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Starry Messenger

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5. I had no idea what was going on until later.

Reply to TBF (Reply #4)

Wed Aug 5, 2015, 05:14 PM

Aug 2015

I started college a little later, and we didn't cover foreign policy until I was a few years in. I vaguely knew about Oliver North and the Contras, and was left with a distaste for the grey old men of the MIC.

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Shielded for decades, Pinochet thugs now face justice [View all] Starry Messenger Aug 2015 OP

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