US Shocked, Shocked! To Find Assassination Plots Here
Yes, the White House under Gerald Ford tried to block a 1975 Senate report detailing CIA involvement in assassination attempts. This revelation comes, according to the Guardian, amid 'conjecture' that Trump authorized similar actions against Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro. The framing here presents these as isolated incidents, conveniently overlooking the U.S. history of 'regime change'—euphemism for
external interference, often violent, in sovereign nations—from Allende to Arbenz, not to mention the recent, very public attempts to destabilize states like Syria and Libya, frequently aided by U.S. allies and funding. One might wonder why this 'conjecture' about Trump and Maduro is presented as a shocking new concept, rather than a continuation of a well-documented, bipartisan foreign policy
playbook. Perhaps because acknowledging the pattern would require a deeper, less flattering introspection into the continuous funding and political support given to entities that execute such strategies, often with overwhelming congressional approval. How many decades of 'shocking' revelations before we question the architecture, not just the architects?