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Un policía fuera de servicio mata a tiros a un padre indignado que lo confrontó después de que atropellara a su hija de cuatro años.
An unnamed, off-duty officer has killed the father of a little girl he crashed into late Saturday night. Authorities say that Taniyah Middleton, 4, was crossing First Avenue in the Maywood section of Chicago with her older cousin when the officer approached on his motorcycle. He didn’t see the girl until it was too late,…
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Archivo de asesinos de la Guerra Fría: los escuadrones de la muerte de El Salvador – Parte 1
“All I know is that D’Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.” – Jesse Helms “[T[ake care of this archbishop, these Jesuits, these other priests and especially these foreigners who are ruining the minds of our children. And if the gringos want to help the communists and cut military aid, we didn’t need…
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¿Experimentará realmente Estados Unidos una convulsión violenta en 2020?
Circa 1870, the North fought the South in the Civil War. Half a century later, around 1920, worker unrest, racial tensions and anti-Communist sentiment caused another nationwide upsurge of violence. Then, 50 years later, the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Movement triggered a third peak in violent political, social and racial conflict. Fifty years after…
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Las sanciones matarán a decenas de miles de iraníes.
When she was running for president in 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton threatened to “obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel. Her opponent, Barack Obama, responded that Clinton’s threat was “too much like Bush.” Four years later Iran has not attacked Israel (and will not do so, unless attacked by Israel first), but President Obama is actually…
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“Irán y todo lo demás” de Michael Parenti
Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things about the ecological crisis, including one called “Eco-Apocalypse.” His lack of familiarity with my work…
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Por encima de la ley: El tribunal desestima la demanda por escuchas telefónicas sin orden judicial.
Feds Can’t Be Sued for Illegally Spying on Americans The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown out the only lawsuit ever likely to advance on the federal government’s warrantless wiretapping, declaring in their ruling that the executive branch is above the law in this case. The lawsuit centered on illegally intercepting…
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Subcultura supremacista blanca, reclutamiento en Fort Bragg
Hate groups have uneasy history with military base A billboard along the main road into Fort Bragg, N.C., in the mid-1990s read: “Enough! Let’s start taking back America.” Below the slogan was the telephone number for the National Alliance, a white-supremacist group. Wade Michael Page, who killed six on Sunday at the Sikh Temple of…
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El autor del tiroteo en el templo sij fue un exmiembro de una banda de skinheads.
The man who allegedly murdered six people at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee yesterday, identified in media reports as Wade Michael Page, was a frustrated neo-Nazi who had been the leader of a racist white-power band. In 2010, Page, then the leader of the band End Apathy, gave an interview to the white supremacist…
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La CIA controla el narcotráfico, según un funcionario mexicano.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s involvement in drug trafficking is back in the media spotlight after a spokesman for the violence-plagued Mexican state of Chihuahua became the latest high-profile individual to accuse the CIA, which has been linked to narcotics trafficking for decades, of ongoing efforts to “manage the drug trade.” The infamous American spy agency…
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Pentágono: Estados Unidos sopesa ataques en Mali
Administration Considering Options to Aid Tyrannical Junta In comments today Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations Michael Sheehan confirmed that the Pentagon is considering various ways to aid the Malian junta in reclaim the country from secessionists, including launching strikes against the northern Azawad region. Mali lost the territory of Azawad after the US-imposed…
