By Roger Harris | CounterPunch | October 3, 2016 Rio Hacha, Colombia – The mood in this improvised Colombian town on the Caribbean coast is somber tonight. The national peace plebiscite was just defeated by a mere 0.43% or 60,000 votes. The government of Colombia and the FARC insurgents signed peace accords six days ago […]
Press TV – September 30, 2016 A commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has officially asked for forgiveness days after signing a peace treaty that has brought a new spirit of reconciliation to the nation. “We ask for you to forgive us and that you give us the hope of a spiritual […]
Significant sums in Canadian “aid” are spent promoting international mining initiatives.
In a press release last week Ontario-based Carube Copper said it acquired over “500 square kilometres of the most prospective ground in Jamaica based on historic showings, the work completed and reported in 1993 by the Canadian International Development Agency (‘CIDA’).”
A new decade-long study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into the worldwide distribution of disease sheds light on the overall health status of more than 180 countries. How does the United States compare with the rest of the developed world? The results aren’t so promising. [1]
By Dan Kovalik | CounterPunch | September 20, 2016 A recent article in The New York Times entitled, “The Secret History of Colombia’s Paramilitaries & The U.S. War on Drugs,” contains useful clues as to the U.S.’s true views towards the Colombian death squads and their massive war crimes and human rights abuses. [1] In […]
Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and Other Activists is a virtual encyclopedia of the global drug trade. Author John L Potash devotes special attention to the long involvement of the British and US governments in illegal drug trafficking – for the political and financial benefit of the elite families who control these governments.
By Clara Nieto de Ponce de Leon | Colombia Support Network | August 14, 2016 Bogota – The renowned sociologist Gonzalo Sánchez Gómez, one of the best known researchers of Colombian history, now Director of the National Center for Historical Memory created by the Juan Manuel Santos administration, discusses a fundamental issue for peace in […]
teleSUR – September 1, 2016 U.S.-based Coca-Cola company along with more than 50 other companies were accused by Colombian courts of financing terrorism for their ties to the now-disbanded paramilitary organization, United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a fact trade union leaders have been denouncing for decades. The cases against the companies will be heard in […]
By Daniel Kovalik | CounterPunch | August 25, 2016 As the Colombian government and left-wing FARC rebels near the signing of a comprehensive peace accord, and though they have already signed a bi-lateral ceasefire which is largely holding, Colombia is still suffering from the worst human rights abuses in the Western Hemisphere. These abuses are […]
Nazi rock, robot block and war mock + this day in history w/'The Scream' stolen and our song of the day by Weyes Blood on your Morning Monarchy for August 22, 2016.
