George Bush sold the war as quick and cheap; it was long and costly. Even now, the US is paying billions to private contractors When the US invaded Iraq in March 2003, the…
Category: Latin America
WORLD FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS: Class oriented – uniting – democratic – modern – independent! While the 1,426 billionaires of the world are celebrating their rankings at the Forbes Magazine’s 2013 List of Billionaires,…
What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.—Genesis 4:10 Some may object to my starting such an article with Tony Blair. Yet, he provided us with unforgettable,…
President Comandante Hugo Chavez Frias passed away on March 5, 2013 in the capital city of Venezuela, Caracas. Chavez will be remembered for his efforts in the transformation of Venezuela and Latin America away from the dominance of United…
Western Media Set Up North Korea For War Western so-called news media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror flick about flesh-eating zombies. It would be funny if the danger of war was not so serious and imminent. The disturbing direction of the Western media coverage is to set up North Korea – a poor impoverished country – for an all-out military attack by the world’s nuclear superpower psychopath – the United States. Paradoxically, this danger is being incited by “news” corporations that pompously claim to be free-thinking bastions of independent journalism, when in reality they are nothing more than progenitors of the worst kind of pulp fiction.
Last week the US Senate took a break from debating the phony cuts known as “sequestration,” for Senator Rand Paul to hold a 13-hour filibuster to force the Obama administration to state whether…
The US has become a psychotic superpower, high on paranoia induced by its own poisonous propaganda. This unstable, lawless rogue state, armed to the teeth and deluded by its own self-righteousness, poses the greatest risk…
I once wrote about Chilean president Salvador Allende: Washington knows no heresy in the Third World but genuine independence. In the case of Salvador Allende independence came clothed in an especially provocative costume – a…
Damascus, Students everywhere are special people and this observer has discovered that Syrian students are among the very best. Meeting and interviewing students again this past week, before and following a frank and enlightening discussion…
US Justice Scalia Described Historic Legislation as “Racial Entitlement” Forty-eight years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Supreme Court is currently deliberating the enforcement provision of the historic legislation known…