Breaking news: Manuel Noriega dead at 83.
The story can be found at the BBC.Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery.We all, of course, remember Regan’s good friend, the former strongman of...
View ArticleUpdate- Former President Martinelli in custody of FBI
Before there was President Trump, there was Presidente Ricardo Martinelli. A billionaire businessman with a big mouth, going to make his country, Panama, great. Also, corrupt as the day is long,...
View ArticleTrump opened the Panama canal according to Trump
www.yahoo.com/…Trump: “The Panama Canal is doing quite well. I think we did a good job building it…”
View ArticleTrump brags about building the Panama Canal, Panamanian president's response...
Unpopular President Donald Trump was meeting with Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela Monday, and like every single time Trump meets a foreign leader, the two sat on those yellow White House chairs...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Why All the Cool Birds Are Eating Fruit and Nesting in Holes.
I’m going to hopefully excuse my rather poor photographs with a bit of a science story to go with them.Male Resplendent Quetzal. Claimed to be the most beautiful bird in the world. A member of the...
View ArticleThe Trump–Russia story is a story about money laundering in real estate. Full...
When the investigation into the Trump campaign brings up charges of money laundering and shady property deals, it may seem like a sideline. But it shouldn’t. No one expects Donald Trump to secretly...
View ArticleTrump Ocean Club Tower in Panama is a nexus for organized crime
A Panama tower carries Trump’s name and ties to organized crimeAn NBC News investigation into the Trump Ocean Club, in conjunction with Reuters, shows that the project was riddled with brokers,...
View ArticleNarco-a-lago: Trump's Panama resort profited from money laundering
The Trump Ocean club in Panama has obvious ties to organized crime and drug trafficking, according to an NBC News and Reuters joint investigation. The Trump Organization, of course, says it was at...
View ArticleThe U.S. ambassador to Panama abruptly resigned, saying he cannot continue to...
After Donald Trump’s latest shameful, racist comments calling African countries “shitholes,” U.S. ambassador to Panama John Feeley has abruptly resigned, saying he cannot continue to serve under Donald...
View ArticleTrump is a Symptom, Not the Disease: 'BradCast' 1/12/2018
In wake of President's reported 'shithole countries' comment, the GOP's toxic, racist policies are laid bare in the U.S. and across the globe...On today's BradCast: Buckle up, and maybe take a few...
View ArticleThe liberation of Trump Ocean Club, Panama?
There’s a weird dispute in Panama where the owners of a condo tower under a Trump management contract is trying to get out of the contract, the Trump Organization is resisting and Panamanian police are...
View ArticleEditorial, March 4, 2018: Trump Lashes Out
Trump has never believed that the law applies to him. There is increasing evidence that, prior to his presidency, Trump was engaged in money laundering. During testimony in November to the House...
View ArticleTrump name taken off Panama hotel after dramatic legal battle
It’s easy to lose track of all the Trump-related drama in the United States, let alone Trump-related drama in Panama, but after a week of said drama in Panama, the Trump Organization has been ousted...
View ArticleEnjoy watching Trump's name get taken off his Panama hotel WITH A HAMMER!
On Monday, after a protracted business breakup as messy as any and all interactions with white supremacist in chief Donald Trump tend to be, the Trump Organization was successfully kicked out of the...
View ArticleDonald Trump's company pushed Panama's president to intervene in business fight
As the saga of the Trump Organization's nasty battle over the management of a single Panama luxury tower continues, we return again to the question: Just why did the Trumps consider the loss of this...
View ArticleRemembering GHWB
What I remember most about #41 was the U.N. condemned and illegal invasion of Panama (1989), the deaths of hundreds of civilians, and the capture and imprisonment of Bush's CIA / DEA asset, M. Noriega....
View ArticleI see George H.W. Bush through my Panamanian eyes, and the deaths he caused...
I remember it like it was yesterday. I received a call from a friend. He was born in Panama of Panamanian parents like I was. We went to school together, and both came to America. He joined the...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: January 28 is Data Privacy Day
January 28 is the 28th day of the year It is also Pungenday, Chaos 28, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.3.9 by the Mayan Long Count Jr ubyq gurfr gehguf gb or frys-rivqrag, gung...
View ArticleInternational Digest: Longtime Algerian president resigns, but unclear if...
Leading Off●Algeria –presidential resignationIn a political earthquake in North Africa, longtime Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned earlier this month after 20 years in power. The frail...
View ArticleThis isn’t the first time William Barr tried to fool Congress and the nation...
In 1979, the United States signed a treaty that would gradually turn over control of the Panama Canal zone to the nation in whose territory it was found. But by 1989, the U.S. government was profoundly...
View ArticleTrump and Barr bring three decades of GOP criminality full circle
Historical events occur twice, Karl Marx famously said, first as tragedy and then as farce. But when it comes to the rampant lawlessness of Republican presidential administrations, the record is a...
View ArticleInternational Elections Digest: Spain's Socialists surge to biggest victory...
Leading Off●Spain –parliament (April 28)Spain's April elections saw the center-left Socialist party win its biggest victory since 2008 after a late surge in the polls, putting it in a strong position...
View ArticleInternational Elections Digest: Radical-right Hindu nationalists win...
The Daily Kos International Elections Digest is compiled by Stephen Wolf and David Beard, with additional contributions from James Lambert and Daniel Donner, and is edited by David Nir.Leading...
View ArticleHidden History: The Watermelon War
In 1856, a street fight over a piece of watermelon began a process that would lead to the construction of the Panama Canal and the American domination of Central America for over a century."Hidden...
