Hugo Chavez has a long memory. Himself the victim of a right-wing coup backed by the country’s elite, it is hardly surprising that the Venezuelan leader has been amongst the most vocal supporters of protesters in Honduras struggling to restore Manuel Zelaya, the leftist president ousted in a military coup last week. As Zelaya attempted [...]
America has always occupied a confused place in the global consciousness. It’s the land of McCarthy and Martin Luther King. The land of Hollywood dreams and Bible Belt nightmares. The land of apple pie and imperialism. That land of the free and home of the brave built by landless slaves in the home of Indian [...]
It is an absolute travesty of justice that the man who was almost single-handedly responsible for a war that has claimed the lives of as many as a million Iraqis can look forward to a healthy presidential pension, while a man who did nothing more than throw his shoes at this person will be rotting [...]
