Nixon’s Jackals: The Birth of a Secret Domestic CIA Death Squad Commandeered by the White House By Alex Constantine On December 22, 1974, the New York Times published a report by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh: ...
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By Jeremy Kryt In These Times (Excerpt)| 29 April 2010 TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS—Late in the afternoon on February 3, Vanessa Zepeda, a 28-year-old registered nurse, left a union hall after a meeting and began walking to the ...
By Mike Power Daily Mail | October 2010 These plaques mark the graves of anonymous victims of Colombia’s civil war. Human-rights groups maintain that government death squads carried out the killings – and that what’s ...
“… Death squad terror reflects policy. Violence persists. Washington supports it. Campesinos are targeted. They’re displaced. They’re driven from their own land. Others disappear or die. Media scoundrels don’t explain. …” Honduran Police State Repression ...
“… I currently work under the auspices of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation (BJHRF), along with with legal experts, NGOs, and academics, to … hold accountable the CEOs and managers of companies committing human rights ...
By Stephen Lendman Atlantic Free Press | 02 July 2010 On June 28, 2009, while he slept, dozens of Honduran soldiers stormed President Manuel Zelaya’s residence, arrested him at gunpoint, and exiled him to Costa ...
” … Ten teachers have been murdered this year for their clear opposition to the current government, a continuation of the coup regime, said Oliva, general coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of Missing Detainees ...
by David Pérez and Daniel Trujillo MRZine | October 30, 2010 Anyone who thinks that social and political instability in Honduras ended with the election of Porfirio Lobo as the president of the republic is ...
” … These lawmakers, prosecutors say, were an important component of a paramilitary movement that had two main objectives: erode support for Marxist rebels, and smuggle cocaine into the United States. The movement’s gunmen liquidated ...
” … The major electronic and print media CNN, FOX News, Washington Post, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the once liberal Financial Times (FT) hailed Santos election, as a great victory ...
James Petras | thepeoplesvoice.org |March 3rd, 2010 The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israel’s practice of extra-judicial, ...
Associated Press, October 7, 2008 WASHINGTON – GOP presidential nominee John McCain has past connections to a private group that supplied aid to guerrillas seeking to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua in the Iran-Contra affair. ...
Mexico Arrests Three Army Generals Earlier this month, the Mexican government arrested three high-ranking Army generals “including a former second in command at the Defense Ministry,” The New York Times reported. According to multiple press ...
BOGOTA, Colombia — The brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been arrested on allegations he was involved in murders and forced disappearances while helping form a far-right death squad in the 1990s. Santiago ...
Rodrigo Duterte is the man for the job, a large number of voters say On Dec. 4, the accounting firm KPMG, in collaboration with the Philippine firm RG Manabat & Co., issued a remarkably upbeat ...
Editor’s Note: Periodically, an article appears in Google’s news bank alluding to “conspiracy theories” about Bob Marley’s death. My own work on Marley’s struggles with the CIA and ultimate demise contained not theories. I operated like ...
In its effort to vet one of the leading GOP presidential candidates, Dr. Ben Carson, the New York Times didn’t properly vet its primary source in this vetting, former CIA officer Duane Clarridge—an indicted liar ...
Why a tiny South American country can’t escape the ugly legacies of its idiosyncratic past. GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A jumbie, in Guyana, is an evil spirit. The term derives from the same Kikongo word — ...
“… US Defence Intelligence Agency documents … showed that, far from being an unpredictable ‘bolt from the blue’, as the mainstream media tends to imply, the rise of ISIS was in fact both predicted and desired ...
South American militaries have been sending soldiers to the U.S. for “ethics” and “human rights” training for years, but history shows that many of these alumni go on to become notorious torturers and murderers, not ...
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – Relatives of coal miners and union leaders killed by Colombian paramilitary forces cannot sue Drummond Co. in U.S. courts for its alleged support of murders anrd war crimes, the 11th ...
“… Nearly 6,000 civilians have been killed by the Colombian military and then falsely passed off as guerillas in order to justify the continued counterinsurgency program in Colombia and the U.S. aid that funds it. ...
Investigate Role of Tagum City Officials, Police in a Decade of Murders Human Rights Watch REPORT: “One Shot to the Head” Death Squad Killings in Tagum City, Philippines GET THE REPORT: Download the full report (Manila) ...
By CHRIS MARSHALL SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A former counterintelligence officer in the Philippines owes $4.2 million for the political torture and killing of a publicist, as the result of a U.S. Federal Court ruling ...
The Rev Oscar Albeiro Ortiz was convicted in absentia last year for organising ruthless militia made up of former paramilitaries January 31, 2014 Colombian officials have announced the capture of a fugitive Catholic priest who ...
(CN) – Chiquita cannot stop securities regulators from revealing documents that show it making payments to right-wing Columbian death squads, a federal judge ruled. The information may come to light in a 2010 complaint that ...
Photo: The “Free Syrian Army” is upheld by the Western media as a bona fide military entity established as a result of mass defections from government forces. The recruitment of death squads is part of ...
New York (CNN) — A former Army sergeant is facing conspiracy charges in a federal sting operation that focused on a team he allegedly supervised in what the team thought was international drug trafficking and ...
Also see: “Eric Holder – Death Squad/Torture Lawyer“ MIAMI — Faced with potentially billions of dollars in legal liability, Chiquita Brands International is asking a federal appeals court to block lawsuits filed against it in ...
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of a groundbreaking new documentary called The Act of Killing, screening in the New Zealand International Film Festival tomorrow, has spoken out about the Indonesian state murder cult of the 1960s. The ...
” … Despite the US’ position that funds are carefully administered to avoid supporting human rights abuses, a March AP investigative report found that the US was sending aid to Honduras in contravention of the ...
Lauren Carasik of the Western New England School of Law says that the US must restrict aid to the Honduran government, so long as human rights abuses continue … ———————— Honduras is plagued by the ...
By Chris Burke AllVoices, Jun 04, 2010 The Jamaican ‘Shower Posse’ has made international headlines recently for inciting rebellion and murder in the streets of Kingston, Jamaica. This international gang situated in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston, ...
By MARIMER MATOS Courthouse News Service, September 17, 2012 (reposted) MIAMI (CN) – Siemens sicced “mercenaries” to beat and torture a government worker who blew the whistle on its multimillion-dollar bribes to Argentine officials, in ...
