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Airbrushed from MSM history: Five forgotten US-led 'regime changes'

Shane Quinn
The Duran
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
The US has been engaged in regime change for decades, including in these instances that are rarely discussed by mainstream media.
Brazil riots 1964
Some anniversaries are widely observed in the West: Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Holocaust Memorial Day, the September 11 atrocities, and so on. Yet there are other undesirable anniversaries that have been largely disappeared.

1. US-backed forces overthrow Goulart in Brazil (1964)

Considering its vast size and abundant natural resources, Brazil should long have been one of Latin America's richest countries. Instead, it has been something of a horror story, as Brazilians have been repressed and brutalized across decades by military dictatorships. Brazil's plight strikes a common theme across a region of the world in which the great superpower, the United States, has sought to continually control.

Brazil had especially come under the unblinking eye of the empire during the 1960s. US president Lyndon B. Johnson was hell-bent in ensuring such a massive country did not become"the China of the 1960s". Johnson was referring indiscreetly to Mao Zedong, a Communist revolutionary whose influence in China continued to rise.

Comment: See also: U.S. led 'regime change' in action: 35 countries where the U.S. has supported fascists, drug lords and terrorists

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Sniveling Piers Morgan defames Princess Diana

Piers Morgan
Daily Mail
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:19 UTC
piers morgan princess diana
The first time I met Princess Diana, at a charity event in London when I was editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper, she marched over to me and declared: 'Ah, the man who thinks he knows me so well!'

I suggested she take this golden opportunity to enlighten me on what I should know, and she burst out laughing. 'I don't have the time...or the inclination, come to that!'

She then glided on, working the room as only she could, melting everyone in her wake with her dazzling beauty and charm.

Diana was one of the most fascinating, complex, passionate, sexy, scheming and unpredictable women I have ever met. She was also utterly fabulous.

Comment: In the end, this article tells us more about Piers Morgan than it tells us about Diana and what really motivated her. She was thrown into the deep end of the pool with no support and she managed to survive as long as she did. Kudos to her and SHAME on Chuck the Schmuck.

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Columbia University and the assassination of Patrice Lumumba revisited

Bob Feldman
Bob Feldmen 68
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:13 UTC
Patrice Lumumba Congo
The official portrait of Patrice Lumumba
"...I have learned much about William A.M. Burden II from Peggy and I...I was best acquainted with his 20-year tenure...as Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA] and his contribution to the quality of the output of this 'think tank's serving the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...His government service reached its apogee during his two years, 1959-61, as Ambassador to Belgium...He has been most responsive over these years also to the needs of Columbia University which he has served as a trustee..."
-- General and former IDA President Maxwell Taylor in foreword to Columbia University Life Trustee William A.M. Burden's 1982 book, Peggy and I: A Life Too Busy For A Dull Moment
"Before I accepted my ambassadorship in Belgium I had been given in 1957...appointment as 'a public trustee' of the Institute for Defense Analyses [IDA]. It became one of the top priorities of my life...I...was elected chairman in May, 1959...One of the unfortunate side-effects of the student protest movement against the Vietnam War was that IDA itself became a target for anti-war protests, and its member universities were subjected to faculty and student pressure to cancel their ties..."
--Columbia University Life Trustee William A.M. Burden in his 1982 book, Peggy and I
"Only prudent, therefore to plan on basis that Lumumba Government threatens our vital interests in Congo and Africa generally. A principal objective of our political and diplomatic action must therefore be to destroy Lumumba government as now constituted..."
--Columbia University Life Trustee and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium William A.M. Burden in a July 19, 1960 cable to the U.S. State Department
"The Belgians were sort of toying with the idea of seeing to it that Lumumba was assassinated. I went beyond my instructions and said, well, I didn't think it would be a bad idea either, but I naturally never reported this to Washington-but Lumumba was assassinated. I think it was all to the good..."
--Columbia University Life Trustee William A. M. Burden in a 1968 Oral History Interview with Columbia University School of Journalism's Advanced International Reporting Program Director John Luter

Comment: Remembering the United Nations & Canadian role in deposing and assassinating Patrice Lumumba

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Israelis confess to Deir Yassin massacre: "I stood them against the wall and blasted them"

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:31 UTC
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Deir Yassin
"I saw a fair number of corpses," recalled former Knesset member and Israeli government minister, Yair Tsaban, on the massacre carried out on the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, for director, Neta Shoshani. "I don't remember encountering the corpse of a fighting man. Not at all. I remember mostly women and old men."

"An old man and a woman, sitting in the corner of a room with their faces to the wall, and they are shot in the back," he recounted. "That cannot have been in the heat of battle. No way."

Yet, despite considerable evidence to the contrary, critics vituperatively insist no such assault occurred, as Deir Yassin villagers were the aggressors against several pre-state militias battling for an independent, demarcated Israel.

A few of the surviving smattering of eyewitnesses and participants in the atrocity relayed to Shoshani haunting memories of the decimation of the village - which began on the morning of April 9, 1948, as part of an operation meant to destroy a blockade on the road to Jerusalem in one of many incidents ultimately leading to what Israelis call the War of Independence - for a documentary entitled "Born in Deir Yassin."
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Research shows ancient humans had sex with non humans - 'ghost species'


NZ Herald
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:31 UTC
Two skulls
© Photo / GettyAncient humans had sex with other species, research shows
New research shows that ancient humans had sex with non human species.

According to a study conducted by Omer Gokcumen, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Buffalo, ancient humans had intercourse with a "ghost species" of "proto human".

