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ASSASSINATIONS NEWSLETTER #5

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace By Challenging Official Myths, Lies, and Secrecy .

(#1 Oct. 8, 2011; #2 August 10, 2012; #3 May 3, 2013; #4 June 20, 2013).

The multifarious methods of oppression employed by an imperial state would fill an encyclopedia. One general method is the control of language, and one sub-set covers rhetorical devices. A specific figure is euphemism, a powerful way of hiding folly and depravity. For example, our government has rebranded US state assassination as “high value targeting.” Dick

Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-Led Operation Condor

By Nan McCurdy and Nora McCurdy on Jul 19, 2021

Plan follows precedent of 1970s state-sponsored assassination campaign targeting leftists.

Operation Condor was a U.S.-directed secret intelligence program in the 1970s and early ’80s in six South American U.S.-backed dictatorships—Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay—that resulted in the torture and “disappearance” of thousands of people.

The victims included dissidents and leftists, union and peasant leaders, priests and nuns, students and teachers, intellectuals and suspected guerrillas. […]

The post Evo Morales Denounces New U.S.-Led Operation Condor appeared first on CovertAction Magazine.

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“…Since the end of World War II the United States has. . .attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.” Blum, America’s Deadliest Export (2013, p. 1).

"I refuse to live in a country like this, and I'm not leaving"
Michael Moore

#1 and #2 at end

Contents #3, May 3, 2013

Escalante, Attempts to Murder Castro

Noble, Assassination Nation from Phoenix to Drones

Google Search, Obama Admin., CIA, Brennan, Assassinations in US

Google Search, Videos about US Assassination, Obama Administration

Contents #4

Monbiot, Killing Ibragim Todashev

Cahill, Dirty Wars Book and Film (2)

William Blum, Google Search

FCNL, Ending Permanent War, “War on Terror,” Extra-judicial Killing

Friends Committee for National Legislation (FCNL) Google Search

Contents #5

Ingersoll, US Special Forces/Ops

Credo, Shabid Buttar: Reject Obama’s Assassination Judge

TEXTS

ISRAEL

Did Israel Kill Yasser Arafat? Stunning Investigation Exposes Israel's Secretive Assassination Program . Democracy Now! RSN Nov. 22, 2018.
Excerpt: "Israeli intelligence officials desperately tried to prevent Ronen Bergman from writing 'Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations,' a stunning book exposing the details of Israel's extrajudicial killing program."
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MILITARY & DEFENSEMore: Features Special Forces Elite Military

The Most Elite Special Forces In The US

GEOFFREY INGERSOLL FEB. 26, 2013, 8:42 PM

Special Ops American

via AmericanSpecialOps.com/photos/

Ever since the Osama bin Laden raid, America has gone bonkers for U.S. Navy SEALs and Military Special Operators in general.

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The Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, is scheduled for spending and personnel increases while the rest of the military looks to be making cuts. End strength goals indicate that America's entire crop of military operators will top off at 70,000.

In fact, the number of operators has doubled since 9/11, and their budget tripled — from $3.5 billion to $10.5 billion. The trend will likely continue as the U.S. is in the middle of a shift to "smaller footprint" type operations.

Putting 100 thousand troops and countless private support personnel on the ground in any given country — sometimes referred to as "nation building" — is a costly strategy. Putting a boot or two on Osama bin Laden's door arguably cost more in political currency — Pakistan wasn't too happy — than actual currency.

Though it was the SEALs who performed that raid in Abbottabad, it's worth noting there are quite a few more SpecOps units in the U.S. than just SEALs — Green Berets and Marine Snipers, etc. — so we here at Business Insider have made things easy by assembling a comprehensive list of all the SpecOps units we could find (with help from the extensive descriptions on AmericanSpecialOps.com).

Click here to see America's special ops > »

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The assassination judge and memo

Shahid Buttar via CREDO Mobilize

to James

The email below is from Shahid Buttar, a CREDO activist in Washington, D.C., who is the executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Shahid started a petition on CREDO Mobilize, where activists can launch their own campaigns for progressive change. Will you help Shahid pressure Senate Democrats to reject the confirmation of "assassination memo" nominee David Barron to the federal bench by signing his petition and sharing it with your friends and family?

Sign the petition: Keep "assassination memo" nominee David Barron off the federal bench.

Dear Dick,

Killing American citizens on the basis of mere suspicion, without due process — including charge, trial, and the presentation of evidence before a neutral judge — is the ultimate example of unconstitutional executive abuse of power. Yet David Barron, President Obama’s nominee to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, wrote multiple Justice Department memos presenting a legal justification for the executive branch to do exactly that.

The Senate must reject President Obama's appointment of David Barron for a lifetime term on federal court. That's why I started my own campaign on CREDOMobilize.com, which allows activists to start their own petitions. My petition, which is to the U.S. Senate, says the following:

I urge you to oppose David Barron’s confirmation to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Assassinating Americans citizens without charge, trial, and the presentation of evidence is unconstitutional — and advancing a legal justification for the executive branch to do so renders Mr. Barron unfit for the federal judiciary.

Tell the Senate: Keep "assassination memo" nominee David Barron off the federal bench.

Barron’s analysis supported the extra-judicial assassination of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen in 2011. While al-Awlaki was publicly outspoken about his criticism of the U.S., and his support for violent extremism, the appropriate forum to examine those concerns would be a trial for treason, not secret assassination without judicial review.

During the Bush Administration, President Obama spoke eloquently on the Senate floor about the vital importance of due process – even for accused terrorists. While President Obama and many others in his administration have changed their tune since entering office, I and many other Americans continue to believe in the U.S. Constitution and the due process it guarantees.

Killing Americans who have neither been charged with, nor convicted of, a crime represents a dramatic departure from the rule of law as understood for centuries. The U.S. Constitution does not allow our executive branch to presume the roles of judge, jury and executioner.

Sign the petition: The author of the "assassination memo" shouldn't be a federal judge.

Despite a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit initiated by the American Civil Liberties Union and New York Times, and repeated calls for transparency from the American people and a bipartisan group of senators, the Obama administration has refused to release Mr. Barron’s legal reasoning to the public.

The administration’s further refusal to release Mr. Barron’s legal memos and opinions amounts to a disturbing and un-American “trust us” policy. No American —and certainly not any senator —should trust any president to unilaterally decide which American citizens to kill, when and why.

Whether or not you trust President Obama and his advisers to make that type of decision, imagine a future President Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin having the power to kill Americans at will. We can’t allow that to happen.

Will you join me and add your name to my petition urging the U.S. Senate to reject David Barron's confirmation for a lifetime term on the First Circuit Court of Appeals?

Thank you for your support.

Shahid Buttar

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