Miami, 2008
Antonio Veciana described three failed assassination plots he directed against Fidel Castro – with the help and encouragement of the CIA. In 1960, Maurice Bishop, aka David Atlee Phillips, had recruited Veciana for CIA dirty trick operations in Havana. Veciana described how the Agency, working with the Catholic Church, forged a Cuban “law” in [...]

By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.  This world in arms is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of [...]

“In a striking admission from the Obama Administration’s top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United States may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.”(Feb 4, 2010)
We face a multi trillion dollar deficit derived to fund two ongoing wars of [...]

“The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration show…. 2009 was the second warmest year since 1880, when modern temperature measurement began. The warmest year was 2005. The other hottest recorded years have all occurred since 1998, NASA said.”
Global temperatures [...]

By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDÉS
“If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine  will go far.”
–President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
“I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men.”
–Woodrow Wilson, July 4, 1914
What provoked [...]

By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes
“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” – Henry Kissinger, June 26, 1970
“I’ve heard many in this room say that they will not recognize the elections in Honduras. … What does that mean in [...]

“He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he’s sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan….He may go down in history as our greatest Republican president.” — Jay Leno, summing up Obama’s first eleven months in office.
After eleven months in office, Barack Obama has hardly revolutionized – or even [...]

Marysville: population: 12,268. 71% white; 18% Latino. Median household income: $28,494; 19% live below the poverty line. The 2000 Census.
My wife and I, lost, stopped the car. The roadside sign had warned: “Gateway to The Gold Fields.” Two adolescents, arms around each other, bouncing and laughing, shouted instructions to the motel.
“Tweakers,” I said. My wife [...]

By Saul Ortega and Nelson Gassett
“[I]t is critical to listen to as many diverse voices as possible. When it comes to Cuba, we do exactly that.” –President Barack Obama, responding to questions from blogger Yoani Sanchez, November 19, 2009
On November 15, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to review a lower court decision upholding [...]

By Saul Landau
From my window in Alameda overlooking San Francisco Bay, I watch hundreds of men and women in white suits, some with masks, busily uprooting slimy sea plants and gently grabbing birds with feathers coated in black grease. Abutting the public beach, this “bird preserve” became a disaster for the very creatures it was [...]