UE Local 1110-Think Like Them
I have to be honest here. I don’t understand all the stuff coming across the news media about short selling and bank collapses, but I do understand this. There is a lot of money somewhere in the world...
View ArticleArgentina Confronts Its Past
Something I noticed about Argentines while visiting Buenos Aires recently: they seem to have an almost unquenchable thirst for living. Maybe that’s because, a generation ago, successive governments...
View ArticleChanging the Equation: Israel’s PR Campaign in Buenos Aires
As Israel’s latest foray into Gaza has coincided with my visit to my parents’ home in Buenos Aires—also home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America—I have availed myself of the opportunity...
View ArticleHello, Is Anybody out There?: Famine, Neofeudalism and the New Dark Ages
The emotions are one of the most important ingredients in the evolution of consciousness and humanity. A wondrous technology, emotions make it possible for us to organize our goals according to...
View ArticleBeyond Elections in the Americas
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas Produced by Michael Fox and Sílvia Leindecker. Purchase from PM Press The new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas...
View ArticleLessons from Latin America
Peru’s Supreme Court sentenced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to twenty-five years in prison last week for creating death squads during his presidency – from 1990 to 2000 – which murdered...
View ArticleArgentina Remembers: Mobilizations Mark 33rd Anniversary of Military Coup
The weekend that the hemisphere’s Presidents met in Trinidad at the Summit of the Americas marked the same weekend that Cuba defeated the US in the Bay of Pigs invasion 48 years ago. At the Summit,...
View ArticleDancing With Dangl
If you were delighted that Hollywood finally took the new political turns of South America seriously, but were disappointed that Oliver Stone, in South of the Border, offered only the standard fare of...
View ArticleLatin America’s Twenty First Century Capitalism and the US Empire
Political Power and the World Market The twin nemesis of Latin America’s quest for more equitable and dynamic development, US imperial and local oligarchic power have been subject to profound changes...
View ArticleScientists Warn of Link Between Dangerous New Pathogen and Monsanto’s Roundup
A plant pathologist experienced in protecting against biological warfare recently warned the USDA of a new, self-replicating, micro-fungal virus-sized organism which may be causing spontaneous...
View ArticleDancing With Dynamite
Benjamin Dangl, author of the new book Dancing With Dynamite (AK Press), was video-interviewed by Angola 3 News this week while visiting the San Francisco Bay Area, on tour with his book, which has...
View ArticleChavez’s Right Turn: State Realism versus International Solidarity
The radical “Bolivarian Socialist” government of Hugo Chavez has arrested a number of Colombian guerrilla leaders and a radical journalist with Swedish citizenship and handed them over to the...
View ArticleArgentina: Why President Fernandez Wins and Obama Loses
On October 23rd of this year, President Cristina Fernandez won re-election receiving 54% of the vote, 37 percentage points higher than her nearest opponent. The President’s coalition also swept the...
View ArticleThe Fruit That Did Not Fall
Cuba found itself forced to fight for its existence against an expansionist power located a few miles off its coast that had declared the annexation of our island and that believed our destiny was to...
View ArticleIndefinite Detention, Spy Drones, and More
The military strategies of the School of the Americas, used for decades to support dictators and block political opposition in Latin America, are now being applied to repress and punish dissenters in...
View ArticleExtractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp
The leading agro-mineral exporting countries, including those engaged with the world’s leading mining and energy multi-national corporations(MNC) are also those characterized as having the most...
View ArticleGreece: What Can be Done?
Greece faces the unenviable choice between accepting the terms of “the Troika” and facing the continuation and deepening of a socio-economic crises, which includes five years of negative growth, over...
View ArticleFalklands/Malvinas
On 25 May, UK prime minister David Cameron spoke to Falkland Islanders: They have this guarantee — that as long as the people of the Falkland Islands want to continue with their current status as a...
View ArticleWhy the Buenos Aires Bombing is a False Indicator on Burgas
Immediately after the terror bombing of a busload of Israeli youth in Burgas, Bulgaria, both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a “senior U.S. official” expressed certainty about Iran’s...
View ArticleArgentina Unions Stage Massive Anti-government Protest
After almost a decade of unchallenged relations between ruling Front for Victory and the labor movement, Argentina´s top trade unions have closed ranks behind long-standing demands — such as the...
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