In The Nation, Eric Alterman reminds us of Elliot Abrams’s lying on behalf of Salvadoran death squads in the Reagan years.
This was 20 years before the W. Bush administration’s “El Salvador Option” in Iraq, using the Badr Corps to hunt and kill Sunnis, which backfired, leading to Abrams’s “Redirection” policy to start tilting back toward al Qaeda.
Later he thankfully botched a coup in Venezuela.
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How did we wind up at war with Iran? Scott Horton explains on The Tucker Carlson Show. https://youtu.be/_HVGLCRp3I8?si=gtgBPCToHUEUnyuP Chapters: 0:00 The History of Why Iran Is Such a Global Focal Point 11:16 The Jimmy Carter Doctrine 22:29 The Brutality of the...
I have been retrofitting and improving the sound to my podcasts WarNotes episodes are done with the Podsworth app upgrade. Chasing Ghosts upgrades to episodes 1-3, 6, 8-26 and 58-67 are now complete (updated on RSS, Substack and the Libertarian Institute). I know it...
