President Barack Obama desecrated the Constitution that he and I swore to defend when he signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, which includes language violating the Bill of Rights and other constitutionally protected liberties. The NDAA affirms that the president has the authority to use the Armed Forces to detain any person “who was [...]

En los últimos días aparecieron dos magníficas notas que dan cuenta de lo que en trabajos anteriores habíamos calificado como la “descomposición moral” del imperio. En una de ellas, Juan G. Tokatlian (El País, 2 de Enero de 2012) habla del acelerado e irreversible avance de la “poslegalidad”, vocablo apto para referirse a la descarada apelación [...]

“There is no alternative,” Margaret Thatcher’s defining phrase, is coming soon to a theater near you, on the lips of Meryl Streep, in a new biopic on the former British Prime Minister, Iron Lady.  Now, a Conservative British politician from the 1980′s might not seem the likeliest subject for a feature film, but maybe J. [...]

How to Turn Election Year Into Election Life Sometimes words outlive their usefulness.  Sometimes the gap between changing reality and the names we’ve given it grows so wide that they empty of all meaning or retain older meanings that only confuse us.  “Election,” “presidential election campaign,” and “democracy” all seem like obvious candidates for name-change.

The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the right to privacy, the right to a fair trial, freedom of [...]

59 asesinatos políticos este año Imaginad que un activista opositor fuera asesinado a plena luz del día en Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador o Venezuela por pistoleros enmascarados, o secuestrado y asesinado por guardias armados de un conocidísimo partidario del gobierno. Sería una noticia de primera plana en el New York Times y en todas las noticias de [...]

Como era previsible, la prensa del imperio silenció rápidamente el incidente del impensado “micrófono abierto” que reveló las verdaderas opiniones de Nicolás Sarkozy y Barack Obama sobre el premier israelí Benjamín Netanyahu. Según quedó registrado en la conversación sostenida entre ambos mandatarios el francés le dijo a Obama: “No lo puedo ver más. Es un [...]

Obama’s Positive Flip and Romney’s Negative Flop Conventional wisdom has it that the next election will be fought exclusively on the topic of jobs. But President Obama’s announcement last week that he would postpone a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline until after the 2012 election, which may effectively kill the project, makes it clear that [...]

¿Por qué Barack Obama querría reunirse con la Presidenta Cristina Fernández? Sobran las conjeturas, pero las escasas –y además crípticas- declaraciones procedentes de Washington remiten a una agenda conteniendo temas tales como la supuesta presencia de grupos terroristas iraníes operando en América Latina, y particularmente en la Argentina, y la excesiva labilidad de la legislación [...]

On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only “engage” for “self-defence”, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an [...]