El caso de Trayvon Martin: El asesinato de un adolescente negro ha generado un movimiento contra la xenofobia y el uso de armas Con la estética de Trayvon Martin, el congresista demócrata por el Estado de Illinois, Bobby Rush, hizo el pasado 29 de marzo una acción de protesta contra el racismo institucional. Quitándose la chaqueta [...]

Via The Washington Post: “The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said. Securing permission to use these “signature strikes” would allow the agency to hit targets based [...]

Trayvon Martin was shot and killed on February 26, 2012 in Sanford Florida while walking from a neighbourhood store. The murder and the clumsy attempts by the police to cover up the real circumstances have exposed the callous and deep racism of sections of the criminal justice system. The information on the circumstances of the [...]

I’m far more interested in forgiveness than justice. I say this just to calm myself down after a morning of media overkill, so to speak. There are so many murdered mothers and children in the news, some with names and faces, so many just adding anonymously to one death toll or another.

El vicepresidente de EE.UU., Joe Biden, viajó a Honduras el 6 de marzo con una doble misión: acabar con el parloteo sobre legalización de la droga, reforzar la guerra de la droga patrocinada por EE.UU. en Centroamérica y apoyar la presidencia de Porfirio Lobo. El gobierno hondureño emitió una declaración diciendo que durante la conversación a [...]

The war in Afghanistan—where the enemy is elusive and rarely seen, where the cultural and linguistic disconnect makes every trip outside the wire a visit to hostile territory, where it is clear that you are losing despite the vast industrial killing machine at your disposal—feeds the culture of atrocity. The fear and stress, the anger [...]

Es oficial desde esta semana: la CIA tiene licencia para matar en cualquier momento, en cualquier lugar y por cualquier medio a personas relacionadas con el terrorismo, aunque tengan nacionalidad estadounidense. Lo venía haciendo desde los atentados del 11-S, por supuesto, pero sus víctimas solían ser árabes, afganos, pakistaníes o somalíes, así que el asunto [...]

Bibi Stirring Trouble The first Israel missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts of two new martyrs, while Israeli media celebrated the demise of two terrorists. Zuhair Qasis was the head of the Popular Resistance Committee. He was killed alongside a Palestinian prisoner from Nablus, [...]

Killing at least sixteen Afghan civilians as they slept. Urinating on dead Afghan bodies while laughing about it. Setting fire to their Korans. Day after day, a tired American public hears that these are just “isolated acts” and that these incidents “cast shadows” and “complicate” Washington’s plan for a gradual withdrawal of troops over the [...]

Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing?  Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity.  In Afghanistan, Washington may be reaching that moment in a state of panic, horror, and confusion.  [...]