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Quotes from The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, with Noam Chomsky — Edward S. Herman

1925–2017 United States

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Even today, as regards East Timor, where our brutal Indonesian satellite (authors of the 1965-1966 butcheries) have very possibly killed as many people as did the Khmer Rouge, there is a virtually complete blackout of information in the Free Press. This is a bloodbath carried out by a friendly power and is thus of little interest to our leaders. It is a “benign bloodbath” in our terminology.

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, with Noam Chomsky (1979)

K. Barton Osborn, who served in a covert program of intelligence in Vietnam, not only testified to a wide variety of forms of torture used by U.S. and Saigon personnel, but also made the startling claim that “I never knew an individual to be detained as a VC suspect who ever lived through an interrogation in a year and a half, and that included quite a number of individuals.”

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, with Noam Chomsky (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward S. Herman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.