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Category Archives: Latin America

The Perils of Globeerization

Interesting look at some of the global history and political economy of beer by Chris O’Brien | Foreign Policy in Focus | 24 October, 2006 The world’s cup runneth over … Continue reading

26 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bush fleeing to Paraguay?

Wonkette rounds up an intriguing collection of links that all report that Dubya has purchased 98,840 acres in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border (I feel sorry for Paraguay). Wonkette … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cities of Joy: Sustainable Practises

Enrique Peñalosa is one of the most inspirational speakers I’ve had the good fortune to encounter. What he has done for Bogotá I wish could be done for other cities … Continue reading

16 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Noam Chomsky: Latin America Declares Independence

IHT :: 3 October 2006 :: First published in NY Times Five centuries after the European conquests, Latin America is reasserting its independence. In the southern cone especially, from Venezuela … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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