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Los medios estadounidenses imaginan violaciones masivas inexistentes en Libia, pero hacen la vista gorda ante el asesinato en masa de africanos negros.
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford U.S. media show no remorse for falsely reporting that Libyan soldiers were using rape as a weapon of war, although Amnesty International has “not found any evidence or a single victim of rape or a doctor who knew about somebody being raped.” Yet these same fraudulent journalists…
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Pacifismo: Cómo hacer el trabajo del enemigo por ellos.
“As an ex-Indian civil servant, it always makes me shout with laughter to hear, for instance, Gandhi named as an example of the success of non-violence. As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British government. So he will be to the Japanese…
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Un adolescente de Florida muere en la cárcel tras ser arrestado por posesión de marihuana.
Eric Perez died after suffering all night long, screaming and throwing up. An 18-year-old Florida man has died after suffering a medical emergency while in jail on a marijuana charge. Records show that Superintendent Anthony Flowers of the Palm Beach Juvenile Detention Center instructed staff not to call 9-1-1 as young Eric Perez lay dying.…
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Día de Hiroshima 2003: Reunión secreta sobre la privatización de la guerra nuclear.
by Michel Chossudovsky At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable – a nuclear holocaust which could potentially spread in terms of radioactive fallout over a large part of the Middle East. All the safeguards of the Cold War era,…
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Ejecutivos de BP podrían enfrentar cargos de cárcel por homicidio involuntario en relación con el desastre del Golfo.
Managers of BP could face manslaughter charges when prosecutors in the United States finally conclude their criminal investigation into the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last April that killed 11 rig workers and triggered the worst oil spill in US history. The mere possibility that these and other charges may now be…
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Reseña: “Every Day I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism” de Sun Rise Above”
Self-described Hiphopraganda-ist Sun Rise Above is one of the more distinguished left-wing artists gaining ascendancy in the underground scene. His new album Every Day I Wake Up On the Wrong Side of Capitalism (2011) gives a clear picture of what “Hiphopraganda” is all about. Often, modern-day music can be of high quality while espousing reactionary…
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Reseña: “Alemania y el genocidio secreto”
It is often said that history is written by the victor. When it comes to the recollections of the past championed within bourgeois society, objective historical realities are obscured (if not omitted or re-written) when the facts and lessons to be gleaned from them challenge the hegemony of its ruling class. As such, we are…
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Una historia popular de la revolución egipcia
By Rami El-Amine and Mostafa Henaway No matter how it unfolds, the Egyptian revolution will go down in the history books as a defining moment in the 21st century. Millions of Egyptians brought down one of the world’s most repressive regimes, that of the U.S.-backed Hosni Mubarak, in just 18 days. Their bravery, perseverance, and…
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Alemania se une a la OTAN en Libia.
Germany has agreed to supply munitions for the NATO air-strikes in Libya. The move comes despite Berlin not originally backing the operation, and some suggest peer pressure has caused the shift in its position. After just over 100 days of air strikes and with just over 2,000 bombs dropped by NATO allies on Libya, the…
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Michelle Bachmann, Esclavitud y política de mensajes subliminales
Although the term “dog whistle politics” originated in the Australian press during the 1990s, it has been an increasingly prominent feature of American politics for some time now. The term refers to using coded language which holds little or no meaning for the public at large but is significant for certain segments of the population.…
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