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11Nov

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Neoliberalism’s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World

by MEDEA BENJAMIN - NICOLAS J. S. DAVIES Photograph Source: Hugo Morales – CC BY-SA 4.0 Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal “center-right” and “center-left” governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working people are sweeping country after country all over the world. In this Autumn of Discontent, people from Chile, Haiti and Honduras to Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon are rising up against neoliberalism, which has in many cases been imposed on them by U.S. invasions, coups and other brutal uses of force. The repression against activists has been savage, with more than 250 protesters killed in Iraq in October alone, but the protests have continued and grown. Some movements, such as in Algeria and Sudan, ...

22Oct

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Probe finds Pablo Neruda didn’t die of cancer

NOVANEWS Press TV International experts announced Friday that Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, but could not conclusively determine if he was assassinated by late dictator Augusto Pinochet’s regime. Neruda, a celebrated poet, politician, diplomat and bohemian, died in 1973 aged 69, just days after Pinochet, then the head of the Chilean army, overthrew Socialist president Salvador Allende in a bloody coup. The writer, who was also a prominent member of the Chilean Communist party, had been preparing to flee into exile in Mexico to lead the resistance against Pinochet’s regime. He died in a Santiago clinic where he was being treated for prostate cancer. The subsequent death of former president Eduardo Frei at the same clinic, where he had come for a routine op...

27Sep

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The Rise of the New McCarthyism

NOVANEWS By Robert Parry | Consortium News Make no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New McCarthyism that blames nearly every political problem on Russia and has begun targeting American citizens who don’t go along with this New Cold War propaganda. A difference, however, from the McCarthyism of the 1950s is that this New McCarthyism has enlisted Democrats, liberals and even progressives in the cause because of their disgust with President Trump; the 1950s version was driven by Republicans and the Right with much of the Left on the receiving end, maligned by the likes of Sen. Joe McCarthy as “un-American” and as Communism’s “fellow travelers.” The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be the neoconservatives who have leveraged the Democratic/liberal h...

12Sep

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Chile, September 11, 1973: The Ingredients of a Military Coup. The Imposition of a Neoliberal Agenda

NOVANEWS By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research Forward Forty-four years ago on September 11, 1973, the Chilean military led by General Augusto Pinochet, crushed the democratically elected Unidad Popular government of Salvador Allende. The objective was to replace a progressive, democratically elected government by a brutal military dictatorship. The military coup was supported by the CIA. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger played a direct role in the military plot. (Nixon and Kissinger, image right) For details see: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KOR309A.html and references below. In the weeks leading up the coup, US Ambassador Nathaniel Davis and members of the CIA held meetings with Chile’s top military brass together with the leaders of the National Party an...

30Jun

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Chilean-Palestinians Slam Pro-Nazi Lobby in Chile

NOVANEWS People rally in Santiago, Chile, on Aug. 2, 2014, to protest against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. | Photo: AFP The incident comes in the wake of a recent pushback against Palestine solidarity activists in Chile. The Chilean-Palestinian community is decrying pro-Israel adverts in the country’s national press, Hispan TV reported. RELATED: Chilean Organizations Support Palestine Hunger Strike The ad in the Chilean newspaper, El Mercurio, came in response to another one published by Palestinian activists in the country, in both El Mercurio and El Observado newspaper, that denounced “50 years of occupation and apartheid in Palestine.” The incident comes in the wake of a pushback against Palestine solidarity activists in Chile and their involvement in the ...