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This Week in People’s History, Nov 5–11, 2025

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Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon shaking hands in the Oval Office Kissinger Does His Best to Do His Worst (1970), Rubin “Hurricane” Carter Exonerated (1985), Four Months of Broad-Daylight Treason (1860), CIA Outlaws in Charge (2005), United Fruit Plays for Keeps (1950), 500 Years Too Many for Angola (1975)

Global Battlefields: A No-Holds-Barred Reckoning

Max Elbaum Convergence
Walden Bello’s memoir wrestles with tough questions of political strategy and radical ethics in a world full of uprisings, wars, obscene inequality, and aggressive counter-revolutionary movements.

Chile’s Coup at 50: Countdown Toward a Coup

Peter Kornbluh National Security Archive
The documented U.S. role in the months, days and hours before the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger commiserated over the fact that they wouldn’t receive laudatory credit in the media for Allende’s demise.

Defending Allende

Ariel Dorfman The New York Review of Books
The question of where Chile’s true identity lies becomes ever more pressing as the fiftieth anniversary of Pinochet’s coup approaches.

Forensic Study Finds Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda Was Poisoned

Sam Jones and John Bartlett The Guardian
The toxin clostridium botulinum was in his body when he died in 1973, days after Chile’s military coup. Nobel prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda died after being poisoned with a powerful toxin. Neruda was internationally known Communist poet.
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