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Empire-Speak - A Primer In Practical Translation
Tuesday, 6 July 2004, 12:18 am | Toni Solo
Few people get to read US imperial declarations in the original. Access to official imperial texts is mostly via the interpretations and translations offered in newspapers, magazines and radio or TV. More >>
Weary Of Stubborn Indigenous Resistance Stains?
Monday, 28 June 2004, 12:36 am | Toni Solo
''Negotiating a free-trade agreement with the U.S. is not something one has a right to - it's a privilege.'' [1] This quote from US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick came to mind when the BBC reported former head of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, US army ... More >>
Venezuela 2004 – Nicaragua's Contra War Revisited
Friday, 4 June 2004, 11:01 pm | Toni Solo
Another article in the continuing media campaign in Britain against Venezuela's President Chavez again posits civil war as a possible sequel to the current recall referendum process in Venezuela. More >>
Govt. Double-Dealing And The Developing Andean War
Tuesday, 25 May 2004, 1:01 pm | Toni Solo
The United States and Britain make suitable partners. Abuse and torture at the Hola camp in Kenya in the 1950s, Fort Morbut in Aden in the 1960s and the Castlereagh interrogation centre for twenty years in Ireland remain potent symbols of British ... More >>
Toni Solo: Plan Puebla Panama And Free Trade
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 11:40 am | Toni Solo
Low intensity conflict against Cuba and Venezuela, infrastructure programs like Plan Puebla Panama, the Free Trade Area of the Americas and the war in Colombia may seem to have little in common. More >>
Bogotá 3 Acquittal - IV with Caitriona Ruane
Tuesday, 4 May 2004, 10:02 am | Toni Solo
The acquittal in Bogotá of three Irishmen falsely accused of terrorism is an embarrassing setback for the Colombian government. It is also compelling evidence of the deep duplicity of the British government and its Unionist allies in Ireland. More >>
John Negroponte: Dorian Gray Goes To Iraq
Monday, 3 May 2004, 11:05 am | Toni Solo
John Negroponte will be an appropriate appointment as US proconsul in Iraq for the current regime in Washington. Death-squad-friendly Negroponte is one of the suave-talking savages who misled the US Congress about US actions in Central America through the ... More >>
Toni Solo: Varieties Of Barbarism
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 11:41 am | Toni Solo
Recent US military conduct in Fallujah, murdering cvilians, closing hospitals and deliberately targeting ambulances, is the latest example of the barbarism of United States official culture. More >>
Food, Trade And US Power Politics In Latin America
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 11:51 am | Toni Solo
The difference between what Bush officials say to Congress and the pap they feed foreign audiences makes interesting reading for anyone trying to figure out US government rhetoric on Latin America. More >>
Toni Solo: Independent Mis-reporting In Venezuela
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 9:46 am | Toni Solo
Many people read the London based Independent newspaper because among its reporters is the outstanding Robert Fisk. The anti-war stance of the newspaper on Iraq and its stance on genetically manipulated foods and other environmental issues may give ... More >>
Via Haiti US megaphones Venezuela: Will you comply
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 1:36 pm | Toni Solo
Open or covert illegal aggression has always been a principal tool of US foreign policy. The energy needs of the US and its allies will dictate the next likely savage intervention - in Venezuela. More >>
Colombia-US Free Trade Treaty - More Than Trade
Thursday, 4 March 2004, 12:23 am | Toni Solo
The arguments against bilateral US free trade-in-your-sovereignty agreements with other countries that make it into mainstream anglophone media tend not to come from industrialists or business people. But in Latin America many people in private enterprise ... More >>
Energy And Repressive Politics In Central America
Wednesday, 12 November 2003, 11:28 am | Toni Solo
Twenty years ago a bitter environmental conflict over the Franklin dam in Tasmania ended with a victory for environmentalists concerned to prevent needless destruction of their country's ecosystem. More >>
Toni Solo: Robert Zoellick and "Wise Blood"
Monday, 3 November 2003, 11:58 am | Toni Solo
It takes one bizarre fiction to understand another. Flannery O'Connor's 1952 novel ''Wise Blood'' is full of insight into its not so distant relation ''Free Trade''. More >>
US Martyrs Pose Questions For John Negroponte
Friday, 24 October 2003, 7:56 am | Toni Solo
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, anti-Americanism is currently the first. The Bush regime uses it to deceive the United States people while enriching its corporate buddies. More >>
Toni Solo:The Nuts & Bolts Of Free Trade Extortion
Tuesday, 14 October 2003, 11:36 am | Toni Solo
With the Cancun trade talks buried, the United States and the European Union are busy working out preferential bilateral and regional trade deals. More >>
Coming Soon To The USA? Plan Condor, The Sequel
Monday, 29 September 2003, 1:27 pm | Toni Solo
When Shimon Peres celebrated his 80th birthday on September 22nd, there at the top of the guest list, ahead of Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev, South Africa's F.W. De Klerk, and Australia's Bob Hawke was Carlos Bulgheroni. Bulgheroni is head of ... More >>
Toni Solo : Free And Open Or Murky And Fixed?
Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 9:46 am | Toni Solo
Like it or not, computer technology will be used for most elections in some way or other before too long. Already, even in impoverished countries like Nicaragua, centralised electoral systems use computers to manage the counting process. More >>
Colombia: The War On Terror As Waged By Outlaws
Tuesday, 16 September 2003, 9:18 am | Toni Solo
The world wide assault on internationally accepted legal norms by the United States and its allies develops apace. In a nationally televised speech on September 8th, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe violently attacked human rights defenders, saying, ... More >>
Neo-liberal Nicaragua: Neo Banana Republic
Wednesday, 10 September 2003, 11:07 am | Toni Solo
When US-backed candidate Violeta Chamorro won the most observed election ever in Nicaragua in 1990, she promised Nicaraguans that US government aid would quickly put the country back on its feet. After a decade of war, exhausted Nicaraguans took ... More >>
