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Americans, it’s been said, learn geography when they go to war.  Now, it seems, many get their history when they go to a Tea Party rally or tune in to Glenn Beck.

History is a “battlefield of ideas,” as Beck recently put it, while looking...

A breaking story -- covered in the Colombian press for about two weeks but just now being picked up by English-language news sources, including CNN -- reports that 40 members of Colombian death squads, responsible for the execution of thousands, have been recruited by Honduran plantation owners to...

Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez during his visit to NY to speak at the United Nations General Assembly. We touched on many topics -- his relationship with Barack Obama and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Honduran crisis, the seven military...

In a bold move, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, -- ousted in a military coup in June -- has returned to Tegucigalpa, entering the country in secret, traveling overland with a small group of advisers. He is currently in the Brazilian embassy, and crowds of supporters are...

Last Friday, I debated lawyer-turned-lobbyist Lanny Davis, now working for the business backers of the recent Honduran coup, on Democracy Now! It actually wasn't much of a debate -- in the way that word means an exchange of ideas -- as Davis was fast out of the box, preemptively trying...

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From Detroit to the Amazon

The empire ends with a pull out. Not, as many supposed a few years ago, from Iraq. There, as well as in Afghanistan, we are mulishly staying the course, come what may, trapped in the biggest...