bs2Aug 11, 2024

My hard copy of _The Political Economy of Human Right Vol. 1 The Washington Connection_ doesn't have to "frontispiece" diagram of "The Sun and it's Planets" I'll have to try and make a Racket Pict version in a way that allows for quick updates...

https://snap.as/bsmall2/pehr/4L1QMFqp

High Resolution Images:
https://archive.org/details/washingtonconnec0000chom/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater

Full Text:
https://archive.org/details/ThePoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights/page/n5/mode/2up

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Show threadbs2Aug 11, 2024

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> This myth has remained unruffled even in the face of the accelerating “#Brazilianization” of the #ThirdWorld over the past several decades, very often under active U.S. sponsorship, with frequent displacement of democratic government and extensive and growing resort to repression, including physical torture, imprisonment, death squads, and mysterious “disappearances,” all within the U.S. sphere of influence.

https://znetwork.org/zmagazine/the-washington-connection-and-third-world-fascism/

https://archive.org/stream/ThePoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights/The%20Political%20Economy%20of%20Human%20Rights_djvu.txt
#PEHR #PEHR1 #PEHROnline

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

CIA destabilization operations have assumed many forms. First is the outright murder of political leaders. Second, and also familiar, are the direct conspiracies with terrorists, mercenaries or (usually) military factions within a country to disrupt or overthrow a government in disfavor

ZNetwork
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 8, 2024

A defenseless peasant population getting bombed is "fighting", look at the photo!?!?!

> The lobby of the Vihn Thong Guesthouse in Phonsavan displays defused and emptied ordnance as well as a mural depicting fighting around the Plain of Jars in the 1960s.

https://archaeology.org/issues/online/features/plain-of-jars/

#PlainOfJars #Laos #PlainOfJarsBombCraters #PlainOfJarsOrdnance
#PEHR #PEHR2
#PoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights

Reading #AfterTheCataclysm and wondered about "plain of Jars".. really are jars there!!

Features - Plain of Jars - Archaeology Magazine -

I’m following Belgian archaeologist Julie Van Den Bergh around Laos’ remote Xieng Khouang Province. We’re […]

Archaeology Magazine
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

AI for military targets is not innovative: 1970s,

> A system of terror-run-amok was facilitated by the incompetence and chronic irrelevance of the “intelligence” system that Colby claimed to be “improving” and which gave him hopes of “stern justice.”...

> > The unverified and in fact #UnverifiableInformation, nevertheless, was used regularly as input to #ArtilleryStrikes, harassment and interdiction fire (H & I), B52 and other air strikes, often on populated areas.

#WilliamColby in #PEHR

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