6 June 2018 — FAIR
Christian Science Monitor (4/11/18)
In April, the Summit of the Americas in Peru predictably led to articles fretting about declining US influence in the Western Hemisphere. Analysts were quoted (Christian Science Monitor, 4/11/18) worrying that Trump’s belligerent and racist outbursts would weaken Washington’s power in the region.
10 May 2018 — National Security Archive
17 December 2013 — Unredacted
In a startling loop of time and memory, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator shows how a filmmaker’s first documentary became instrumental in the indictment and conviction of Guatemala’s ex-dictator Ríos Montt for genocide against the Mayan population. “Granito” transports us back in time through haunting tale of state repression and violence, and then returns to the present with a cast joined by destiny- the quest to bring a dictator to justice. The work of the National Security Archive Senior Analyst Kate Doyle is featured in the film.
25 May 2013 — FAIR Blog
This week: PBS won’t be showing us the documentary Citizen Koch–for some very dubious reasons. Also: The New York Times points out that the U.S. role in supporting genocide in Guatemala was hardly discussed at the trial; the same goes for U.S. media coverage of that trial. And Donald Rumsfeld goes on Meet the Press to talk about accountability. No, it’s not what you think.
21 May 2013 — FAIR Blog
I was struck by this May 17 headline in the New York Times:
Reporter Elisabeth Malkin provides a pretty thorough accounting of U.S. support for Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt. The “long history” of U.S. support for the brutal military went back to a CIA-backed coup in 1954, Malkin reported. She added:
18 May 2013 — Global Research
Presiding Judge, “he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out.” US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President Ríos Montt. Instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as “a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty?
18 May 2013 — Global Research
Presiding Judge, “he knew about everything that was going on and he did not stop it, despite having the power to stop it from being carried out.” US President Ronald Reagan also had the power, greater power, to stop the massacres being perpetrated by dictator General and President Ríos Montt. Instead visited him in Guatemala City and praised Rios Montt as “a man of great personal integrity and commitment. Who was more guilty?
15 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by Your World News20 March 2013 — This week in Black Agenda Report
3 February, 2013 — Global Research
Stating “The principle function of the state and its officials is to protect its citizens” (NYTimes), Judge Miguel Angel Gálvez ordered the trial of Efraín Rios Montt, former dictator of Guatemala and his intelligence chief José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, for genocide.
013 — National Security Archive
22 November 2011 — National Security Archive
Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala identifies them through DNA
For more information contact: Kate Doyle – 646/670-8841
http://www.nsarchive.org
Washington, D.C., November 22, 2011 – The bodies of two men whose disappearance in 1984 was recorded in the notorious Guatemalan “death squad diary” have been located on a former military base outside the capital and positively identified through DNA testing, according to the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, which announced its findings in a press conference this morning.
1 November 1st, 2011 — www.killinghope.org
“We came, we saw, he died.”
— US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,
giggling, as she spoke of the depraved murder of Moammar Gaddafi
Imagine Osama bin Laden or some other Islamic leader speaking of 9-11: “We came, we saw, 3,000 died … ha- ha.”
May 2011 — Joe Bageant
This tribute to Joe Bageant originally appeared last May in La Cuadra, a print magazine published in Guatemala. The magazine recently posted the following to the web, and here it is.
8 June 2011 — National Security Archive
Contacto: Kate Doyle – 646/670-8841 kadoyle@gwu.edu
Hoy, el National Security Archive publica en su sitio de web una copia del informe “Del Silencio a la Memoria: Revelaciones del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional”. Además del informe, el Archivo publica una copia del discurso de Kate Doyle (directora del Proyecto de Documentación de Guatemala) que ella dio durante la ceremonia del anuncio de la publicación del informe. La ceremonia se celebró en la Universidad de San Carlos en Guatemala City, Guatemala en el 7 junio 2011.
Today, the National Security Archive publishes a copy of the report “Of Silence to the Memory: Revelations of the Historical File of the National Police”. Besides the report, the File publishes a copy of the speech of Kate Doyle (director of the Project of Documentation of Guatemala) who gave it at the ceremony of the announcement of the publication of the report. The ceremony was celebrated in in the University of San Carlos in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 7 June 2011.
***An English version of the electronic briefing book will be posted soon.***
See the complete posting on the Archive’s web site.
5 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation
05.11.2010 | 21:27 | MEDEN Natalia
In Germany the reaction on the plan of David Cameron’s Cabinet to withdraw the British troops from Germany by 2020 (not by 2035) in order to save money for the state budget was quite controversial… Here are some of the comments from readers on the web site of Neue Westfälische Zeitung newspaper: ”Finally the occupants get out from here”. “Super! Good news! Finally the occupants are going home. We had enough. The empty houses and barracks can be successfully used for other purposes”… A. Merkel is confident that at the Lisbon summit “a very good document heading to the future” will be signed, and Spiegel has already announced that NATO’s new concept does not envisage the removal of the US nuclear troops from Germany (not a single word was said about the removal of military bases).… When the Russian troops left Germany the soldiers sang a song with the words “Good bye, Germany, our native country waits for us”. As for the British soldiers who are to leave Germany in 10 years it is not their home country but a distant land which is waiting for then – Afghanistan…
1789 for US Establishment Liberals?
