Bonnie Banks

[BioBioChile @biobio]

🔴VIDEOS | ¡Rescate providencial! Avalancha de nieve volcó auto y lo sepultó con ocupante dentro en Farellones
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[Rock n raaaaall @kokehead]

@mmlagoscc

[Owen Dowling @owenjdowling]

For the 50th anniversary of the Chile coup, I interviewed Mike Gatehouse, the first Joint Secretary of the Chile Solidarity Campaign, for @tribunemagazine — on Allende's Santiago, imprisonment during the coup, the activities of the CSC, & its legacy today.
https://t.co/V9uhzYI8Ri

[CIPER Chile @ciper]

A inicios de los ‘90 el estudio de abogados de Ambrosio Rodríguez (de extrema confianza del general Pinochet), Fernando Uribe-Etxeverría y Alberto Cardemil tramitó escrituras para un líder narco peruano, Jorge Saer.
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[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

On Sept. 11, 1973, Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew the elected government of President Salvador Allende and ushered in 17 years of military rule. https://t.co/gebrehdMPj

[Nae Pasaran! - Now On Demand @NaePasaran]

Very sad news today. John Keenan has passed away at 83, after a short illness.

His career at Rolls Royce East Kilbride began in his teens as an apprentice where he became a shop steward and eventually a respect convener.

[CIP UDP @cip_udp]

Berríos guardaba secretos. Antes de desaparecer en 1991, dejó grabaciones. En esta, habla de visitas que habrían recibido en Lo Curro.

Escucha nuestro podcast aquí:
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@vergara240 @ciper #PapelesDeLaDictadura

[Benjamin Alvarez @BenjAlvarez1]

La secta alemana Colonia Dignidad apoyó el golpe de Estado de Augusto Pinochet en Chile, según una investigación de la televisión pública alemana MDR.

[Jose Ragas @joseragas]

⭕️ [HILO] 🧶 Este 11 de septiembre se conmemora el 50 aniversario del golpe de Estado en Chile 🇨🇱 #50AñosDelGolpe

🖥️ Están apareciendo muy buenos recursos digitales (reportajes, archivos, libros, etc.) que iré compartiendo en este hilo a medida que vayan saliendo.

[CIP UDP @cip_udp]

📢 Berríos: los casetes secretos del "químico de Pinochet". Estreno miércoles 6 de septiembre. Un podcast del @cip_udp @PeriodismoUDP 🎧📼

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[INTI-ILLIMANI @inti_illimani]

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[Boris van der Spek @BorisvanderSpek]

‘Our major interest is copper’: Britain backed Pinochet’s bloody coup in Chile https://t.co/ZobsaNNaZ5

[Pablo Seguel @pablozeguel]

uno de los documentos imperdibles del repositorio de @ciper #PapelesDeLaDictadura, es el Plan de Operación Psicológica Epsilón (12 págs).
Creado por la DINA para revertir la presión internacional por las violaciones a los DDHH y la visita del grupo adhoc de @ONU_es en 1975
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[Bonnie Banks @bbanks100]

@quierounberlin Es fantástico. Tan interesante

[Bonnie Banks @bbanks100]

@ignace

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

On 9 September, the @ProgIntl invites you to a special event in Santiago, Chile to celebrate the global legacy of President Allende – with @gtorreszelaya1, @OfeFernandez_, @evgenymorozov, @ClaraLopezObre, @sunraysunray, @G_Pisarello, and more. Join us. https://t.co/kEuxbJJuZm

[Boris van der Spek @BorisvanderSpek]

The role of Australia and Brazil, who supported the CIA ahead of the coup in Chile. How the CIA helped Pinochet set up his notorious intelligence agency. Pinochet's large scale corruption. All among documents the US should release, @peterkornbluh writes.
https://t.co/7DIrry4SlV

[Juan Gabriel Valdes @jg_valdes]

Primera página del New York Times de hoy.

[Mary Helen Spooner @MH_Spooner]

My friend and ccolleague Odette Magnet on Chile's renewed search for victims of forced disappearance: https://t.co/wpKKjvqzA2

[John Bartlett @jwbartlett92]

“This is the first time ever that the state has assumed responsibility for the search, which is essential because the crimes were committed by the state and its agents in the context of a policy of repression,” @LuisCorderoVega https://t.co/1vQKzl1ccL