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    Reciprocity!
    Saul Landau

    The CIA has backed some 600 documented attempts against Castro, while there have been no Havana-backed plots against U.S. Presidents. Should Cuba put Washington on its terrorist list? Long Live Reciprocity!

    The Statistics Bazaar
    Ricardo Vargas

    The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

    The Pentagon: Gargantua’s mouth
    Saul Landau
     Nelson P. Valdés

    With no real military dangers threathening the US, the Pentagon has to invent them to justify its multi-billion dollar budget. And the bill is presented to the taxpayers.

    Ending the US War in Afghanistan
    Phyllis Bennis

    The recent civilian casualties demonstrate, for any who doubted it,  that this is a war against a vast population of Afghanistan, and the only way to stop killing civilians is to stop the killing. That means to stop all offensive actions and withdraw the troops.

    Latin America: C-
    Manuel Perez Rocha

    The Obama administration has made a few steps in the right direction. But U.S.-Latin American relations are far from mended, and skepticism is growing.

    Afghanistan: this war won't work
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama's announced troops escalation will not bring security to Afghans, it won't turn Afghanistan into a democracy, and it won't make the US safer.

    Haiti, Again?
    Phyllis Bennis

    The marginalisation of the UN and the militarisation of the US aid effort in Haiti reflect how humanitarian needs take a back seat to the Pentagon's priorities.

    Magical Realism -- A coup in Honduras, so 20th Century! (Part 1)
    Saul Landau
     Nelson Valdes

    By recognising the coup in Honduras, Obama follows the old US Latin American policy of siding with corporate interests against the will of the people.

    Yemen: Deja Vu All Over Again
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama administration approved 70 million dollars of military assistance to Yemen, just the amount of development aid that the Bush senior withdrew for Yemen's refusal to approve the first Gulf war at the UN Security Council 20 years ago.

    US no business in the middle of Afghan civil war
    Phyllis Bennis

    Obama said that there was no military solution, but that's all he's really offering.

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