Category Archives: Fascism Without Swastikas

Colombian police fire on indigenous people

Posted on October 22, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Story from Radio Mundial, Venezuela: Two indigenous were killed and five more injured on Tuesday in an incident at the beginning of a large march on a road in southern Colombia. The incident occurred at the beginning of a national … Continue reading →

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Dig this, bitches!

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Sabina Becker

First, a little mood music, maestro:Alas poor Lorca, they don’t know where he is, Horatio…but maybe now, they’ll finally get to the bottom of whatever mass grave the great Spanish bard disappeared to: Judge Baltasar Garzon opened the first formal … Continue reading →

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Unreported news from Morelos, Mexico

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Did you know a massacre took place there on October 9?Here’s the lowdown on what it’s all about, courtesy Angry White Kid: For almost two months, the teachers union in the Mexican state of Morelos rose up against the “Alliance … Continue reading →

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Look who’s buttering up Barack Obama

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Sabina Becker

The Venezuelan equivalent of the KKK, no less. Alberto Nolia, on his VTV show “The Devil’s Papers”, uncovers an online chat session between two prominent “youth leaders” of the Venezuelan opposition, Yon Goicoechea and Freddy Guevara, in which they talk … Continue reading →

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Why does Sarah Palin hate America?

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Sabina Becker

David Neiwert and Max Blumenthal have done a terrific job with their latest article for The Nation and Salon.com. They also have much tougher stomachs than I do–these guys routinely face down right-wing nutters, live and in person. And look … Continue reading →

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Bolivian police chief confirms Porvenir massacre was an ambush

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Sabina Becker

For certain stupid CSMonitor writers and anyone else who doesn’t really get what’s going on in Bolivia, a little primer: The Departmental Police Chief of Pando, Col. Silvio Magarzo, confirmed before a special commission on Tuesday that the campesinos who … Continue reading →

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Colombia: Bestest democracy EVAR.

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Aporrea reports, I translate…and after that, I shut up, because there simply are no words. Jorge Iván Laverde Zapata, alias “El Iguano”, ex-chief of the AUC paramilitaries, in the department of Norte de Santander, said that his men incinerated their … Continue reading →

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Colombia: “Democratic security” in action

Posted on October 5, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Via Colombia’s Caracol Radio website, a rare (for Caracol) moment of honesty about what Alvaro Uribe’s paramilitary minions are really up to: Paramilitary groups have reached a level of degradation so high that in some cases, they filmed the tortures … Continue reading →

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The dirty truth about Human Rights Watch

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Sabina Becker

James Petras, eminent social historian, has José Miguel Vivanco’s number…and he calls it: José Miguel Vivanco served as a diplomatic functionary under the bloody Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet between 1986-1989, serving no less as the butcher’s rabid apologist before the … Continue reading →

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Ooooo, this is a juicy one

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Hmmm, whatever could this mean? At least 26 barrels of chemical agents were stolen from a military airplane on September 5 by groups of violent “civics” and vandals apparently promoted by the Prefecture of Pando. The departmental chief of police, … Continue reading →