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Death and the Maiden

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It is worth noting that today is the 30th Anniversary of the coup in Chile wherein the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet et al, with the assistance of the CIA. Allende supporters (a few Americans among them) were forced into a soccer stadium and executed. The coup resulted in two decades of repressive dictatorship.

I can tell you that the remembrance of 9/11 always, unequivocally, makes me sad. But what can bring me to the threshold of despair is remembering how much more pointless human suffering occurs in the world everyday; and a significant amount of it with the cooperation or complicity of our own country.
Palestine and Colombia are just two of the most prominent venues in an inexhaustable list of currently suffering peoples. It's not just America on one day, in one year; it is all of humanity that suffers unimaginable tragedy every day.