Years after slaughter, Peru opens giant burial pit
Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 11:29AM PUTIS, Peru, May 29 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists pulled human skeletons from the biggest known mass grave in Peru on Thursday, searching for proof the army slaughtered more than 100 people at a rocky pit during the 1980-2000 civil war.
McClatchy Boys Take Scotty, the White House and the "Liberal Media" to the Woodshed...
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 08:21PM Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel, my good friends and the few reporters who actually did their job during the Iraq war build-up, are pissed and I am fully backing their anger. Here is what the McClatchy boys (as I call them) have to say to the “Liberal Press” and the White House with regard to Scotty’s revelations:
Richardson urges US on aid package for Mexico
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 08:13PM Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2008
By ALEXANDRA OLSON
Associated Press Writer
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson urged U.S. lawmakers Thursday to resolve their differences over an aid package to help Mexico fight drugs, saying it would be “disastrous” for security on both sides of the border if the Merida Initiative fell through.
Venezuela says arrests suspected U.S. drugs agent
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 08:01PM Rare uncontacted tribe photographed in Amazon
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 07:54PM Guatemala paramilitaries sentenced
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 07:07PM Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2008
By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Associated Press Writer
GUATEMALA CITY —
Five former paramilitary members have been sentenced to 780 years each in prison for massacring 26 people during one of the more horrifying incidents in Guatemala’s long civil war, a court official said Thursday.
Fitch boosts Brazilian debt to investment grade
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 07:00PM Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2008
Asqsociated Press
SAO PAULO, Brazil —
Fitch Ratings raised Brazilian debt to investment grade on Thursday, giving Latin America’s largest nation more good economic news less than a month after another ratings agency declared Brazil a safe place to invest.
Starbucks to open first Argentine store
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 06:53PM Posted on Thu, May. 29, 2008
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES —
Global coffee giant Starbucks opens its first store in Argentina on Friday with beverages tailored to the local palate, including a “mate latte.”
McCain (Mis)Speaks
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 06:45PM Commentary: How the senator won the war of words in Iraq (again and again and again…).
May 29, 2008
[Introduction by Tom Engelhardt]
Last fall was a great time for official optimism when it came to Iraq. The military “metrics” looked ever better and, as had happened at crucial moments in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, Bush administration and military statements turned practically peachy with the blush of “success.” Progress was announced (repeatedly).
Byron Dorgan's Contracting Fraud Crusade
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 06:31PM News: The North Dakota senator has made investigating contractor corruption his mission, but will he succeed in creating a congressional committee devoted to it?
May 29, 2008
In the wake of a recent Defense Department Inspector General report that documented the improper accounting of billions of dollars in war contracting funds, the issue of waste, fraud, and abuse in Iraq is once again in the spotlight on Capitol Hill.
Bolivian Racism Runs Amok in Sucre
Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 03:27PM Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Readers:Racism is a disease that usually hides in dark corners. In most cultures the shame of racism makes denial its common companion, the light of day is its usual enemy. But not in Sucre. Not this weekend. The rampant anti-indigenous racism known well by anyone who has lived in this culture was released full throttle and in public on Saturday in the streets of the nation’s judicial capital. Indigenous men were rounded up and abused by racist thugs for the crime of their ethnicity and desire to witness a public appearance by their country’s first indigenous President.
You can't tell the truth--there's a war on!
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 06:10PM See, this is why I call CNN the Chicken Noodle Network:
Journalists Ask Stupid Question, Get Stupid Answer
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 06:04PM Damn you, Organization of American States! Why won’t you just go ahead and fake-“investigate” those laptop documents like the newspapers did and toss Hugo Chavez in dirty Panamanian Prison with Wentworth Miller and a broken pen knife once and for all? This is basically the question “asked” rhetorically by our beloved jackass heroes in punditland, especially Jackson Diehl and Andres Oppenheimer.
Simon Romero Of The NYT Reined In At Last?
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 05:49PM I was thrilled to see that Simon Romero has been given such hot-button issues to report on as the Potato War between Chile and Peru. I guess the editors of the NYT got tired of having to admit that the irratated scribes who pointed out Simon’s general lack of objectivity and disregard for the facts was truly problematic reporting and then having to write apologies, corrections or retractions (if you can call anything the NYT says an apology). I also see that they have put another reporter with him, I suppose to make sure that he bothers to do fact checking and those other boring things that most other reporters do. Anyway, congratulations are apparently in order for his new prestigous position.
A Political Hot Potato, Literally, Between Latin Neighbors
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 05:41PM LIMA, Peru — They have quarreled over the 1880’s pillaging of Peru’s national library by Chilean troops. They have squabbled over who has the naming rights to pisco, the fiery grape brandy. Now, Peru and Chile are arguing over another hot-button issue: the origins of the potato.
Mukasey's Defense of Professional Irresponsibility
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 05:18PM Don’t ask Attorney General Michael Mukasey to speak at a graduation ceremony if you want a milquetoast speech extolling the virtues of community service, sun screen, or calls to your mother. He came to Boston College Law School, where I teach, last Friday and offered a substantive, and deeply troubling, message to our graduates.