Canada and the U.S. Empire
Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire is a refreshing examination of Canada's role in the American Empire.
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Grandmother reflects on her 60 day sentence for ‘trespassing’ at SOA
Cathy Webster, a grandmother from Chico, CA, was released from jail on May 18th after completing her 60 day sentence for crossing onto the U.S. Army Base at Ft. Benning, Georgia. She was participating in the annual protest against the U.S. Army School of the Americas.
Teatro Trono: Youth Theater in Bolivia
From NACLA
Teenage actors parade barefoot onstage, jumping and pounding drums. Others walk in with notebooks and briefcases overflowing with papers. Each actor spouts fragmented political speeches. The play depicts revolts and counter-revolts throughout Bolivian history, ending with a dramatic exchange between a mother and the ghost of her dead son, tortured during a dictatorship. “Don’t cry, Mom!” the ghost says. “I died bravely even though they gouged my eyes out and tore me apart. Don’t cry!”
Noam Chomsky on India-Pakistan Relations
"Is the United States concerned about Baloochi terror inside Iran, based in Pakistan? It's probably fostering it. We don't have any direct evidence but there have been clearly terrorist acts in Iran, which are based in the Baloochi areas in Pakistan. And it's very likely that it's part of the general U.S. program to disrupt Iran."
A New Generation, if not a New Deal, in French Politics
Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected French President, wanted to mark the difference in governing style between himself and outgoing President Jacques Chirac - although both belonged to the same political party and shared basic political orientations. Thus Sarkozy ran on a program of a "break with the stagnant past" as though he had not been a member of the outgoing government. Sarkozy
“Mistakes Were Made . . . (But Not By George Bush)”
This week's quiz question: What is the psychological difference between Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's admission, "I acknowledge that mistakes were made here," and George Bush's comment in his January address to the nation, "Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me"? Everyone knows that public figures resort to this cliché to distance themselves from responsibility for their actions; what else is new?