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Three enormous open-pit mines owned by Drummond Co. in northern Colombia dwarf the nearby town of La Loma, which sprang up after the U.S. company began extracting coal in 1995 and has grown to some 10,000 residents. Life in La Loma revolves around the mines. Packed company buses flood the town every 12 hours, at the 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. shift changes. After workers who have just completed their shifts empty out, the buses fill right back up with fresh replacements waiting to be taken to the mines t

JFK and the long shadow caused by the Bay of Pigs Updated / Thursday, 15 Apr 2021 09:37 Federico Fidel Fernandez, a Miami Cuban refugee, listens to President Kennedy's television address 22nd October 1962, in which the President explained the United States' position on the Cuban situation to the American people and the world. Analysis: The lessons Kennedy had learned from the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs were to stand him - and the world - in good stead during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but Cuban-American relations still remain complex sixty years later. Sixty years ago, on 17 April 1961, a brig...

Antiwar.com Original Trump is gone; Biden is in. But America is still recognizing the coup leader in Venezuela, is silent on Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara, is continuing Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol while accepting the importance of Israel’s hold on the Golan Heights and is only cautiously correcting course on Cuba. The history of American coups and colonialism is nearly – but importantly not quite – as old as the history of America. The need for such expansionistic policies has always been attributed to the fear of the spread of...

THE HITLER FILES Brit and US spies hunted Hitler for TEN YEARS after WW2 over fake sightings in South America, secret docs show Revealed Updated: 26 Jan 2021, 11:31 DECLASSIFIED documents show how the UK and US hunted for Adolf Hitler for 10 years after the end of World War 2 as they feared he was still alive. Spy files held in the archives of the CIA and the FBI unearthed by The Sun Online show the stunning leads pursued with very real fear that Hitler escaped from his bunker in Berlin. 12 Adolf Hitler died in 1945 - but the hunt for him lasted well into the 1950sCredit: Getty - Contributor

Col. Michele Kilgore, commander of the 109th Airlift Wing since 2017, taking Pentagon job Related Media Col. Michele Kilgore, the commander of the 109th Airlift Wing, at the South Pole in February, 2020. Kilgore is leaving the wing after three years in command. Col. Michele Kilgore, the commander of the 109th Airlift Wing speaks to the press during an event in New York City in 2019. Kilgore is leaving the wing after three years in command. SCOTIA, NEW YORK (12/10/2020) (readMedia)-- New York Air National Guard Col. Michele Kilgore, commander ...