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Central American Strikes And The Energy Crisis
Friday, 23 September 2005, 11:16 am | Toni Solo
In Central America the relentless upward trend in oil prices is provoking crisis in the parts of the region's electrical energy system dependent on oil. Panama, Nicaragua and Honduras are the countries in the region most dependent on oil imports. Overall ... More >>
Toni Solo: Katrina - "Bi-Partisan" Betrayal
Wednesday, 7 September 2005, 3:18 pm | Toni Solo
Failure to prioritize anyone's needs but their own is to be expected of the mendacious, cunning Bush regime. But the wretchedness and misery endured by people in the southern US States abandoned to their fate after hurricane Katrina has broader aspects too. More >>
Toni Solo: The Empire Against The Clock
Thursday, 25 August 2005, 4:28 pm | Toni Solo
The objectives of empire change very little from one century to another. Control of and access to energy and mining resources are only one strong motive driving imperial policy in Latin America. More >>
Ecuador: Sovereignty Takes One Step Backwards
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:48 am | Toni Solo
Just as the long-standing political crisis in Bolivia hangs fire pending future elections, so too in Ecuador people await some serious attempt at a new political settlement. In both countries the fundamental cause of unrest is widespread popular rejection ... More >>
Toni Solo: Making Excuses For Sid Snake
Monday, 22 August 2005, 2:30 pm | Toni Solo
Whenever a New Labour mouthpiece pronounces in public, one can almost see the think balloon over their head with cartoon character Sid Snake hissing "trusssst me...". More >>
Toni Solo: Unicorn Hunting In Nicaragua
Monday, 25 July 2005, 1:06 pm | Toni Solo
In a recent article on Nicaragua, Frank J. Kendrick of the US Council on Hemispheric Affairs NGO (COHA), managed to write extensively on the country without mentioning two crucial issues facing the country right now [1] . More >>
Solo: The Importance Of Haiti – Camille Chalmers
Friday, 15 July 2005, 11:39 am | Toni Solo
London mourns its dead with the attention the victims rightly deserve. But around the world other bereaved and grieving people note that their dead, murdered by infantry, armour and bombers under the orders of George Bush and Tony Blair, seem insignificant, ... More >>
Bolanos, Chavez: A Tale Of Two Presidents
Monday, 4 July 2005, 10:00 am | Toni Solo
"If the countries of the Caribbean have to submit to the logic of the international market we'd be helping bring about a crisis with profound consequences that will lead us into instability, social disruption and total ungovernability". Leonel Fernandez, ... More >>
Toni Solo: "Debt" - Remaking Procrustes Bed
Monday, 27 June 2005, 10:41 am | Toni Solo
Less developed countries' external "debt" impedes their economic development and attempts to reduce poverty. But it generates huge revenues for rich countries. In the decade 1994 to 2004, Brazil paid rich country creditors US$400 billion just in ... More >>
Toni Solo: US Co-Dependency On Terror
Monday, 20 June 2005, 11:27 am | Toni Solo
The political and economic problems afflicting the United States and its allies generate effects progressively more corrosive and self-destructive. From the bogus "war on terror" to fraudulent declarations on debt relief, they seem to flounder ... More >>
Toni Solo: The Very Model Of A Modern Intervention
Tuesday, 14 June 2005, 2:08 pm | Toni Solo
The 35th summit of the Organization of American States (OAS) was held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the first days of June this year. It marked another tactical defeat for the Bush regime's State Department under Condoleezza Rice and her Latin American ... More >>
Toni Solo: CAFTA - Some Like It Hot
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 11:25 am | Toni Solo
Amid the confusing signals streaming out of events in Latin America recently, arguments around the Central American Free Trade Agreement juxtapose two opposing motifs. More >>
Toni Solo: CAFTA - Adios Made-in-the-USA ?
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 11:48 am | Toni Solo
The pressure is on for the survival intact of the Bush administration's larcenous "free trade" policies, at least in their most virulent form. Writing on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in the Washington Post last week [1] , Robert ... More >>
Toni Solo: Taking Sides And Solidarity
Thursday, 26 May 2005, 4:14 pm | Toni Solo
"Purity is an idea for ascetics and monks…. You others, you intellectuals, you toss out excuses for doing nothing, Nothing but sitting still with your arms folded. Me, I get my hands dirty, right up to the elbows, deep in shit and blood. ... More >>
Toni Solo: Danilo Anderson And Condoleeza Rice
Monday, 29 November 2004, 11:42 am | Toni Solo
On Tuesday November 16th, George Bush put forward Condoleeza Rice as his proposed Secretary of State to take over the diplomacy of US warmongering from the outgoing fraud, Colin Powell. More >>
What Did Aeschylus Write In "Daughters Of Danaus"?
Thursday, 21 October 2004, 11:27 am | Toni Solo
The US and its allies are teaching a new generation of courageous, creative, generous people to harden their hearts against them throughout the Middle East. More >>
Resistance And Survival: Education & Free Software
Monday, 13 September 2004, 12:00 am | Toni Solo
In one sense what happens in the centres of power is irrelevant. People will take decisions about their lives regardless of what imperial front men like George Bush or any of the other representatives of the global plutocracy say or do. More >>
Toni Solo: After the Venezuela Referendum
Thursday, 19 August 2004, 11:37 am | Toni Solo
For the Venezuelan government the result of the recall referendum last Sunday was a triumphant validation of its legitimacy, its policies and its President, Hugo Chavez. More >>
Toni Solo: Bluebeard's Castle
Friday, 6 August 2004, 3:07 pm | Toni Solo
An unconvincing but resonant tale, Bluebeard's Castle: A beautiful young woman marries a strange but captivating aristocrat: Before leaving on a journey, her new husband entrusts her with a magic key to a locked room. More >>
Bolivia Innovates: Boyle Mariotte Gas Law Restated
Friday, 23 July 2004, 1:12 pm | Toni Solo
The July 18th referendum in Bolivia is likely to be a shortlived, temporary setback for radical opponents of the government of President Mesa. Their call for a mass boycott failed. The government was able to promote an effective propaganda campaign ... More >>
