Charles Bradford Hyde: Troubles for a Deal — and for Obama — in Honduras

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"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture postcard which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchained, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tender hearted men ready to bugger everything in sight--man, woman or beast. It does not exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

"None are more helplessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

Goethe

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell, 1984

"We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

George Orwell, 1984

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

George Orwell, 1984
Thanks, Pete

From My Library

The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents, John Dinges
The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia, Lutz Kleveman
Renegade: The Making of a President, Richard Wolffe
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Thomas E. Ricks
The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, Thomas E. Ricks
Empire´s Workshop: Latin America, the United States and the Rise of the New Imperialism, Greg Grandin
Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, Peter Chapman
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Stephen Kinzer
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on Americans, James Bamford
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Parag Khanna
The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, Ron Suskind
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Barton Gellman
The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, Bob Woodward
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Chalmers Johnson
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of US Involvement in Torture, Jennifer K. Harbury
Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq, Patrick Cockburn
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein
The Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Rajiv Chandrasekaran
The Coldest Winter, David Halberstam
The Bush Tragedy, Jacob Weisberg
A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller