Posted by seumasach on October 31, 2008
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Federico Fuentes 30th October, 2008 LA PAZ: After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the U.S.-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats. The right’s offensive to topple Morales, which climaxed with the September 11-12 “civic coup” attempt, has been decisively rolled back by the combined action of the government and social movements. |
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008
Latin America’s New Consensus
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship between the Colossus of the North and Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 29, 2008
Rise of the Rest
Pankaj Mishra London review of books
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna
In 1946, George Kennan, then the deputy head of the US mission in Moscow, sent a 5300-word telegram to Washington, hoping to alert his superiors to the threat of Soviet expansionism. Kennan had complained repeatedly and fruitlessly about what he saw as America’s indulgent attitude towards the Soviet Union, but for a crucial moment in 1946 his idea that the US should strike an alliance with Western Europe in order to contain Soviet Communism found listeners in Washington. The so-called Long Telegram, subsequently turned into an article in Foreign Affairs, became the basis of the Truman Doctrine, which proclaimed America’s willingness to fight the spread of Communism, militarily as well as economically. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 29, 2008
Using the language of Marxism and its ultimatist postulates James Petras is, in effect, showing how the present crisis provides opportunities to role back the Bolivarist movement in South America and any other nationalist-populist tendencies through ” the class struggle and the struggle for state power”. He may make it sound good, but it is basically the same game which we have seen the Marxists play in trying to destabilise Zimbabwe, Iran, Russia and China. Of course, South American states, like all others will be hard hit by the collapse of the Dollar/pound system, precisely because it is a global system. However, the real test for Chavez, Lula and co. is still to come: can they combine with Russia, China and others to block Washington and London’s destructive resolution of the crisis? Can they make a multipolar, alternative global agenda a reality and thus lay the basis for a new era of peace and prosperity?
James Petras
October 28, 2008
Latin America is entering a period of profound economic recession, financial crises, collapsing stock market quotations, prices, deep devaluation of its currencies, growing unemployment, declining revenues and the prospect of a prolonged socio-economic recession. The economic breakdown, which is still unfolding, affects the entire political spectrum, extending from the far-right Uribe regime in Colombia to the social-liberal Chilean and Brazilian governments of Bachelet and Lula da Silva to the ‘center-left’ regimes of Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador and even to the leftist government of Hugo Chavez.
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Posted by smeddum on October 26, 2008
Financial Implosion and the New American Century
What It Means for Societies and People in the Multipolar World Order
by Niloufer Bhagwat
Global Research, October 26, 2008
FutureFastForward.org
The New American Century, the strategic concept of Anglo-American – Zionist Capital has imploded, along with major Investment Banks and financial and banking institutions of close alliance partners, humiliatingly in full view of peoples and societies where they pillaged, killed, tortured and terrorized rendering millions homeless into refugees. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 26, 2008
Cuba, EU re-establish cooperative ties
www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-24 09:31:45
HAVANA, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and European Commissioner of Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, signed a declaration on Thursday to restore the bilateral cooperation at the headquarters of the Cuban Foreign Ministry in Havana. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by seumasach on October 26, 2008
Click on above link to see video.
Christopher King links the Anglo-American financial crisis to the same lack of morality that underlies US-UK-NATO murder in Iraq and Afghanistan. He calls on Europe to “reject the aggressive economic and foreign relations models” and the “fraudulent financial practices that have arisen from the failing social experiment” that is the USA.
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Posted by alfied on October 25, 2008
Why has Pro-Russian Ultra-Nationalist Nikolic changed his tune? Of course he could be a political opportunist, but it is highly unlikely that he made this move without first clearing it with Russia; or maybe it was the other way around.
DANIEL McLAUGHLIN
SERBIA: FORMER SERB ultra-nationalist leader Tomislav Nikolic, one of the fiercest critics of western support for Kosovo’s independence, has stunned compatriots and erstwhile enemies alike in Brussels by forming a new, EU-friendly party. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 25, 2008
U.S. has plundered world wealth with dollar: China paper
Fri Oct 24, 2008
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar’s dominance, and the world urgently needs other currencies to take its place, a leading Chinese state newspaper said on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 24, 2008
Arabs out of step Al-Ahram
While other powers around the world reassert their national interest against a United States that no longer holds universal promise, the Arabs do not, writes Azmi Bishara in the final instalment of a four-part analysis of the world after Bush
There is something symbolic in the fact that Putin’s rise to national fame in Russia was associated with the resolute stance he took against the Chechen secessionist bid in 1999 when, after Yeltsin named him prime minister, he ordered a ground offensive into the republic. His national security background reminiscent of glorious predecessors, the possible support from security forces themselves, plus his resolve to win the war against the secessionists at whatever cost and on top of the ruins of Grozny paved the way for a soaring popularity that brought him to the presidency within less than a year. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 24, 2008
Russia’s foreign ministry slams US sanctions
24/10/2008
MOSCOW (AFP) — Russia warned Friday that US sanctions on a Russian firm accused of defying a ban on sales of sensitive military technology to Iran will affect talks between world powers on Tehran’s nuclear programme. Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 