Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died last night at the age of 100. An insider to the core, Kissinger’s early career reads like a list of establishment clichés; educated at Harvard he pledged Phi Beta Kappa before working for the RAND Corporation, the Rockefellers and the Council on Foreign Relations. In a …
Lorsque les militaires chiliens ont renversé le gouvernement démocratiquement élu de Salvador Allende en septembre 1973, des responsables britanniques ont soutenu la nouvelle junte et lui ont apporté leur concours alors qu’elle se livrait à des atrocités à grande échelle, comme le montrent des dossiers déclassifiés. Source : Declassified UK, Mark CurtisTraduit par les lecteurs […]
Michel Chossudovsky Half a century ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet, crushed the democratically elected Unidad Popular government of Salvador Allende. The objective was to replace a progressive, democratically elected government by a brutal military dictatorship. The military coup was supported by the CIA. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger played a direct role …
Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. Transcript below. By Anya Parampil A new report by a special mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council was released in September and is making headlines after it accused Venezuela’s government of crimes against humanity. Because it is getting so much attention, several people have reached out to me asking for clarification regarding the information […]
Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right’s Council which accuses Venezuela’s government of “crimes against humanity”. Transcript below. By Anya Parampil A new report by a special mission of the United Nations Human Rights Council was released in September and is making headlines after it accused Venezuela’s government of crimes against humanity. Because it is getting so much attention, several people have reached out to me asking for clarification regarding the information […]
It’s the sort of thing that ruffled the image of a composed and tranquil existence. In some countries, doing away with political leaders is a periodic affair, deemed necessary to clean the stables. But in Sweden, change is barely discernible, stability nigh guaranteed and institutions revered. “It’s in the tradition of Sweden to put itself forth as a moral role model,” observes author Elisabeth Åsbrink.
Grayzone Project — Back in his Ivy League college days, right-wing New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote an op-ed defending the US-backed dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose military junta murdered and disappeared thousands of dissidents and tortured tens of thousands more.
David Rockefeller’s true legacy is much more mired in controversy than major publications seem willing to admit. (Photo: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx)
Hugo Turner of Anti-Imperialist-U for an in depth discussion of Ted Shackley and his infamous career in the CIA. We focus on Hugo’s articles chronicling Ted Shackley as well as the Iran Contra Scandal. We begin by taking a look at Shackley’s beginnings in military intelligence recruiting Nazi’s, and his later recruitment into the CIA during the Korean War. Hugo paints us a picture of the man that Shackley would become: obsessively driven and cutthroat. We touch on some of Shackley’s early mentors such as William Harvey who introduced Shackley to the Cuban exile committee.
