'…a major destabilizing influence'
American media still refer to Juan Guaidó, America’s hand-picked “legitimate leader” or “legitimate president” of Venezuela, as having an “administration.” The truth is that his “administration” — consisting of advisors and other opposition leaders — are all either arrested and being held by the government, hiding, seeking asylum in various foreign embassies (Spanish, Italian, Brazilian …
Let every crack be a place for seeds to sprout, Let the forest return to this place! Let the rocks be done wearing our face, And may every fractured avenue lead out! Rome is crumbling. All of the magic That will save us is outside of Rome. Inside the empire Everything is falling. It’s a …
After days of breathless reporting in the US media about public and military support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro collapsing, and about an April 30 coup by presidential poseur Juan Guaidó, we now know the truth: the whole thing was a fraud staged at the instigation of Washington in hopes that the Venezuelan people and rank-and-file troops would fall …
The imperialist neocons infesting the Trump administration, and the orange-faced joke of a president himself, may think they can invent their own reality through propaganda, as Bush’s “brain” Karl Rove used to claim about the Bush/Cheney administration, but when it comes to Latin America, they fail to realize how deeply the people of that continent …
Human is inhumane Greed is human Humanism is inhumane Exploitation is human Oppression is human Repression is human Torture is human Murder is human War is humane Love of humanity is inhuman There are no more cracks in the wall Leonard Cohen is dead Hope is off the wall — Ron Ridenour RON …
If you look out into the twilit landscape that you thought was so familiar This time prepare to see something tremendous that is rising to be seen. You won’t be able to deny that the landscape is much more than a landscape. It is more like the Aborigines say. It is something tremendous just beyond …
I’d build myself a city A big, quiet town, A city to call my own With an uptown and no down. Peopled by people Who don’t live in their heads, No one lives too high; All with homes and beds. It’ll be low tech, Nothing quite on time. Lots of coffee breaks No crime. Build …
Update: A kangaroo magistrate’s court in London, moments after hearing Julian Assange plead “not guilty” to the charge of skipping out on a court hearing seven years ago on a Swedish extraditio request seeking to question about allegations (not formal charges) of rape and sexual abuse — a case that had subsequently been dropped by …
Hello to all of you who are visiting this site after learning that TCBH! founder Dave Lindorff just won one of this year’s Izzy Awards for Excellence in Alternative Journalism — as well as those of you who may have just stumbled upon the site. ThisCantBeHappening! was founded in 2010, initially by Dave and three …
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The kings, They come in caravans to die And they bring with them their servants. And their jewels stay with them When they are buried One hundred years apart In the back yard. And their graves Fall down And are removed For paving stones And the road that the kings arrived on Is called Kings …