…He admitted he supported the militias “morally.” In an Aug. 14 installment McAllester notes that even among Hindus, “[t]he country’s landlords, leading politicians, military officers and businessmen are nearly all…
Negroponte‘s comments on Cuba recall Rumsfeld‘s on Iraq four years ago, don’t they? From AP, Jan. 17 (emphasis added): Cuban President Fidel Castro, ailing and out of sight, has been…
…in Central America through the Mérida Initiative. Mexico, the primary country receiving aid and training under the Mérida Initiative, has witnessed over 30,000 death since the program was instated in…
Tunisia’s interim regime followed through on its pledge to replace the cabinet of ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali Jan. 28, sacking the ministers of defense, interior and exterior. The…
An ACLU press release, Nov. 28, online at Common Dreams: Khaled El-Masri, Victim of CIA Kidnapping and Abuse, Seeks Acknowledgement, Explanation and Apology RICHMOND, Virginia – The American Civil Liberties…
In new protests over the Bloc 192 oil-field in the north Peruvian Amazon, some 20 indigenous Achuar and Kichwa warriors occupied the local air-strip of multinational Pluspetrol, in Trompeteros, Loreto…
…the Badr Brigades, stormed Baghdad’s municipal building, ousted the mayor at gunpoint and installed one of their own, Hussein al-Tahaan, in his place. On Sept. 18, a Kurdish MP, Faris…
…with Milosevic’s wife Marjana Markovic, going back to her time as student in Yugoslavia in the ’60s, colored her writing to the point of dishonesty. For instance, in a piece…
CounterVortex House Democrats draft impeachment resolution Democrats in the House of Representatives have circulated a draft of a new article of impeachment against President Trump charging him with “incitement of…
…were deflated? What fundamentally changed in the last five years at the oil fields? Or is it more likely that the shock is a response to political instability and war,…
…groups to be designated under the list, one year after it was established under a 1996 amendment to the Immigration & Nationality Act instated by that year’s Antiterrorism & Effective…
…initial 2007 report. As reporter Andrew Revkin stated, “In almost every instance, the people most at risk from climate change live in countries that have contributed the least to the…
