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  1. > Carter administration.. trial-and-error test of its ability to translate a concern for human rights into an effective instrument of #USForeignPolicy
    > The mystery and bewilderment rest on the assumption that the #USAidProgram is intended to serve a humanitarian function in the world of #subfascism, a fallacy obvious enough to the illiterate and uneducated Nicaraguan #peasants, as we discover in DeYoung’s accompanying story datelined #chinandega #Nicaragua.
    #KarenDeYoung
    #JohnMGoshko 🧵

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    > Most sinister for the leaders of #subfascism is any sponsorship of organizational or self-help efforts that might give the underclasses not only a sense of personal dignity but also some notion that they have rights and might exercise some small modicum of power.
    > The hostility of the #NationalSecurityStates to #ChurchSupport for the majority has reached the level of cooperative efforts at intimidation.

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    > ... internal freedom is quite compatible with exploitative and inhumane external conduct extending over many decades...

    > Human slavery also lasted quite a long time in the Western democracies, not to speak of vicious exploitation, imported cheap labor, and other... practices, which still are prevalent.

    #PoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights by #NoamChomsky and #EdwardHerman
    #ThirdWorldFascism #SubFascism #TheWashingtonConnection
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