". . . .asked Laura Bush how she could sleep with the man . . . "

[ensho]

http://www.truth-out.org/salvador-allende-has-words-barack-obama-other-side-death/1318256425


Salvador Allende Has Words for Barack Obama From the Other Side of Death


For the last decade, I have been haunted by voices from the other side of death. In this way, back in 2003 I transcribed the words of Pablo Picasso after a tapestry version of his famed painting Guernica at the entrance to the Security Council was covered over at the U.N. just before then-Secretary of State Colin Powell was to present the Bush administration case justifying an invasion of Iraq. From the depths of ancient Mesopotamia, I transcribed the words of Hammurabi, the exalted prince of Babylon, as he reviled Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for laying waste to his ancient land. And in that same year I found that Christopher Columbus, too, had words for the new warriors/conquerors of the twenty-first century, while the poets William Blake and Franceso Petrarca asked Laura Bush how she could sleep with the man responsible for so many deaths.

The dead were then silent for years, which left me unprepared when Salvador Allende came to me offering advice for Barack Obama. It seemed, at first glance, a strange connection. Elected president of Chile in 1970 by popular vote, Allende was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup three years later. On that other September 11th, also (coincidentally enough) a Tuesday, terror rained down from the skies as the Chilean air force bombed the Presidential Palace where Allende died, ending an experiment in constructing socialism through peaceful, democratic means, and inaugurating the long dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

- read the rest and weep, THEN KEEP ON DEMONSTRATING-
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[AzDar]

1. I had forgotten all about the "Guernica" incident; lost in the sea of evil

deeds and hypocrisy that were the Bush years... :grr:

[ensho]

5. is Guernica still covered up?

if so, shouldn't it be uncovered now?

[AzDar]

7. IIRC, it was only covered for the Powell presentation, after pressure was applied by the

Bush Administration.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. K & R

[jwirr]

3. I cried for Allende and the other heroes. Justice has been our goal

for centuries. This is a beautiful article. Let is all fight in the fight for justice even if we lose.

[gratuitous]

4. Breath of the dead wasted on the system's victor

But the words are true for the rest of us: We're going to go down to the forces of oppression and repression. They will indeed stop at nothing, and blow everything to bits for their own profit and amusement. But I intend to go down fighting. At the very least, they will know that I opposed them, as irrelevant and useless as that opposition may be for me and my time.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ensho.