Memorial to the 45,000 Who Die Every Year from Lack of Health Insurance
Washington Monument Grounds
Washington, D.C.
21 September 2009

By Louis Proyect

When Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, died last Monday at the age of 95, I could not help but wonder if special issues of the Nation Magazine and the Monthly Review, the authoritative voices of American liberalism and radicalism respectively, might have caused the old buzzard to croak. The September 21 issue of the Nation was titled “Food for All” and took on the myths of the Green Revolution, just as does the July-August issue of Monthly Review. The MR has the added distinction of being co-edited by Fred Magdoff, Harry’s son, who is one of the leading Marxist experts on sustainable agriculture.

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by cadejo4, DailyKos.com, 21 September 2009

Radio Globo is reporting that President Manual Zelaya is back in Honduras and the resistance is calling on its members to congregate in front of the United Nations offices in Tegucigalpa. According to the radio station, Zelaya will be speaking shortly. TeleSur says it has confirmed the radio station’s account.

Urgent update: U.S. State Department confirming Zelaya is in Honduras.

Honduran media:

Radio Globo listen here.

Canal 11 watch here.

Canal 36 watch here.

TeleSur watch here.

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Interview of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Glenn Kessler and Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 14 September 2009

QUESTION: ….sometimes — just it seems like you’ve had — sometimes you’ve had — your language has been blunter than your typical diplomat.

QUESTION: One specific example I was thinking of, early on in the Administration you publicly called for a full settlement freeze, no natural growth, full stop on that. And some of your predecessors might have said that privately but not put it out there in a public domain….

Rice: US entirely opposed to Har Homa
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER, HERB KEINON AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH, The Jerusalem Post, 10 January 2008

On the eve of US President George W. Bush’s visit to Israel and the region, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice placed the issue of settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem at center stage, telling The Jerusalem Post that “Har Homa is a settlement the United States has opposed from the very beginning.”

Rice, who was accompanying Bush en route to Israel overnight Tuesday, said that “the United States doesn’t make a distinction” between settlement activity in east Jerusalem and the West Bank and that Israel’s road map obligations, which include a building freeze, relate to “settlement activity generally.”