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Solo: Latin America & Obama
Znet Article, August, 29 2008
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Scientists could probably work out an algorithm to give a predictable correlation between media disinformation, economic crisis and militarist adventurism. Corporate media news production is now so skewed and poorly bashed together, one can almost...
Solo: Ecuador, ALBA and the FARC
Znet Article, June, 15 2008
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Recent remarks by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on the civil war in Colombia and Ecuador's decision not to join the Alternativa Bolivariana de las Americas (ALBA) solidarity based cooperation initiative (1) shows progressive leaders are taking...
Solo: Globalization and Terror: Inspector Clouseau meets Ocean's 11
Znet Article, May, 20 2008
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The Pink Panther's Inspector Clouseau has a new rival. Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble's recent performance for Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's narco-terror regime was an autopilot sub-routine derived from Colin Powell's 2003 UN farrago...
Solo: Varieties of imperial decline
Znet Article, July, 25 2006
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If people needed reminding that North American and European foreign policy, including policy on aid and trade, is based on sadism and hypocrisy, events in Palestine and Lebanon will surely have done so. While people inside the imperial Bluebeard'...
Solo: Venezuela and Brazil
Znet Article, April, 30 2006
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COPA the Panamanian airline is now flying the Brazilian company Embraer's E-190 commercial airliners on routes previously dominated by Boeing 737s. This detail highlights broader shifts in the economic balance of power in Latin America away from U...
Solo: Nicaraguan solidarity
Znet Article, April, 29 2006
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[Note: Nicaragua Solidarity has replied to this article here.] Is there any significant difference between the political intervention of the North American solidarity movement in Nicaragua and that of the US government's ambassador? The recent de...
Solo: The Anti-Americans
Znet Article, March, 31 2006
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Jean Kirkpatrick's recent intervention in Nicaragua's internal politics is a helpful reminder that US government foreign policy is marked not just by hypocrisy and sadism but also by delusional stupidity. Take this quote from an interview Kirkpatr...
Solo: Ecuador
Znet Article, March, 23 2006
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The Ecuadorian government declared a state of emergency on Tuesday, March 21 after countrywide protests and roadblocks led by indigenous peasants intensified. Protesters are demanding that President Alfredo Palacio end negotiations for a free trad...
Solo: Poverty, consumerism and anti-imperialism
Znet Article, January, 29 2006
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Several responses are standard to criticism of ideologically bankrupt and morally schizophrenic initiatives like the UK's Make Poverty History campaign. One is to rail at the impudence of calling into question the campaign organizers sincerity and...
Solo: Bolivia and ALBA
Znet Article, December, 30 2005
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The decisive numbers of Evo Morales' election victory in South America's poorest country give him the legitimacy he needs to redistribute Bolivia's wealth in favour of the impoverished and excluded majority. But he faces enormous pressure from for...
Solo: Varieties of imperial aggression
Znet Article, October, 26 2005
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When the UN received the recent Mehlis report on the murder of former Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, one suggested tribunal for a possible prosecution was the International Criminal Court. Rejecting such a proposal, Secretary of State Condoleezz...
Solo: Katrina
Znet Article, September, 06 2005
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Failure to prioritize anyone's needs but their own is to be expected of the mendacious, cunning Bush regime. But the wretchedness and misery endured by people in the southern US States abandoned to their fate after hurricane Katrina has broader as...
Solo: Turning The Hour-Glass - The Empire Against The Clock
Znet Article, August, 24 2005
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The objectives of empire change very little from one century to another. Control of and access to energy and mining resources are only one strong motive driving imperial policy in Latin America. Control over food and water security is also a vital...
Solo: Ecuador
Znet Article, August, 15 2005
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Just as the long-standing political crisis in Bolivia hangs fire pending future elections, so too in Ecuador people await some serious attempt at a new political settlement. In both countries the fundamental cause of unrest is widespread popular r...
