http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:12:18 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:12:18 I totally agree. He should be restored--and the elections postponed--for the length of time that the people of Honduras were denied his leadership. Negotiators should never have permitted the golpistas to shrink Zelaya's term like this. That is extremely unfair and unjust. They've been playing th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/161 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:16:24 I am quoting the entire linked article, because it is so complex--reflective of the Byzantine nature of our anti-democratic, corpo-fascist run government. I'm also boldfacing the "players" listed, because we need to identify and dig deeper into the actions of these foreground "players" if we are ev... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/160 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:37 to begin with, in this deal with Colombia (they said "only" a few hundred US "advisers" in Vietam, early on). They will be immune from Colombian laws. And [i]seven[/i] new US military bases will be established in Colombia--a government with one of the worst human rights records on earth--already r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/159 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:00:30 [i]It took four months for the White House to understand the high cost that a coup regime would exact in the region. Beset by the various problems which he faces in his foreign policy, above all, by the rapid deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the miring of his troops in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/158 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:41:23 [i][b]Cuba’s education index ... equal(s) (the) highest in the world[/b], along with Australia, Finland, Denmark and New Zealand. Cuba’s education index is 0.993 of a possible score of 1.

[b](Cuba's) adult literacy rate is 99.8%[/b] and school enrolments are 100%. [b]Public expenditure on educat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/157 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:31:35 are quite busy in Colombia--on spying, war planning, colluding with fascists in Venezuela, developing US/Colombia integration of forces and equipping Colombia with high tech spying and psyops capabilities. I think what we are looking at there is VERY SIMILAR to Pentagon/CIA activities in South Vie... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/156 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:03:14 There are only four weeks until the election, and the country has been under martial law for four months. Many leftist activists have been arrested, beaten, tortured, raped, and some have been murdered. The police and the military are everywhere, and there is no freedom of speech, freedom of ass... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/155 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:28:26 the way of the WMDs in Iraq, into the trash bin of history's Big Lies.

Thanks for posting! Great article! Explains why huge margins of Venezuelan, Bolivian and Ecuadoran voters keep voting for these 'commie dictators' who are soon going to bring their countries to perdition, any day now.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/154 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:07:34 It is not a great surprise that it is "the worst"--considering that it was written by Reagan's henchmen to enshrine the power of the military and the "ten families"--but it is something of a surprise that Arias said it (--quoted by Greg Grandin in an article in The Nation this week). Arias is as cl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/153 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:07:25 exactly what he said. It does not discuss the regulation that this official thinks was violated, nor provide any context for judging the official's statements or action. And the article ends with the following sentences: "It (Venezuelan TV) also includes a talk show hosted by the country's presid... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/151 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:14:00 Nearly 60% of the American people opposed the war on Iraq (all polls, Feb. '03, just before the invasion). Their views were not only minimized by the corpo/fascist media, their views were positively black-holed by the corpo/fascist media, so that all of us--THE MAJORITY--who opposed that war felt ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/152 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:52:07 The article is about US military "soft power"--for instance, sending the US navy ship "Comfort" on cruises down the West African coast or Latin America's Pacific coast, to provide humanitarian aid--such as medical care services--with the ulterior motive of getting access to small countries' military... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/150 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:48:39 and I don't mean just lying, but rather taking the truth and turning it on its head, and then justifying torture and murder and mass deaths and war, and massive thieving, using the [i]language[/i] of truth (for instance, bringing "freedom" to Iraq by slaughtering a million people, or calling the gro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/149 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:07:16 There is nobody better at brainwashing young minds than the Catholic Church.

THANK GOD the Bolivarians are offering a SECULAR education and a SECULAR government to those who want to free their minds. I was mightily grateful to our own--and to the Founders who established that principle--when I f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/148 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:42:17 If you had asked me, before I read this OP, which election or elections Ted Kennedy had run for president in, I would not have been able to say 1980 against Carter, but now I remember.

It was only 12 years, at that point, from the second Kennedy assassination--of Robert, just as he had won the Ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/147 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:31:19 For instance...

[i]"It's also not clear whether a groundswell of popular support for Zelaya actually exists. His (Zelaya's) calls for a popular insurrection to topple Micheletti have gone unheeded, and pro-Zelaya protests have petered out. / [u]Micheletti's advisers believe that most Hondurans si... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/146 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:04:47 I especially like the underlined parts of the conclusion:

[i]"...the overthrow of democratic government in Honduras has a significance that goes far beyond its own borders. If the takeover is allowed to stand, not only will it embolden coup-minded military officers in neighbouring countries such ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/145 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:43:50 To those above who allege that Chavez is threat to the region--apparently swallowing and regurgitating rightwing 'think tank' swill--many Latin American leaders are alarmed about the establishment of [i]seven[/i] new U.S. bases in Colombia, the reconstitution of the U.S. 4th Fleet in the Caribbean, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/144 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:30:52 for a behemoth like the U.S. to dramatically build up military forces in a client state of the U.S.--Colombia--a country with one of the worst human rights records on earth--in a region of peaceful democracies with minimal military forces, and right next door to two of those peaceful democracies tha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/143 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:00:14 the August security meeting. When UNASUR was formalized last summer, and Brazil proposed a "common defense," Colombia balked. But the other leaders very much wanted Colombia to remain a member of UNASUR, to try to achieve unanimous South American solidarity at least on some issues. (Colombia and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/142 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:55:46 34 radio station licenses pulled, and more than 200 under investigation for failing to serve the public interest. When I first became aware of how rightwing corporations gain control of our public airwaves, back in the 1960s-1970s when I was a student, we had certain principles of public service th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/141 Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:07:25 [i]"This move ([u]five[/u] new US military bases in Colombia) has been combined with [b]a heightened propaganda campaign against Venezuela, not unlike the one that preceded the Iraq invasion.[/b]"[/i] --from the OP

That's what it looks like to me, too. The "Big Lie" campaign against Chavez in pa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/140 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:45:11 a long poem about all the science fiction movies and TV shows I had seen as a kid in the 1950s, leading up to that astonishing moment in human history, when we stepped onto the Moon. The astonishment of that moment is still with me, such that seeing these distant artifacts of it on the Moon, now, i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/139 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:08:34 the U.S. government and President Zelaya, the elected president of Honduras.

[i]"President Barack Obama reiterated his support for efforts to restore Zelaya to Honduras' presidency — even as he pointed out that Zelaya has strongly opposed American policies."[/i]--the Associated Pukes

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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/138 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:37:37 Source: New York Mimes

CARACAS — President Barack Obama's push to put a pretty smile on U.S.-based global corporate predator sway worldwide is waning amid the fallout from Bush Jr's Financial 9/11 and the death of the planet. In recent years, the U.S. has used its wealth and its power to torture ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Peace Patriot/137 Wed, 20 May 2009 10:19:18