Epstein Secrets

e preferred method for dealing with popular insurgencies. In other instances, direct invasion by US forces such as happened on numerous occasions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and many other places, was the fallback option. But the coup in Santiago occurred as US aggression in Indochina was finally

ort and weapons from Washington, and undertook a year-long reign of terror in which security forces and the army killed more than a million people (Amnesty International, which rarely has much to say about the crimes of US imperialism, put the number at 1.5 million). In addition to providing the essential on-the-gro

ing government property, a N Marti reporter and cameraman "were suspended amid allegations that they faked a mortar attack" during a broadcast from Nicaragua. The Times says "the scandals have brought intensified scrutiny and criticism to the agency, formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors."

i-drug crackdown, which has led to at least 6,600 killed by police and "more than 20,000 others killed by unknown perpetrators," according to a new Amnesty International report. A Duterte spokesman said Friday, "They have no business interfering with us. They are insulting the intelligence of the Filipino people. At

es of authority. These calculations proved wildly misplaced. Opposi- tion parties swept to victory in country after coun- try—in Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, South Korea, the Philippines, Poland. The word “stunning” made a frequent appearance in news accounts, as in the stunning rejection of the ruling p

and people who wrote critical commentaries were regularly sentenced to prison terms, often under grim conditions, by dicta- torships of all stripes. Amnesty International's founding mission was the defense of what were called “prisoners of conscience,” and they ranged from dissidents and Jewish refuseniks in the So- viet