Oppression of African Americans is Not a Liberal Invention
Over the last few years the killing of unarmed African Americans including Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott and Freddie Gray by agents of the state have generated...
View ArticleMedia Uncritical of Justifications for Shooting Escaped Convict
After nearly a month on the run after breaking out of a maximum-security prison in Upstate New York, convicted murder David Sweat was shot on Sunday by a New York State trooper and apprehended. Two...
View ArticleCubans’ Rejection of Rubio Demonstrates Their Independent Thinking
A recent New York Times profile of Marco Rubio accurately describes the junior Senator from Florida, and member of the three-ring circus that is the Republican Presidential primary field, as Cuba’s...
View Article60 Minutes Provides Platform for US Military to Hype Imaginary China and...
The CBS news program 60 Minutes on Sunday aired an extended segment titled “The Battle Above” that relayed the concerns of various US military personnel that China and Russia could pose a threat to the...
View ArticleJimmy Carter’s Blood-Soaked Legacy
A few days ago former President Jimmy Carter announced that he has cancer and it is spreading. While it would be premature to assume this spells the end for the 90-year-old, it does present an...
View ArticleSubversion Against Cuba Continues Uninterrupted Amid Normalization
U.S. and Cuban delegations met in Havana Friday to “focus on setting priorities for the next steps in the normalization process,” according to the Miami Herald. They set up a “steering committee in the...
View ArticleBenign State Violence vs. Barbaric Terrorism
Seven months ago, UK Prime Minister David Cameron lamented the “sickening murder” of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kaseasbeh by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). President Barack Obama also decried...
View ArticleMisrepresentation of the Colombian Conflict
A week and a half ago news emerged from Havana that the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the Colombian government had reached a framework for a final peace agreement to be signed...
View ArticleThe Imaginary Cuban Troops in Syria
Fair-and-balanced Fox News reported on Wednesday that “Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe they are advising President Bashar al-Assad’s soldiers and...
View ArticleCuba’s Operation Carlota 40 Years Later
After 40 years, Republic of Guinea native Alpha Diallo still remembers the emotion he felt as a 20-year-old college student in Cuba when he made a decision that would change his life. The Cuban...
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Bad Policy, Bad Ethics: U.S. Military Bases Abroad
The thesis of anthropologist David Vine’s latest book, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World, is taboo in American political discourse. It is a radical notion to...
View ArticleAlan Gross’s Improbable Tales on 60 Minutes
In a dramatic segment on CBS News’ 60 Minutes titled “The Last Prisoner of the Cold War,” former United States Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor Alan Gross tells of horrifying...
View ArticlePutative US-Israeli Rift Has Not Dampened Partnership in Oppression of...
In March, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made denying a Palestinian state a pillar of his winning re-election campaign, officials in the Obama administration signaled to the media that...
View ArticleLiberal Extremism Disguised as Defense of Muslims
After 14 people were killed and 22 more injured in the San Bernardino massacre by a couple whom authorities claim were “radicalized” by Islamist ideology, Islamophobia among the American public has...
View ArticleThe Disingenuous Apologies for Israel’s Assault on Palestinian Education
As the American Historical Association (AHA) prepares to vote this week on a symbolic resolution that affirms support for the right to education in the occupied Palestinian territories, apologists for...
View ArticleJimmy Carter’s Blood-Soaked Legacy (Part 2)
Five months ago, I wrote an article titled “Jimmy Carter’s Blood-Soaked Legacy” about how the former President’s record in office contradicted his professed concern for human rights. Despite...
View ArticleThe New York Times‘s Double Standard on Iran’s Nuclear Program
As the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verified over the weekend that Iran has completed the measures necessary to comply with the nuclear deal reached last July with the P5+1 governments,...
View ArticleMedia More Outraged by Possible Murder by Putin than Definite Murder by Obama
The British government, whose foreign policy is overtly hostile to their Russian counterpart, declared last week that their investigation into the killing of a former Russian intelligence agent in...
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Puerto Ricans Suffer as Creditors Feast on Debt Colony
Just an hour before my wife and I landed in her native Puerto Rico last month, the island’s government had defaulted on $1 billion in bond interest payments. It was the second default in five months...
View ArticleHillary Clinton, The Council on Foreign Relations and The Establishment
When asked by Wolf Blitzer in January if she was “the establishment,” Hillary Clinton replied: “I just don’t understand what that means. He’s been in Congress, he’s been elected to office a lot longer...
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