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Who among us hasn t looked out at the great edifice of human civilization in all its complexity, and thought Yeah okay but I could do it better ? Centuries of utopian communes, micronations, and seasteads have dreamed of rebuilding society from first principles, free from entrenched interests and the debris of the past. If you got all the laws and values just right, maybe you could prevent poverty and corruption from finding their first footholds. Do the liberty and justice for all thing, but for real.
And who among us, having had the dream, hasn t entered into multi-year negotiations with the government of Honduras? Taken advantage of a clause in the Honduras-Kuwait Treaty Of Reciprocal Investment guaranteeing them their right to pursue their vision unmolested? Raised millions in venture capital and bought land on a Caribbean island to turn it into a reality?
Blinken’s Winking and Nodding to the Neocons
Biden’s Western Hemisphere foreign policy is not much different from that of Obama’s, Wayne Madsen writes.
Like proverbial bad pennies, the neocon imperialists who plagued the Barack Obama administration have turned up in force in Joe Biden’s State Department. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has given more than winks and nods to the dastardly duo of Victoria Nuland, slated to become Blinken’s Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the number three position at the State Department, and Samantha Power, nominated to become the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Photo: Anti-government protesters in Honduras
Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernandez, Former Honduran Congressman and the brother of the current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, was sentenced to life in prison in a Manhattan federal court and ordered to forfeit $138 million. He was convicted of crimes in October 2019 that carried decades in prison as a mandatory minimum sentence. His conviction comes after his trial revealed Hernandez’s role as a key figure in one of the world’s largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies.
In November 2018, Hernandez was arrested and charged in Miami on drug trafficking charges. He was found smuggling nearly 200,000 kilograms (440,000 lbs) of cocaine and machine guns. According to the Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman in 2018, “