Whereas we’ve got been sumberged right here beneath royal mourning, People have naturally targeted on the twenty first anniversary of the 9/11 assaults in a single day, commemorating the hundreds of lives misplaced in these atrocities.

There may be one other “9/11”, one in all longer historic provenance: yesterday marked the forty ninth anniversary of the coup in Chile that noticed the democratically elected Salvador Allende faraway from energy and murdered by a army coup backed by the Nixon administration. The following dictatorship beneath Augusto Pinochet noticed the homicide of hundreds and the imprisonment and torture of tens of hundreds of Chileans, and the brutal utility of neoliberal economics by Chicago College economists (of which Milton Friedman would later boast).

Australia had its personal function in that coup, but it surely stays a thriller: as Crikey mentioned final 12 months, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) was on the bottom in Santiago through the Allende authorities, on the request of the CIA.