Archive for the 'The Rest of the World' Category

David Brooks Solves All of Haiti’s Problems!!!!

Saturday, January 16th, 2010 by thwap

The NYT’s David Brooks is not one of the towering intellects of our times. If you go to that link you’ll find that Glenn Greenwald has assembled a cornucopia of David Brooks’ errors, including such gems as:

EITHER SADDAM HUSSEIN will remain in power or he will be deposed. President Bush has suggested deposing him, but […]

Another Look at the Murder of Jean Charles de Menezes

Monday, June 16th, 2008 by TS.

The murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian electrician, by member’s of London’s Metropolitan Police in July 2005 in a Tube station, is back in the headlines as the inquest into the event is finally getting under way. That’s right, the inquest is getting started three years after Mr. de Menezes was killed. […]

Oaxacan Teacher and Leader Assassinated

Friday, October 20th, 2006 by elmateo

La Jornada
October 19, 2006
Pánfilo Hernández, teacher and leader of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO), was assassinated at 9:45 last night in Oaxaca City by gunmen who were travelling in a blue Tsuru automobile.
Hernández died when the APPO group he was travelling with in a private car after finishing an assembly in […]