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By Robert Parry | Consortium News | October 3, 2010 Last week’s grotesque revelation about American public health doctors infecting nearly 700 Guatemalans with venereal disease to test penicillin from 1946-48 marked just the start of the U.S. government’s post-World War II abuse of that Central American country. Indeed, as ... [Link] [Cache]

A Note About the Failed Coup in Ecuador - español Atilio A. Boron Translation: David Brookbank 1. What happened Thursday in Ecuador? There was an attempted coup d’etat. It was not, as various Latin America media reported, an “institutional crisis”, as if what happened had been a jurisdictional conflict between ... [Link] [Cache]

In struggle with the USAian mind William Blum, Killing Hope, Oct 1 2010 Since The Great Flood hit Pakistan in July … many millions have been displaced, evacuated, stranded or lost their homes; numerous roads, schools and health clinics destroyed hundreds of villages washed away millions of livestock have perished; ... [Link] [Cache]

Stephen Lendman Sept. 30: A police officer demonstrates next to a bonfire during a protest of police officers and soldiers against a new law that cuts their benefits at a police base in Quito, Ecuador. AP Post-9/11, Washington sponsored four coup d'états. Two succeeded - mostly recently in Honduras in ... [Link] [Cache]

Another US sponsored coup? By Stephen Lendman | October 1, 2010 Post-9/11, Washington sponsored four coup d’etats. Two succeeded – most recently in Honduras in 2009 against Manuel Zelaya, and in Haiti in 2004 deposing Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Two others failed – in Venezuela in 2002 against Hugo Chavez, and on ... [Link] [Cache]

By Eva GolingerTranslation: MacheteraThe latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America ALBA is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 ... [Link] [Cache]

Behind the Coup in Ecuador – The Rightwing Attack on ALBA - español By Eva Golinger Translation: Machetera The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America ALBA is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary ... [Link] [Cache]

Coup in Equador Eva Golinger, Chavez Code, Sep 30 2010 A third coup d’etat is underway against a nation member of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas ALBA , a Latin American bloc of nations that opposes US hegemony in the region and has created new mechanisms for trade and ... [Link] [Cache]

EDITOR’S NOTEFollow @Evagolinger on Twitter for up to the minute updates on the Ecuador situationA third coup d’etat is underway against a nation member of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas ALBA , a Latin American bloc of nations that opposes US hegemony in the region and has created new ... [Link] [Cache]

Coup Attempt in Ecuador2pm ESTA coup attempt is underway against the government of President Rafael Correa. On Thursday morning, groups of police forces rebelled and took over key strategic sites in Quito, Ecuador’s capital. President Correa immediately went to the military base occupied by the police leading the protest to ... [Link] [Cache]

Venezuelan model Dayana MendozaHugo Chavez's United Socialist Party PSUV won a majority of seats in the 26 September 2010 election in Venezuela. Chavez allies win congressional majority in vote Chavez hailed it as a "solid victory"The poll was seen as a test of Mr Chavez's popularity ahead of presidential elections ... [Link] [Cache]

I have reversed those two cyclones alphabetically because of the inherent threats each one represents. TS Lisa has been with us for a while but remains a weak system and presents less risk to population. Matthew developed overnight and is now the subject of Hurricane Warnings and Watches in Central ... [Link] [Cache]

The Real Merchants of Death Conn Hallinan, Counterpunch, Sep 22 2010 Accused Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout is a centerpiece for the book “Merchant of Death” and the model for the Hollywood movie “The Lord of War.” Washington apparently traded military hardware to the Thais in order to get him ... [Link] [Cache]

Denial, Selective Perception and Military Atrocities Felicity Arbuthnot, Global Research, Sep 22 2010 When the horrors of the sadistic, near-necrophile behaviour of US personnel at Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, first showed the tip-of-the-iceberg-lie of “liberation”: cruelty, depravity and bestiality on a scale which apparently dwarfed all that Saddam ... [Link] [Cache]

President Obama Speaking at United Nations, Sept. 23, 2010 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/09/23/fact-sheet-advan~ The White House Office of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate ReleaseSeptember 23, 2010 Fact Sheet: Advancing Democracy and Human Rights As the President made clear in his speech to the General Assembly today, the promotion of human rights and democracy is ... [Link] [Cache]

By DANA FRANK | Counterpunch | September 23, 2010 Why is the U.S. still supporting a repressive regime in Honduras? While Secretary of State Clinton continues to insist that democracy is marching forward in Honduras, President Porfirio Lobo’s ongoing coup government has been escalating its violent attacks against peaceful demonstrators, ... [Link] [Cache]

