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Daily Archives: April 28, 2017
Syria’s Assad says Trump is puppet of US deep state
Part 2 – Chemical Weapons
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Funding terror in Colombia banana republic: a case study of dirty US corporate intervention
Ten years ago, Chiquita Brands International became the first U.S.-based corporation convicted of violating a U.S. law against funding an international terrorist group—the paramilitary United Self-defense Forces of Colombia* (AUC). But punishment for the crime was reserved only for the corporate entity, while the names of the individual company officials who engineered the payments have since remained hidden behind a wall of impunity. As Colombian authorities now prepare to prosecute business executives for funding groups responsible for major atrocities during Colombia’s decades-old conflict, a new set of Chiquita Papers, made possible through the National Security Archive’s FOIA lawsuit, has for the first time made it possible to know the identities and understand the roles of the individual Chiquita executives who approved and oversaw years of payments to groups responsible for countless human rights violations in Colombia.
Source: Funding terror in Colombia banana republic: a case study of dirty US corporate intervention
Syria’s Assad says Trump is puppet of US deep state
Trump “changed his rhetoric completely and subjected himself to the terms of the deep American state, or the deep American regime,” Assad said
