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My hard copy of _The Political Economy of Human Right Vol. 1 The Washington Connection_ doesn't have to "frontispiece" diagram of "The Sun and it's Planets" I'll have to try and make a Racket Pict version in a way that allows for quick updates...
https://snap.as/bsmall2/pehr/4L1QMFqp
High Resolution Images:
https://archive.org/details/washingtonconnec0000chom/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theaterFull Text:
https://archive.org/details/ThePoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights/page/n5/mode/2up#PEHR #PEHR1 #WashingtonConnection #PEHRDiagram #PEHRSunAndPlanets
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> This myth has remained unruffled even in the face of the accelerating “#Brazilianization” of the #ThirdWorld over the past several decades, very often under active U.S. sponsorship, with frequent displacement of democratic government and extensive and growing resort to repression, including physical torture, imprisonment, death squads, and mysterious “disappearances,” all within the U.S. sphere of influence.https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/the-washington-connection-and-third-world-fascism/
https://archive.org/stream/ThePoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights/The%20Political%20Economy%20of%20Human%20Rights_djvu.txt
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> 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..
#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR #PEHR1 #WashingtonConnection
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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...
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A defenseless peasant population getting bombed is "fighting", look at the photo!?!?!
> The lobby of the Vihn Thong Guesthouse in Phonsavan displays defused and emptied ordnance as well as a mural depicting fighting around the Plain of Jars in the 1960s.
https://archaeology.org/issues/online/features/plain-of-jars/
#PlainOfJars #Laos #PlainOfJarsBombCraters #PlainOfJarsOrdnance
#PEHR #PEHR2
#PoliticalEconomyOfHumanRightsReading #AfterTheCataclysm and wondered about "plain of Jars".. really are jars there!!
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> .. 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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AI for military targets is not innovative: 1970s,
> A system of terror-run-amok was facilitated by the incompetence and chronic irrelevance of the “intelligence” system that Colby claimed to be “improving” and which gave him hopes of “stern justice.”...
> > The unverified and in fact #UnverifiableInformation, nevertheless, was used regularly as input to #ArtilleryStrikes, harassment and interdiction fire (H & I), B52 and other air strikes, often on populated areas.
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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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> 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 -
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> ... on a petition.. by 94 members of the #AustralianParliament “charging atrocities by Indonesian troops” and asking Mr. Carter “to comment publicly on the situation in #EastTimor”... 9 lines was evidently considered too much for a topic of such meager interest. The story did not make it to the #NewYorkTimesIndex because it was deleted from the #LateCityEdition, which is the newspaper of record for microfilm..
#PresidentCarter #JimmyCarter
#CarterAndHumanRIghts #PEHR
#PEHR1
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> .. 1975, when the Portuguese revolution and the fate of the Portuguese colonies was a matter of great concern in the West, the New York Times index has six full columns of citations to Timor. In 1976, when Indonesian troops were carrying out a major massacre, coverage dropped to less than half a column. For 1977, when the massacre advanced to a point that some feel amounts to genocide, there are five lines.. about refugees in Portugal.. coverage of #EastTimor is a flat zero. #PEHR #Chomsky
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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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> En 2004 realizaría un nuevo volumen de parodias políticas, Parodias neoliberales.#PobreNinoDeLaCalle
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#ParOdiasNeoLiberales#OscarChavez
#PobreNiñoDeLaCallehttps://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=akg_5O83K5s
> The Church in Brazil now points out frequently and with great clarity and courage that the National Security Doctrine is a cover for totalitarian violence against ordinary people and is a means of class warfare.
#NoamChomsky in #PEHR #TheWashingtonConnection
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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.@[email protected]
#CommunistCoup #CommunistInfiltration #USPublicOpinion for #BloodThirstyPlans in #PEHR #PEHR1 by #ChomskyAndHerman -
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> Third, since the reaction of.. journalists and political leaders was enthusiastic[^]4 and the world protest at the mass killings was minimal, the Indonesian bloodbath..[became] a.. model for lesser but still large-scale.. pogroms in later years, as in Chile.^4
> [In] #JamesReston’s article.. there is no mention of mass murder..[:] “A Gleam of Light,” New York Times (19 June 1966).. “significant” and “hopeful,” -
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Finally reading an important book and finding background for Andre Vitchek's article about Indonesia and Chile:> The huge massacres in Indonesia, 1965-1969, have a threefold importance. In the first place, they constitute a new phase in counterrevolutionary violence marked by resort to “mass extermination in an attempt to consolidate authoritarian power.”
#NoamChomsky and #EdwardHerman in #PEHR
#PEHR1 #WashingtonConnection
#Indonesia1965 #IndonesiaMassacres #AndreVitchek
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> Despite the clear link between U.S. sponsorship and support.. the use of terror and serious human rights violations.. the nature and importance of the “#WashingtonConnection” are.. ignored in the West and the United States is regarded as in the vanguard of the defense of human rights. To some extent this faith rests on the facile—and still widely prevalent—assumption that external misbehavior is closely related to internal repression and limitations on freedom of dissent.
#PEHR #Chomsky
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> In recent years, much of Latin America has broken free from U.S. domination, a development of enormous historical significance... in many ways. One has to do with the topic of our study. During the period we reviewed, #LatinAmerica was a primary center of torture worldwide. No longer. The extent to which that has changed is revealed in an important study by the #OpenSocietyFoundation that reviewed global participation in the CIA program of #ExtraordinaryRendition. 🧵 #PEHR -
USA Back Yard Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiRHsJgbFr8
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=XiRHsJgbFr8
#OscarChavesz #CasasDeCarton #QueTriste #HowSad #CardboardHouses
For a soundtrack while reading Noam Chomsky's Turning The Tide or the #WashingtonConnection and #ThirdWorldFascism or #SubFascism , It's Vol. 1 of #PoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights #PEHR
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> Marcos, for example, quickly reversed the land ownership decision and, “According to one oilman, ‘Marcos says “We’ll pass the laws you need—just tell us what you want”.’’’ (This is a nice illustration of how, under client fascism, the constituency of the leadership shifts to foreign interests.) This case exemplifies what has been a consistent
pattern.
“Philippines: A government that needs U.S. business,” Business Week, 4 November 1972.
#WashingtonConnection #PEHR #NoamChomsky