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Category Archives: Latin America

Documents reveal details of U.S. aid stirring suspicion in Venezuela

US federal government should look at fixing its own failing democracy before it presumes to dictate to or direct others … 26 August 2006 AP/ Boston Herald CARACAS, Venezuela – … Continue reading

27 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cuba’s Pathbreaking Energy Policies

By Nicholas von Hoffman | The Nation Tuesday 22 August 2006 The last drop of oil will have dripped away in forty years, according to a recent report in the … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Our Cities Are Killing Us By Julie Robotham and Sherrill Nixon

Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 16 August 2006 Think of it as a vast experiment in human biology. Put millions of people in a limited space, then crank a few levers: … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Venezuela’s Candidacy for the UN Security Council Appears on Track

U.S. uses its muscle in contest over whether Venezuela or Guatemala will get the Latin American non-permanent Council seat by Tiffany Isaacs | Council On Hemispheric Affairs | Thursday, August … Continue reading

17 August, 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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