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Thailand, Chile, and U.S. Support of Military Coups

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Despite standard superficial expressions of indignation, U.S. officials are undoubtedly ecstatic over the military coup in Thailand. That’s because they believe that an essential step in the achievement of democracy is the smashing of democracy by a country’s military (that is, when the voters elect the wrong person), followed by a military dictatorship devoted to restoring democracy. Chile provides a good example of this phenomenon. In 1970 Chilean voters voted for the wrong person — that is, a person who U.S. officials didn’t approve of. Led by President Nixon, U.S. officials immediately went into action, doing everything they could to encourage and foment a military coup in Chile, with the aim of ousting the man who had legitimately been elected president and replacing him with an unelected military general. U.S. taxpayer money was secretly funneled into the pockets of opposition political figures and political parties and, more important, directly into the hands of the Chilean military, with the aim of developing important ...

Ukraine, Venezuela, and Chile

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In 1970, Salvador Allende, a self-avowed socialist-communist, was elected president in a three-way race in Chile. His election caused U.S. President Richard Nixon and the entire U.S. national-security state to go ballistic. Based on Allende’s record, they knew that he would never play a submissive and compliant role within the U.S. Empire. Concluding that Allende was a threat to U.S. “national security,” Nixon and the national-security state apparatus, which had come into existence after World War II to wage a Cold War against America’s World War II partner and ally, the Soviet Union, initiated plans to oust Allende from office and replace him with a pro-U.S. dictator who would play an appropriate role within the Empire. Mind you, however, this wasn’t the first time that the U.S. national-security state had set its sights on Allende. He had run for president several times before that. The U.S. government, primarily through the CIA, involved itself deeply in the Chilean political process by ...

U.S. Federal Judges Owe America an Apology

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Chilean judges have issued a formal apology for their deference to Chile’s national-security state apparatus under the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The apology comes some 40 years after Chile’s federal judiciary failed to protect the fundamental rights and liberties of the citizenry during Pinochet’s reign of terror. “The time has come to ask for the forgiveness of victims … and of Chilean society,” said the judges. U.S. judges owe the American people the same type of apology for consistently deferring to the U.S. national-security state apparatus, thereby failing to do what the Constitution charges the judiciary with doing—protecting the fundamental rights and liberties of the American people from infringement at the hands of the national-security branch of the federal government. The most recent example involves U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, who bent over backwards to sustain a motion to dismiss a case brought by relatives of U.S. citizens Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahm, and Samir ...