Category Archives: Free Trade, My Ass!

They call this “progress”?

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Just another proud moment in Latin American progress: the death of Che Guevara. No, US interference wasn’t behind that one, either.Will someone kindly inform John Podesta that his think tank has run out of gas? The Center for American Progress … Continue reading →

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Scary Thought #10: Prepare to soil yourselves again, folks…

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Sabina Becker

The National Debt Clock in Manhattan is now too small for the number it’s meant to tally. You may want to avoid Wall St., I hear they’re about due for a shower of suiciding stockbrokers.

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Money as Debt

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Okay, class, here’s your weekend assignment: Watch this 47-minute video. Don’t mind the cheesy animation; pay attention to the very simple lessons contained therein. If you do, you might just end up understanding the whole US (and world) credit crisis … Continue reading →

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Who writes these dumbass editorials?

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Sabina Becker

More tired old “21st century socialism looks just like 20th”, courtesy the Financial Times. More tired old “Chavez is a dictator”, courtesy the Richmond Times Dispatch. And in the grand (tired) old tradition of unsigned editorials, the authors are not … Continue reading →

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Yoo-hoo, lamestream media…

Posted on August 19, 2008 by Sabina Becker

…I think you dropped something. Namely, all mention of a tyrannical Latin American president–in PERU! In view of the protests of 60 ethnic groups from the Amazonian jungle against official decrees, the Peruvian government declared three provinces and one municipality … Continue reading →

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Alan fiddles while Pisco burns

Posted on August 14, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Alan Garcia finally takes his doctor’s advice and starts his new aerobics program. Maybe he’ll finally lose some of that weight.Crikey, what is up with the president of Peru? Dancing around like a marionette while Pisco is still in such … Continue reading →

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Letters from the Evil Dead

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Strange things dead paramilitaries write…and stranger things they reveal. From Aporrea, a little note that will make you believe that there IS life after death, especially for crime and scandal in Colombia: The ex-colonel of Colombian police, Danilo Gonzalez, who … Continue reading →

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I could have told them so, but would they listen?

Posted on July 26, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Whoa–is the sky falling, or what? The Economist has finally gotten (partway) off its “rah rah, America” kick and published a (somewhat) honest assessment of what’s going on in the States. And a thing of beauty it is, too: One … Continue reading →

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The hubris of the Nestle corporation

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Nestle CEO Peter Brabeck doesn’t think water is a basic human right (he considers THAT position “extremist”); he thinks it should be owned by corporations and sold to the public for profit. I guess no one ever told him what … Continue reading →

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More folly and frivolity at WW4R, Reuters

Posted on July 12, 2008 by Sabina Becker

Okay. Now we know who‘s NOT in the know about current events in South America: “Venezuela and Colombia today open a new epoch in our relations,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez told reporters after a meeting with his Colombian counterpart Álvaro … Continue reading →