Remember Manuel Noriega, our man in Panama? Until he wasn’t? Somebody else down south has similar reasons to worry. Atilio Borón explains why. Uribe’s Mirror by Atilio Borón Translation: David Brookbank for ALAI (Latin America in Movement) August 26, 2009 The UNASUR summit in Bariloche, Argentina will have to face two grave problems weighing heavily on Latin America: the military coup in Honduras and the militarization of the region as a result of the installation of not

NEW DELHI – In an explosive revelation that may well have unsavory foreign policy repercussions, a senior official of India’s premier defense organization – the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) – who played a pivotal role in orchestrating India’s nuclear program during the Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998, has declared that the tests that year were a dud and not nearly as successful as projected to the world. The declaration by K Santhanam – remarkable as it comes from a top n

According to the Rasmussen Poll folks. Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. That’s the lowest level of total approval yet measured for Obama . Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democrats approve while 83% of Republicans disapprove. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 66% disapprove. See other recent demographic highlights from the tracking polls. Obama is sinking like a stone in th

Who didn’t expect this to happen while couched in rhetoric that ‘they’ (Obama and the Democrats) support the military. It’s classic Democrat. From James Carafano: Obama, Gates are gutting America’s defense industryAmerica in 2009 is returning to the 19th century, a world where America will be incapable of producing the instruments needed to defend America. Worse, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ defense policies are pumping steroids into the speed of that decline.Both houses of Congress have

Sri Lankan journalist given 20 years in prison (INO News) (AP:COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) A Sri Lankan reporter singled out by President Barack Obama as an example of persecuted journalists around the globe was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on charges of violating the country’s strict anti-terror law. Sri Lankan court sentences ethnic Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison under anti-terror law (Canoe Money) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A Sri Lankan court Monday sentenced an ethnic Tamil journalist to