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Despite the efforts of Miami-Dade Aviation director Angela Gittens to reform Miami International Airport, the brewing set-to over a prepaid phone card vending contract shows that it’s business as usual at MIA. Contracts get awarded to individuals with the most political juice; prominent among the rewardees is big-time lawyer/lobbyist Chris Korge. The millionaire Korge is well known in political circles, raising ... Read More...

With Friends Like These On The Road to The Truth Behind An Empire

With Friends Like These By Jim DeFede Thursday, Mar 26 1998 Courtesy of Miami New Times Alex Penelas has a problem. An image problem. After rising to power as a reformer, Penelas is now seeing his reputation challenged. Ironically (some might say fittingly), this attack comes not from the mayor's enemies but from some of his oldest allies, the very people who ... Read More...

On The Road To The Truth Behind An Empire

Chris Korge Rides Again Doing the phone card shuffle at MIA By Francisco Alvarado Thursday, Feb 13 2003 Courtesy of Miami New Times Despite the efforts of Miami-Dade Aviation director Angela Gittens to reform Miami International Airport, the brewing set-to over a prepaid phone card vending contract shows that it's business as usual at MIA. Contracts get awarded to individuals with the most ... Read More...

The Feast Of Thieves 2 On The Road to The Truth Behind An Empire

A Feast of Thieves, Part 2 More curious characters from the criminal conspiracy at Miami International Airport By Tristram Korten published: March 24, 2005 Courtesy of Miami New Times Christopher McFarlane, according to the investigative report: "What's it going to take to get the big money jobs. I want little overhead and big profits" There is more to come in the enormous criminal-corruption case at Miami International ... Read More...

The Feast Of Thieves on Road to the Truth Behind an Empire

A Feast of Thieves Scoundrels allegedly gorged themselves on millions stolen from MIA, and now a prominent politician is implicated in the conspiracy By Tristram Korten Thursday, Mar 17 2005 Cortesy of Miami New Times It was an uncharacteristically gloomy afternoon last week when I visited county Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler at her office on the second floor of the government center. The ... Read More...

You be the judge…

You be the judge… Lucia Whalen’s (who made the 911 call to Cambridge police, who eventually arrested the owner of the house, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.) comments seem to contradict the police report filed by Sgt. James Crowley. Ms. Whalen: said that the only words she exchanged with Sergeant Crowley in person were, “I was the 911 caller.” She said ... Read More...

A coup by any other name is a coup

By Amaury Cruz In Much ado over a non-coup (Miami Herald, July 26, 2009, p. 6L) William Ratliff writes in definitive tones that it was ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya “who was in the wrong,” instead of the new government, and complains that the OAS has painted him as a hero instead of the “country’s No. 1 lawbreaker.” Ratliff exemplifies a ... Read More...

Did Miami Herald reporter misunderstand or is there an agenda?

Thanks to a Havana Note blog entry from John McAuliff A story came across the McClatchy wire on Friday night that felt like a punch in the gut. It made it seem as though the President had joined the conditionality caucus. However, either the reporter misunderstood or her Miami Herald editor had an agenda. Thanks to Phil Peters on the Cuban Triangle blog ... Read More...

Netanyahu snubs Obama’s pitch

By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Obama is nothing if not persistent, but does he have the audacity to show the Israelis that actions have real and not just symbolic consequences by conditioning diplomatic support and economic and military aid on Israel’s seriousness in regard to a peace ... Read More...

Obama’s health care struggle: Waterloo or water down

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Push finally came to shove in Washington this week as the battle for health care escalated from scattered sniper fire into all-out combat. If it all seems to be getting more and more confusing, join the club. It's hard to see what's happening through all the gun smoke. The Republicans have more than health care reform ... Read More...

The Egyptian River flows through Washington

By Saul Landau During mid July, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s qualifications for the Supreme Court. The Solon’s oratory focused on themes of some fictional world, not one threatened by global warming and diving economies. Scientists regularly predict dire consequences if current production and consumption practices continue, but southern Republicans emphasized the country’s “fundamental” issues: the ... Read More...

China’s economics lesson to the U.S.

China's government is doing a better job than the US at coping with the effects of global economic recession By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian (UK) Global trade and the economic stimulus policies of individual national economies will play an important role in the recovery from the current global recession. This is especially true of the world's two largest economies, the United State ... Read More...

Enrique Ortez Honduras Chancellor “The Facto”,says ” Ese Negrito que no sabe nada” which means “That Black Man who knows nothing”

Enrique Ortez Colindres, Chancellor of Honduras The Facto", during an interview on Honduran television last night, called President Barack Obama, "Ese negrito que no sabe nada de nada," which has been translated to mean "that little black man who knows nothing" or "that little black man who doesn't know anything." In any circles, the word "negrito" is derogatory and blatantly ... Read More...

‘If you’re not sick, we’re not doing our job’

A message from the AMA And now a message from the American Medical Association. Who is the AMA? We’re your family doctor… who makes you wait two weeks for an appointment. We’re the specialist he refers you to… who is out of your network. So you’ll have to call Betty in claims, whose last name you don’t know, to get tentative ... Read More...

You provide the Tweets, we’ll provide the info war

The Iranian protests and the mainstream media By Jack Z. Bratich We can all remember a moment when we gazed up at the sky and used our imagination to make familiar shapes out of the clouds. In folk wisdom, seers practice aeromancy, a form of divination that involves observing atmospheric phenomena and nephomancy, the divination by studying clouds. What we are witnessing ... Read More...

OAS: Reinstate President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales

Instructs the Secretary General to undertake, together with representatives of various countries, diplomatic initiatives aimed at restoring democracy and the rule of law and the reinstatement of President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales, pursuant to Article 20 of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and report to the Special General Assembly on the results of the initiatives. Should these prove unsuccessful within 72 ... Read More...

Please cry for me, Argentina!

By Bill Press Oh, the Appalachian Trail. It's famous as the longest footpath in the nation -- but now we know it's even longer than we thought, stretching all the way from Maine to Argentina! And nobody ever encountered as many bumps along the trail as South Carolina's Republican Governor Mark Sanford. After Larry Craig, John Ensign, and Eliot Spitzer, zipper problems ... Read More...

Miami’s game of wheel of the fortunate

By Alvaro F. Fernandez alfernandez@the-beach.net This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Miami is a great place to do business -- if you’re a politician or were one. Monday morning I woke up to the news that Barbara Carey-Shuler, a former Miami-Dade county commissioner, had received cash payoffs from a prominent developer during the ... Read More...

Not enough audacity

By Paul Krugman From The New York Times (June 25, 2009) When it comes to domestic policy, there are two Barack Obamas. On one side there’s Barack the Policy Wonk, whose command of the issues -- and ability to explain those issues in plain English -- is a joy to behold. But on the other side there’s Barack the Post-Partisan, who searches for common ... Read More...

Iran’s brutal overreaction

By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Regardless of who really won the Iranian election, the brutal reaction of the theocratic regime to peaceful protests has destroyed any legitimacy the government and its leadership might have hoped to maintain. The disproportionate, bloody actions gave the image of a ... Read More...