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Colombia: The Empire Strikes Back

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Military, Death Squads, Farc, Paramilitaries, Colombia, U.S., Obama, WikiLeaks Cables, Wikileaks, Drones, World News

With the intensification of the U.S. military and economic push in Colombia, we sadly can anticipate more such violence against peaceful actors in Colombia in order to make Colombian land secure for massive appropriation and exploitation.

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Interpol Issues 'Red Notice' For Iraq's Fugitive Sunni Vice President

AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Tariq Al-Hashemi, Video, Interpol, Death Squads, Terrorism, Extradition, Hashemi, Interpol Most Wanted, Iraq, World News

BAGHDAD — Interpol on Tuesday put Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president on the equivalent of its most-wanted list at the behest of the Shiite-dom...

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The U.S.'s Tragic Role in Guatemala and a Chance to Make Amends

Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Guatemala, Death Squads, Medical Experimentation, Arbenz, Guatemala Law Suit, Human Experimentation, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, World News

A 2011 report confirmed that the members of the U.S. medical team knew they were violating the rights of Guatemalans when they engaged in the systematic and deadly experimentation upon thousands without their knowledge.

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U.S. and Colombia's Every-Child-Left-Behind Policy Advancing

Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Uribe, Alvaro Uribe, Paramilitaries, Colombia, Death Squads, United Nations, Colombia Violence, World News

The UNHCR has released a report in which it concludes that, between 2008 and 2011, around 250,000 teachers and students have been displaced by neo-paramilitary death squads.

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The U.S. War for Drugs and of Terror in Colombia

Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Book Review, Drugs, War on Terror, Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, Death Squads, Terror, War on Drugs, Paramilitaries, World News

I just had the pleasure of reading an important new book entitled, Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Terror (U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia).

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U.S. Fueling Human Rights Abuses in Colombia in Violation of Its Own Laws

Dan Kovalik | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Paramilitaries, Colombia, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Cuba, Death Squads, Leahy Amendment, World News

Thus, Human Rights Watch just released its annual human rights report on Colombia, and it is not pretty. The punch line of the report is most damning of the United States and its role in that country's abysmal practices -- undoubtedly, the very worst of this hemisphere.

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What Began in Hiroshima Must End in Fukushima

Norman MacAfee | Posted 06.04.2011

It was a bad idea all around for most of the human race. When Albert Einstein learned of the bombing of Hiroshima and the dawn of the Nuclear Age, he ...

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Seymour Hersh, the Afghanistan War WikiLeaks, and Getting the Real Story

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikileaks, Hendrick Hertzberg, George Packer, Steve Coll, Battlefield Executions, New Yorker, Warlogs, Death Squads, Seymour Hersh, David Remnick, Afghanistan War, Politics News

One of the best investigative journalists who has been reporting on America's wars is Seymour Hersh. Hersh has been ahead of the pack -- revealing ...

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Colombia's "Genocidal Democracy" May Have Claimed Over 150,000 Lives*

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Genocide, Uribe, Free Trade Agreement, Death Squads, Juan Manuel Santos, Alvaro Uribe, Colombia, Obama, Paramilitaries, Father Javier Girardo, Politics News

In his book, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy, Father Javier Giraldo, a Jesuit priest and long-time human rights activist in Colombia, estimated that...

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Uncovering The Death Squads In El Salvador

Nieman Watchdog | Craig Pyes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: El Salvador, Embedded Journalists, Salvadoran Death Squads, El Salvador Deaths, Death Squads, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Oscar Romero, El Salvador Death Squads, World News

March 24 is the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. He was shot in the heart by a right wing death sq...

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U.S. Human Rights Group Threatened By Colombian Death Squads

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Paramilitaries, Colombia, Death Squads, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, World News

On May 13, 2010, staff from the Washington Office on Latin America ("WOLA"), a D.C.-based human rights organization, met with long-time Colombian Amba...

