{"id":402655,"date":"2019-04-08T01:09:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexico-to-spain-and-vatican-apologize-for-your-crimes\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T01:09:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T00:09:49","slug":"mexico-to-spain-and-vatican-apologize-for-your-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/mexico-to-spain-and-vatican-apologize-for-your-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico to Spain and Vatican: Apologize for your Crimes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Several years ago, the renowned linguist and thinker, Noam Chomsky, asked me, point blank, as we were working on our book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Western-Terrorism-Hiroshima-Warfare-Perspectives\/dp\/0745399312\">On Western Terrorism \u2013 From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think it is possible that most of Europeans really don\u2019t know about crimes their countries committed all over the world?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t know\u2026 They don\u2019t want to know\u2026 They make sure that they will never know,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n<p>That Europe and North America have been constructed on hundreds of millions of corpses of, what George Orwell used to call,<em>un-people<\/em>, is fairly well established and proven fact. But somehow it never entered the sub-consciousness of the white race which is inhabiting what we now call the West, but also many parts of the \u2018conquered\u2019 world, from Latin America, to Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Horrors of the past are carefully softened by shock-absorbing academic jargon, when they are addressed at such institutions like Cambridge, Oxford or Sorbonne universities. Or they are belittled, even dismissed, by loud cheers and clicking of the glass, in the Europeans pubs.<\/p>\n<p>It is not something that is mentioned directly in \u2018polite society\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the topic is not only related to the terrible world history.<\/p>\n<p>All that we are experiencing now, all over the world, is to some extent related to this past. From wars to plunder of the natural resources; from shameless \u2018regime changes\u2019, to fearless provocations of the West against Russia, China and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Even what&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/04\/mexico-to-spain-and-vatican-apologize-for-your-crimes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, the renowned linguist and thinker, Noam Chomsky, asked me, point blank, as we were working on our book: On Western Terrorism \u2013 From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare: \u201cDo you think it is possible that most of Europeans really don\u2019t know about crimes their countries committed all over the world?\u201d \u201cThey don\u2019t know\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}