Guys I’ve looked into it and I’m beginning to think the CIA and the State Department aren’t exactly shooting straight when they provide intel on our “enemies.”
If a flurry of corporate news outlets immediately seem to be wanting you to feel the same malevolent way about a foreign country all at the same time, there is a reason, and that reason is never because they have your own interests at heart.
“It is firm & continuing policy that Salvador Allende be overthrown by a coup...It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely & securely so that the American hand be well hidden.”
—Cable to CIA operatives in Chile, from Kissinger’s “Track Two” group (Oct 1970)
—Cable to CIA operatives in Chile, from Kissinger’s “Track Two” group (Oct 1970)
“The more successful China proves to be in its internal development & relations with Third World nations, the more it is again becoming a target of western elites, defamed as a mortal threat to US national security.”
-Michael Parenti, The Face of Imperialism (published in 2010)
-Michael Parenti, The Face of Imperialism (published in 2010)
“[Our] military machine creates a world of client states open to corporate penetration, on terms that are completely favorable to the [corporations]. It’s not too much to conclude that such a policy is produced not by dumb coincidence but by conscious effort & deliberate design.”
Didn’t have space to cite it, but that last quote is also from Michael Parenti’s “The Face of Imperialism.”
“Half the world’s wealth is owned by 2 percent of the richest adults. It is time that liberal critics stop thinking people who own so much of the world are ‘incompetent’ or ‘misguided’...When we think the empire builders are being stupid, we’re not being very smart ourselves.”
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