Walt Disney and Salvador Allende Are Still Fighting for Our Souls
This year marks the anniversaries of two drastically different events that loomed all too large in my life. The first occurred a century ago in Hollywood: on October 16, 1923,…
Salvador Allende
Brief for Murder: Pinochet’s Apologists Five Decades On
During the Cold War, assassinations most foul were entertained as necessary measures to advance the set cause. In Latin America, military regimes were keenly sponsored as reliably brutal antidotes to…
Pinochet’s coup in Chile – 50 years on
Dr Francisco Dominguez reflects on the 1973 overthrow of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende and the long shadow of neoliberalism On the cold morning of September 11, 50 years…
Australian Labor Government Lying On 50th Anniversary Of 9/11 US- & Australia-Backed 1973 Chilean Coup
On 11 September 1973 the democratically-elected Chilean Government was removed in a deadly US-backed Coup by the fascist Chilean military. The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) was involved as a…
Destroying Chilean Democracy: Australia’s Covert Role Five Decades On
The tear-squeeze remembering those who died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington has become an annual event. In the words of US President George W.…
Obstinate Memories
Marxists have come to power not always by the bullet; given the historical, political and social circumstances that they had to contend with, Lenin, Mao, Ho or Fidel had no…
Fifty Years After Chile’s Coup, the First Year of Popular Unity
Ten days after the 1973 coup against the Popular Unity (UP) government of President Salvador Allende, the military opened the Río Chico concentration camp on Dawson Island, located in the Strait of…
The Other 9/11: Salvador Allende and Chile
On September 11 the world rightly pays homage to the nearly 3000 victims of the horrible 9/11 attack in the USA. However on this day we should in addition also…
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