THERE’S A SMALL CHANCE THAT FURTHER AUDIT OF THE VENEZUELAN ELECTION WILL OVERTURN THE RESULS OF THAT ELECTION. How small? One in 25,000 trillion, according to a statistical analysis of election boxes already audited, the likelihood that audits of the remainder could reverse the “populist” outcome that continues the policies of Hugo Chavez. So [...]
IS AMERICA LOSING ITS “BACKYARD IN THE SOUTH”? Considering the U.S. and Latin American reactions to the recent Venezuelan election, it would appear that things are seriously awry for the U.S. in that backyard. While Washington tries to subvert the electoral process that (narrowly) elected a successor in the mold of Hugo Chavez, other [...]
Elections in Venezuela have produced a new leader for country following the sudden death of former President Hugo Chavez earlier this year. The United States and its allies are refusing to accept the results, however, propping up opposition protests that have led to street violence and demands for a recount. Events surrounding the aftermath of [...]
MILITARY UBER ALLES: LIBERTARIAN WRITER DECRIES THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN LIFE. Jason Raimondo examines two chunks in the edifice of the structure of military dominance of the culture. (1) the recent decision to allow women into combat roles, which he sees as a triumph of equality over liberty, an “opportunity” for women to share in the [...]
VAMPIRE CAPITALISM ON THE PROWL FROM DETROIT TO ATLANTA. Bruce A. Dixon describes the process by which predatory “banksters” use their political clout to manufacture fiscal “crises” in Detroit and the Atlanta suburb of DeKalb County, to force political leaders to declare their elected governments in default, and impose bankster-profitable austerity and privatization measures. [...]
Venezuela’s historic and passionate president Hugo Chavez passed away this week at the age of 58, dead of an apparent heart attack after also fighting a lengthy battle with cancer. The event threatens to realign the political scene in South America while exposing the combative agenda that marked the failure of the United States government’s [...]
PLAN TO GET SICK AFTER 2014? BETTER PLAN TO MOVE TO MASSACHUSETTS IF YOU WANT HEALTH CARE COVERAGE. This is a reasonable interpretation of a finding that the great majority (up to 98%) of health care services will be unavailable to Americans after the “Affordable” (Obamacare) health insurance system kicks in that year. The [...]
THEY GIVE OSCARS, DO THEY NOT, FOR FISCAL CHARADES LIKE THE ONE NOW PLAYING IN WASHINGTON, D.C.? If they did, Fix the Debt, the spectacular show produced by billionaire Pete Peterson, with a cast of dozens of fellow plutocrats, would be a shoo-in for an award. The lobby group that Peterson heads has already [...]
COLOMBIA: “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.” This is labor activist Daniel Kovolak’s characterization of the Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress and signed by the President. This agreement, when implemented, will result among other things in huge amounts of U.S. agricultural products being “dumped” tariff-free in Colombia, creating wholesale displacement [...]
ARTHUR MURRAY DIES IN AUSTRALIA: HIS LIFE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BALLROOM DANCING. Unlike that “other” AM who died in 1991, he was a heroic leader of the movement for aboriginal rights in Australia. The strike of cotton-pickers that he led had all the earmarks of an MLK-era protest in the U.S. as [...]
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