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It's good that these stories are brought to light. It's also important that, every story about "look at how this third-world country went off the rails" is acco
by afandian 10y ago
It's good that these stories are brought to light. It's also important that, every story about "look at how this third-world country went off the rails" is accompanied, where relevant, with the story of how the first-world encouraged and enabled it.
> The actions in Uganda “disgusted the entire civilized world,” said President Jimmy Carter during Amin’ s reign, without mentioning that the CIA had reportedly been showering Amin in aid and weapons throughout the 1970s, as Cold War blocs scrambled to control the Third World.
- dom0 10y agoIn the past I had to make lengthy explanations involving three-later agencies and which always came across tinfoil-hatly (although I tended to understate, not ex-aggregate). However, I discovered this Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... and this one in particular https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio... which pretty much do the job for me, and since it's Wikipedia it's not perceived as tinfoil (even though anyone could have looked up the stuff I talked about as well, but as far as I know few people did).