The cia under dulles had a few plots to assassinate De Gaulle. And yet still somehow the French didn’t care and aligned with the US anyway.
The cia under dulles had a few plots to assassinate De Gaulle. And yet still somehow the French didn’t care and aligned with the US anyway.
Pretty much only the AES countries. Vietnam, Laos, DPRK, China, Cuba.
I’m going to bet that if I did one of those street interview things with the question: “Do you know what operation condor is? Do you know what the phoenix program is?” I’d get maybe 1 usonian out of 300 that would have even heard of them.
I’ve heard from many south american comrades, that their school systems have memory-holed this entire historical period of anti-communist massacres. Only now with the pink tide in some of these countries, is there any chance of liberals getting educated about their past.
US is moving navy to prepare for war with Iran
UN security council agrees to meet over Israel’s attacks on Iran.
Interesting to see how this will shake out, as 3 / 5 ( US, France, and UK) will likely back Israel, with Russia and China backing Iran
France (Germany also) defends Israeli attack, condemns Iran. How’s it going, “enlightenened democracies”?
50m ago from aljazeera:
Iran requests emergency meeting of UN Security Council Iran has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in the wake of Israeli attacks targeting its nuclear programme and military this morning, state media report.
Amir Saeed Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the UN, made a written request for an emergency meeting of the council, calling for it to take “decisive action … against these criminal acts”, Iran’s Tasnim state news agency reported.
“In a reckless, illegal and premeditated act, the Zionist regime has carried out a series of coordinated military attacks against the nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which are considered a clear violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of international law, and whose dangerous consequences seriously threaten regional and international peace and security,” the letter said.
I highly recommend watching the documentary Zero days which is almost a decade old now, but about stuxnet.
It was mainly developed by Israel and the US specifically to target this very facility (natanz), and try to blow up nuclear centrifuges and slow down Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.
The project failed (only managed to slow down their program for a few months) and was a prime case of blowback, since stuxnet infected critical infrastructure around the entire world, and even the US had to devote considerable resources protecting their systems from a virus they helped create.
I believe there’s a pretty low chance of any meltdowns or nuclear events, due to so many fail-safes.
One of the al-jazeera posters thinks that’s unlikely, and it’s more likely that Israel is having a “now or never” moment since Trump entered negotiations with Iran.
I prefer usonian myself, but there’s no official name shorter than “citizens of the US”.
At least some US leaders knew about these strikes beforehand:
Stickying this for now, as aljazeera seems to be doing the best live updates.
Israel is gonna catch some hands from the entire middle east soon. Not even daddy USA has the resources to start another gulf war in the ME, so they’re on their own.
Thx. I def recommend reading some articles that get into the depravity of some of these. Outside of the at least half a million people killed in the above operations, the coups, tortures, dissappearances, and entire communities wiped out is staggering.
Some more short blurbs :
I prefer usonian, but ppl seem to hate that even worse. Much shorter than saying “US citizen”, and also not going along with the US cooption of the term america.
I wish trump were “traitorous” to the US project of native eviction, white supremacy and genocide, but he’s not, and neither is any US democrat.
Is that a quote from somewhere?