September 14, 2016
Making sure his legacy will not reflect any sign of weakness in his unbridled support for Israel, Obama signs the historic deal.
The Israeli and United States governments signed on Wednesday a $38 billion military aid package, promising Israel the hefty sum in the form of financial assistance and missile defense systems over the course of 10 years, according to Israeli media. (more…)
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts on September 18, 2016
The Russian government is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The Russian government keeps making agreements with Washington, and Washington keeps breaking them. (more…)
By María Julia Giménez on September 12, 2016
Atilio Borón
After 43 years after the coup d’etát in Chile, which overthrew Salvador Allende’s government, thinker Atilio Borón spoke with Brasil de Fato to analyze the connections between that moment in recent history and the current events that violate the democratic order in Latin America. (more…)
By Kathy Peltier on August 3, 2016
‘My family has lived with this injustice for far too long’
Cuban children hold photos of Leonard Peltier calling for his freedom, Photo: Bill Hackwell
When I first heard that President Obama had commuted the sentences of more than 300 federal prisoners this month, my heart stopped for a moment. (more…)
By: Arnold August on September 11, 2016
Obama, referring to the military coup in Chile, stated in 2011 that we should not be “trapped by our history.”
The US-orchestrated coup in Chile led to tens of thousands of people being imprisoned, tortured, killed, forced into exile or disappeared. | Photo: EFE
At the September 11, 2016 ceremony, President Barack Obama remembered and honored the victims of terrorism. However, what was Obama’s position when he visited La Moneda in Chile in 2011, the presidential palace where the U.S.-organized military coup of September 11, 1973, took place? (more…)
By Jason Hirthler on September 9, 2016
Summoning the Humanitarian Pretext
The arch pragmatist Machiavelli once wrote that, “If you watch the ways of men, you will see that those who obtain great wealth and power do so either by force or fraud, and having got them they conceal under some honest name the foulness of their deeds.” (more…)
September 8, 2016
Cadiz, provincial capital in the autonomous community of Andalusia in the Spanish state, has become the latest municipality to pass a motion supporting the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights and declaring itself an Israeli “Apartheid Free Zone”. (more…)
September 10, 2016
Photo: Dallas Goldtooth
A federal judge has denied the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s request for a temporary injunction to halt the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The Obama administration later issued a statement halting construction on the pipeline. (more…)