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Witness the obliteration of a highly significant passage in U.S. history. To be deprived in this way of the past — of the facts of our time — is a kind of condemnation. By Patrick Lawrence Original to ScheerPost There are certain things I do not quite get since Special Counsel John D
For the Biden administration, taking a new direction on immigration — as is the case with turning away from most Trump initiatives — is fairly easy at the start. A basic humanity and empathy, conc...
Out now in documentary form, The Art of Political Murder presents a riveting narrative reconstruction of one of Latin America’s most controversial and bizarre criminal cases: the killing of Guatemala’s great human rights champion, Bishop Juan Gerardi.December 23, 2020 Bishop Juan Gerardi was savagely murdered on April 26, 1998, two days after presenting the Recovery of Historical Memory Project (REMHI), the Guatemalan Catholic Church’s report recounting the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan Army during its 36-year armed conflict. The 78-year old bishop, who led the unprecedented e...
As the US remains in the extraordinary position of having a President who refuses to acknowledge he hasn’t been re-elected, and who continues to encourage those who agitate for a populist coup, we often seem on the brink of political violence Americans are accustomed to seeing only in “banana republics,” or other nations we routinely dismiss as corrupt and backward. That violence did not explode as feared around Election Day, when the Electoral College certified its results, or when the Supreme Court shot down yet another bogus challenge from Team Trump. But who knows what January will ...
A documentary looks into the killing of a Guatemalan bishop who had exposed military crimes. Key witness Ruben Chanax testifies in court Photo: HBO By John Anderson Dec. 15, 2020 4:07 pm ET Based on novelist Francisco Goldmanâs 2007 work of investigative nonfiction (subtitled âWho Killed the Bishop?â), âThe Art of Political Murderâ is a satisfying portrait of courage, corruption and the murderous deep state that operated inside Guatemala, a country the average American ought to know a bit more about given our histor...