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After the horrific 1968-74 period, Ernesto Geisel ('74-9), was regarded as one of the more benevolent rulers during the military dictatorship (1964-85) in #Brazil. Documents show he was aware of summary executions of subversives, as was CIA and Kissinger. theguardian.com/world/2018/may…
The CIA had detected the plans for the 1964 coup in #Brazil, and had contact with some conspirators. But the CIA did *not* instigate the coup, and did not provide money or direction for the plot. >>
>> What the U.S. did do in #Brazil in 1964—unknown to the coup plotters—was prepare, vaguely, to intervene if the coup triggered a civil war to ensure the Communists did not prevail. As it was, the coup encountered little resistance. nyti.ms/2PaQ7xB
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Even when getting people to the point of admitting that the U.S. is supporting the #PKK and that's a problem, there has been a tendency to then speak as if it's a political problem for U.S.-#Turkey relations, rather than PKK being of itself a problem.
The #PKK was on the other side in the Cold War. It's doctrine is anti-Western at its core: its campaign against #Turkey is framed as one where the state is illegitimate because it is the imprint of Western imperialism. The PKK has the same view of #Israel.
The PKK fled Turkey after the coup in 1980, and was nurtured under the Asad regime, acting as a cut-out for the Soviet Union. After training at the Palestinian terrorist camps in Lebanon, the PKK launched its war against Turkey, a frontline NATO state, and was harboured in Syria.
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#YPG/#PKK publicly invites the #Asad/#Iran system into the border areas, particularly Minbij, which was captured because of the efforts of the U.S., working in coordination with #Turkey, having promised that the city would be handed over to local rule after #IS was gone.
It doesn't seem that the #PKK has handed Minbij to the #Asad/#Iran system just yet, though a regime delegation visited this morning.
Worth noting here that the #SDF/#PKK opened Minbij up to Asad's secret police a long time ago, and if the Asad regime is present it means Iranian operatives are, too. thedailybeast.com/us-arms-kurds-…
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9 Sept:

1543: Mary, Queen of Scots, 9-months-old, crowned

1923: CHP becomes a political party

1944: Communist coup in Bulgaria

1970: "Black September" events begin, end with PLO expelled from Jordan to Lebanon, where they cause another civil war

2001: Ahmad Shah Masud killed
9 September 1976: Mao Zedong finally died.

Mao is the only rival to Stalin as the most murderous tyrant of the 20th century. Sadly the totalitarian regime he created in #China survives in somewhat modified form to the present.
9 September 1922: The Turkish forces enter Izmir, effectively defeating Greece.

The nationalist revolt against the Allied occupation was triggered by the Greek landing at Izmir in May 1919 (The Emergence of Modern Turkey, p. 241).
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1) Brazil is on the verge of electing far-right populist Jair Bolsonaroan an extremist “barbarian” who represents “the dross of the dictatorship”.

He will be opposed by the left wing candidate @Haddad_Fernando , member of the PT - our sister party in Brazil.
2) Who is Bolsonaroan?

He has a torturer as his idol Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra who was one of the most sadistic torturer & murderer in the military dictatorship that choked Brazil between 1964 & 1985.

He has also voiced admiration for Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet.
3) He believes that women are not important and didn't hesitate to claim that “if he had four sons, he then had a moment of weakness, and the fifth was a girl.”

He hates gays claiming that he'd rather have his son die in a car accident than have him show up dating some guy.
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The story of modern Honduran society really is a remarkable one that exposes so much about US intervention, capitalism and neoliberalism. Shame more people aren’t well versed in it.
Honduras was, relatively, stable during the contra wars of the latter 20th century. Of course 1 of the biggest reasons 4 this was that many contras were based in Hon which maintained an alliance with the US. Nonetheless, Honduras did not see the instability ES, Nica n Guate did.
Honduras remained under a form of military dictatorship until a gradual civilian transition that started in the 1980s and completed in the 1990s, since the Cold War had ended, and the requirement of a far right base in Central America was less of a priority for the US.
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I already wanted to post something about the electoral situation in Brazil, this article was the last straw. (+)
If in the US, with more active organizations and institutions, more resources, more supervision, it suffers from the anti-scientific and anti-ethical arbitrariness of these conservative policies, I can not even imagine what we will suffer here from 2019 onwards...
Well, first of all, know a little bit about the candidate who may be our future president.
facebook.com/TLVFest/videos…
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u may have seen that brazil nearly elected a full-on fascist in the 1st round of its presidential elections on sunday.
u may have questions too.
i'll use this thread to clarify+debunk things i see circulating that are dead wrong.
i'll also provide some reading suggestions.
vamos+
brazil has run-off voting & bolsonaro (whom i'll refer to as the fascist) did not reach 51%,so not ALL hope is lost. between the 1st round of the general election on sunday (which also was for senate, house, and governor) and the 2nd round, candidates have 3 weeks to campaign.+
the remaining candidates for the 2nd round of the presidential election are the fascist (whose problems i have gone into ad nauseum on this site & written about elsewhere and you can go searching for later) and fernando haddad, who represents PT (workers' party)+
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1/ In 1964, the US helped overthrow Brazil's elected left-wing govt & replaced it with a brutal military dictatorship that ruled for 21 years. That US-supported regime murdered & tortured dissidents (including Dilma). US lied for years about its coup role nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB…
2/ Documents slowly released over the last decade show that the torture techniques used against dissidents by the US-supported military dictatorship in Brazil were far more extreme and brutal than previously known. Many died in their prisons nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB4…
3/ Now, a new book is being released by a Brazilian historian that uses newly discovered documents to show that it was the UK Govt that played the key role in training the Brazilian military dictators how to use the worst torture techniques www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/2018/01/…
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Today mark 100 days of ongoing struggle by residents of #Keppapulavu in #Mullaithivu demanding return of their lands from #military custody
Access road to #Keppapulavu village was opened temporarily today for #Vattrappalai Amman Kovil festival;protesting villagers disappointed
Tense situation in #Keppapulavu as military closed access road opened temporarily today after 8 years;devotees trapped inside HSZ area #lka
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