Zoe Alexandra reports on the commemorations in Chile of the 1973 coup, including a centerpiece candle light vigil at the National Stadium in Santiago, one of the largest centers of torture and detention during the Pinochet dictatorship.
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When Western media discusses terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria.
The road to possible nuclear Armageddon has been littered with lost opportunities for peaceful co-existence with Russia and signposted by repeated U.S. provocations, but Ukraine’s neutrality remains key to everyone’s security, writes Edward Lozansky.
Considering the common U.S. reaction to 9/11, we must ask: Can the U.S. do without its exceptionalist consciousness? Or is this consciousness indispensable to America?
Chile under Pinochet was the experimenting ground for an economic project, neoliberalism, that inspired both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was also a laboratory for torture and enforced disappearance of human beings, writes Brad Evans.
It’s the damnedest thing how you’re called a Kremlin agent for saying the war was provoked by NATO expansionism and it serves U.S. interests, even when NATO and U.S. officials openly admit the same thing, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
To go over a 2016 article by the renowned journalist now, in 2023, is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces.
As is often the case in history, the actions of a dying empire create common ground for its victims to look for alternatives, writes Vijay Prashad.
Perhaps one day this will happen to the entire empire — the whole thing suddenly vanishing for the lie it always was; its managers left blinking stupidly in the sunlight, their word-magic gone.
