Film Reviews— Stone’s ‘Border’ Shows Fall of South America’s Berlin Wall by Robert Naiman [print_link] On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The Bush Administration’s [...]
From NAFTA to WTO to welfare “reform’ to the Telecommunications Bill, Wall Street never had better friend in the White House than Bill Clinton. That is, until Barack Obama simply outright changed the address of Goldman Sachs’ headquarters to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. As we speak, the president and his party in Congress are busy gutting [...]
The likely results of the White House shuffle of generals are, in fact, dangerous.The change makes the prospects dimmer for Obama executing a rapid–or even a measured–withdrawal from Afghanistan beginning in July 2011, as some in his administration had hoped. And the President may not yet realize how scandalized his political base has been at [...]
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