The US government is supporting whatever kind of tyranny it can get its hands on in Honduras, the state and its corporate colluders. The coup government, police, and military are all benefiting from lavish US support and the corporatist feudal drug lords and their...

I finally got around to reading the Michael Hastings piece in Rolling Stone on Obama's decision to go into Libya. Regrettably, I think Hastings is far too forgiving and simply not critical enough of the administration and perhaps of his sources. I won't respond to the...

It is truly startling at how many self-styled ‘progressives’ are still intent on apologizing for Barack Obama’s Bushian foreign policy. Perhaps the most disturbing article that I have read by apologists for Bush-lite was Robert Creamer’s “A Great Day: Obama Ends the...

I'm currently reading Harvard psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's new book The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. To read, it is at once a delight and an aggravation. But I'll spare you the book review. For now, I just wanted to...

When Gadhafi was killed, Libya's new leaders in the National Transitional Council made official statements that he had been killed in the crossfire of an ongoing gun fight. That was a lie, and when videos of Gadhafi's capture came out, showing him being severely...

Robert Burns of the Associated Press today suggested that the "limited military intervention" style of the Libya War is going to replace the massive occupation style of Iraq, where the US has spent eight and a half years and conservatively $800 billion. Which of...

DemocracyNow!: Guatemala has formally apologized to the family of former president Jacobo Arbenz, 57 years after the U.S.-backed coup that ousted him from office. At a ceremony on Thursday, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom asked Arbenz’s family for forgiveness....