NO JOY IN LEOPOLDVILLE: AMERICANS MAY JUST HAVE VOTED FOR FOUR MORE YEARS OF CONGOLESE GENOCIDE. This is the view of Glen Ford, commenting on a U.S. election whose winner has, under the guise of “peace-keeping” in a “civil war” situations, been fomenting, through proxy African governments, the very genocidal violence that has killed [...]
MEXICO’S WAR ON DRUGS: IS THE NEW POLICY TO BE “HUGS NOT BULLETS” FROM THE U.S.”? (New York Times) This possibility is indicated during the current presidential election in which the candidates to succeed Felipe Calderon say they will place their emphasis on curbing violence rather than interdicting the flow of drugs to the [...]
THE EUROPEAN UNION COULD BECOME THE GOLDMAN SACHS UNION. (Counterpunch) This is the spectre raised by Mike Whitney as he comments on the little-publicized appointment of Mario Draghi, former Managing Director of GS, to become the head of the European Central Bank, the European equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve. Off his record at GS, [...]
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