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2021-04-27 Afghanistan

What the CIA Did (and Didn’t Do) in Soviet-Occupied Afghanistan

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Posted by badanov 2021-04-27 05:38|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 I'm with Glenn on this one:

Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept said the The Jakarta Method "provides one of the best, most informative and most illuminating histories yet of this agency and the way it has shaped the actual, rather than the propagandistic, U.S. role in the world" and documents not only how CIA-sponsored mass killings in Indonesia served as a model for "clandestine CIA interference campaigns" in myriad other countries throughout Asia and Latin America to destroy the non-Aligned Movement, but also how "the chilling success of that morally grotesque campaign led to its being barely discussed in U.S. discourse."

Wiki link found here.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-27 06:19|| 2021-04-27 06:19|| Front Page Top

He's had little to say about MANPADS since that incident in Benghazi nearly ten years ago.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-27 06:51|| 2021-04-27 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Indonesia involved natives vs Chinese back then. You can tell the difference. Think of the Chinese as whitey in a police free zone in Minneapolis when the locals got rolling. Then again, the people who cast everything as racists in our society can't see racism in other societies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-27 07:35|| 2021-04-27 07:35|| Front Page Top

#4 A genocide that never was: explaining the myth of anti-Chinese massacres in Indonesia, 1965–66
Robert Cribb & Charles A. Coppel
Pages 447-465 | Published online: 17 Dec 2009.

Posted by b 2021-04-27 08:26|| 2021-04-27 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 The world, and especially thousands of Americans would have not have been been unthankful for a communist Afghanistan, sans the mullahs. Just saying.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-27 10:48|| 2021-04-27 10:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Nine US generals send '36-star memo' begging spy chiefs to declassify intelligence showing 'pernicious conduct' by Russia and China

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-27 10:53|| 2021-04-27 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 thousands of Americans

Number of fatalities among Western coalition soldiers involved in the execution of Operation Enduring Freedom from 2001 to 2020

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-27 10:57|| 2021-04-27 10:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, bollocks. The USSR was dumping thousands of weapons throughout the Third World and they hardly mention how that killed ~~thousands~~ millions of innocents.

Posted by magpie 2021-04-27 12:55|| 2021-04-27 12:55|| Front Page Top

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