Escobar: War Porn & US Snuff-Films Using Real Populations Middle East Clusterfuck Department of Genocide, Torture, and Tyranny Christ drones Fallujah Gaza iran Iraq israel obama Pepe Escobar R2P Scott Peck US Sat, 04/07/2012 – 3:33am — libbyliberal It may seem insensitive to blog about the evil savagery of war (called out profoundly [...]
Hugo Chávez weeps as he prays for his recovery from cancer at a mass in Barinas, Venezuela. Photograph: Reuters A tearful Hugo Chávez has prayed for God to spare his life as he attended a pre-Easter mass on returning from cancer treatment in Cuba. The Venezuelan president wept in a televised speech from the Catholic service in [...]
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace” - Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56-ca. 117)
Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges “The Cross and the Lynching Tree are separated by nearly two thousand years,” James Cone writes in his new book, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree.” “One is the universal symbol of the Christian faith; the other is the quintessential symbol of black oppression in America. Though both are symbols of death, one [...]
Trials against former paramilitaries accused of perpetrating the 1982 massacre have never been completed [EPA] Springfield, Massachusetts - On the morning of March 13, 1982, 10-year-old orphan Jesus Tecu Osorio woke up in his rural Maya Achi village of Rio Negro, Guatemala, with the crushing burden of satisfying the most basic needs of survival for [...]
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu called called the Occupy movement a ‘voice for the world.’ Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters Archbishop Desmond Tutu has waded into an ecclesiastical row over aNew York church’s refusal to allow protesters from Occupy Wall Street to camp on a vacant lot it owns. The South African activist and retired church leader urged Trinity Church to [...]
