Media Manufacture Narrative of U.S. Benevolence Towards Cuba
Last month Cuban baseball stars and brothers Lourdes and Yulieski Gourriel left the national team in the Dominican Republic in order to pursue careers in Major League Baseball. It was reported widely...
View ArticleFinancial Oversight and Colonialism in Puerto Rico
118 years after U.S. troops landed at Guánica, Puerto Rico, the liberal political site the New Republic asks, “Why Are We Colonizing Puerto Rico?” The occasion for this comically tardy acknowledgment...
View ArticleCashing In at the Race Track While Facing Charges of “Abusive” Lending Practices
After dueling through grueling early fractions and holding the lead turning for home, Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist was overpowered in the stretch of the Preakness Stakes Saturday by his rival...
View ArticleThe Speech Obama Should Have Given in Hiroshima
Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima on Friday, more than seven decades after the U.S. B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped a 10,000-pound atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the...
View ArticleObama Continues to Ignore Pleas to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar...
Two and a half months ago, asked by award-winning playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda about imprisoned Puerto Rican nationalist Oscar López Rivera – whose only crime, according to Nobel Peace Laureate...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Misrepresentation of Orlando Killer’s 911 Call Ignores U.S....
In the aftermath of the horrific mass murder at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando over the weekend in which 50 people were killed, media including CNN, USA Today, NPR, NBC News, and CBS News, all reported...
View ArticleThe New York Times Outrage at Trump’s Refusal to Demonize Russia
After baseless allegations from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that the Russian government was behind a hack of the DNC’s emails, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sarcastically...
View ArticleThe Irony of Hamilton Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Advocacy for Puerto Rico
As the economic and humanitarian crisis has worsened in Puerto Rico in recent months, playwright and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, has given voice in interviews and Op-Eds to the severity of the crisis...
View ArticleThe New York Times Suddenly Embraces International Law To Condemn Russia
As the Syrian Arab Army dug in for a fight against the self-declared Islamic State on September 17, they were struck by an air raid that killed 62 soldiers and injured 100 more. The culprit was a...
View ArticleCubs World Series Win Demonstrates Sports Teams Do Not Need Publicly Funded...
When the Chicago Cubs closed out a thrilling 8-7 victory over the Cleveland Indians in extra innings of Game 7 of the World Series on Tuesday night, they became World Champions for the first time since...
View ArticleDisrespecting the American Imperial Presidency
When the dust settled on the November 8 election, we learned that a completely unpredictable, egomaniacal, narcissistic buffoon would inherit the White House and the vast powers that go along with it....
View ArticleThe New York Times’ Biased Obituary of Fidel Castro
After Fidel Castro passed away Friday night at 90 years old, the obituaries written about him in the American press typified the U.S. government propaganda used for decades to demonize Castro and...
View ArticlePolitical Prisoners Remain Behind Bars as Obama’s Term Nears End
In the last full week of Barack Obama’s eight year tenure as President of the United States of America, dozens of political prisoners still sit in cages across the nation’s prisons, rotting away as...
View ArticleMedia Promote Baseless Assertions By Government Officials Of Russian...
The headline of a New York Times article published April 6, “C.I.A. Had Evidence of Russian Effort to Help Trump Earlier Than Believed,” misleadingly implies not only that there was an effort by the...
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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