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General Petraeus: Zionism’s Military Poodle. From Surge to Purge to Dirge 05.05.2008 When President Bush appointed General David Petraeus Commander (head) of the Multinational Forces in Iraq, his appointment was hailed by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post as a brilliant decision

The Structural Roots of Hunger, Food Crises and Riots 04.29.2008 In recent days all the major international banks (IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asia Development Bank etc), all the major financial newspapers and mass media have been forced to recognize that there is a major food crisis, that hundreds of millions of people face hunger, malnutrition and outright starvation.

Military or Market-Driven Empire Building: 1950-2008 04.28.2008 From the middle of the 19th century but especially after the Second World War, two models of empire building competed on a world scale

Reverend Jeremiah Wright: Religious Freedom Versus State Religion, Ethics, Politics and Strategy 04.19.2008 The sustained vituperative attack and the feeble apologetic defense of Reverend Wright’s brilliant, eloquent and substantive sermon in defense of human dignity speaks to the basic ethical, political and strategic issues of our epoch.

Venezuela : Democracy, Socialism and Imperialism 04.17.2008 Venezuela ’s President Hugo Chavez remains the world’s leading secular, democratically elected political leader who has consistently and publicly opposed imperialist wars in the Middle East , attacked extra-territorial intervention and US and European Union complicity in kidnapping and torture.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP): The Cost of Unilateral Humanitarian Initiatives 03.16.2008 President Uribe’s troop and missile assault, violating Ecuadorian sovereignty came very close to precipitating a regional war with Ecuador and Venezuela. During an interview I had with President Chavez, at the time of this bellicose act, he confirmed to me the gravity of Uribe’s doctrine of ‘preventive war’ and ‘extra-territorial intervention’, calling the Colombian regime the ‘Israel of Latin America’.

The Israeli Agenda and the Scorecard of the Zionist Power Configuration for 2008 02.24.2008 The Israeli Agenda openly defended, publically practiced and aggressively pursued by the Zionist power configuration (ZPC) has greatly influenced the US Presidential elections and the likely future course of Washington’s Middle East policy.

Latin America’s Changing Mosiac: Movements in Flux and Center-Left Governments in Power 02.12.2008 In contrast to North America and Europe, in Latin America political regimes, social movements and ideologies are in constant flux. Within a period of a few years, the political pendulum can swing from a seemingly radical leftist wave, to center-left and even rightwing ascendancy.

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