Salvador Allende

Lessons from the Ultra Left? — I had heard about “The Shock Doctrine” many years ago. But I somehow easily lumped this book’s author, Naomi Klein, as a spokesperson for the ultra-Left. And, in my opinion, the ultra-Left has one thing in common with the ultra-Right: neither know how to run a well functioning society. …

“ECONOMIC FREEDOM”: 1973–1977 Not long after the 1973 US backed Military coup of the democratically elected Allende government in Chile, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, William Simon visited Chile. During his discussion with General Augusto Pinochet, regarding human rights violations by his government, Simon cheered Pinochet for bringing “economic freedom” to the people of Chile. For the USA, Economic Freedom, political terrorism and unrestrained free markets, were more important than liberty or democracy.

CREDIT BOOM 1978–1981: However, by 1978, the economy came back, expanding 32% between 1978 and 1981. Though salary levels were 20% lower than a decade previously, per capita income began to climb again. Even the torture and extrajudicial executions reduced — How civilised. …

The United States, in its quest for global hegemony, unleashed an astounding level of violence on nearly every corner of the planet after the Second World War. As former CIA agent Phil Agee explains in this short clip from the documentary Inside the CIA: On Company Business, the United…

I woke one morning to terror. My heart raced as I felt my bed, lodged firmly against a wall with a locked door, began to move slowly inward as the door, inexplicably, opened under steady pressure from someone outside the room. Someone who said nothing. In the few moments it…

Three names were enough — Santiago, Italy, Nanni Moretti — to unleash the zombies of politics, of phrases with the effect of the type: “A sober, emotional and rigorous hymn to the value of memory”, as Walter Veltroni commented on the new film ( Santiago, Italy) by Nanni Moretti. Of…

Today I read a striking editorial in the Los Angeles Times. While it will seem like a condemnation of Trump as it acknowledged the fact that he is a con man, the culprits are the American people. …