Nixon supported a plan for a military coup in Chile in 1970 to prevent Allende from becoming president.

The coup attempt failed, but killed the head of Chile's armed forces, General Schneider, who would have opposed any coup. This probably paved the way for Pinochet's coup in 1973, which also had US support. For more information.

US citizens: call on Congress to protect Chaco Canyon by rejecting HR 4374.

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The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

The US electric utilities' lobbying group is lobbying against stricter pollution limits for electric generation.

*Prosecutors may not need to show that Trump knew he had lost the election.* That is because of the "disruption of an official proceeding" charge for the Jan 6 insurrection.

After the peace deal between Ethiopia and Tigray, some border areas of Tigray are still occupied by Ethiopian troops. So are areas that the peace deal assigned to Ethiopia but whose inhabitants are Tigrayan. The Ethiopian army blocks aid supplies in these areas.