[… and not before time. ] For a few years, Latin America has increasingly been the focus of media attention. The main reason for this is the development in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. Three countries which had suffered under dictatorships or a long time are now treading new political paths. […]
Geopolitics
I always prefer to be accused of “spewing venom” but more to the point, does this mean that I have abandoned my anti-socialist grounding, and my strong anti-communist inclinations, to fester in a fevered swamp? Hopefully not, for as I suggested in a rebuttal to “The right side”, “Revulsion at […]
[youtube]IJozCCHdSNA[/youtube] U.S. taxpayer dollars are finding their way to the pockets of the Taliban, according to a new 75-page congressional report about the military’s use of Afghan security firms. The firms are used to ensure the safe passage of supply convoys. If the U.S. doesn’t pay up, almost without fail […]
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“Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or “disappeared”, at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame.” Amnesty International, 1996 US Military Bases – Overseas: Bulgaria, Guam, […]
The alternative media is working diligently to locate evidence that the New York Times willfully aided Israel’s cover-up of information about their flotilla attack. Prima facie evidence of the paper’s distortion and suppression of facts is so abundant we believe top management must have been involved. The Times’ complicity ranged from journalistic failure […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgv39GtcJ0 Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero. It is at moments like […]
Badness always manifests in destruction and corruption, while goodness always manifests in preservation and benefit. – Socrates in Plato’s Republic (ca. 374 B.C.) “Wanted” posters of Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak in Jerusalem, April 2010. Olmert and Barak are accused of bribery and corruption in Israel and indictable for serious war crimes in Gaza. […]