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Strategic Culture Foundation online magazine latest publications 21-25 March, 2010
Strategic Culture Foundation 2010-03-25 Aleksandr SALITZKY Vladimir TATSIY China’s Accelerating Economic Growth (II) “ China’s huge package of economic stimuli continues to draw attention worldwide. The investments into manufacturing assets in 2009 totaled 22 trillion yuan, a 30.1% hike compared to 2008 The super-ambitious investment plan intended to keep the Chinese economy crisis-free is being Continue reading
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Cantina Tolteca — pissing away them Kokopelli blues (or) Visions of el rio — Live from the cantina of no return By Joe Bageant
Cantina Tolteca is one of those manly Mexican watering holes, where you piss up against a tile barroom wall while ordering the next round from a passing barmaid. With a beer and three shots of mescal in your sails, and the jukebox playing La Paloma, a man feels about as free and unselfconscious here as… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, March 9, 2010: Archival Evidence of Mexico’s Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Aleida Gallangos
The National Security Archive today posted a selection of U.S. and Mexican records containing evidence of human rights crimes committed during Mexico’s brutal “dirty war” against leftists in the 1970s. Continue reading
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Strategic culture foundation 28 February – 3 March, 2010
Latest publications on China, USA and Mexico Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Moon Over Gringo Gulch
Ajijic is one of those sunny roosting places south of the horse latitudes preferred by aging Americans who’ve put away a few bucks, and Canadians whose government still stands behind its national retirement plan, for the time being at least. They come here in winter, from Buffalo, Scranton and Calgary, Ontario and Ohio, to roast… Continue reading
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The Wolf Report: Accumulation and Decomposition in the Era of Lift and Separate, More By S. Artesian
For capital to become capital, for the bourgeoisie to become the bourgeoisie, the capacity for labor has to be detached from the means of labor, so that labor itself appears as a commodity with only one use, its usefulness in exchange for the medium by which labor can purchase its own subsistence. The laborers confronts… Continue reading
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Round Midnight — tortillas and the corporate state By Joe Bageant
There is a terrible science fiction-like awe in the autonomous American economic monolith, in the way that it provides for us, feeds on us and keeps us as its both its lavish pets and slaves. The commodity economy long ago enslaved Americans and other “developed” capitalist societies, especially Americans. The most profound slavery must be… Continue reading
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Mexico 'opens its arms' to immigrants
Video: Mexico has taken steps to allow foreigners whether legally or illegally, to apply for citizenship Continue reading
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The Iron Cheer of Empire: No free tortillas in the Workhouse Republic By Joe Bageant
It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here [in Ajijic, Mexico] America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible, with time off to shit, shower and shop.” A country whose citizens have been reduced to “human assets” of a vast and relentless economic machine, moving human… Continue reading
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How Calderon Lost 15% of the Plan Mexico Funds . . . and Why He Must Lose the Rest By Scott Campbell
It’s been a busy and interesting week regarding developments in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the U.S. First, there were reports in the Mexican media on July 29 that an investigation by officials from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police into the murder of U.S. independent journalist Brad Will affirmed the conclusions drawn by the Mexican Federal Attorney… Continue reading
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Femicides of Juárez: Violence Against Women in Mexico
Juárez is nicknamed ‘the capital of murdered women.’ The border city of 1.5 million inhabitants draws tens of thousands of young women from small, poor towns with $55-a-week jobs in maquiladoras operated by such wealthy major corporations as General Electric, Alcoa, and DuPont. According to Amnesty International, more than 800 bodies had been found as… Continue reading
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The A H1N1 Pandemic: Pig to Human Transmission of the Swine Flu? By Michel Chossudovsky
Are the cases of H1N1, reported in different countries, the consequence of a process of international transmission of the swine flu virus, or are they the result of a pre-existing situation? Or are the consequence of incorrect or misleading recording of the data. In other words, were these various “recorded cases” corroborated by lab testing… Continue reading
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Of Swine and Scapegoats: Reflections on Racism and Right-Wing Nuttery By Tim Wise
From Michelle Malkin to Neal Boortz to the perpetually unhinged and borderline-psychotic Michael Savage, the right was spewing the line that the outbreak of H1N1 flu was yet more reason to close the border with Mexico. To hear these folks tell it, ‘illegal aliens’ were flooding the nation, perhaps intentionally, with the goal of making… Continue reading
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Stanford laundered and siphoned money from wealthy Latin Americans to fund anti-leftist rebellions By Wayne Madsen
Stanford, with the knowledge of the Jewish investors, was laundering and forwarding their money to groups planning the overthrow of elected progressive leaders such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in Argentina, and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 