in such contexts as these...
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> The assertion was.. cited.. from a..U.S. pacification official.. it remains “unsubstantiated,”.. the official record of 10,899 dead.. an ugly joke, down to #TheLastDigit.. U.S. command had no idea how many people were killed by their B-52 and helicopter gunship attacks or the artillery barrage, napalm and anti-personnel weapons. Perhaps 5,000 “noncombatants” were killed, or perhaps some other number...
#GuenterLewy on #ThomasBuckley in #PEHR #WashingtonConnection by
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The song to sing every time it seems like it's 35.555°C outside, especially in the shade... Like here in Miyazaki.

It probably wouldn't be so hot and apocalyptic if more of these peasant rebellions had won. Reading the #WashingtonConnection by #ChomskyAndHerman and the South Vietnam in the 60s, 70s seems a lot like Lebanon now: supporting a military against a population..

> 1865 (96º In The Shade)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=UwlUY3AQd2Q

#宮崎県 #宮崎県都城市 #都城市 #ThirdWorldReggaeeGroup
#NinetySixDegreesInTheShade

> A curious aspect of this massive subversion operation.. is not regarded as subversion... subversion by the United States... weapons on a huge scale, bribery, black propaganda, practically open conspiracy with military officers, massive institutional subversion—this multi-dimensional effort is the natural right of power—where domination is so taken for granted that the hegemonic power intervenes by inevitable and unquestioned authority.
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> Carter is a man who is loyal to his friends. Only a few weeks after his letter to Somoza, President Carter “telephoned the royal palace [in Iran] to express support for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who faced the worst crisis of his 37-year reign.”283 This time, Carter’s communication followed the machine-gunning of demonstrators by the Shah’s military forces, armed and trained in the United States...
#PresidentCarter and #TheShah in #Iran #PEHR by #ChomskyAndHerman #WashingtonConnection

> #ManufacturingConsent, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman devote a chapter to the media’s unbalanced coverage of the murder of one priest in Poland in 1984 as compared to the coverage of the 72 religious killed throughout Latin America between 1964 and 1978, the killing of 23 religious in Guatemala between 1980 and 1985, the murder of #ArchbishopRomero of San Salvador in 1980 and the rape and murder of the 4 U.S. Church women in El Salvador in 1980..
https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/21/the-u-s-empire-modern-day-christian-martyrs/
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🧵 1979
> The Latin American churches have been unified and radicalized by subfascist terror and exploitation. They have learned by bitter experience the roots and consequences of these processes. The Church in Brazil now points out frequently and with great clarity and courage that the #NationalSecurityDoctrine is a cover for totalitarian violence against ordinary people and is a means of class warfare.
#ChomskyAndHerman in #PEHR
background for #PopeFrancis and #FratelliTutti
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1979
> ... treatment of abandoned children, vast numbers of whom wander and forage in the cities. These children are regarded strictly as a police problem. Nothing is done for them, but they are periodically rounded up, put into police trucks, and transported to other Brazilian states, with a warning to stay away. If something positive is done for them, this is regarded as a menace...

#ChomskyAndHerman in #WashingtonConnection #PEHR1 remind me of an #OscarChavez song:
https://audio.liberta.vip/library/albums/7234

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> the Indonesian coup was immediately preceded by a legitimizing “Communist coup” to which it was allegedly a response; the Brazilian junta and the sponsoring U.S. leadership could only claim Communist infiltration and bloodthirsty plans—which more than sufficed for the molders of U.S. public opinion... more would have been needed to justify mass extermination.

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#CommunistCoup #CommunistInfiltration #USPublicOpinion for #BloodThirstyPlans in #PEHR #PEHR1 by #ChomskyAndHerman