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As you’re recovering from the latest Andrew Breitbart/Fox News scam that resulted in the ouster of a Department of Agriculture employee, consider this, one of countless examples of propaganda disguised as news presented by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire: This morning an article in El Nuevo Día points out that images shown during a July 9th […]

Want to see a phony talking point wielded by Puerto Rico governor Luis Fortuño obliterated by a serious journalist on live TV? Then click on the video above and watch Rafael Lenín López ask the governor about what I’d cast doubt on in my previous post. “At what moment,” asks Lenin, “did you hear of […]

The current government of Puerto Rico, led by Governor Luis Fortuño, is engaged in a campaign of deception and curtailment of democratic rights to crush legitimate opposition to its punishing and now, destabilizing policy of neo-conservative reforms. The governor’s remarks yesterday–fittingly at a groundbreaking for a new Sam’s Club in an industrial area of San […]

If there had been any doubt previously, it is now clear that the current government of Puerto Rico, led by the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP) is intent on provoking confrontation with dissenting citizens and using violent force against them. Yesterday (June 30) at around 4:30 p.m., a large contingent of riot police expelled protestors […]

This past Sunday, Newsday employees voted to ratify a contract that would lower their salaries by 5% and 10% beginning next week, July 6. This is patently outrageous because Cablevision, the parent company of the Long Island daily, has reported a tripling of its profits a month ago. The huge profits seem to have resulted directly from Cablevision’s […]

Who can explain why a seemingly left-leaning website like the Huffington Post can portray an Puerto Rican politics issue trending toward the center-right? Is it because there is so little coverage of Puerto Rico in any English-language media that there is no understanding of its politics by editors who are otherwise capable of grasping things […]

On Tuesday, June 1, Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez held a press conference at S.O.B.’s, a world music club in downtown Manhattan. The audio file with the entire news conference in Spanish is here: Silvio Rodriguez press conference The following is an approximate transcript, with many of the questions truncated. (And of course, translation is mine.) […]

What does the decay of a once-proud empire look like? If you are reading this on an I-pad in an airport, perhaps even the faint reflection of your own furrowed brow is not enough of a clue. The early warning sings are more clearly observed on the periphery, in this case the Caribbean, home of […]

Arizona State legislation SB-1070, the spectacular attempt to institutionalize anti-Latino racism is hardly surprising in view of the sustained ill will emanating from the white “victims” of Barack Obama’s presidency. It’s also not surprising from the state that wouldn’t recognize Martin Luther King’s birthday as a holiday until six years after it was first celebrated, […]

Los Angeles Angels of Anheim outfielder Torii Hunter’s comments on black Latinos last week were so embarrassing he wound up apologizing for them. “As African-American players, we have a theory that baseball can go get an imitator and pass them off as us,” Hunter says. “It’s like they had to get some kind of dark […]