An article of mine, now up on Venezuela Analysis, talks about a striking feature of the cables published by Wkileaks that originated in Carcas.…
MY INITIAL EMAIL (sent Dec 6, 2010) TO [email protected], Given that the US government has threatened to prosecute Wikileaks, and given that…
I just read quickly through the first two cables I found that originated from the Embaasy in Port-au-Prince. They are basically frank…
Below are various quotes from "A Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot" (1996, by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner, Alvaro…
Ayn Rand believed that people were far too stupid to run the economy democratically. She sought to convince the incompetent majority that…
Israel’s latest criminal outrage, while very far from being its worst, is nevertheless so flagrant that it exceeds the capacity of the…
In December of 2009, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) put out a 300-page report entitled “Democracy and Human Rights in…
In “Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid”, Yves Engler argues that “Canada is not, nor has ever been, an ‘honest broker’ in the…
Andrew Chung’s lengthy article about the impoverished Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel Air ("Princes of Bel Air", Toronto Star March 7, 2010) makes…
Decent people in North America have tried to help Haitians after the devastating earthquake that struck on January 12, but the corporate…
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