Other Worlds: We have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence.
The truth is that humanity is predisposed to peace. The default position for humanity is that of conscientious objector to war and violence.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
Showing posts with label militarism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label militarism. Show all posts
Sep 11, 2015
THE POWER OF CONSCIENCE: The US Military and the Myth that Humanity is Predisposed to Violence
Editor's Note: This is an important read that is relevant to the Americas Program's critique of US funding and training in Latin America and the downward spiral of violence this causes.
Other Worlds: We have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence.
Other Worlds: We have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence.
Mar 27, 2012
US Agents Kill Man in Phony Murder-for-Hire Plot
One of the more bizarre events of the 'tangled web' of U.S. involvement in the drug war... The DEA shot and killed a US citizen in a bust that included two US Army soldiers (one current, one former) for supposedly offering their services as hit men for the Zetas. The entire tragic incident was staged as a sting by the DEA.
(Reuters) A U.S. federal agent shot dead one of four men facing arrest in South Texas for being part of a murder-for-hire squad enlisted by undercover agents posing as Mexican drug cartel members, according to court documents released on Monday.
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot Jerome Corley on Saturday in Laredo, Texas, where federal authorities busted three men, including an Army sergeant and a recently discharged officer, who thought they would be hired as assassins for Mexico's brutal Zetas drug cartel...
Among the arrested was Corley's cousin Kevin Corley, 29, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who served in Afghanistan and was discharged from the Army on March 13, according to an Army spokeswoman; Samuel Walker, 28, of Colorado Springs, an active-duty sergeant, according to a spokeswoman at Fort Carson; and Shavar Davis, 29, of Denver. Read more
(Reuters) A U.S. federal agent shot dead one of four men facing arrest in South Texas for being part of a murder-for-hire squad enlisted by undercover agents posing as Mexican drug cartel members, according to court documents released on Monday.
A Drug Enforcement Administration agent shot Jerome Corley on Saturday in Laredo, Texas, where federal authorities busted three men, including an Army sergeant and a recently discharged officer, who thought they would be hired as assassins for Mexico's brutal Zetas drug cartel...
Among the arrested was Corley's cousin Kevin Corley, 29, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who served in Afghanistan and was discharged from the Army on March 13, according to an Army spokeswoman; Samuel Walker, 28, of Colorado Springs, an active-duty sergeant, according to a spokeswoman at Fort Carson; and Shavar Davis, 29, of Denver. Read more
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