La prensa internacional en general y la de habla hispana en particular, han soslayado una noticia de esta última semana, que considero de relevancia vital como pequeño primer gran paso en la lucha contra el genocidio y la impunidad. Casi ocho años después de la invasión a Irak, un tribunal de Malasia decidió condenar al [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Andy Worthington Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. Protestors rallied across the country [...]

Source: The Guardian Ten years after the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein switches her attention from the mall to Barack Obama and discovers that corporate culture has taken over the US government by Naomi Klein January 16, 2010 Extracted from a 10th anniversary edition of No Logo to be published by Fourth Estate on 21 January. In May 2009, [...]

Source: The Progressive by Matthew Rothschild December 2, 2009 If you closed your eyes during much of the President’s speech on Afghanistan Tuesday night and just listened to the words, you easily could have concluded that George W. Bush was still in the Oval Office. Or, at the very least, that Obama had stolen his speechwriters. Because, like Bush, Obama [...]

Source: The Guardian Until Chilcot hears UN weapons inspectors’ testimony, the fiction of Britain honestly seeking a WMD smoking gun prevails by Scott Ritter November 27, 2009 With its troops no longer engaged in military operations inside Iraq, Great Britain has been liberated politically to conduct a postmortem of that conflict, including the sensitive issue of the primary justification [...]

Source: The Telegraph Video here Tony Blair and George Bush might have “signed in blood” their agreement to topple Saddam Hussein a year before the Iraq war, according to Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington. by Gordon Rayner November 26, 2009 Sir Christopher Meyer told the Iraq Inquiry that the two men spent an afternoon meeting in [...]

versión en español abajo Will You Love Every Future President? by David Swanson October 15, 2009 Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II, got a [...]

What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness — Bush’s NSA program — is now deemed a vital state secret. by Glenn Greenwald November 1, 2009 The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among [...]

by David Michael Green October 2, 2009 What if the Russians invaded? It’s not so far-fetched an idea, you know. We spent half a century and trillions of dollars to make sure that it would never happen, so it’s really not such a strange notion. So what if the Russians invaded? What if they came and stole all of our [...]

by Henry A. Giroux September 21, 200 Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear. Hannah Arendt[1] In the current American political landscape, truth is not merely misrepresented or falsified; it is overtly mocked. As is [...]