Noriega, Bolton and Condoleezza Rice’s New Financial Subsidy to Rightwing Cuban America
Last Thursday, in a move that further cheapened the Bush administration’s already tawdry Latin American policy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced the creation of a new State Department staff position to implement recommendations of the U.S. Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, a body which hopes to “accelerate the demise” of Cuban President Fidel Castro’s government.
Rafael Palmeiro and the Politics of Distraction
A close compatriot of President Bush squats in a scandal so malodorous it led news shows from coast to coast. It's a scandal that some say is too hot for Bush to comment on. But there was the President, speaking without a stammer or stutter on this issue of pressing national concern.
CHA-CHA Part of US Agenda, not Arroyo's Idea
It is not a proposal from former Pres. Fidel Ramos, nor a pending program of Pres. Arroyo, but a longstanding agenda of the United States, says IBON Foundation of Malacañang's renewed calls for Charter change (Cha-cha).
60th anniversary: HIROSHIMA NEVER AGAIN
Nuclear weapons have not disappeared. The United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan and India still have more than 28,000 nuclear weapons. The Bush administration is not cutting its nuclear weapons. Instead it has developed more sophisticated and powerful bombs and is now developing mini-nukes, bunker busters and nuclear weapons for space.
SUDAN: Garang death a 'terrible blow' to peace process
According the[peace agreement], the former rebel group has two weeks to name a successor. Salva Kiir, a man held to have a more secessionist agenda for the south of Sudan than Garang did, is thought a likely candidate for Garang’s posts, not just as First Vice-President, but also as President of southern Sudan for a six-year interim period.
Health care: Frist Aid
Managed care and the onslaught of privatization of health care in the country are setting the pace up on the Hill. The insurance and banking industries are getting more than just a little help from Washington.
A Tale of Two Lawyers
One lawyer is a smooth, handsome corporate attorney whose political loyalties, partisanship, and ideological moorings earned him a seat on the fast track to the top positions in corporations and now in judicial branch of the US government.
Of Karl Rove, Nixon’s Gray Ghost, Pinball Proto-Fascism, Muscle Car Imperialism, etc.
An unpopular war drags on, gas prices rise and rise, as a cloud of scandal gathers over Washington D.C. At times, it seems as though the 1970’s never ended: it’s just Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton’s Quaalude-laced, faux populist snake oil caused us to sleep through the 80’s and 90’s – and now we’re awakening, hungover, groggy, queasy, still in the midst of that ugly and odious era.
The False Hope of Ifs and Maybes
Despite the President's sunny pronouncements regarding the capabilities and readiness of Iraq's security forces, Iraq is nowhere near being capable of fending for itself. Of Iraq's 107 military and paramilitary battalions, only 3 of them (2.8%) are capable of planning, executing and sustaining counterinsurgency operations completely independent of coalition forces.
Can't Afford Health Care Inflation? Go to Cuba
President Hugo Chávez reiterated yesterday, Sunday, that this year, some 100,000 patients from Latin American are to undergo eye surgery in Cuba. On the 230th edition of his weekly Sunday program, 'Aló Presidente,' the leader noted that Operation Milagro (Miracle) also covers poor patients from the Caribbean free of charge, and has even been extended to the United States.
