Chile
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Dear Chilean miners, please do not accept Israel's invitation By Robin
Beware the Trojan horse bearing gifts. For their all-expense paid trip invitations are being issued with their own interest and image at heart. I am asking you please to not accept this invitation. You are not just being invited to visit “Israel”, you are being asked to visit holy sites which have been under the… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, April 10, 2010: KISSINGER BLOCKED DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL ASSASSINATIONS TO CONDOR STATES
Only five days before a car-bomb planted by agents of the Pinochet regime rocked downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions sent to, but never implemented by, U.S. ambassadors in the Southern Cone to warn military leaders there against orchestrating “a series of international murders,” declassified documents obtained… Continue reading
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Haiti versus Chile: Earthquake Olympics by John Feffer
Chilean citizens enjoy an average income 10 times that of Haitians. Fully 80 percent of Haitians live below the poverty line, compared to fewer than 20 percent of Chileans. Is Chile’s economic development a result of its unabashed embrace of capitalism? In 1970, Chile’s gross national income per capita was also 10 times that of… Continue reading
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Haiti's Earthquake and Reconstruction Through the Eyes of Many By MARK SCHULLER
While it is absolutely true that Chile, like the U.S., has its share of poverty and inequality, Haiti’s development indicators are and were much worse than Chile’s. For example, Haiti’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP, total value of goods and services) per person was $428 in 2005, while Chile’s per capita GDP was $8,350 in 2007.… Continue reading
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Obama Continues Bush Policies in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot
There were great hopes in Latin America when President Obama was elected. U.S. standing in the region had reached a low point under George W. Bush, and all of the hemisphere’s left-leaning governments expressed optimism that Obama would go in a different direction. These hopes have been dashed. President Obama has continued the Bush policies… Continue reading
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U.S.-Brokered Mediation Has Failed — It's Time for Latin America to Take Charge By Mark Weisbrot
The mediation effort that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the Honduran crisis, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, has failed. It is now time — some would say overdue — for the Latin American governments to play their proper… Continue reading
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Pinochet, the Friedman Boys & Thatcher By Andy Beckett
When General Pinochet came to power in Chile after a military coup in 1973, he unleashed a wave of radical free-market policies that thrilled rightwing observers in Britain. Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report By William Blum, December 11, 2007
Anti-Empire Report, December 11, 2007: “The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life December 11, 2007 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Another peace scare. Boy, that was close. The US intelligence community’s new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) — ‘Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities’ — makes a point Continue reading
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History Repeating Itself? Not Exactly By William Bowles
This time around, in spite of (or perhaps because of) a massive propaganda campaign preceding the war (whereas the Vietnam debacle was effectively hidden from the public), the imperium has been forced to try and justify its actions every step of the way. For those of us engaged in actively opposing the imperium, there are… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 