“It was becoming widely believed that the Clinton State Department, along with the right-wing in Washington, was working behind the scenes to make sure that [leftist] President [Manuel] Zelaya would not return to office. This U.S. cabal was coordinating with those behind the coup, it was being rumored, to bring new elections to Honduras, conducted by an illegal coup government, which would effectively terminate the term of Zelaya, who was illegally deposed in the final year of his constitutionally mandated single term. All this as Honduras was ‘descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss,’ as the coup government was seen to be actually committing crimes worthy of removal from power. Professor Dana Frank, an expert in recent Honduran history at UC Santa Cruz, would charge in the New York Times that the resulting ‘abyss’ in Honduras was ‘in good part the State Department’s making.'” [clarification added by TSJ]
Corporatism in action. Hillary Clinton, the closet adversary of left-wing politics.
MONDAY, JUN 8, 2015
Want to know why Clinton’s State Dept. failed to help an elected leader? Follow the money and stench of Lanny Davis
MATTHEW PULVER
Hillary Clinton, Lanny Davis (Credit: AP/Jim Cole/Joseph Kaczmarek/Arnulfo Franco/Photo montage by Salon)
Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley, considered by some to be the only real threat to Hillary Clinton, has joined Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the only two challengers to the former secretary of state. Republicans, whose seemingly limitless field seems poised for a “Hunger Games”-esque cage match, worry that a Clinton cakewalk through the primaries will leave her relatively unscathed in the general election against a beaten and beleaguered GOP nominee whose every foible will have been exposed.
And yet for some reason, GOP candidates lob…
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