Yes, exactly, that news has been around, as you say.
The changes in government in South America these days are interesting,
if only because it seems the US government (& CIA) don't seem to feel
they can just go in & take these new leftist leaders out the way they
did in Chile back in the day....
too busy bringing democracy to the Middle East...? (not that an
unimposed & perhaps real (vaid?) democracy there wouldn't be a good
thing....).
Doug
On 20-Dec-05, at 11:13 AM, Roger Day wrote:
> For a long time, certainly before 9/11 and way back even to the 80s
> I've read articles involving torture and the School Of The Americas
> in Fort Benning, Georgia, where apparently the CIA train officers and
> NCOs from Latin American countries.
>
> Roger
>
> On 12/20/05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I am listening to CBC's The Current as I write, to a USAmerican
>> psychologist, Alfred McCoy, author of A Question of Torture, on the
>> US's use of torture, and how what is happening now is leading to the
>> normalization of torture by the US. He's especially appalled by the
>> way
>> the US representatives to the international community continue to
>> 'lie'
>> (basically his term) saying that the US does not torture, when in fact
>> he asserts it has done so for decades, & much more so now.
>>
>> Not the merriest of news in this week....
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
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>> (780) 436 3320
>>
>> the precision of openness
>> is not a vagueness
>> it is an accumulation
>> cumulous
>>
>> bpNichol
>>
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Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
the precision of openness
is not a vagueness
it is an accumulation
cumulous
bpNichol
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