Category Archives: State terrorism

Twilight of the General

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Matt

Guatemala is not a country that has had much to celebrate in the last half a century.  In 1954, a US-backed coup overthrew the centre-left government of Jacobo Arbenz, and ushered in a thirty year ‘war’ – or rather a … Continue reading →

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President Kill

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Matt

Last week’s New York Times piece on Barack Obama’s personal involvement in approving the ‘kill list’ of targets for drone strikes has generated a lot of discussion and attention, and with good reason. The article shines a grim light on Obama’s … Continue reading →

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Skulls, Bones and Human rights

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Matt

I’m a big fan of the Israeli architect and writer Eyal Weizman.  His book Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation (Verso 2007) is a brilliant and revelatory account of the different ways in which Israel has used topography and physical … Continue reading →

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Remembering El Mozote

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Matt

Just over thirty years ago, in a three day period from December 10 to 13 1981, a unit of the US-trained elite Atlacatl Battalion massacred more than 1,000 men, women and children in the course of an anti-terrorist limpieza (cleanup) … Continue reading →

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