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 [...]

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A few days ago, less than a week, I believe, I was listening to a report on KPFT or NPR and they were discussing the Glass-Steagall Act, the act which essentially limited banks from taking major lending risks. In 1999 the act was repealed. This repeal is largely blamed for having caused the financial crisis [...]

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 [...]

It is difficult to find a government program which is criticized by both Fox News and Democracy Now but fusion centers seem to fit the bill.  Even many avid news watchers have never heard of fusion centers, despite the fact that the federal government has set up around sixty of them throughout the country.  Put plainly, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There exists a long history of government infiltration in activist groups. Back in the day, infiltrators were sent into the Brown Berets and many different Raza Power groups from different agencies. Even relatively conservative groups like LULAC have been surveilled. Much of the information is now available through the Freedom of Information Act. COINTELPRO, the [...]

A big thanks to Brother Rodolfo X of the Houston Mosque of The Nation of Islam for the heads up on this article. According to an AP report published in the FinalCall.com, Spain has turned to immigrant so-called Latinos (racial mestizos) to fill the ranks of its military. Spain has struggled to recruit soldiers since [...]

Here is the complete statement from Union del Barrio regarding the coup Our Most Sincere Solidarity to the Honduran People and the Legitimate Government of Manuel Zelaya June 28, 2009 The sister republic of Honduras currently faces a brutal campaign brought about by the most reactionary sectors of the country. The goal of this campaign [...]