Aaron Good, Ben Howard and Peter Dale Scott[Source: abcnews.go.com] Because this series has been the result of a collaboration among three writers with extensive knowledge about 9/11, U.S. hegemony, and the commonly suppressed aspects of our system of governance, our authors decided to take a different approach with Part 3. Rather than present one consensus…
Category: STATE TERRORISM
Former Paramilitary Reveal Colombian Army Provided Hit List of College Students
Mision Verdad The number of testimonies confirming the involvement of the Colombian State in paramilitary crimes is increasing (Photo: Mauricio Dueñas / EFE). During a conference titled “The Armed Conflict at the University of Nariño,” organized by the Truth Commission in Colombia, ex-commanders Guillermo León Marín and Aníbal Gómez of the defunct Antonio Nariño Peasant…
Juvenicide: A Crime of the Multidimensional War in Colombia
María Fernanda Barreto The systematic murder of Colombian youth by the Colombian State is gaining momentum (Photo: Colombia Informa). At the beginning of the 1990s as the victor of the “cold war”, which in reality had very hot expressions, the United States, having established itself since the second post-war period as the head of the…
Brazil: Tanks on the Streets – Attacks on the International Left
Who Will Laugh Last? Brian MierBrazilians woke up yesterday to visions of a nightmare they thought would never return: military tanks and armored vehicles rolling down the national mall in Brasilia, past the Congress and Supreme Court Buildings in an attempt, admitted by top aides of far right President Jair Bolsonaro, to scare Brazil’s democratic…
Colombian State and Paramilitarism: Salvatore Mancuso’s Declaration Before the Truth Commission
José Manuel Blanco Díaz Salvatore Mancuso, demobilized and imprisoned Colombian paramilitary leader, has provided detailed testimony on how the Colombian government is closely linked to the creation and preservation of paramilitary groups like the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Mancuso, a.k.a. Mono Mancuso, Santander Lozada or Triple Cero, was extradited to the United States…
Enclaves, Mercenaries and Exterminations: The Common Ground between Colombia and Israel
Eder Peña Militarization as a tool for the management of plunder and regional destabilization is common in both imperial enclaves (Photo: Oliver Ehmig). It has long been said that Colombia is the Israel of Latin America, this statement has been made by different analysts and political figures, especially when in the last decade it has…
Crackdown on Pro-Democracy Forces in Swaziland (eSwatini) Continues
Pavan Kulkarni Swazis marching in Pretoria, South Africa, calling for the expulsion of the Swazi Embassy. Photo: CPS Pro-democracy parties in Swaziland have criticized the delegation of Southern Africa Development Community for understating the atrocities committed by the army of King Mswati Pro-democracy forces in Swaziland, which are enduring a crackdown by the army of…
A Brief History of Paramilitarism in Colombia and Its Impact on the Current National Strike
Vicente Guevara El Paro Nacional that began on April 28th, 2021 has now been going on for over 2 months. During this time, the international community has been able to witness the horrific types of violence that the Colombian population has been subjected to for decades now. Although much of the violence being seen in…
Colombia’s Nazistic Horrors Show How the U.S. Government Will React to Future Domestic Revolts
Rainer Shea With the world-shocking acts of state violence that have been carried out by Israel and Colombia during the last two months, we’ve gotten a clearer picture of what it will look like when the “imperial boomerang” effect — where an empire’s evils abroad manifest within the empire’s own borders — fully comes to define events within the…
Colombian Paramilitary Regime Orders Youth Genocide to Demobilize National Strike
Carlos De Urabá Economic bankruptcy and recession have taken their toll on the most vulnerable population. It was not necessary to be clairvoyant to predict exactly what was going to happen in May 2021. How can we forget the murder of Dilan Cruz-transmitted live and direct- by the police in the protests in Bogota in…
Canada Still Supports Colombia’s Repressive Right-Wing Government
Yves Engler Image: Colombia Informa Last week right-wing Colombian President Ivan Duque deployed the military to Cali. The city of 2.3 million has been the epicenter of a month-long nationwide protest that forced the government to withdraw a regressive tax proposal that unleashed a general strike. During the past month security forces have killed at…
America’s Nazi Problem and the End of Policing
Henry Giroux The conditions that produce authoritarian societies are with us once again. The ghost of fascism haunts the present, appearing in a relentless number of assaults on the principles and institutions central to a democracy. America’s Nazi problem is evident not only in the 73 million people who voted for a white supremacist presidential…
