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Syria’s ‘false flag’ terrorism, Houla and the United Nations

Jueves 23 de Agosto de 2012 23:40 Tim Anderson

By Tim Anderson

On top of the tragedy of the violence in Syria we have the tragedy of a deeply biased United Nations, a malignant bias which is encouraging ‘false flag’ terrorism. That is, the fundamentalists murder civilians, blame this on the government, then use these crimes as a pretext for greater foreign intervention.

Latin America: how the US has allied with the forces of reaction

Martes 03 de Julio de 2012 09:11 Mark Weisbrot

Honduras three years ago created a new template of the US backing coups to compensate for lost influence on the continent

It was three years ago this week that the Honduran military launched an assault on the home of President Mel Zelaya, kidnapped him, and flew him out of the country. The Obama administration, according to its own conversations wit...

Evading Accountability: Washington's Drug War in Honduras

Viernes 15 de Junio de 2012 06:00 John Lindsay-Poland

By John Lindsay-Poland

Friday, June 1, 2012, 1:49pm

A night-time helicopter drug raid by Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Honduran police May 11 in the remote river community of Ahuas, Honduras killed four villagers, including two pregnant women and a 14-year-old boy. The massacre has led to renewed scrutiny of the U.S. role in Honduras.

Los Necios Opinion – On the appointment of Juan Carlos Bonilla as head of the police

Martes 29 de Mayo de 2012 02:24 OPLN

Porfirio Lobo lost control of the "Government of National Unity" (GUN, for its acronym in English) before he was "elected" in the elections of November 2009. Five months after the military coup Honduras was already militarized and already had a significant number of political killings, tortures and persecution of the opposition.

LIBRE will not wait until 2016 to recognize the 50% of participation to women

Martes 15 de Mayo de 2012 08:44 Gilberto Rios

Gilberto Rios*

Once again emulating the proposals of the honduran popular movement, especially those held by women’s organizations and feminists institutions who fight for justice and equity in women’s rights, the National Congress led by Juan Orlando Hernández reforms the electoral law to recognize the 50% of women representation but until the inte...

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