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ASSASSINATIONS NEWSLETTER #5

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace By Challenging Official Myths, Lies, and Secrecy .

(#1 Oct. 8, 2011; #2 August 10, 2012; #3 May 3, 2013; #4 June 20, 2013).

The multifarious methods of oppression employed by an imperial state would fill an encyclopedia.  One general method is the control of language, and one sub-set covers rhetorical devices.  A specific figure is euphemism, a powerful way of hiding folly and depravity.  For example, our government has rebranded USstate assassination as “high value targeting.”   Dick

Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-Led Operation Condor

By Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy on Jul 19, 2021
 

Plan follows precedent of 1970s state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.

Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s and early ’80s in six South American U.S.-backed dictatorships—Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay—that resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people.

The victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerrillas. […]

The post Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-Led Operation Condor appeared first on CovertAction Magazine.

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“…Since the end of World War II the United States has. . .attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.”  Blum, America’s Deadliest Export (2013, p. 1).

"I refuse to live in a country like this, and I'm not leaving"
Michael Moore

#1 and #2 at end

Contents #3, May 3, 2013

Escalante, Attempts to Murder Castro

Noble, Assassination Nation from Phoenixto Drones

Google Search, Obama Admin., CIA, Brennan, Assassinations in US

Google Search, Videos about US Assassination, Obama Administration

Contents #4

Monbiot, Killing Ibragim Todashev

Cahill, Dirty Wars Book and Film(2)

William Blum, Google Search

FCNL, Ending Permanent War, “War on Terror,” Extra-judicial Killing

Friends Committee for National Legislation (FCNL) Google Search

Contents #5

Ingersoll, US Special Forces/Ops

Credo, Shabid Buttar:  Reject Obama’s Assassination Judge

TEXTS

ISRAEL

Did Israel Kill Yasser Arafat? Stunning Investigation Exposes Israel's Secretive Assassination Program .  Democracy Now!    RSN Nov. 22, 2018.
Excerpt: "Israeli intelligence officials desperately tried to prevent Ronen Bergman from writing 'Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations,' a stunning book exposing the details of Israel's extrajudicial killing program." 
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MILITARY & DEFENSEMore: Features Special Forces Elite Military 

The Most Elite Special Forces In The US

GEOFFREY INGERSOLLFEB. 26, 2013, 8:42 PM 

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via AmericanSpecialOps.com/photos/

Ever since the Osama bin Laden raid, Americahas gone bonkers for U.S. Navy SEALs and Military Special Operators in general.

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The Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is scheduled for spending and personnel increases while the rest of the military looks to be making cuts. End strength goals indicate that America's entire crop of military operators will top off at 70,000.

In fact, the number of operators has doubled since 9/11, and their budget tripled — from $3.5 billion to $10.5 billion. The trend will likely continue as the U.S.is in the middle of a shift to "smaller footprint" type operations.

Putting 100 thousand troops and countless private support personnel on the ground in any given country — sometimes referred to as "nation building"— is a costly strategy. Putting a boot or two on Osama bin Laden's door arguably cost more in political currency — Pakistan wasn't too happy — than actual currency.

Though it was the SEALs who performed that raid in Abbottabad, it's worth noting there are quite a few more SpecOps units in the U.S. than just SEALs — Green Berets and Marine Snipers, etc. — so we here at Business Insider have made things easy by assembling a comprehensive list of all the SpecOps units we could find(with help from the extensive descriptions on AmericanSpecialOps.com).

Click here to see America's special ops > »

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Read more:http://www.businessinsider.com/most-elite-special-forces-in-the-us-2013-2?op=1#ixzz2Zdnqud9V

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