I suspect that what the Arab world wants to hear is that Obama will take his soldiers out of Muslim lands

John Lindsay-Poland Traducción por María Etchart 1 de junio de 2009 El presupuesto del Pentágono presentado al Congreso el 7 de mayo incluye 46 millones de dólares para el desarrollo de una nueva base militar estadounidense en Palanquero, Colombia. La justificación oficial sostiene que el Departamento de Defensa busca “una serie de arreglos de acceso para operaciones de contingencia, [...]

From a South African By Farid Esack April 25, 2009 Open Letter Farid Esack, 2009 My dear Palestinian brothers and sisters, I have come to your land and I have recognized shades of my own. My land was once one where some people imagined that they could build their security on the insecurity of others. They claimed that their lighter [...]

by Abdul Malik Mujahid May 24, 2009 During the last thirty years of wars in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians have had one safe place to escape to: Pakistan. They fled the Soviet invasion. They fled civil wars. They fled US bombing. Pakistan took care of millions of these Afghan refugees. Now that safe haven with its lush green valleys is [...]

General Tapped by Obama to Lead Afghanistan War Testifies Tuesday By Spencer Ackerman June 1, 2009 A former military interrogator who contributed to the manhunt for a senior Iraqi terrorist has urged the Senate Armed Services Committee staff to press Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Obama administration’s nominee to lead U.S. troops in the Afghanistan war, on what [...]

By Norman Solomon May 21, 2009 To understand what’s up with President Obama as he escalates the war in Afghanistan, there may be no better place to look than a book published 25 years ago. “The March of Folly,” by historian Barbara Tuchman, is a chilling assessment of how very smart people in power can do very [...]

Ricardo Zúniga García * 21 de febrero, 2009 Un 21 de febrero (1934) fue asesinado a traición el líder nacionalista, latinoamericanista y anti-imperialista Augusto Calderón Sandino. Sandino alcanzó reconocimiento nacional e internacional por lograr, en un país donde las elites miraban como natural ser sometidos al protectorado del emergente imperio norteamericano, convocar a un sector importante de mineros, [...]

‘Uncontacted’ tribes forced to flee armed gangs and bulldozers in forests of Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, says Survival International

Comments on Gordon’s Anarchy Alive! By Wayne Price May 15, 2009 A review of the discussion of the relationship between anarchism and the Palestinian/Israeli struggle by Uri Gordon, an Israeli anarchist, in his book “Anarchy Alive!”, including a response to his attack on my views. There has been very little written on the relation between anarchism and the Palestinian [...]

Entre las injerencias de Estados Unidos, el rechazo de los vecinos y la militarización, la isla caribeña afronta el gran reto de recuperar su identidad y solucionar sus problemáticas más angustiantes.