Articles

• Arroyo/U.S. "low Intensity" State Terrorism
  24 December 2006

  Philippine President Gloria Macapagati Arroyo’s Melo Commission to investigate the killings of leftists and journalists has apparantly concluded that investigation and will submit their report in early January.
  Most in the Phillippines believe the Melo Commission and its upcoming report to be part of an ongoing ruse by the Arroyo government to cover up that the government itself, in colusion with the military and state police are the actual perpetrators of the mass killings. (...)

• The U.S. Congress Sends Mixed Message On Indonesian Military
  31 July 2005

  The U.S. Congress Sends Mixed Message On Indonesian Military
  by Brian McAfee
  The U.S. Senate voted against giving the human rights abuses countering the House’s vote to reinstate funding and training for the Indonesian military.
  President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice had been pushing for a full restoration of all military ties to Indonesia because of the ongoing terrorist threat but the persistence of human rights abuses and the corrupt nature of the Indonesian military and (...)

• Women And Rape In 21st Century Pakistan
  11 September 2006

  by Brian McAfee
  The basic human and civil right of a woman not to be raped and if she is, not to be held responsiible for it is front and center right now in Pakistan. Pakistan, a nation of about 166 million people, is one of the world’s poorest countries. The issue in question is a law, established in 1979, by U.S. supported dictator Zia Ul Haq called the Hudood Ordinance Law.
  This law basically states that rape victims are liable for prosecution for adultery unless they can produce four (...)

• Bush And Big Oil May Be Making A Killing This Winter
  18 October 2005

  by Brian McAfee
  Earlier this year President Bush enacted an energy bill into law that gave $85 billion dollars to big oil and gas companies, and this month the Republican controlled House of Representatives gave billions more in tax breaks to the oil industry while doing nothing to lower gas prices.
  Despite this windfall for the already rich stockholders and their friends, President Bush has proposed cutting funds to help the poor heat their homes this winter. The nation’s 37 million (...)

• GOP’s New War On The Poor Designed To Accomodate the Nation’s Wealthiest 0.2%
  21 November 2005

  by Brian McAfee
  In a shocking but nevertheless not surprising maneuver U.S. House Republicans are attempting to introduce a bill that will cause serious damage to the already precarious existence of the nation’s 37 million poor.
  In a multi-pronged attack the Republicans have endeavered to target the safety net that the nation’s children and those living in poverty rely on.
  Programs targeted include food stamps, school lunch programs, student aid for college, child support enforcement, (...)

• Dr. Michelle Bachelet victor in Chilean election
  19 January 2006

  by Brian Mcafee
  Michelle Bachelet, a pediatrician and former health and defense minister, soundly defeated her opponent; billionaire tycoon Sebastian Pinera in Chile’s presidential run-off Sunday. Bachelet’s 53.5 percent to Pinera’s 46.5 percent marked a trend throughout Latin America of leftist electoral victories. Leftists now run Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela, with the inclusion of Chile, the political sentiment of the region is unmistakable.
  The U.S. response to (...)

• Chilean Communist Party May Be Power Broker In January 15 Run-Off Election
  22 December 2005

  by Brian McAfee
  Chile’s Socialist Party candidate, Michelle Bachelet, soundly defeated her right wing opponents in the December 11 presidential vote but failed to obtain the 50% to become president. Chilean law requires a candidate receive at least 50% of the vote to obtain the presidency. The breakdown was Bachelet 45.95%, Sebastian Pinera of the National Renovation party 25.41%, Joaquin Lavin of the Independent Democratic Union party 23.22%, and Tomas Hirsch of the Humanist party and part (...)

• Bush, Congress Turn a Cold Shoulder To America’s Poor This Winter
  3 November 2005

  by Brian McAfee
  President Bush and Congress nixed winter heating aid for poor families 3 months after subsidizing oil companies. Energy Secretary Sam Bodman said "this is not something I would be in favor of (using some of the oil profits to help the nations poor). That would be the equivalent of windfall profits tax" Bodman went on to say that any transfer of oil profits to programs to help the poor with heating this winter is not even under consideration.
  Some Democrats in Congress (...)

• Chile Completes Its Transition To Democracy
  19 August 2005

  by Brian McAfee
  In two key decisions Chile has restored her democracy lost on September 11, 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew democratically elected president Salvador Allende in a bloody Coupe supported by the United States.
  On July 6, a Chilean court ruled 11 to 10 to remove Picnochet’s immunity he had granted himself when he became dictator in 1973. This opens the door to the families of those murdered and tortured by his regime to pursue legal action against him. There were (...)

• Chile’s Left Waits For Bachelet To Fulfill Promises
  22 May 2006

  by Brian McAfee
  As Chile struggles to overcome the past and restore justice and human rights, an obstacle remains in the system. In the 1980s Chile’s then dictator, Augusto Pinochet, installed an electoral law that in effect blocked the left from participation in the electoral process. The "binominal" sometimes called binomial system, was composed by the far right and imposed on Chile by Pinochet.
  The Pinochet imposed system allowed the far right to have 35 percent of votes and to have 50 (...)

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