US & Colombia keep looking for a war opening with Venezuela Washington eyes the destabilization and takeover of Venezuela a worthwhile objective—an Iraq in the making? As usual, American media fail to warn the US public about what their ruling class is plotting By Jorge Rueda (CP) – 2 hours ago CARACAS, Venezuela — President [...]
Chile confronts past with new museum It’s dedicated to victims of Pinochet’s 1973-1990 dictatorship, still a raw national wound. By Chris Kraul The Los Angeles Times December 28, 2009 Reporting from Santiago, Chile << Pinochet, the butcher of Chile, in regalia. What they’ll leave in and what they’ll leave out — that question haunts Margarita [...]
BY GAITHER STEWART “The old saying about Mexico’s ills still holds: “Pobre Mexico tan lejos de dios y tan cerca de los Estados Unidos.” Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near the United States. (The aphorism has been credited to Porfirio Diaz, but some historians argue it was Simon Bolivar who coined the witticism, with all of “Latin America” as the victim instead of just Mexico.) For there is no better place than Mexico to see first-hand the negative results of the pact between American capitalism and the tiny “have” class of Mexican society that has exploited the country’s hard working people for one hundred and fifty years. John Mason Hart’s monumental Empire and Revolution that I once reviewed answers the question many Americans are asking today: “Why do they hate us so much?” At the outset Professor Hart, University of Houston, quotes a passage from Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes’ masterpiece, The Death of Artemio Cruz, the gist of which is that one cannot commit what North Americans (and the Mexican elite) have committed against Mexico and expect to be loved…”
BY STEVEN JONAS “There were many factors which lead to the Crash of 2008, otherwise known as the Failure of Finance Capitalism. But if one wanted to pick one among many as the most important cause, it was that repeal. Currently, the DLC still clings to the Right. On its website you can find its policy paper on health care reform which says in essence forget about the public option, what we really need is health insurance regulation and “exchanges.” You can find a 2005 paper by Will Marshall calling for “victory” in Iraq. And you can even find a continued devotion to “free trade,” as if enough US manufacturing jobs had not already been sent abroad in search of higher profits…”
Crosspost with CounterPunch.org [print_link] December 24, 2009 Obama, Progressives and the Press “The ones that upset me the most are the so-called leaders of the “progressive” movement like Tom Hayden, CODEPINK and Michael Moore who very enthusiastically endorsed, worked for, voted for, and raised money for Obama, and NOW are beginning to speak out against [...]
The Obama riddle: witting or unwitting con artist? “It’s worth noting how completely antithetical claims are advanced to defend and excuse Obama. We’ve long heard — from the most blindly loyal cheerleaders and from Emanuel himself — that progressives should place their trust in the Obama White House to get this done the right way, that he’s playing 11-dimensional chess when everyone else is playing checkers, that Obama is the Long Game Master who will always win. Then, when a bad bill is produced, the exact opposite claim is hauled out: it’s not his fault because he’s totally powerless, has nothing to do with this, and couldn’t possibly have altered the outcome. From his defenders, he’s instantaneously transformed from 11-dimensional chess Master to impotent, victimized bystander. The supreme goal is to shield him from all blame…”
Deniers the unwitting tools of megacorporations When I was back in eighth grade, my science teacher, Mr. Malone, a brittle old man with a shock of white hair and a stern classroom demeanor, but a sharp sense of humor, had made a banner that ran across the top of the blackboard. It read: “If you [...]
The “Bubble” of false consciousness afflicting the American nation may be at last on the verge of deflating. By Michael Rectenwald, Founder, Citizens for Legitimate Government (CLG) Dateline: 12/11/09 [print_link] The decision to escalate the Afghanistan War should put the final nail in the coffin of “change” and “hope” that Democrats and others crawled into when [...]
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