Gokcumen explains that humans are only one member of a broader species named "hominins".

The research found that humans had sex with other members of the hominins group.

Comment: See also:

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Experts flummoxed by Chinese bone carvings offer $15,000 to crack ancient code


RT
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:32 UTC
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© Natalie Behring / Reuters
A museum is offering rewards of up to $15,000 to anybody who can help decipher an ancient Chinese text.

The National Museum of Chinese Writing in Anyang in China's Henan province issued the worldwide appeal after failing to crack more than half of the 5,000 characters found carved into oracle bones - skeletal remains of oxen and turtle shells discovered in the late 19th century.

Speaking to the Chengdu Economic Daily, bone specialist Liu Fenghua of Zhengzhou University, said the majority of the inscriptions were names of people and places.
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Newly released tranche of JFK assassination records includes testimony from KGB defector


RT
Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:21 UTC
John F. Kennedy
© JFK Presidential Library / AFP
Nearly 4,000 previously withheld or censored documents about the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy have been released by the National Archives in Washington DC.

The trove of 3,810 documents and 17 audio files was released on the US National Archives website Monday. It includes information collected by the FBI and CIA in the aftermath of the president's shooting in Dallas, Texas.

Among the release are recordings of KGB defector Yury Nosenko, who was interviewed in 1964 about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the Soviet Union, the National Archives said.

Of the newly released documents, some 441 have never been allowed in the public domain, while the remaining files had been partially redacted.
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Remembering Princess Diana: William and Harry share their memories and regrets

Hannah Furness
Telegraph, UK
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 19:38 UTC
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© THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE & PRINCE HARRYA newly-released photograph of Diana and Prince Harry, taken from from the personal photo album of the late Princess of Wales
The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry have spoken of their enduring regret over their last conversation with their mother, disclosing they had been desperate to rush off the telephone and get back to playing instead.

The Duke and Prince, who were 15 and 12 when Diana, Princess of Wales, died in a car crash, said they had been busy at Balmoral when she called them, and had no notion that the short phone call would be their last.

The conversation, the Duke said, still weighs on his mind "quite, quite heavily", while Prince Harry admitted he would regret it for the rest of his life.

The brothers spoke as part of a one-off documentary for television, in which they detail their warm memories of their fun-loving mother.

Comment: Diana's death was a huge loss for the world. It seems the best of us are taken too early: Unlawful Killing - The Murder of Princess Diana and Why it Matters.

As Diana's brother, Lord Charles Spencer, notes, Diana was not just a beautiful individual, but a special one. That shows in how many people around the world felt a connection with her and the global reaction of grief to her death:
"Obviously 99.9 percent of the people had never seen her, or met her, but they felt something in her that was fascinating and intriguing, and a force for good"
Lord Spencer has also recently commented to the media about his anger over the Sovereign's decision to force Diana's children to walk behind her funeral cortège. Spencer told BBC Radio 4:
"I was lied to and told that they wanted to do it, which of course they didn't
Prince Harry recently talked about the difficulty of that experience:
"My mother had just died and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin surrounded by thousands of people watching me while millions more did on television," Harry told Newsweek magazine in an interview published last month. "I don't think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances. I don't think it would happen today."

Spencer, one of Diana's three siblings, said he is still haunted by her funeral and suffers nightmares from the "harrowing" ordeal.

"It was the worst part of the day by a considerable margin, walking behind my sister's body with two boys who were obviously massively grieving their mother," Spencer told the BBC. "It was a sort of bizarre circumstance where we were told you just have to look straight ahead."


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Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess: Documents thicken the mystery surrounding his death

Nikolai Gorshkov
Sputnik
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:40 UTC
Rudolf Hess
© Sputnik/Viktor KinelovskiyNuremberg Tribunal: Hess makes the statement he is not going to continue pleading insanity.
The long awaited release of British government documents on the fate of Nazi No. 2 Rudolf Hess has failed to dispel numerous conspiracy theories about his death in 1987 at Spandau Prison in Berlin. Buried in the 71 files released to the National Archives in London are some intriguing revelations.

Successive British governments dismissed suggestions by historians that Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess undertook his daredevil flight to Scotland on a "peace" mission in the thick of the German bombing blitz of Britain because of an "understanding" between the Nazis and a pro-German party within the British establishment. Many a book has been written about Hitler's desire to strike a peace deal with London to free his hands for the invasion of the Soviet Union — or even sign Britain up for a joint crusade against the Communists, hated by both Hitler and Churchill. Indeed, Hess flew to Britain only six weeks before Germany attacked the Soviet Union. The British always denied he told them about Operation Barbarossa but Stalin believed he did and even invited Britain to join in. Churchill, for all his anti-Communism, didn't accept the offer and took Hess prisoner.
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New Tomb may have been discovered; Hawass speculates wildly

Owen Jarus
Live Science
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 18:06 UTC
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© mountainpix/ShutterstockThis shot of the Valley of the Kings shows the tomb entrances at Thebes in Egypt.
Famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass and his team say they've found evidence of a tomb that could belong to King Tut's wife.

The archaeologists eventually plan to excavate the new tomb, which is located near the tomb of the pharaoh Ay (1327-1323 B.C.) in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Hawass told Live Science.

"We are sure there is a tomb there, but we do not know for sure to whom it belongs," Hawass told Live Science in an email. On July 7, National Geographic Italia published an article in Italian suggesting that a team led by Hawass had found a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings, and Hawass confirmed that discovery to Live Science.
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