The tag 'Chile' is associated with 9 posts.

FTR #747 Bringin’ It All Back Home

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 4, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

GOP doing to Obama what CIA did to Allende in Chile; Repub­li­cans appear ready to destroy U.S., global economies to gain power; Bush admin­is­tra­tion deficits delib­er­ately struc­tured to force end of New Deal social pro­grams; Tea Party fas­cists pro­vid­ing “boots on the ground” for this effort.

Just a Slip of the Tongue?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 12, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: Chilean Pres­i­dent Sebas­t­ian Pin­era recently raised eye­brows by uti­liz­ing the old lyric Deutsch­land uber Alles, banned in Ger­many after the offi­cial col­lapse of the Third Reich. The world’s first bil­lion­aire pres­i­dent, Pin­era is Chile’s first right-wing leader since Pinochet, whose cab­i­net included Pinera’s father Jose. Jose Pin­era ” . . . is the archi­tect of [...]

Colonia Dignidad Leader Dies

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ April 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: Although we haven’t dis­cussed the topic in some time, the Chilean Nazi enclave known as Colo­nia Dig­nidad has fig­ured promi­nently in dis­cus­sions of Oper­a­tion Con­dor, the dias­pora of Nazi war crim­i­nals to Latin Amer­ica, as well as the Pinochet regime in Chile. “Cult Leader, ex-Nazi Schae­fer Dies in Chile” [CNN]; 4/25/2010. Paul Schae­fer, a former [...]

FTR #638 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 15, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Bor­mann net­work con­trols major Ger­man cor­po­ra­tions; archive of Third Reich doc­u­ments; Rock­e­fellers push Exxon­Mo­bil to switch to renew­able energy; Stan­dard Oil cor­po­rate com­plex; vio­lence in the Mus­lim world effects global oil prices.

Bunge Agrees to Buy Corn Products for $4.2 Billion

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ June 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Mark Her­lihy and Choy Leng Yeong­Bloomberg­Bunge Ltd., the world’s largest oilseed proces­sor, agreed to buy Corn Prod­ucts Inter­na­tional Inc. for $4.2 bil­lion in stock to add corn-based sweet­en­ers as demand increases for soft drinks and processed foods in China and India. Bunge will pay the equiv­a­lent of $56 for each share of Corn Prod­ucts, White [...]

FTR #259 Campaign 2000 — Beating the Bushes in Florida

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 4, 2000 ⋅ Post a comment

Exam­in­ing the 2000 pres­i­den­tial cam­paign and the polit­i­cal her­itage of the Bush family.

FTR #136 Miscellaneous Stories and Updates

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 28, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

Ger­man body politic and “blame game”; oper­a­tion Con­dor, Chilean-directed assas­si­na­tion car­ried out in the U.S.; Ger­man and Amer­i­can cor­po­ra­tions’ use of slave labor dur­ing WWII.

FTR #121 Interview II with Christopher Simpson about The Splendid Blond Beast

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 4, 1998 ⋅ Post a comment

Inter­na­tional con­tro­versy sur­round­ing for­mer Chilean dic­ta­tor Augusto Pinochet, installed in a CIA-supported coup in 1973.

FTR #118 Russian Fascism?

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 1, 1998 ⋅ Post a comment

Eco­nomic pri­va­tion and national humil­i­a­tion threaten to pro­pel the Rus­sia into fascism.

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