A few days before the election of the President of the planet in North America, in South America elections and a plebiscite…
Strange dictator this Hugo Chavez. Masochistic and suicidal: he created a Constitution that permits the people to throw him out, and he…
A small gesture of national dignity set off a raging scandal early this year. Throughout the world the press gave the story…
A gigantic gas explosion: This was the popular uprising that shook all of Bolivia and culminated in the resignation of President Sanchez…
For forty-five years, Iraqi Ahmad Chalabi ate the hard bread of exile. To ease his woes he established a bank, Petra Bank,…
The recent wave of executions and arrests in Cuba is very good news for the universal superpower, which remains obsessed with removing…
Just think. In the middle of last year, when this war was still only gestating, George W. Bush stated that ‘we have…
[Translated by Francisco Gonzalez] The President of our planet announces his next killing campaign in the name of God and Democracy. Thus…
Translated by Simon Helweg-Larsen Recently, in many countries at once, numerous popular demonstrations have been staged against the warring vocation of the…
Translation. [email protected] volunteer translators (*) Times of fear. The world is living in a state of terror, terror in disguise: some say…
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