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More on that 6/11/71 Meeting

Robert P. Baird — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:54:50 +0000

A little over a month ago, I published a report that conclusively demonstrated for the first time that the U.S. financed Hugo Banzer’s 1971 coup in Bolivia. That report relied in part on a transcript of a conversation…

War Music

Robert P. Baird — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:05:39 +0000

“1945-1998″ by Isao Hashimoto

Exclusive: The U.S. Paid Money to Support Hugo Banzer’s 1971 Coup in Bolivia

Robert P. Baird — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:22:49 +0000

For nearly four decades, there’s been an open question about the 1971 coup that brought dictator Hugo Banzer Suárez to power in Bolivia: was the U.S. government involved? Thanks to newly declassified documents, we now have an answer.

Banzer was…

The Schoolmaster of Scandal

Robert P. Baird — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:57:58 +0000

Jane Kramer at The New Yorker:

And never mind that Ratzinger’s talents as a theologian were overrated; see his infamous speech on theos, logos, Christianity, and Islam in Regensburg in 2006…. Under Ratzinger’s watch, the liberation theologians of Central and

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Service Post: Never. Fly. Aeroflot.

Robert P. Baird — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:18:34 +0000

From The Telegraph:

“It’s not such a big deal if the pilot is drunk,” one representative said, according to the English-language Moscow Times, which had a reporter on board.

“Really, all he has to do is press a button and

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From the Department of Unfortunate Ad Placement

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:18:16 +0000

From Jack Shafer’s response to Luke Mitchell’s defense of Scott Horton’s article about the Guantánamo suicides:

“It doesn’t matter what color our president is.”

Robert P. Baird — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:18:27 +0000

Congratulations to Ben Ehrenreich and Slate on this terrifically sharp essay about the U.S. military’s role in the Haiti relief effort:

The much-feared descent into anarchy stubbornly refused to materialize. “It is calm at this time,” Lt. Gen. Ken

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Two Views: On the Culture of Poverty

Robert P. Baird — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:00:13 +0000

1/ From an op-ed by David Brooks last Thursday:

Haiti, like most of the world’s poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences. There is the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that

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Dreams of Our Father

Michael Robbins — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:53:04 +0000

Having embraced & professionalized the powers of force & fraud previously associated with the likes of John Yoo & Dick Cheney, Obama has embarked on a course of war that will certainly invite further abuses of power.

—Roger D.

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Two Views: On American Values

Robert P. Baird — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:06:04 +0000

1/ President Obama, in a speech on the earthquake in Haiti:

This is a time when we are reminded of the common humanity that we all share.

2/ Genevieve Peters, on plans to kick non-resident students out of…