View ArticleFrom InvestigateIvanka.com: Pump and Trump
InvestigateIvanka.com is a collection of more than 60 articles from sources such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, ProPublica, CREW and The Guardian, detailing Ivanka Trump’s wide-ranging...
View ArticleConservatives Have Learned Nothing (Neither have we if we let them get away...
In a diary I posted recently asking just how exactly did Trump decide to assassinate a high Iranian military leader and risk war with Iran, one of the poll choices mentioned it would make Putin smile....
View ArticleOvernight News Digest
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico,...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket--Tern, Turn, Turn
We skedaddled out of Panama City heading kind of north on highway 2. But the paved road turned to dirt after 150 miles.By then we were as far south as you can go in the Northern Hemisphere. We’d...
View ArticleAs nations refuse to open ports,10,000 people remain stranded on cruise ships...
At least 10 cruise ships around the world—carrying a total of nearly 10,000 passengers—now find themselves stranded at sea with no place to dock, even as widespread COVID-19 infections mount...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: News of the World
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico,...
View ArticleSun 28 Feb 2021 - All Day Open Thread - Foreign Policy and Int'l Events -...
Welcome to an all day open thread hosted by “Foreign Policy and International Events Group”. Drop by to share links and stories or for commentary. (or just play peekaboo and say look what I found)....
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket- My Bird Race totals for 2021
The Daily Bucket is a nature refuge. We amicably discuss animals, weather, climate, soil, plants, waters and note life’s patterns.We invite you to note what you are seeing around you in your own part...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: The Goddess of Alto Playano
When sleeping in a tent in the in Panama’s Darien forest, that alarm at 4 AM should stand apart from the noises of the jungle. All through the night, frogs and insects maintain a constant din, with...
View ArticleListener points out inconvenient truths about America's incursions similar to...
A caller to the WAOK program “On Point with Juandolyn Stokes” laid out some inconvenient truths about America’s war actions similar to Russia.He enumerates inconvenient truthsxxYouTube VideoWatch...
View ArticleBuilding Complex for “Untouchable” Kids in India
New York, N.Y. I traveled to Delhi in South Asia just before the Pandemic to open the office of ‘The J. Luce Foundation India.” This is in Bodhgaya, Bihar on the border with Nepal. Eight years prior, I...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: A Man A P- WOW! Was it a cat I saw! WOW-Panama
Yes- It was a cat, but more about that in a minute!A while back I wrote about a one day trek that I took in September 2021 to search for Harpy Eagle in the Darien Province in eastern Panama. I thought...
View ArticleIndians 101: Kuna molas
The Panamanian San Blas Islands are the home to the Kuna (also spelled Cuna), a Chibcan-speaking Indian people. With regard to art, the Kuna are known for their molas: intricately embroidered textiles.
View Article📌This Week in the War On/For Women: a woman in The House. And...
<big>Clerk of the House Cheryl L. Johnson, J.D.</big> Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson presided over the fifth most balloted Speaker election in US history, all other House business at...
View ArticleLaboratory of Autocracy: WI GOPers Threaten to Impeach Just-Seated Justice:...
Guest: BRAD BLOG legal contributor Ernest A. CanningAlso: Trump co-defendants begin surrenders on 2020 election theft RICO charges in GA…There is no small amount of irony throughout today's BradCast,...
View ArticlePanama….not just for Christmas…and so very much more
I read this a few hours ago and have been thinking much about what Belén Fernández, an Al Jazeera columnist, had to say. If you would like to read her full article go...
View ArticleAnd now for something completely different…with updates
Update — 4:05 — calls are being made to open up some roads for humanitarian purposes. Farmers are losing lots of money. Many towns are out of fuel. But the canal appears to have remained open. I have...
View ArticleMore of somethings completely different... from Panama- and updates
Update — 4 pm.— We made it to the grocery store without incident. But all the windows were boarded up and armed security was present. Neighbors are concerned about pet food so I stocked up. Unconfirmed...
View ArticleNew news from Panama and not the Canal
For those of you just joining us from all the other not happy news, a recap with a few more details.On Friday 20 October, President Cortizo signed the new mine contract with First Quantum, a Canadian...
View ArticleOne step closer to good news out of Panama…probably
After only four days of reading, meeting and discussing, the Supreme Court of Panama has ruled the Cobre Mine contract is unconstitutional. In a unanimous decision, the court stated that entire law 406...
View ArticleAt least a few toes in that light at the end of the tunnel in Panama
Every time I hear that phrase, “We can now see the light at the end of the tunnel” for what ever crisis it is at the time, my response is that we are still in the tunnel. That being said, the protests...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Ants- And the Birds Who Love Them
We carefully picked our way along a muddy trail in the rain forest at Soberania National Park in Panama as we tried to take in all the unfamiliar sounds coming from the jungle’s birds, insects and...
View ArticleA little known “holiday” in Panama today
January 9 is Martyrs’ Day every year in Panama. This is to commemorate what happened here January 9 1964. Long story short.The Panama Canal was under US control which lead to some of the same racism...
View ArticleSome not as bad news…from Panama
Bad news here but perhaps not as bad as else where. Tomorrow will make a week of a fire that I have been able to see the smoke of from my balcony. It is a land fill/dump fire with toxic materials...
View ArticleOrestes Fintiklis, So Happy "Trump" Will Soon Be Off His Hotel, Played And...
Washington PostPANAMA CITY — The majority owner of President Trump’s only hotel in Latin America said Monday that Panamanian authorities had allowed him to take over management of the hotel — ejecting...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, there is…
…an ethical Supreme Court. Just not in the United States.Yesterday, Monday 4 March, two Supreme Courts delivered very different rulings regarding past and hopeful-for-again Presidents. And both are...
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