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Look at the very first thing that Kissinger says to Pinochet’s Foreign Minister—literally the very first thing [that] he says to him when the meeting starts. Yes, the Foreign Minister comes in, he says, ‘I want to thank you for giving us this opportunity to talk to you’, and Kissinger’s first statement is, ‘Well, I read the briefing paper for this meeting and it was nothing but human rights. The State Department is made up of people who have a vocation for the ministry. Because there were not enough churches for them, they went into the Department of State.’

He would have celebrated his 76th birthday today. As chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and one of its national leaders, Hampton's life was marked by unwavering dedication to the cause of racial equality and social justice. Tragically, Fred Hampton met his demise at the hands of Chicago law enforcement officers when he was just 21 years old. His death has been characterized as a premeditated execution, leaving behind an indelible mark on our collective history.

British intelligence MI6 worked with the US CIA to commit this atrocity. Mohammad Mossadegh was a prominent figure in Iran's secular democracy and resistance to colonialism. He nationalized the oil industry and implemented radical measures like land reform, social security and wealth redistribution.

His popular policies directly threatened Western interests, and the response of the US and British intelligence to Mossadegh in "Operation Ajax" is a manual that has been repeated against anti-colonial and anti-imperialist leaders of the Global South many times since.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339598736_Nazi_Germany's_Race_Laws_the_United_States_and_American_Indians

The US is beating the regime change drum again in the face of unfolding chaos in Venezuela aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated "the [election] results announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people." Here is an (incomplete) list of US military coups in Latin America alone since World War II.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5210024

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5209496