Our New Anahuac

From Democracy Now We take a look at the threat of deportation that non-citizen veterans of American wars continue to face despite US military promises of citizenship. We talk to Rohan Coombs, a Jamaican-born US vet who was in the US Marine Corps for six years and served in the Persian Gulf War. He spent [...]

El Salvador marks the death of Archbishop Oscar Romero’s Murder. The right-wing death squad who killed him had a slogan: “Be a Patriot. Kill A Priest.” Oscar Romero was a proponent of Liberation Theology. A poem to honor him: The Consecration Of Coffee                                 to Archbishop Oscar A. Romero                    One day of god                   [...]

Puerto Rico might be set to liberate iteslf from its status as an informal colony of the United States, according to the National Journal Mag. Some Puerto Ricans would rather see the island become the 51st state in the US, but groups like the macheteros have fought, even with force, so that the Puerto Rican [...]

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I am always suspicious of what appears to be charity at the hands of the United States. It always reminds me of Paolo Freire’s concept of false charity. Real charity does not consist of the donors continuing to control the mechanisms and the availability of the donation. Real charity consists of supporting the recipient to [...]

This post is an attempt to look at terrorism with a little logic.  I try to present facts here.  It is devoid of patriotic emotions over anything.  I admit that I am immune to such feelings, but for those who read this, understand that this is meant to be an analysis of terrorism, not a [...]

First and foremost, thank you to Citlali Chavana, who is typing this post for her jefito due to his broken pinky. No doubt she will one day be a great writer/fashion designer/actress/whatever she wants to be. Last Fridayish, Attorney General Eric Holder held a press conference in which he explained why some of the 9-11 criminals [...]

AP reports: US Army soldier Michael Jackson Apodaca arrested for contract kill in Mexican drug cartel murder. U.S. Army soldier and two other men have been charged with capital murder in the contract killing of a midlevel Mexican drug cartel official who was also a U.S. informant. I posted a few days ago regarding the [...]

Obama slammed critics with spin: “The same critics who say the US has not intervened in Honduras are the same people who say we are always intervening and Yankees need to get out of Latin America,” he said, accusing such opponents of “hypocrisy.” “You can’t have it both ways,” he told reporters after the summit [...]

The effect of US foreign policy has always been to destabilize all other countries, when and if direct control is too costly either financially or politically. This is the only rational policy for any country whose ambition is control and dominance. In the political theory called “zero sum,” “realism,” or “realpolitik,” the idea is that [...]