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Inspiring to know there are people like Robert Cox. I trust his reports were not as one sided as the stuff from Ukraine appearing in our media. George Orwell was a remarkable objective cynic, if there can be such a thing. Reminded of his comments about the American and European reporting from the Spanish Civil They bore little resemblance to what was happening. From what I've seen so far, Ukraine is a repeat.

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About confusion as to who one is: Sometimes I'm a conservative on some issues and sometimes I'm a liberal (says Chris Rock the comedian and actor).

This still relies on labels but eases the narrowness by combining labels. Thus one can escape the tribal rush to war on the one hand, and avoid the escape of punishing austerity tribe on the other.

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Consistent with the left's goal of class revolution and the destruction of "capitalism":

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Peronist guerrillas, estimated at 300 to 400 active members (Montoneros) in 1977[43] (and 2000 at its peak in 1975, though almost half of them related to militia[44]), committed a number of attacks during this period such as bombings at the Goodyear and Firestone distributors, Riker and Eli pharmaceutical laboratories, Xerox Corporation, and Pepsi-Cola bottling companies. Director-general of the Fiat Concord company in Argentina was kidnapped by ERP guerrillas in Buenos Aires on 21 March 1972 and found murdered on 10 April.[45] in 1973, a Ford Motor Company executive was killed in a kidnapping attempt;[46] a Peugeot representative was kidnapped and later released for a reported US$200,000.,[47] and FAP guerrillas killed John Swint, the American general manager of the Ford Motor Company.[48] On December, the director of Peugeot in Argentina was kidnapped.[49]

In 1974, FAP guerrillas killed the labour relations manager of the IKA-Renault Motor Company in Córdoba. In 1975 a manager of an auto parts factory[50] and a production manager of Mercedes-Benz were kidnapped by Montoneros,[51] and an executive of the US Chrysler Corporation[52] and a manager of the Renault plant in Córdoba were killed.[53] In 1976, Enrique Aroza Garay of German-owned Borgward automobile factory and a Chrysler executive were killed. In all, 83 servicemen and policemen were killed in left-wing guerrilla incidents.[54]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War

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