Pentagon impunity in torture-death case
…changed his story repeatedly, leading to acquittals in each case. Other potentially important figures who had left the military were largely ignored. In the modest Fort Bliss courtrooms where the…
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Honduras: left-leaning TV news anchor murdered
…the central Honduran department of Comayagua. A supporter of the center-left opposition Freedom and Refoundation Party (LIBRE), Paz owned a small local television station, RPM TV Canal 28, where he…
Venezuela: left-dissident party raided
Venezuelan police on June 10 raided the offices of the Trotskyist left-opposition organization Marea Socialista in Caracas on the orders of a local court. The raid was carried out by…
American ‘left’ abets genocide in Syria
Ruins of Aleppo after months of bombardment by Bashar Assad and his Russian allies. In the 1930s, the American left could claim solidarity with those who stood up to the authors of…
Greece: armed left in new attack
Remember those innocent days when terrorists were radical leftists rather than Islamic fundamentalists? The Greeks do. From Ekathimerini, June 1 (links added): Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis had informed the heads…
Colombia: left holds on to Bogotá
…influence. The race that attracted the most attention was for the Bogotá mayor’s office, which set Samuel Moreno Rojas of the leftist Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) against Enrique Penalosa, who…
Glenn Greenwald tells the left what it wants to hear on Libya
…This touches on a deeper contradiction in Greenwald’s (and the left’s) general position on Libya. From his opening paragraph, Greenwald writes as if “regime change” in Libya would be a…
POSITIVELY QUILCA STREET
…through the early 1920s. Delfín was the father of the journalist and historian César Lévano, who remains a significant figure on the Peruvian left today. He publishes the intransigent left-wing…
Mexico: Cananea strike broken, miners left jobless
…“Los Mineros”). The mine produced earnings of $288.69 million for its owner, Grupo México (GM), in the second quarter of this year, according to an article in the left-leaning Mexican daily La Jornada….
Orlando massacre in propaganda wars
…will be grimly amusing to watch both left and right scramble. The lefties will (rightly) blame homophobia, while (dishonestly) avoiding the ideological context for this particular homophobia: political Islam. The…
Chuck Hagel: revenge of the paleocons?
…right and left. MondoWeiss says the pick is “setting up a battle between the left and right flanks of the Israel lobby and between realist supporters of Hagel and his neoconservative detractors.”…
Assange and Ecuador: no monopoly on hypocrisy
…for simply walking into a dictator’s embassy, despite breaking bail conditions!). Assange has single-handedly discredited the ‘liberal left‘ and the civil rights movement by his selfishness – and cowardice. Bill…