Chomsky on Ford, East Timor, Watergate, and COINTELPRO

RealPlayer audio: you'll find this at or near the top of the list. It's titled: "On Gerald Ford and the Invasion of East Timor. The Struggle. January 5, 2007."

For more information on COINTELPRO and Watergate, see
the following.

These sources help set the stage for where we are now: still in full reaction against the expansion of rights and freedom that took place in the '50's-'70's.

Or: "Why Cheney [and many, many others] Hailed Ford For Pardoning Nixon."

So, for your reading pleasure, and to show how much info is out there:
  1. Pentagon Papers.
  2. Church Committee on COINTELPRO (I have a 14-meg PDF of this if you want).
  3. Trilateral Commission report, The Crisis of Democracy, 1975. Dig Samuel Huntington's piece, and dig who was on the commission.
  4. Two views of Watergate, from '73/'74: Chomsky, and A. Cockburn of Counterpunch and The Nation (in first comment).