Category Archives: The United States of Amnesia

Puerto Ricans march for independence, again

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Sabina Becker

“Independence NOW!” reads the banner that headed up this march through the smoking hot streets of San Juan. And, with UN debate on the matter now less than a week away, it appears that this issue is coming to a … Continue reading →

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A few random thoughts on the Duggar scandal

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Would you trust these people to teach YOU morality? If the answer is yes, you just might be a Pharisee. So, this happened. Finally, after years of parading their nauseating Quiverfull sanctimony on the Internets and TV to the tune … Continue reading →

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Venezuelan lieutenant: Leamsy Salazar was a CIA agent

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Meet Christian Medina. The Venezuelan soldier, a former aide to Chavecito, knows a thing or two about the traitor, Leamsy Salazar, a former aide who “defected” to the US recently. And he was not reluctant to share it with a … Continue reading →

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Omar Khadr is free

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Sabina Becker

…and here’s what he had to say today: “I’m better than the person he thinks I am”, is what this scapegoated, tortured and war-wounded former child soldier has to say to Stephen Fucking Harper, his unrelenting would-be jailer. He also … Continue reading →

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Think protesting doesn’t work?

Posted on May 3, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Think again. Here’s how it worked out for Baltimore: According to local US congress member Elijah Cummmings, street protests brought about the indictment of the six cops currently accused of killing Freddie Gray. That’s good work!

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The ugly truth about Baltimore

Posted on April 29, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Her sign says it all. Photo: Harry Fear. Whenever I hear about Baltimore — Maryland, that is, as there’s a Baltimore, Ontario not far from where I live — I can’t help but recall this Countee Cullen poem I first … Continue reading →

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Cuban anti-cancer vaccine heads to Roswell Park, NY

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Dr. Candace Johnson of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, speaking at a press conference in Cuba. Behind her, at left, is New York governor Andrew Cuomo. Well. If THIS isn’t historic, I don’t know what is: The Molecular Immunology Centre … Continue reading →

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Summit of the Americas: Venezuelan fascists and Che’s murderer get precedence over their own victims’ families

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Lt. Yendry Velázquez, 36, widow of a Venezuelan soldier murdered during last year’s guarimbas, confronts Lilian Tintori outside the Americas Summit in Panama City. “Your husband is still living, mine is dead thanks to yours,” she says. And that’s not … Continue reading →

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Argentina: Once more, the plot thickens in the Nisman case

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Are these Argentines still “Nisman”? They might not want to be anymore, if the latest news on the sensational case of the maybe-murdered-maybe-suicided prosecutor has any bearing on the matter: Some 400,000 people marched in Buenos Aires less than two … Continue reading →

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Compare and Contrast: Jesus vs. the governor of Indiana

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Sabina Becker

Hey, Mike? Thou makest Jesus vomit.

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