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bs2 Jul 30, 2024

> Carter administration.. trial-and-error test of its ability to translate a concern for human rights into an effective instrument of #USForeignPolicy
> The mystery and bewilderment rest on the assumption that the #USAidProgram is intended to serve a humanitarian function in the world of #subfascism, a fallacy obvious enough to the illiterate and uneducated Nicaraguan #peasants, as we discover in DeYoung’s accompanying story datelined #chinandega #Nicaragua.
#KarenDeYoung
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bs2 Jul 29, 2024

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> Most sinister for the leaders of #subfascism is any sponsorship of organizational or self-help efforts that might give the underclasses not only a sense of personal dignity but also some notion that they have rights and might exercise some small modicum of power.
> The hostility of the #NationalSecurityStates to #ChurchSupport for the majority has reached the level of cooperative efforts at intimidation.

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bs2 Jul 25, 2024

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> ... internal freedom is quite compatible with exploitative and inhumane external conduct extending over many decades...

> Human slavery also lasted quite a long time in the Western democracies, not to speak of vicious exploitation, imported cheap labor, and other... practices, which still are prevalent.

#PoliticalEconomyOfHumanRights by #NoamChomsky and #EdwardHerman
#ThirdWorldFascism #SubFascism #TheWashingtonConnection
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