Racism isn’t responsible for the president’s drop in popularity. His right-wing policies are A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay that got me a much larger truckload of hate mail than usual. The piece concerned the persistent problem of denialism in parts of White America when it comes to race. I lamented how, despite media [...]

"El terremoto en Haití no hizo mucho daño a la élite rica en las lomas, pero los barrios urbanos resultaron devastados. Ya que muchas personas se concentraron en las ciudades por las políticas de Estados Unidos que destruyeron la agricultura de Haití para crear fábricas de montaje"

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author and Black Agenda Report Source: Black Agenda Report The world’s sole superpower behaves as if Haitian sovereignty no longer exists. Notions of legality are wholly absent in America’s occupation of Haiti, where the U.S. poses as the internationally recognized authority. Washington arrogantly improvises the terms of the Haitian [...]

by Robert Parry September 8, 2009 Lost amid the attention given George W. Bush’s “war on terror” torture policies was the CIA’s cryptic admission that it also engaged in interrogation abuses during Ronald Reagan’s anti-leftist wars in Central America, another era of torture and extra-judicial killings. The 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report, released last month, referenced as “background” [...]

Artículo final de la serie Resistencia del alimento Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un [...]

by David Johnston August 24, 2009 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terrorism suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but pledges to closely monitor their treatment to ensure that they are not tortured, administration officials said Monday.

by Michael Doyle July 20, 2009 Washington – A federal district judge ruled Monday that the CIA repeatedly misled him in asserting that state secrets were involved in a 15-year-old lawsuit involving allegedly illegal wiretapping. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth also ordered former CIA director George Tenet and five other CIA officials to explain their actions or face [...]

Congress is outraged that Cheney concealed a CIA program to assassinate al Qaeda leaders, but they should also be investigating why Obama is continuing—and expanding—U.S. assassinations.