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Howard Zinn’s — Artists In A Time Of War
Saturday, February 6th, 2010Guatemala City — Past & Future
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
It’s currently understood that during that time, there were state sanctioned death squads enacted to terrify any opposition movement— violent or non-violent. Unfortunately for the conscious of Americans, and those who enjoy Chiquita Brands or United Fruit Company’s other products, we initiated the steps to this 40 year long conflict beginning with the 1954 Guatemalan coup d’état, which toppled democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. (more…)
Marque & Reprisal
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Article I, Section 8, paragraph 11 of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to “grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”
Marque & Reprisal suggested in 2001 as an option to fight stateless terrorism.
Apparently, Thomas Jefferson used this authority to fight the Barbary Pirates.
An Unreasonable Man
Saturday, July 5th, 2008I gladly watched this film on the 4th of July. Watch it however you can manage to; if you can’t manage, hit me up.
Ralph Nader is An Unreasonable Man
Cost of the C.I.A.
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Anthony Lewis / April 25, 1997
View Original Article / The New York Times
What responsibility should Americans feel when our Government, for policy reasons, imposes on another country a regime that reduces it to misery?
The decline and anticipated fall of President Mobutu Sese Seko should make us reflect on that question. For we invented the Zairian dictator, supported his corrupt regime for decades and filled his pockets with dollars.
The Central Intelligence Agency made Colonel Mobutu its man after the Congo (as it was then called) became independent in 1960. It backed him when he carried out a coup in 1965 and made himself President.
Over the next 30 years the United States supplied more than $1.5 billion in economic and military aid to Zaire. Much of it was salted away by Mr. Mobutu in Swiss banks, or used to buy chateaux in Europe. Zaire was left to decay into the chaos portrayed by V. S. Naipaul in his novel ”A Bend in the River.”
C.I.A. officials and other Americans who dealt with Mr. Mobutu were under no illusions about him. In their view we had to support him because he was an anti-Communist bulwark in the cold war. As Franklin Roosevelt said in another context, he was an S.O.B., but he was our S.O.B.
(more…)Chiquita Goes Bananas
Thursday, January 10th, 2008In a scandal with wide-ranging implications for US-Colombia ties, Chiquita Brands International, the mega-fruit company, agreed earlier this month (April 2007) to pay $25 million in fines to the US government for making payments of more than $1.7 million to a Colombian terrorist paramilitary group.
At the center of the scandal is the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia–AUC), a right-wing paramilitary umbrella organization responsible for countless massacres and forced displacements over the last decade. The AUC’s operations have often enjoyed the tolerance or collaboration of Colombian security forces, who view the paramilitaries as de facto allies in their decades-old struggle against leftist guerrillas.
Read Full Article — The Nation