bs2Aug 10, 2024
> The Vietnam War has been digested by the U.S. political system with hardly a trace. Essentially the same people manage national affairs, and possess virtually exclusive access to the mass media; the critics of the war have lapsed, or been forced, into silence; and the media have not allowed the vast accumulation of sordid details about our Vietnam involvement to disturb the myth of U.S. benevolence and concerned pursuit of democracy abroad.
#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR #PEHR1 🧵
bs2Aug 8, 2024

> Robert Shaplen, the Asia correspondent of the New Yorker, commented..on East Timor in.. “Letter from Indonesia,”..[in] 1977.. his reconstruction.. “Indonesian troops intervened, somewhat crudely and clumsily, in December of 1975, in a war for independence which the East Timorese were ostensibly waging against Portugal.” The idea that the East Timorese were fighting Portugal is a novel contribution..

#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR #PEHR1 #WashingtonConnection
#MakingShitUp #RobertShaplen #AI70s 🧵

Show threadbs2Aug 8, 2024

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> In a shop in Phomsavan... recycled shells are offered for sale as containers. #NikWheeler
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> ...Most Lao are subsistence farmers.

The "most bombed per capita" people in the world are "defenseless peasants" in the 1970s words of #ChomskyAndHerman in #PEHR #AfterTheCataclysm.. #SubsistenceFarmers, I wonder when this term came into use? I'm guessing after the 70s...
https://apjjf.org/russell-ciochon/3171/article

#Phomsavan #Laos #ShellCasings #UXO

Laos Plain of Jars in the Wake of American Bombing - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

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The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
bs2Aug 3, 2024
> .. massacre. The same technique was used to good advantage later in Chile under Allende. In following years the United States expanded its military aid and training of the military and police. The Country Officer for Indonesia in the State Department, #DavidTKenney, is capable of saying, with a straight face, that one purpose of U.S. military aid to Indonesia is “to keep that area peaceful” .. ; this, in testimony on the Indonesian invasion of #easttimor
#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR
bs2Aug 3, 2024
> The hypocrisy and sheer silliness of much political commentary.. is.. remarkable..the.. absurdity.. the Wall Street Journal deriding the “simple-minded myths” that “the problems in Indochina stem from things like American imperialism and its military-industrial complex” (editorial, 31 August 1978). Such phrases as “American imperialism,” ordinarily under a strict taboo, are occasionally permitted in such contexts as these...
#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR #PEHR1 #AmericanImperialism #USAimperialism
bs2Aug 2, 2024
> The assertion was.. cited.. from a..U.S. pacification official.. it remains “unsubstantiated,”.. the official record of 10,899 dead.. an ugly joke, down to #TheLastDigit.. U.S. command had no idea how many people were killed by their B-52 and helicopter gunship attacks or the artillery barrage, napalm and anti-personnel weapons. Perhaps 5,000 “noncombatants” were killed, or perhaps some other number...
#GuenterLewy on #ThomasBuckley in #PEHR #WashingtonConnection by
#ChomskyAndHerman
bs2Aug 1, 2024

The song to sing every time it seems like it's 35.555°C outside, especially in the shade... Like here in Miyazaki.

It probably wouldn't be so hot and apocalyptic if more of these peasant rebellions had won. Reading the #WashingtonConnection by #ChomskyAndHerman and the South Vietnam in the 60s, 70s seems a lot like Lebanon now: supporting a military against a population..

> 1865 (96º In The Shade)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=UwlUY3AQd2Q

#宮崎県 #宮崎県都城市 #都城市 #ThirdWorldReggaeeGroup
#NinetySixDegreesInTheShade

1865 (96º In The Shade)

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group 1865 (96º In The Shade) · Third World 96 Degrees In The Shade ℗ An Island Records recording; ℗ 1977 Universal Music Operations Limited Released on: 1977-01-01 Producer: Third World Associated Performer, Vocals: William Clarke Associated Performer, Keyboards: Michael Cooper Associated Performer, Guitar: Steven Coore Associated Performer, Bass Guitar: Richard Daley Associated Performer, Percussion: Irvin Marshall Associated Performer, Drums: Willie Stewart Composer Lyricist: Stephen Haldane Coore Composer Lyricist: Michael Cooper Composer Lyricist: William Alexander Clarke Auto-generated by YouTube.

Third World - Topic | Invidious
Show threadbs2Jul 31, 2024
> A curious aspect of this massive subversion operation.. is not regarded as subversion... subversion by the United States... weapons on a huge scale, bribery, black propaganda, practically open conspiracy with military officers, massive institutional subversion—this multi-dimensional effort is the natural right of power—where domination is so taken for granted that the hegemonic power intervenes by inevitable and unquestioned authority.
#ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR1 #PEHR #WashingtonConnection
bs2Jul 30, 2024
> Carter is a man who is loyal to his friends. Only a few weeks after his letter to Somoza, President Carter “telephoned the royal palace [in Iran] to express support for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, who faced the worst crisis of his 37-year reign.”283 This time, Carter’s communication followed the machine-gunning of demonstrators by the Shah’s military forces, armed and trained in the United States...
#PresidentCarter and #TheShah in #Iran #PEHR by #ChomskyAndHerman #WashingtonConnection
Show threadbs2Jul 30, 2024
> The AI reports have been covered in the U.S. press; the December, 1976 document is reported in the New York Times (12 December 1976), and the 1978 update merited 12 lines on p. 14 (23 February 1978). It was mentioned again in a story on the presidential elections (Alan Riding, 9 March 1978), which reported that “most Guatemalans seem surprisingly indifferent about the outcome.”
#TrainingDataBias #ChomskyAndHerman #NYTbias
#NewspaperSpace