“Elliott Abrams’ Dark History in Latin America and the Struggle for Justice“: In Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt is standing trial for genocide and crimes against humanity. Rios Montt, an evangelical general who ruled Guatemala in 1982-83 after seizing power through a military coup, was a close ally of Washington whoreceived training at the infamous “School of the Americas”. [...]
Patrick Cockburn: The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100 billion a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all. A little over 10 years ago, I was standing on a small hill by a ruined textile factory 40 miles north [...]
There are some “scary” reports out in the last few days about Iran beginning uranium enrichment at an underground bunker at the Fordow site near Iran’s holy city of Qom and “diplomats” are saying it is “particularly worrying because the site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a [...]
Someone is playing games on Youtube, and they’ve managed to fool an awful lot of people – mostly “reporters” and bloggers who hate Ron Paul – into falling for one of the more transparent hoaxes of this election season. It all started with an incredibly stupid video posted on Youtube by “NHLiberty4Paul” accusing Jon Huntsman [...]
Last week I noted in a post that according to “a report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council” the “so-called Gaza buffer zone imposed by Israel” – essentially anything close to 300 meters from the northern fence area – is like no man’s land. In 2010, 40 boys and 4 girls were allegedly injured by Israeli [...]
Another so-called “price tag” attack occurred this morning in a village near the West Bank city of Salfit. “Israeli settlers,” according to reports, “set fire to the main entrance of the Broqeen Mosque, and a number of Palestinian cars parked nearby.” The International Middle East Media Center reports on the incident and gives a list [...]