Partners in Crime: The US Secret State and Mexico’s “War on Drugs” Tom Burghardt, Antifascist Calling, Sep 19 2010 For decades, investigative journalists, researchers and analysts have noted the symbiotic relationships forged amongst international drug syndicates, neofascists and US intelligence agencies, documenting the long and bloody history of US complicity ... [Link] [Cache]

By James PetrasAl-Jazeerah, CCUN, September 20, 2010Imperialism, its character, means and ends has changed over time and place. Historically, western imperialism, has taken the form of tributary, mercantile, industrial, financial and in the contemporary period, a unique ‘militarist-barbaric’ form of empire building. Within each ‘period’, elements of past and future ... [Link] [Cache]

By Nick Egnatz | Online Journal | September 20, 2010 A self-described representative democracy in which the only two political parties are both funded and controlled by elite corporate interests is a contradiction in terms. Control of the population through government propaganda and a monopoly corporate media have made the ... [Link] [Cache]

Imperialism and Imperial Barbarism abridged James Petras, Global Research, Sep 19 2010 Western economic imperialism contained the seeds for the rise of a powerful militarist caste capable, under certain circumstances, of affirming their supremacy in shaping the policies and priorities of empire building. This is exactly what has transpired over ... [Link] [Cache]

By JAMES PETRAS | My Catbird Seat | September 19, 2010 Imperialism, its character, means and ends has changed over time and place. Historically, western imperialism, has taken the form of tributary, mercantile, industrial, financial and in the contemporary period, a unique ‘militarist-barbaric’ form of empire building. Within each ‘period’, ... [Link] [Cache]

For decades, investigative journalists, researchers and analysts have noted the symbiotic relationships forged amongst international drug syndicates, neofascists and U.S. intelligence agencies, documenting the long and bloody history of U.S. complicity in the global drugs trade.While the United States has pumped billions of dollars into failed drug eradication schemes in ... [Link] [Cache]

Above pic: Diaz c and Ros-Lehtinen r U.S. Government and CNN Openly Protect and Support Venezuelan Terrorist By Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com Mérida, September 15th 2010 Venezuelanalysis.com – Raul Diaz, sentenced for helping to plant explosives near two embassies in 2003, left Venezuela covertly on 5 September then entered the ... [Link] [Cache]

Comment: By Uprooted PalestinianI claim that future historians will conclude that "Father Palestine" betrayed Petrayed both Palestinian diaspora, and their occupied and oppressed brothers and sisters in both 1967, and 1948 occupied lands.Here, Alan Hart, insists that the Palestinian file was closed by Israel’s 1948 victory on the battlefield and ... [Link] [Cache]

John le Carré, who was once a British spy, has written a spy novel entitled 'Our Kind of Traitor'. The key character is Dima, whose money-laundering business is based in Switzerland. Dima launders money for the Russian mafia, whom some call the Jewish Russian mafia. Dima wants to retire to ... [Link] [Cache]

11th September – Hope or Hate By Felicity Arbuthnot Book burning is a special kind of savagery, it both destroys and displays an ignorance of and fear of culture, own and that of others. Julius Caesar burned the great library in Alexandria in 48 BC. Nero burned Rome in 64 ... [Link] [Cache]

Never saw it in print and I have been buying them this week."Gunmen kill 15 in Honduran factory" by Associated Press | September 8, 2010TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Men armed with assault rifles burst into a shoe factory and opened fire yesterday, killing at least 15 workers and wounding eight, Honduran ... [Link] [Cache]

Well that’s it, summer’s over, back to school. Washington Journal: 7:45am – Alex Isenstadt, Politico, Nat’l Political Reporter. 8:30am – Kevin Hassett, AEI, Economic Policy Studies Director. 9:15am – Paul Taylor, Pew Hispanic Center, Director. ABC’s This Week: On the release of his new memoir, “A Journey,” Tony Blair reflects. ... [Link] [Cache]

Welcome Paul Street, and Host Anthony DiMaggio. [As a courtesy to our guests, please keep comments to the book. Please take other conversations to a previous thread. - bev] The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics Paul Street’s new book, The Empire’s New Clothes, closely ... [Link] [Cache]

Repression in Honduras continues unabated Karen Spring, Pulse Media, Aug 31 2010 Last Thu-Fri Aug 26-27, police and military violently repressed public school teachers who have taken to the streets for almost 3 weeks to demand, among other things, that the Pepe Lobo regime return some $200m that were taken ... [Link] [Cache]