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Health Care Rationing: Why the "R" Word is a Red Herring

N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Health Care, Health Care Rationing, Private Health Insurance, Health Care Protection, Death Squads, Health Care Reform, Health Care Public Option, Health Care Costs, Health Care, Politics News

it is ludicrous to imply that private insurance companies don't ration care by flat-out refusing procedures that people genuinely need or desperately want.

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The Paranoids Are Right About Barack

Caryl Rivers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Birthers, Deathers, Tea Party, Death Squads, Barack Obama, Comedy News

Evidence of Obama's plans to turn the US into a socialist state comes in the transcript of a recent Obama cabinet meeting, leaked to this reporter by an anonymous source.

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Colombian Free Trade: Exporting Death Squads to Honduras

Greg Grandin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colombia, Honduras, Lanny Davis, Death Squads, World News

News reports say that 40 members of Colombian death squads, responsible for the execution of thousands, have been recruited by Honduran plantation owners to protect their interests.

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How the Real Death Squads Work

Bryant Welch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suicide, Managed Health Care, Health Care Reform, Medical Necessity, Government-Run Health Care, Death Panels, Death Squads, Politics News

There is just one fact Americans need to know about our current health care system. Private health insurance companies make more money if they don't provide care than if they do.

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Why Obama Had to Have Been Born in Kenya

Bryant Welch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brain Washing, Birthers, Psychological Manipulation, Obama Birthers, Right Wing Politics, Death Squads, Mind Control, Fox News, Health Reform, Politics News

We need to harness the uncertainty and confusion in this country for constructive purposes, exposing the puppeteers of the far right and the corporate interests that are behind them.

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Honduran Coup Government Continues Attack on the Poor with Plan to Seize Indigenous Hospital

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Honduras Coup, Billy Joya, World, Death Squads, Manuel Zelaya, Latin America, Honduras, Coup in Honduras, World News

Condemning the poor and the vulnerable to further marginalization, and even death, is part of the plan of the current regime in Honduras.

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Colombia Commits "Crimes Against Humanity" as Free Trade Pacts Are Debated

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uribe, Free Trade Agreements, Extra-Judicial Killings, Latin America, Death Squads, Alvaro Uribe, Free Trade, Obama, Colombia, World, Business, Crimes Against Humanity, Civil Rights, World News

Despite the claims of the Colombian government and those in the U.S. eager to consummate "free trade" pacts, the human rights situation in that country is deteriorating fast.

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Colombia Confirms It Cannot Meet Necessary FTA Prerequisites; Death Squads on Rise

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death Squads, Nancy Pelosi, Colombia, Obama, Chiquita, Colombia FTA, Foreign Policy, Civil Rights, Latin America, Latin Barack Obama, Politics News

(UPDATED) In his final debate with John McCain, President-elect Barack Obama made it clear why he opposed passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement...

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Lawyer for Chiquita in Colombia Death Squad Case May be Next U.S. Attorney General

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Colombia, Obama, Death Squads, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Obama's Cabinet, Obama Transition, Eric Holder Obama Cabinet, Eric Holder Attorney General, Eric Holder Obama, Politics News

Eric Holder is not the type of Attorney General we need in the wake of the recent economic collapse created by the unfettered greed of such corporate firms.

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Appropriately, Bush Hosts Death Squad President As He Appeals For Massive Corporate Bailout

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Uribe, President Uribe, Economy, Colombia, Death Squads, President Bush, Bailout, Capitalism, Bush, Politics News

"Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties Are Free to Drink Martinis And Watch The Sun Rise . . ." -- Bob Dylan, Hurr...

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As Colombian President Comes To D.C., His Government's Death Squad Links Are Further Revealed

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Uribe, President Uribe, Human Rights, Trade, Death Squads, Terrorism, Colombia, President Bush, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Bush, Politics News

Breaking: As Colombian President Alvaro Uribe arrives in Washington D.C. on September 19, his government continues to sink amidst the weight of the "...

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Bush To Host Colombian Death Squad President

Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Uribe, President Uribe, Colombia, Death Squads, War on Terror, Terrorism, Bush, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Politics News

Just as the U.S. supported the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala during the 1980's, the White House is preparing to roll out the red carpet for Latin America's latest death squad President.

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