Cambio Newspaper,  March 27 and 28, 2013 Because of their hegemonic origin, the current U.S. foreign-aid programs still bear the mark of paternalism Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti* On March 3, 2013, the U.S. Department of State issued its annual report to the nation’s Congress on the efforts made by “key” countries in ...

Cindy Sheehan is brave and determined. She's stood up to George W. Bush, gotten arrested, and done her best to keep the anti-war community alive during the Obama years. All of those things turned out to be easier than working with Roseanne Barr. Barr, the multimillion dollar celebrity who bought the Peace ...

Dear Thad: Let me begin by explaining that I don’t get off on pornography. Watching other people have sex doesn't make me horny; at most it makes me curious. Rather, I am writing you concerning the very vexing question of why I get off watching a representation of me getting off. My partner was ...

Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti At the dawn of the 21th Century, humanity undergoes a renewal of understanding that is manifested in the use of reason more that of dogma. The advance of science has lighted gray areas in which beliefs were the only way to “explain” life. Today we see people in ...

Most Americans want a fair economy, not one that stacks the deck for people who already enjoy a stacked deck. But both major parties accept the inevitability of corporate-centered capitalism, a system which cannot be reformed and will destroy the planet. Over 70 percent of the public supported a publicly-run health ...

Early this morning, a gunman killed 12 people and injured 59 --a total of 71 gunshot victims, a record-- at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, in Aurora, Colorado. The alleged shooter, James Eagan Holmes, used two devices to ignite smoke or gas in the theater, before opening ...

Terrible news from Bulgaria, as "An explosion on bus carrying Israeli tourists at the airport of the Black Sea city of Burgas killed up to seven people" today.  An Israeli witness told Army Radio he believed the attack was caused by a suicide bomber. Haaretz reported that an Israeli who witnessed ...

Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti   It’s not strange to find in history innumerable examples of peoples totally hypnotized by religious beliefs who attack other peoples, murdering and establishing bloody dictatorships, all in the name of God. Religious fundamentalism seems to be the most efficient mechanism to create armies of automatons out of ...

"Time is a game played beautifully by children." ~Heraclitus I am watching my nine year-old, my soon-to-be-seven year-old, and my five year-old play on the playground at one of Laramie's fine parks, Laprele, with its Huck Finn fishing pond, its rows of tall pines, and its tiny little river. I am watching ...

The Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz wrote of action in war that it must “be planned in a mere twilight, which - like the effect of a fog or moonlight - gives to things exaggerated dimensions and unnatural appearance.” As I attempted to research and write an article that ...