“Kaliman sat at the top of a military and police command structure that has been substantially cultivated by the U.S. through WHINSEC [Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation], the military training school in Fort Benning, Georgia known in the past as the School of the Americas. Kaliman himself attended a course called ‘Comando y Estado…

"This alarming act of censorship is another indication of the complicity of major social media firms in Israel’s efforts to suppress news and information about its abuses of Palestinian rights."

Kathryn Ledebur, Joe Emersberger, Alan MacLeod, and more expert primary source information on the Bolivian coup. Ledebur is director of the Andean Information Network in Cochabamba and researcher, activist, and analyst with over two decades of experience in Bolivia.

"A military coup" is happening in Bolivia, CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot says. "Nobody voted for Williams Kaliman, the commander of the Bolivian armed forces. Some of the major media are already burying the fact it was he who pushed Evo [Morales] out of the presidency. Bolivia no longer has an elected, legitimate government. ...The latest…

Hoh writes that Veterans Administration "data shows among veterans that had deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, those in the youngest cohort, i.e. those most likely to have seen combat, had suicide rates, again adjusted for age and sex, 4-10 times higher than their civilian peers. ... "The answer to this question of veteran suicide is…

"The resolutions, namely 'Further Practical Measures for the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space,' 'No First Placement of Weapons in Outer Space' and 'Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Outer Space,' respectively received 124, 166 and 166 votes in favor. ...The first resolution urges the global community to continue undertaking efforts to maintain peace…

“The OAS is interfering in Bolivia’s elections process without explanation or justification. The OAS admitted in its preliminary report that it was possible for Morales to be elected in the first round, but said there should be a second round anyway. They’re saying in effect that Bolivian law doesn’t matter; the results were too narrow…

Late last month seven Plowshares activists, motivated by the biblical edict to turn swords into plowshares, were convicted on four counts for entering the first strike Trident missile arsenal based at Kings Bay, Georgia to "symbolically disarm" the weapons. They are known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. During the trial, the judge prevented the jury from hearing…

“Schiff’s record on foreign policy, civil liberties, human rights and other key issues has often put him more in line with Republicans than with liberal Democrats. … It is ironic, therefore, that Trump and the Republicans are portraying him as some kind of left-winger. ...while Schiff has emerged as a marquee foe of Trumpism, we…

"After more than a year in power, the popular Prime Minister Imran Khan's PTI (Movement for Justice) ruling government is confronting its most dangerous assault yet. Despite the country being dogged by unscrupulous, criminal, and illegal capital flight by the ruling elites of the country as soon as Khan took power, as well as a…