The Other September 11 (Mickey Z., Counterbias)

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The Other September 11
Examining Chile's 9/11, the 1973 coup—an event cloaked in secrecy and obscured by Cold War paranoia

September 1 2006
Counterbias.com
by Mickey Z.


Since September 11, 2001, there has been a marked increase in the comfort with which those in power openly discuss military interventions—both current and pending. This shift is particularly obvious when examining the “other 9/11.”

Thanks to information made available in documents declassified in 1999, we can coherently discuss the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile—an event cloaked in secrecy and obscured by Cold War paranoia. But those roughly 5000 documents don’t begin to explain how the toppling of Salvador Allende fits within the context of today's foreign entanglements. After all, what the U.S. did by replacing Allende with General Augusto Pinochet 31 years ago would today be termed a "regime change" (As Henry Kissinger explained at the time: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people”).

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