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Imperial decline - Honduras and Miranda
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 6:07 pm | Toni Solo
Maybe it was always unfair, comparing President George W. Bush Bush to Captain Queeg, Herman Wouk's fictional crackpot destroyer captain.. Bush's condition in fact reflects a truly royal, breakneck-speed dementia. In less than a decade, his reign has re-enacted ... More >>
Toni Solo: Americanism v. ALBA
Saturday, 14 July 2007, 8:26 pm | Toni Solo
The developing dynamic of events in Latin America through 2007 and into 2008 is very different from 2006, a year noteworthy for its dramatic presidential elections. But the underlying issues driving the dynamic remain unchanged. In its 2007 report on ... More >>
Nicaraguan media and regional context
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 10:39 am | Toni Solo
The perception management of foreign politics for imperialist propaganda purposes works across countries as a self-fuelling, one-sided Moebius-strip production line. Re-selling by corporate US media of the propaganda spin retailed as "news" ... More >>
Anti-Americanism - A Humanitarian Imperative?
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 12:55 am | Toni Solo
Alternating between "with us or against us", "bring 'em on" snarling or "why do they hate us?" whining, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney characterize Americanism at its most crass and banal. More >>
Globalization And Terror: Moloch's Jellybabies
Monday, 14 May 2007, 1:40 pm | Toni Solo
The United States militarist plutocracy wrangled in recent weeks over assigning more than 500 billion of worth-less-and-less foreign creditors' US dollars to its imperialist war machine. More >>
Varieties Of Imperial Decline: The Rif To Iraq
Thursday, 3 May 2007, 11:02 am | Toni Solo
Although few direct parallels exist between the Bush regime's debacle in Iraq and events following the Spanish catastrophe at Anoual in their Moroccan colonial war in 1921, some clearly do. The cruelty and ferocity are similar, as are the use of ... More >>
Toni Solo: Nicaragua - Class & Ethics Of Vanity
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 4:01 pm | Toni Solo
Over the next few months the new coalition government in Nicaragua will begin to implement programmes to try and redress the immiseration of Nicaragua's people imposed by 16 years of corporate crony-capitalism. In January this year, the administration ... More >>
Toni Solo: John Negroponte and Tupac Katari
Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:54 pm | Toni Solo
To accompany President Saddam Hussein's lynching the Bush regime announced that death-squad manager nonpareil John Negroponte is to take over the post of deputy Secretary of State to hapless Condoleezza Rice left vacant by Robert Zoellick in 2006. More >>
Toni Solo: Remaking Antigone - The Cuba Five
Friday, 1 December 2006, 5:42 pm | Toni Solo
"I will do my duty, - and yours if you will not - to a brother. I will never be false to him." (1) So says Sophocles' protagonist Antigone. Listen, twenty five hundred years on, this too is the voice of humanity: More >>
A Letter From Colombia To US On Free Trade Treaty
Friday, 17 November 2006, 4:08 pm | Toni Solo
Not one single organization representing urban workers, rural workers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals and other popular sectors in Colombia supports the Free Trade Treaty with the United States. Indeed, the majority of business people's ... More >>
Varieties Of Imperial Decline: Nicaraguan Election
Monday, 13 November 2006, 1:13 pm | Toni Solo
Nicaragua has just given the world another political lesson on a par with the election of 1990 in which power was transferred from a left-wing revolutionary government to its visceral right-wing enemies via peaceful elections. More >>
Toni Solo: Nicaragua's Election, Things Turn Nasty
Monday, 30 October 2006, 12:18 am | Toni Solo
Critical comment on the Nicaraguan election campaign has tended to neglect the nitty gritty of life for the country's impoverished majority. The closer the November 5th election looms the nastier the campaign becomes. More >>
T.Solo: Globalization, Terror, Virtual Colonialism
Monday, 16 October 2006, 10:05 am | Toni Solo
At the recent Labour Party conference in Britain, Tony Blair led a one minute standing ovation for Home Secretary John Reid for a speech in which Reid declared "And let's be clear. It cannot be right that the rights of individual suspected terrorist be ... More >>
Toni Solo: Globalization And Terror
Thursday, 31 August 2006, 11:15 am | Toni Solo
The bomb attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005 raised the issue of racism especially starkly for politicians in Europe as well as for their North American and Pacific allies. No matter how they spin it, the fundamental question they face ... More >>
Toni Solo: Varieties Of Imperial Decline
Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 3:39 pm | Toni Solo
If people needed reminding that North American and European foreign policy, including policy on aid and trade, is based on sadism and hypocrisy, events in Palestine and Lebanon will surely have done so. More >>
Bolivia: The Wished-For Technical Draw
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 1:51 pm | Toni Solo
The recent elections for the Constituent Assembly mark the end of the political transition in Bolivia. The developing scenario, despite the solid victory of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) of President Evo Morales, looks much more like a stand off than ... More >>
The Secessionist Project Of Santa Cruz Oligarchy
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 1:51 pm | Toni Solo
Juan Carlos Urenda Diaz, the lawyer of the Santa Cruz Civic Committee declared in an interview with the La Paz publication La Epoca, "We are coming to the point when we are not going to look any more for legal arguments to put to the Constitutional ... More >>
We Have Enough Strength To Make Democracy Prevail!
Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 3:33 pm | Toni Solo
“We Have Enough Strength To Make Democracy Prevail” Speech to a crowd of 200,000 in the Zocalo, Mexico City Andrés Manuel López Obrador, published in Rebelión, 10-07-2006 Translated by Toni Solo More >>
La Jornada Editorial: Mexico - The Vote, Trashed
Monday, 10 July 2006, 11:53 am | Toni Solo
The ballot boxes full of votes found yesterday by a citizen in the rubbish dump of Bordo de Xochiaca, the piecemeal disappearance of opposition votes in the Preliminary Election Results Program (PREP), the unlikely trends registered in the updating of ... More >>
Ransacking Chile: Fabulous Profits For The MNs
Monday, 10 July 2006, 10:18 am | Toni Solo
The rise in copper prices has produced euphoria in the government and ruling elites, despite relative complications for certain exporters. The price rise seems not to be a momentary phenomenon. More >>
