> #ElMozote, one of.. many [#massacres].. by U.S.-trained elite battalions — and one of the few to be admitted to History, after exposure by the #UN #TruthCommission. [With] origins in U.S. planning, these routine atrocities must also be “part of the culture.”.. account by #MarkDanner which “aptly denotes” the “horrifying incident” as “a central parable of the cold war” for which blame is shared equally by #Salvadorans on all sides, #murderers and #victims..
https://chomsky.info/199408__/
#Chomsky

Not just #totalitarianism
> ... [#KarlRove's] words sketch out with breathtaking frankness a radical view in which power frankly determines reality, and rhetoric, the science of flounces and folderols, follows meekly and subserviently in its train. Those in the “reality-based community” — those such as we — are figures a mite pathetic, for we have failed to realize the singular new principle of the new age: #Power has made #reality its bitch.
https://tomdispatch.com/mark-danner-the-age-of-rhetoric/
#MarkDanner