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As Western mainstream media commemorates 100 years since Nelson Mandela’s birth, let’s recall the ugly role the US & its allies played in supporting apartheid in South Africa...
The CIA played a major role in Nelson Mandela’s capture and 27 year imprisonment. A CIA officer tipped off South African authorities to Mandela’s location in 1962, resulting in his arrest.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…
The Reason administration supported of apartheid regime in South Africa until the very end, going as far as to violate congressional sanctions to send them money & weapons. Reagan’s support was crucial in extending the life of the brutal Apartheid regime. salon.com/2011/02/05/ron…
The US supported Apartheid South Africa’s brutal invasions into neighboring African countries. 1989 UN report found that 1.5 million people died as a result of the attacks.
inthesetimes.com/article/17311/…
The US labeled the anti-apartheid African National Congress a dangerous terrorist organization & Nelson Mandela was on the US terrorist watch list until 2008.
juancole.com/2013/12/mandel…
Israel offed to sell the Apartheid regime a nuclear weapon to use against neighboring Black countries.
theguardian.com/world/2010/may…
Other things the media won't report on today:

Nelson Mandela was committed to the liberation of Palestine: electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-bar…

Mandela traveled to Cuba in 1991 to thank the country for the role it played in ending apartheid: democracynow.org/2013/12/11/nel…
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On this day in 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the largest ever mass execution in US history, hanging 38 innocent Dakota men. The execution followed sham military trials where they were found 'guilty' of the ‘crime’ of resisting starvation & their own ethnic cleansing.
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