All Articles on Salvador Allende
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Views The 5 Most Ludicrous War Claims in Obama’s Syria Speech 1. “I possess the authority to order military strikes.” No you don’t, Mr. President. Only Congress has the authority to declare war, and ordering military strikes would be a clear act of war, thus violating the Constitution. It would also violate the War Powers Act, which says that the President... Read more |
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Further Venceremos: Seeking Hard-Fought, Long-Delayed Justice For Víctor Jara Forty years ago this week, during the early days of Chile's military coup ousting Salvador Allende, thugs working for the US-backed Augusto Pinochet arrested thousands of progressive students and professors, including renowned activist, poet, folk singer and songwriter Víctor Jara. Held for three... Read more |
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Views A Time for Creative Suffering: Martin Luther King’s Words in a Surveillance World So much has changed since that hot day in August 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. A black family lives in the White House and official segregation is a thing of the past. Napalm no longer falls on the homes and people of Vietnam and the... Read more |
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Views Cut Off U.S. Aid to Egypt? It’s Not Just a Good Idea, It’s the Law There has been a military coup in Egypt, overthrowing the democratically elected President. By law, the U.S. must cut off aid to Egypt until a democratically elected government has taken office. Here's the relevant law, from the webpage of Senator Patrick Leahy : Coups d'Etat Sec. 7008. None of the... Read more |
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Views This Independence Day, Thank a Protester More than 160 years ago, the greatest abolitionist in U.S. history, the escaped slave Frederick Douglass, addressed the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass asked those gathered, “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” His words bear repeating this Independence Day, as... Read more |
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Views Why Would Anyone Celebrate the Death of Margaret Thatcher? Ask a Chilean Never have I witnessed a gap between the mainstream media and the public, quite like the last 24 hours since the death of Margaret Thatcher. While both the press and President Obama were uttering tearful remembrances, thousands took to the streets of the UK and beyond to celebrate. Immediately this... Read more |
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Views On the Legacy of Hugo Chávez I first met Hugo Chávez in New York City in September 2006, just after his infamous appearance on the floor of the UN General Assembly, where he called George W. Bush the devil. “Yesterday, the devil came here,” he said, “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that... Read more |
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Views Hugo Chávez Kept His Promise to the People of Venezuela The late Venezuelan president's Bolívarian revolution has been crucial to a wider Latin American philosophy Read more |
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Views How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth The Latin American Exception Read more |
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Views The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet Read more |