Dissent grows in El Salvador over Iraq role

This sad story is all the more telling given that the “Salvador option” reveals El Salvador as a test war for Iraq—with the sinister John Negroponte a key architect of both. The failure of the Times to even mention this… Read moreDissent grows in El Salvador over Iraq role

Anti-Semitism card played against Sandinista Nicaragua —already!

Boy, does this ever give us deja vu. Back in the ’80s, the State Department played an anti-Semitism card against Sandinista Nicaragua, just as as the right does today against Bolivarian Venezuela. Daniel Ortega hasn’t even taken office yet, and… Read moreAnti-Semitism card played against Sandinista Nicaragua —already!

“Indigenous resistance” protests held throughout Americas

Tens of thousands of indigenous people and their allies focused on neoliberal economic programs, US foreign policies and local issues in protests throughout the Americas on Oct. 12, the 514th anniversary of the arrival of European colonizer Christopher Columbus in… Read more“Indigenous resistance” protests held throughout Americas

Nicaragua: left-dissident candidate dies

From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 3: Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died late Sunday of an apparent heart attack. The son of a Jewish migrant, Lewites, 66, was the country’s best-known citizen of Jewish descent. A dissident from the… Read moreNicaragua: left-dissident candidate dies