"Love, and do what you will". Logic to live by. Words of St. A.

amazon.com/Chile-Their-He… Chile in Their Hearts The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing after the Coup John Dinges Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also exposes the callousness of U.S. foreign policy.

From MA, on life. "Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Body: decaying. Soul: spinning. The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. Our only guide: philosophy"

Frederick Forsyth, perhaps ill informed, writes erroneously that Chile’s Salvador Allende created the notorious secret police DINA. In fact it was the dictator Pinochet, who ordered DINA to torture and kill thousands of Allende sympathizers. #Truth labourhub.org.uk/2025/01/16/an-…

I’m looking to connect with anyone who was in Chile during the Allende/Popular Unity period. I was there ‘72-‘78, experienced the coup and stayed to write about the dictatorship. Pls send this around, and preorder My new book, Chile in Their Hearts: buscalibre.us/libro-chile-in…

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on X. “We categorically reject the White House’s slanderous claim that the Mexico government has alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any attempt to intervene in our territory. …

2 Sheinbaum: “If there is anywhere that such an alliance [with Mexican cartels] in fact exists, it is in the United States gun factories that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups.”

Vietnam, where America got used to losing. If you’re old enough to remember you gotta read Henry Allen’s piece in SpyTalk. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/…

Kristi Noem is a hat act.

US Officer: “America has a rogue president and a rogue administration, and we need to acknowledg e that and respond.” nytimes.com/2025/02/24/opi… via New York Times Opinion

Spytalk’s Mike Isikoff on Tulsi Gabbard’s choice of a conspiracy theorist Israel critic to be the president’s likely daily briefer. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/…

Dictatorships pass. It requires courageous journalism, human rights documentation and the guts to resist. Sheila Coronel shows how it happened in the Philippines. “Duterte: On the arrest of an autocrat.” cjr.org/world/duterte-… via Columbia Journalism Review

Interview on my investigative methods used in my book Chile in Their Hearts. The problems when you contradict the “official story”. connectas.org/labs/investiga…

harvard.edu/research-fundi… Harvard to Trump: Drop Dead. The first university to say the morally obvious: we will not comply.

Foreign Affairs on John Dinges’s new book, Chile in Their Hearts: The Untold Story of Two Americans Who Went Missing After the Coup. “Courageous…”foreignaffairs.com/reviews/chile-… via Foreign Affairs

Artículo importante por Carolina Jiménez de WOLA. elfaro.net/en/202505/opin…

Review of Chile in “Their Hearts”. Dinges “deeply implicates the US government in creating the conditions for the coup, actively doing what it could to destroy the Chilean economy, and ultimately insuring that the coup would occur.” “Nuanced” storytelling. counterpunch.org/2025/05/07/kil…

Join me tonight in Santa Monica to discuss "Chile in Their Hearts." Hosted by Suzala , host KPFK , and begins at 6:30 pm PT at DIESEL, A Bookstore in Brentwood

Wall Street Journal on "Chile in Their Hearts," which definitively investigates the murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi: "Conclusions are triumphs of intellectual honesty." wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

A Chilean centrist sees a possible victory for the left in Jeanette Jara--assuming she leads with her authentic charisma and not with her party. She is the social democrat alternative to the Trumpist right (Kast).