You Don’t Need a Clock to Know What Time It Is   With each passing day, the news grows increasingly grim. In recent weeks alone, we’ve seen women’s rights under assault as reactionary forces seek to turn the clock back by decades. Half a world away in Afghanistan, corpses are defiled and more are brutally created, [...]

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 [...]

Cuando la “comunidad internacional” culpa a Haití de sus problemas políticos, el concepto subyacente es casi siempre que los haitianos no están listos para la democracia. Pero es Washington el que no está listo para la democracia en Haití. Los haitianos han estado listos para la democracia desde hace muchas décadas. Estaban listos cuando los masacraron en [...]

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 [...]

Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran When I was young, the Philadelphia Bulletin ran cartoon ads that usually featured a man in trouble — dangling by his fingers, say, from an outdoor clock.  There would always be people all around him, but far too engrossed in the daily paper to notice.  [...]

Today was… quite a day. The bell that people struck last August when they sat in at the White House to block the Keystone Pipeline was still resonating. Not loudly — the oil money in Congress muffled the sound. But loudly enough that we squeaked through by a 4-Senator margin, defeating a Republican amendment mandating [...]

Real Money for an Imaginary War At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California.  American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting [...]

El número de enero-febrero de la revista Foreign Affairs ofrece un artículo de Matthew Kroenig titulado Tiempo de atacar a Irán; por qué un ataque es la opción menos mala, junto con comentarios sobre otras formas de contener la amenaza iraní. Los medios resonaron con advertencias sobre un posible ataque israelí contra Irán mientras Estados Unidos [...]