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Today on Flashpoints:
Chilean Folk Singer Lichi Fuentes Remembers in Word and Song
9/11/1973 When the US Collaborated in the Overthrow of Salvador
Allende in Chile;
Survivors of the 9/11 Attacks in New York Speak Out Against
War;
Comments from noted Author and Political Analyst Michael Parenti
on Both 9/11's;
The Knight Report.
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report of 9-11-2001 is reproduced here with Robert
Knight and Dennis Bernstein.
5:06 PM PST
Surviving Terrorism Dennis Bernstein interviews David Potorti
as he provides reminiscences and analysis of the politics
and experiences which comprised 9-11 and the hope which can
grow out of this experience when placed in a truthful perspective
devoid of spin and revisionism. David has a new book "September
11th Families for Peceful Tomorrows: Turning our Grief into
Action for Peace. Peaceful Tomorrows
5:25 PM PST
Music Break: Seize The Day performs "United States".
5:27 PM PST
September 11th Coup in Chile Dennis talks with Lichi Fuentes
as she remembers in song and thought the US engineered Chilean
coup which deposed and killed the popularly elected socialist
patriot Salvador Allende and replaced him with the Nixon-backed
brute Augusto Pinochet thanks to the unceasing efforts of
Henry Kissinger.
5:53 PM PST
Michael Parenti continues the conversation of Chile 1973,
with Dennis, accenting the parallels with the current US problems;
The complete experience is recounted at La Pena Cultural Center
this evening in Berkeley, CA. 3105 Shattuck (click on address
for interactive map) (crossstreet Woolsey) Berkeley, CA 94705.
In this never-before-published photograph, General Augusto
Pinochet (second from left) and President Salvador Allende
(in white jacket) are seen on a trip in northern Chile in
the months before the 1973 coup that left Allende dead and
Pinochet in command of the government. Photograph: Fundacion
Salvador Allende
"It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown
by a coup," "It is imperative that these actions
be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG
[US government] and American hand be well hidden."
"Concur giving tear gas cannisters and gas masks ...
working on obtaining machine guns," -- CIA memo dated
October 18, 1970.
"Use good officers ... Some low-level overflights of
Santiago and bomb drops in areas not likely to cause casualties
could have great psychological effect and might swing balance
as they have so many times in past in similar circumstances."
--CIA document from October 18,1970 revealed in Peter Kornbluth's
new book, "The Pinochet File and US involvement in Chile"
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