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MLK Was Right

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Martin Luther King called the U.S. government the “greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” No one can legitimately deny that he was right. At the time he made his statement, King was referring to the untold death, suffering, and destruction that the Pentagon and the CIA were unleashing on the people of Vietnam. But after that war ended, the U.S. national-security establishment continued wreaking death, destruction, and suffering across the world. Of course, there was lots of death and destruction throughout the Cold War, including deadly and destructive U.S. coups and assassinations in places like Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Chile, and other nations. There was also Operation Condor, the international South American kidnapping and assassination ring in which the U.S. national-security establishment played a major role. We don’t know exactly how many people were killed in that operation but estimates go as high as 60,000, with many more imprisoned and ...

The Story of Sam Bird

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In December 1966, Army Captain Sam Bird’s one-year tour of duty in Vietnam was coming to an end. He was set to be transferred from a combat zone in which he had been operating to a safe zone in the rear and then sent home. However, according to a written account entitled “The Courage of Sam Bird” by B. T. Collins, one of his subordinate officers, Bird “conned his commanding officer into letting him stay an extra month with his beloved Bravo Company,” a move that would prove to be a near-fatal mistake. For high school, Sam had attended Missouri Military Academy, where he was a company commander his final year. He received the school’s highest possible honor — the Legion of Honor for industry, integrity, and abiding loyalty. Sam then attended the Citadel, the prestigious military college in South Carolina. During his senior year, he served on the regimental staff, the highest-ranking group within the corps of cadets. He graduated ...

The Other 9/11

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Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” While King’s memory has been honored with accolades, monuments, street names, and the like, I can’t help but wonder how many Americans have truly pondered his astute and discomforting observation about the U.S. government. After all, it seems to me that to be living under a government that is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world” is not something to be proud of or pleased with. Today many Chileans might well be pondering King’s statement. That’s because today — 9/11 — is the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean coup that the U.S. government inspired and encouraged. It was a coup that left thousands of innocent people dead, including the democratically elected president of the country, Salvador Allende, two American citizens — Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi — and some 3,000 other innocent people. It also resulted in the ...

Why No “Conspiracy Theory!” on Prigozhin’s Death?

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I’m rather amused by the U.S. mainstream media’s response to the widespread accusations that Russian President Vladimir Putin orchestrated the assassination of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Notice that no one in the U.S. mainstream press is crying “Conspiracy theory!” to mock or ridicule the accusation. Yet, whenever one points to the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassinations and assassination ...

The U.S. National Security State’s Legacy of Death and Destruction

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Unfortunately, the massive death and destruction that the U.S. national-security establishment has produced in Ukraine with its political gamesmanship involving NATO and Russia is not the first time that its interventionism has produced such a horrific result. In fact, the entire legacy of the U.S. national-security state form of government, which was brought into existence after ...