Late September

https://yasha.substack.com/p/immigrants-as-a-weapon-global-nationalism wrote:Most people probably don’t know that over the past 70 years America has done more to promote nationalism and far-right ideologies around the world than any other country on earth. I say this without exaggeration. No one else even comes close.

Boots Riley wrote: In the world of film we’ve edited out all rebellion. We’re supposed to be showing representations of life, and whether the main characters in those worlds agree with it or not, there’s rebellion that’s happening in the world. It’s edited out. It’s replaced by other mundane things that aren’t really in our world, like noontime café dates.

Wikipedia wrote:Water protectors are activists and organizers who work to defend all of the earth's environment, specifically its water. Water protectors are primarily members of Indigenous communities in North America and do not consider themselves to be protesters, but performing a sacred duty through non-violent resistance to activities which endanger water. Water protectors reject the term "protester" because of its links to colonialism and other negative connotations.

Water protectors are a community role primarily taken on by women. In Anishinaabe culture women perform ceremonies to honour water and water is considered to be alive and have a spirit.

Well-known water protectors include: Autumn Peltier from Wikwemikong First Nation; Josephine Mandamin, Marjorie Flowers, from Nunatsiavut, Labrador

Norman Thomas Di Giovanni - The Lesson of the Master_ On Borges and His Work (2003) wrote:There was a dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, whose paper and binding Borges and I were fond of smelling, on the main table.

FIRING LINE program taped in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on February 1, 1977, wrote:
BORGES: We have the right government now, a government of gentlemen, not of hoodlums. I don't think we're ripe for democracy as yet--maybe in a hundred years or so. But now I think we have the right government. I think that the government means well, and the government is acting, and as I said, we are governed by gentlemen and not by the scum of the earth, as happened, well, but a short time ago.

Robert Steven, Political Officer, Embassy Buenos Aires, 1976-1977 wrote:There was some attitude I remember hearing once from someone I thought was a very liberal-minded Argentine when somebody had just been found assassinated and disappeared, “Well, he had it coming. They were troublemakers.” It wasn’t that it affected such wide numbers of people. They were more worried about their economic, I think, than their political situation. They didn’t like the publicity, of course. Let’s face it. Many of them were humane people after all, and they didn’t like to see people being killed or tortured

1977 was, by many accounts, the worst year of the military dictatorship of Rafael Videla. His “The Process of National Reorganization’’ (El Proceso) was a campaign of state terror and economic reorganization.

In that year, the Argentinian investigative journalist Rodolfo Walsh clandestinely published his Open Letter to the Military Junta. The country he describes, painting a Bosch-like hell with facts and figures, is a charnel house.

Walsh states in naked, meticulous numbers: “(…) 15.000 disappeared persons, 10.000 prisoners, 4000 dead, many tens of thousands expropriated from their lands, these are the naked ciphers of this terror’’. He condemns the building of countless make-shift prisons, the secret trials, “the concentration camps where no judge, lawyer, journalist or international monitor may enter”.

“The censorship in the press, the persecution of intellectuals, the raid on my house in Tigre (the river delta of Buenos Aires) the murders of my dear friends and the loss of my daughter—who died while fighting you—are some of the factors that force me into this form of clandestine expression, after almost 30 years in which I had freely given my opinion as a journalist and writer.”

Dissent was intolerable for the regime, and many Argentines who tried to get by unnoticed as public employees or as workers in the private sectors today can recount having been supervised by armed military police to enforce ‘’productivity’’.

“In only one year you have reduced the gross wages of workers by 40% and diminished their participation in the national income (GDP) by 30%, which has resulted in a lengthening of the workday from 6 to 18 hours for any worker supporting a family. This policy has revived forms of forced labour that are non-existent even in the last remaining colonial settlements.”

Argentina’s military dictatorship organized its killings in death camps, with methods reminiscent of the Nazis’ (and many Nazis had, in fact, found asylum in Argentina after World War II and still lived there then).

Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, was tortured and held for 14 months without trial at a prison where the police had painted a giant swastika on the wall. On May 5, 1977, Mr. Pérez Esquivel was put on a “death flight.” Chained to his seat, he watched an officer preparing a syringe. For a long time, the military plane circled over the Río de la Plata estuary that opens on the Atlantic Ocean as if awaiting orders to dump him in. Finally, he heard a crackling radio command to return to base. Mr. Pérez Esquivel believes his life was probably saved by all the inquiries the authorities were getting about his disappearance.

Anthony Freeman - Assistant Labor Attaché, Embassy Buenos Aires, 1976-1980 wrote:The Carter Administration’s strong emphasis on human rights policy was not the only U.S. interest in Argentina. We didn’t want to see the leftist guerrillas tortured to death and then “disappeared” in secret operations, let alone innocent civilians labeled as terrorists, arbitrarily detained and then disposed of in the same way, but I believe we recognized it was in the U.S. interest to see the guerrilla threat eliminated ... professionals in the State Department (and certainly the Pentagon) saw the guerrillas as a threat to U.S. interests in Latin America. The Argentine counterinsurgency was carried out in good, Machiavellian fashion.

A 1976 meeting between Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and the regime’s foreign minister, Admiral Guzzetti, who asked for American “understanding and support” in the post-coup slaughter of leftists. “If there are things that have to be done,” Mr. Kissinger said, “you should do them quickly.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/23/reports-wedding-party-bombing-indicate-us-forces-have-massacred-least-70-afghan wrote:
Monday, September 23, 2019
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams staff writer

Reports of Wedding Party Bombing Indicate US Forces Have Massacred at Least 70 Afghan Civilians in One Week

"Don't kill us," said one local who survived the recent bombing in Helmand province.

The incident in the southern province of Helmand, which came just days after a U.S. drone strike killed at least 30 farm workers in eastern Nangarhar province, highlights the fragile situation for civilians as the U.S. enters its 19th year of war in Afghanistan.

Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the Helmand governor, said an undetermined number of civilians were killed after an explosion at an insurgent weapons depot that had been targeted by government forces late Sunday. But Haji Attaullah Afghan, head of the provincial council in Helmand, said a two-vehicle wedding convoy was fired upon by military helicopters, and that civilians were killed in both vehicles.

A spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan told Stars and Stripes that "we did conduct targeted precision strikes against barricaded terrorists firing on Afghan and U.S. forces" presenting "an imminent threat."