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Truthdig
February 20, 2018
As President Richard Nixon's coldblooded national security adviser Henry Kissinger explained in June 1970, three years before the U.S. sponsored a .... after the Chilean coup, Suharto received a green light from Kissinger and the Gerald Ford White House to invade the small island nation of East Timor.
The Cheat Sheet
January 26, 2018
There are as many ways to rank the worst presidents in American history as there are ideas about what qualities are most important in a president, or how you can judge an administration's ... Alternet puts Gerald Ford in eighth place on the list of the worst presidents. Ford ignored genocide in East Timor.
OilPrice.com
December 7, 2017
We started with Ãâã250m and now we have more than $16bn in the bank,” said Ramos-Horta, who served as prime minister of East Timor from 2006 to 2007 and as president from 2007 to 2012, and won the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize along with Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo for their efforts to bring peace andÃâà...
STRATFOR
December 1, 2017
Eight years later, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger accelerated armaments deliveries to the Indonesian army as it killed one-third of the population of East Timor. The United Nations and United States enforced a weapons embargo in the early 1990s against Bosnia's mainlyÃâà...
Mondoweiss
November 14, 2017
Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, seems to share Nasrallah's suspicion, insisting that he will not accept Hariri's resignation until Hariri returns to Lebanon from Saudi Arabia because his “resignation must be voluntary”. There has even arisen in Lebanon suspicion that Hariri is being held under houseÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 29, 2016
Just as many prematurely deemed Bush the worst president ever, so many are now ready to enshrine Obama as one of the all-time greats. ... Bush's dithering about Bosnia, Jimmy Carter's fecklessness in Cambodia, Gerald Ford's cold realism toward East Timor, or Richard Nixon's complicity in Bangladesh.
CNN
August 26, 2016
When Ford headed to Indonesia in December 1975, the CIA warned him that Indonesian President Suharto would ask him about the US position on Indonesia's plans to invade the former Portuguese colony of East Timor: "Suharto will undoubtedly raise the question of Timor during talks with you in an effortÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
August 18, 2015
In late 1975, Henry Kissinger and Gerald Ford gave the green light to Suharto to invade neighboring East Timor. ... “And in July, President Carter had signed a 'finding' to aid the rebels covertly, which led to the United States providing them with cash, weapons, equipment and supplies, and engaging inÃâà...
