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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=theater

Full Text:
https://archive.org/details/ThePoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights/page/n5/mode/2up

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> Since World War II there has been a steady deterioration of political and social conditions in Latin America and generally throughout Third World areas that are within the Free World. Liberal ideologists treat this as fortuitous and independent of U.S. choice and power, claiming that as a democracy we support democratic institutions abroad, while any contrary trends are based on exogenous forces over which the United States has no control...
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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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> 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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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.”

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#NoamChomsky and #EdwardHerman in #PEHR
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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.
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USA Back Yard Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiRHsJgbFr8

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=XiRHsJgbFr8

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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.
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