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Anniversaries... from MoA this day, by Bernhard:

Remember 9/11
September 11 was a catastrophe.
The event and its aftermath were heavily influenced by the shenanigans of Cheney, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Bremer. The actions were based on bi-partisan support. They led to thousands and thousands of maimed people and many dead.
History again demonstrated the urge of the U.S. to eliminate any government that doesn't support its model of greed. This again delivered hunger and poverty to a people that committed nothing but the heresy of independence.
The target country had been isolated by sanctions for quite some time. The economy was in bad shape. Then tanks rolled through the streets and the presidential palace was bombed.
After 'regime change' followed the implementation of the models of one of the most destructive economists, Milton Friedman.
The 'economic shock treatment', disguised as 'freedom', was aiming at privatizing the extraction of the countries resources for the benefit of U.S. companies. It destroyed the society's fabric.
The people protesting the machinations were exposed to state sponsered terrorism, imprisoned, tortured and executed.
It took many, many years for Chile to overcome the disaster.
9/11 was a very bad day in 1973. It was a bad day in 2001 too. Those two bad days were not unrelated.

Required viewing for this evening: War Made Easy.

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by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 06:12:52 PM EST

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9/11 was a very bad day in 1973. It was a bad day in 2001 too.

And, being 28 years apart, both were Tuesdays.

Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 07:03:41 PM EST
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September 11ths around the world -- on Sept 11 1973, US-backed Pinochet forces rose to power in Chile to overthrow the democratically-elected Salvador Allende and Allende died in the presidential palace. On Sept 11 1990, American anthropologist Myrna Mack was murdered by US-backed Guatamalan security forces. On September 11, 1977 in South Africa Steve Biko, founder of the black consciousness movement, was being beaten in the back of a van by apartheid forces. He died in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 1977. On 9/11 1993, in the midst of the US-backed coup in Haiti, Antoine Azenery was dragged out of a church by coup forces and murdered in broad-daylight. He had been commemorating a massacre of parishioners at the Saint John Boscoe church that had occurred five years earlier on September 11, 1988. Father Jean Bertrand Aristide had narrowly escaped death in that attack. He later became president of Haiti twice before being kidnapped by the US in support of another coup.

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by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Wed Sep 12th, 2007 at 03:46:44 PM EST
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