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President Chavez and the FARC: State and Revolution
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07.03.2008
When President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela called on the FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, to end their armed struggle and declared the ‘guerrilla war is history’, he was following a path taken by many revolutionary leaders in the past.
The Paradoxes of Latin American Development
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06.30.2008
Latin American development presents us with a rich array of paradoxes, which befuddle the predictions, prescriptions, and commentaries of writers and academics from the right and left. Abrupt changes and shifts in the political correlation of forces is matched by striking structural continuities.
A Disenchanted James Petras
Efraín Chury Iribarne
06.12.2008
An interview with James Petras :: It's pure Stalinism, to say that an insurgent group with 40 years of struggle is playing imperialism's game is pure idiocy; imperialism functions well enough in Venezuela without need for a guerrilla movement
Separatism and Empire Building in the 21st Century
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06.08.2008
Throughout modern imperial history, ‘Divide and Conquer’ has been the essential ingredient in allowing relatively small and resource-poor European countries to conquer nations vastly larger in size and populations and richer in natural resources.
President Sarkozy’s One Man Show: A Very Limited Run
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06.07.2008
French President Sarkozy has twice appeared in the spotlight of the world’s mass media announcing his determination to free French-Colombian dual citizen, Ingrid Betancourt, held captive by the Colombian guerrilla movement, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP).
Homage to Manuel Marulanda
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05.26.2008
Pedro Antonio Marin, better know as Manuel Marulanda and ‘Tiro Fijo (Sure Shot)’, was the leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP). He was without a doubt the greatest revolutionary peasant leader in the history of the Americas.
Provocations as Pretexts for Imperial War: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11
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05.25.2008
Wars in an imperialist democracy cannot simply be dictated by executive fiat, they require the consent of highly motivated masses who will make the human and material sacrifices.
Salvador Allende and Hugo Chavez: Similarities and Differences on the "National Road to Socialism"
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05.14.2008
I have known and advised three left wing president including President Papandreou (Greece 1981-85), President Salvador Allende of Chile (1970-73) and President Hugo Chavez.
General Petraeus: Zionism’s Military Poodle. From Surge to Purge to Dirge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Venezuela: A Dictionary of Euphemisms of the Liberal Opposition
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01.05.2008
The Venezuelan political process in the post-referendum period (after December 2, 2007) has experienced a wide-ranging debate, in which both critics and supporters of the Venezuelan road to socialism have participated.
If Stones Could Talk
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12.24.2007
The Canaanites pounded wheat and baked bread on me. The children of Abraham carried me to the Temple of Prayer and I became a Wailing Wall.
American Jews on War and Peace: What Do the Polls Tell Us and Not Tell Us?
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12.15.2007
Once again, a poll recently released by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) (1) has confirmed that on some questions of major significance there are vast differences between the opinion of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations and the mass of American Jews.
Open letter to President Sarkozy: On the humanitarian exchange of political prisoners in Colombia and the United States
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12.10.2007
I read with great interest your letter to FARC leader Manuel Marulanda. I share with you a humanitarian impulse to end the imprisonment of political prisoners in Colombia. However let us be clear, principled and realistic about this: The freedom of the political prisoners of the FARC is dependent on a quid pro quo – the liberation of the resistance fighters of the FARC in the dungeons of the Colombian state.
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