04.11.2010 | 17:21 | KERANS David (USA)
The Republican Party’s recapture of control of the House of Representatives and recovery of several seats in the Senate in the midterm elections of 2010 will certainly affect the tenor of US government over the next two years. The Republicans will assume leadership of House Committees, and distort policy even further towards corporate special interests, including the defense sector, with its lust for foreign conflicts and the large government contracts attending them…
Acquired Amnesia Syndrome. On US Medical Experiments in Guatemala
03.11.2010 | 11:50 | LEBEDEVA Irina (US)
Last October, headlines in US media were grabbed by reports showing that some six decades ago US “researchers” deliberately exposed Guatemalans to syphilis and gonorrhea. The revelations forced the US to apologize… What seems strange about the whole story is that the US did make an apology for what was done ages ago. US history abounds with cases where one or another American Doctor Mengele subjected humans to experiments with a panacea against some XX or XXI century plague…
02.11.2010 | 21:16 | PUSTOVOITOVA Elena
You will not learn from WikiLeaks how for years the Iraqi oil used to be stolen and delivered to the US via Turkey’s seaport of Ceyhan to be sold below cost. Nor does WikiLeaks mention the fact that mutant children are born in numbers in Fallujah, the city which survived strikes by US shells containing low-enriched uranium…
The Dawn of the Rousseff Epoch
02.11.2010 | 09:49 | NIKANDROV Nil
The majority of polls picked Dilma Rousseff as the frontrunner on the eve of the presidential runoff in Brazil. Brazil’s outgoing president Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, a hyper-popular leader whose rating at the final stage of the term in office topped 80%, strengthened Rousseff’s bid for presidency by reiterating that voting for Dilma was in fact the same as voting for him… Lula must be credited with resolving the political continuity problem: his former right-hand woman Dilma Rousseff is sure to take over her predecessor’s list of strategic priorities…
The Two Myths Behind Globalism
01.11.2010 | 09:16 | GORDEEV Konstantin
While only 350 terrorist acts perpetrated by suicide bombers were recorded in 1980-2003 and only 15% of them targeted US citizens, in the much shorter 2004-2009 period of time the number reached 1,833, US citizens being victims in 92% of the cases. Evidently, the surge of suicide bombings over the past six years must be attributable to the US-led NATO campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq and to the Western occupation of the countries.
The Geopolitics of Drug Trafficking
31.10.2010 | 21:01 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr
The geography of drug supplies from Afghanistan explains the drug lords’ increasing interest in the northern drug trafficking route…The Talib surge in Afghanistan’s northern provinces, the fighting with insurgents in Tajikistan’s Rasht valley, and the second Kyrgyz “revolution” may be elements of the same picture – the establishment of favorable conditions for the transit of drugs from Afghanistan… Moscowis increasingly concerned over the situation in Tajikistan…
31.10.2010 | 12:34 | MAHAPATRA Aurobinda (India)
The selection of India this month as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has catapulted the Brazil – Russia – India – China (BRIC) nations at the highest international body as a force to reckon with… It may not be a pure coincidence that the coming months in this year will see high powered visits from important players in the world to India. While November will witness the visits of the US President and the French President, the month of December will witness the visit of the Russian President and the Chinese Premier…
A Death Sentence to Tariq Aziz Against the WikiLeaks Backdrop
30.10.2010 | 20:10 | MEZYAEV Alexander
Sentencing Tariq Aziz to death came against the backdrop of the WikiLeaks revelations about the war in Iraq. The site published tons of information concerning the war crimes committed by the US and Iraqi military in the country… 31 civilians were killed daily since the outbreak of the war in 2003, and the data shows that lethality in Iraq is five times higher than in Afghanistan… Three years ago Baghdad requested that the UN Security Council set up an international tribunal for Iraq. No response followed at the time, but currently there is no doubt that the tribunal is necessary…
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5 October, 2010 — ICH
Pakistan: ‘Unable or Unwilling!’
Editorial
It is becoming pathetic to see the Pakistani state whimpering its protests against the spiralling aggression against its territory and people by NATO and the US.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26520.htm
Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million
By Matthew Nasuti
Killing 20 Taliban costs $1 Billion / Killing all the Taliban would cost $1.7 Trillion.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26521.htm
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
30 March, 2009
Al-Qaeda – Who Else?
On March 23, BBC online reported another bloody day in Iraq:
“It was the second bomb attack in Iraq on Monday, with an earlier explosion near the capital. Baghdad, killing at least eight people.
“The BBC’s Hugh Sykes, in Baghdad, says al-Qaeda have launched several attacks in Diyala since losing support in other parts of Iraq.”
(news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7959918.stm)
The foe, naturally, was the global bad guy, “al-Qaeda”. Thirty years ago the BBC would have declared them “Communists” or “Marxists”. We wrote to the BBC’s “man in Baghdad” the same day:
It comes as no surprise that after decades of playing the role of hemispheric hegemon, the United States at the same time has created a critical mass that has inadvertently resulted in a backlash throughout Latin America. Founded in 1986, the Rio Group was created in response to the prevailing U.S. dominance in the region that helped spawn during this period a number of organizations with an autonomy-minded agenda. After its inception, the Rio Group came to consist of 23 Latin American and Caribbean states, and had two primary concerns. The first, exemplified by U.S. exclusion from the organization, was to ensure that Latin Americans nations had control over their own international affairs. Hemispheric groups, most notably the Organization of American States (OAS), were heavily dominated by the United States’ interests throughout the 20th century.
The New Dark Age 