Pardon My Politics

When Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave U.S. President Barack Obama a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s book The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent at last weekend’s Summit of the Americas, the corporate media appeared to be caught off guard.

In its initial report, CNN (Newsroom, 4/18/09) appeared to be completely unaware of Galeano’s classic 1971 treatise on the history of European and U.S. imperialism in Latin America, failing to correct Obama’s initial mistaken belief that the book was penned by Chavez himself.

There have been more than 200 confirmed incursions by the Mexican military across the United States border, and a recent incident along the United States border with Mexico, and the State Department’s subsequent incoherent response, should leave every American citizen who values the importance of homeland security frustrated, furious, and feeling insecure.

Are you an unintentional anti-Semite? The U.S. State Department’s “Office of Global Anti-Semitism” in its 2008 report to Congress warns not just of conscious, intentional anti-Semitism but of another lurking form of potential bigotry: unintentional anti-Semitism. This consists of criticisms of Israel, which, though true, might be manipulated by others to Israel’s detriment. To avoid [...]

As part of their continuing campaign to keep John Sununu out of the U.S. Senate — an effort which failed in 2002, when then-Rep. Sununu (RN.H.) was first elected to “the world’s greatest deliberative body” — pro-Israel PACs bestowed a whopping $44,000 on would-be Democratic opponent Katrina Swett in 2007. In case that name doesn’t [...]

If the United States is serious about advancing peace in the Middle East, it must clarify what sort of security threat Syria poses, and how North Korea factors into their assessments.