It must warm the earth's heart knowing William Brownfield is right in the middle of this renewal of war plotting and scheming for the Americas, in a more gung-ho, fearless undertaking.
Everyone knows his deep love for the people of the Americas, and his abiding respect for the human race. You betcha.
Gotta combat "terrorism," don't they? Should they formally re-introduce "Operation Condor?"
Here's an article I just discovered which covers Reagan's outlook on the Dirty War, which was encouraged earlier by Henry Kissinger. It may be useful to people who are not quite acquainted with his position on these fascist maniacs:
Reagan and Argentina’s Dirty War
May 17, 2013
Exclusive: The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla’s key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored by Americans, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
The death of ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, a mastermind of the right-wing state terrorism that swept Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, means that one more of Ronald Reagan’s old allies is gone from the scene.
Videla, who fancied himself a theoretician of anti-leftist repression, died in prison at age 87 after being convicted of a central role in the Dirty War that killed some 30,000 people and involved kidnapping the babies of “disappeared” women so they could be raised by military officers who were often implicated in the murders of the mothers.
The leaders of the Argentine junta also saw themselves as pioneers in the techniques of torture and psychological operations, sharing their lessons with other regional dictatorships. Indeed, the chilling word “disappeared” was coined in recognition of their novel tactic of abducting dissidents off the streets, torturing them and then murdering them in secret sometimes accomplishing the task by chaining naked detainees together and pushing them from planes over the Atlantic Ocean.
With such clandestine methods, the dictatorship could leave the families in doubt while deflecting international criticism by suggesting that the “disappeared” might have traveled to faraway lands to live in luxury, thus combining abject terror with clever propaganda and disinformation.
To pull off the trick, however, required collaborators in the U.S. news media who would defend the junta and heap ridicule on anyone who alleged that the thousands upon thousands of “disappeared” were actually being systematically murdered. One such ally was Ronald Reagan, who used his platform as a newspaper and radio commentator in the late 1970s to minimize the human rights crimes underway in Argentina and to counter the Carter administration’s human rights protests.
More:
https://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/reagan-and-argentinas-dirty-war/
(I just hate it when active idiots trying to spread stupidity in order to promote fascism claim "there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats." One only has to start trying to grasp simple history to know that's a lie.)
Thank you, sandensea, for the giant news. It's important to people who didn't know this has been building behind every ones' backs, with the help from concealment by our own corporate media. There is NO good part about it.
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