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Afghan creep
Saul Landau

President Obama’s Afghan and Pakistan goals for U.S. security remain obscure. If Obama focused instead on the phantom-like bin Laden he may ensure a second term.

The Goldstone Report - Boycotting Israel
Phyllis Bennis
 Diana Buttu, Neve Gordon

As a prominent UN inquiry condemns Israel for committing war crimes during its attacks on Gaza, three prominent activists discuss the growing global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Watergate and modern scandals
Saul Landau

By 2012, college professors will stare into the glazed eyes of their students as they refer to non existent weapons of mass destruction and routine torture of suspected terrorists. Like the Vietnam War (an estimated 4 million Vietnamese and 55,000 plus American casualties) and Watergate, these...

The nuclear gang rides again
Saul Landau

A group of scientists, military officials and government bureaucrats signed an informal pact with the devil. The contract became public in August 1945, when U.S. bombers nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Since then, no other nation has used a nuclear weapon, but thousands of radiation-...

Global Action Day for Honduras, August 11, 2009
TNI
 Via Campesina

Via Campesina calls you to participate in a "Global Day of Action for Honduras", which will take place on the 11 of August of this year.

Honduras Report from US Delegation - Day 1
TNI
 Tom Ludon

On Monday morning we went to the two locations where the wakes were being held for the two teachers who were killed in the last few days. One teacher was shot on Thursday, and died on Saturday from gunshot wounds to the head. Another was stabbed on his way home from the Saturday wake. At the...

Report from the international mission for solidarity, accompaniment, and observation in Honduras
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 Thomas Walgren

An international mission for solidarity, accompaniment, and  observation in Honduras arrived in Tegucigalpa on Monday 27th  July and reports that "heavy censorship, suspension of the freedom of movement and gathering and the lack of credibility of the information provided by the de facto...

International Mission in Honduras receives denunciations of grave human rights abuses
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International Mission reports a medical emergency of more than 1,000 people trapped by military checkpoints and condemns the assassination of Pedro Magdiel Martinez Salvador.

Obama and Hillary Nix Change in Honduras
Roger Burbach

The situation in Honduras and Central America is growing increasingly tumultuous with each passing day as deposed President Manuel Zelaya confronts the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti with thousands of partisans mobilizing in the border areas. While Honduran army officers in Washington and...

Honduras: Term limits apply when governments benefit people
Saul Landau
 Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes

(This essay was written on July 19, before any agreement was reached as to the conditions of Zelaya’s return to Honduras.)

"Why haven't there been attempted coups in Washington DC? Because there's no U.S. Embassy there." (Joke told by Chilean journalist to President Obama during...

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