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Interview with Eva Golinger

By Mike Whitney

The rise of Barack Obama neutralized a growing sentiment for profound change inside the US. Hopefully, the slowdown in US activism will only be temporary. South of the border, there is tremendous change taking place. New social, political and economic models are being built by popular grassroots movements in Venezuela, Bolivia and other Latin American nations that seek economic and social justice.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24219.htm



The War Trap

By Ernest Partridge

It appears that Einstein was right: everything has changed except our modes of thinking, and thus, as he warned, "we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24216.htm



Addicted to War: Is there any Cure?

By Charles Mercieca, Ph.D.

The US addiction to war can be brought totally under control only if all of those who feel really concerned and conscientious will try to do something about it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24212.htm



More and More, Obama Seems a Faux Liberal

By JOHN R. MacARTHUR

Following President Obama's war speeches at West Point and Oslo -- two breathtaking exercises in political cynicism that killed any hope of authentic liberal reform - I've got only one question: Have the liberals who worshipped at the altar of "change you can believe in" had enough?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24223.htm



U.S. and Colombia Cover Up Atrocities Through Mass Graves

By Dan Kovalik

The biggest human rights scandal in years is developing in Colombia, though you wouldn't notice it from the total lack of media coverage here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25129.htm

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US plans for Latin America unravel

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

01/05/10

Just eight months ago, President Obama was calling Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ‘my man’ and suggesting that the South American country could become a leading U.S. partner in the region. Since then, Brazil has criticized the U.S. approach to the coup in Honduras and warned the United States over plans to expand its military presence in Colombia...

http://tinyurl.com/yhp3dla



Presidential “peacemaking” in Latin America

In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

01/05/10

Barack Obama, the fourth U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, joins the others in the long tradition of peacemaking so long as it serves U.S. interests. All four presidents left their imprint on ‘our little region over here that has never bothered anybody,’ as U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson characterized the hemisphere in 1945. Given the Obama administration’s stance toward the elections in Honduras in November, it may be worthwhile to examine the record...

http://tinyurl.com/y9d6lcs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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