Category Archives: Socialism is Good for Capitalism!

Quotable: Che Guevara on poverty

Posted on October 16, 2006 by Sabina Becker

“That afternoon we went separate ways: Alberto following up the doctors while I went to see an old woman with asthma, a customer at La Gioconda. The poor thing was in an awful state, breathing the smell of stale sweat … Continue reading →

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BTW, Gov. Murkowski–you might want to eat something…

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Sabina Becker

…like your WORDS. I hope you kept them soft and sweet, and went easy on the pepper! Seems that someone in Washington doesn’t exactly share your opinion of a certain red-shirted ex-paratrooper in Venezuela…and neither does your country’s ambassador! U.S. … Continue reading →

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The next Chavecito?

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Could be… Meet Rafael Correa…the Ecuadorian come-from-behind candidate who’s got Washington majorly rattled:

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Toe-sucker Morris puts foot in mouth…again!

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Too bad the end result is just as obscene as what he did with that hooker:

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NYT gets Venezuela–and Chavez–wrong again!

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Jeez. Cataloguing how often the “liberal” (in what parallel universe?) New York Times is out of touch, is like trying to catalogue sunrises and sunsets. Nevertheless, this op-ed by Roger Lowenstein (echoed in the Taipei Times, which doesn’t gate-keep its … Continue reading →

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See what you get for that Cuban embargo?

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Sabina Becker

You get a bullet in your own foot! The discovery of potential deep-water oil and gas reserves off Cuba’s northern coast has caught the eye of the world’s energy-hungry nations. India’s state-run oil firm ONGC, already signed up to exploration … Continue reading →

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The end of the End of History

Posted on August 18, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Neoconservatism’s ideological guru has some Kool-Aid he’d like to sell you. But be warned…there’s a lot of backwash in that there jug: Early on in Hugo Chavez’s political career, the Venezuelan president attacked my notion that liberal democracy together with … Continue reading →

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Fair trade: Not just for food, but medicine too

Posted on July 31, 2006 by Sabina Becker

Well, who knew? The purchase of surgical equipment should be bound by the same fair trade rules as foodstuffs like coffee, sugar or bananas, a researcher suggests. Dr Mahmood Bhutta said he had anecdotal evidence there was exploitation of workers … Continue reading →

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Mystery solved?

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Sabina Becker

A couple days ago, I wondered why the anti-Chavez shadow group Sumate, supposedly an “open book” as far as its finances went, hadn’t been listing their most recent cash receipts from the US government. Well, looks like li’l ol’ Vheadline … Continue reading →

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Watch them spin this as “insanity”…

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Sabina Becker

We just know that the mainstream Venezuelan and US media are itching to paint Hugo Chavez as “loquito”, aren’t we? Well, here’s some more red meat for their attack dogs, courtesy of the Beeb… The visit by the Venezuelan President … Continue reading →

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