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Deceit, Betrayal and the Left: The ‘Traitor of the Year Award’
04.30.2017 :: AnalysisIntroduction: While the Right faithfully supports the policies and interests of its ruling class supporters, the Left has systematically betrayed their political platform promises and deceived its working class, salaried employees, small business and regional supporters.
US Provocation and North Korea: Pretext for War with China
04.24.2017 :: AnalysisIntroduction: US Empire building on a world-scale began during and shortly after WWII. Washington intervened directly in the Chinese civil war (providing arms to Chiang Kai Shek’s army while the Red Army battled the Japanese), backed France’s re-colonization war against the Viet Minh in Indo-China and installed Japanese imperial collaborator-puppet regimes in South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
China’s Pivot to World Markets, Washington’s Pivot to World Wars, and the Debacle of the Latin American Left
08.20.2016 :: AnalysisIntroduction: China and the United States are moving in polar opposite directions: Beijing is rapidly becoming the center of overseas investments in high tech industries, including robotics, nuclear energy and advanced machinery with collaboration from centers of technological excellence, like Germany.
Anglo-America: Regression and Reversion in the Modern World
05.31.2016 :: AnalysisIntroduction: What does it mean when the US and British financial systems launder hundreds of billions of dollars of illicit funds stolen by world leaders while their governments turn a ‘blind eye’, and yet the very same Anglo-American officials investigate, prosecute, fine and arrest officials from rival governments, rival banks and political leaders for corruption?
The Imperial Empire: The Sun Never Sets but the Mote remains in the Emperor’s Eye
05.16.2016 :: United StatesPost-colonial empires are complex organizations. They are organized on a multi-tiered basis, ranging from relative autonomous national and regional allies to subservient vassal states, with variations in between.
Pluto - Zionists Support for Hillary Clinton
03.09.2016 :: United StatesIntroduction: Pluto-Zionism is the three-way marriage of plutocracy, rightwing Zionism and US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a serial war criminal, racist and servant of Wall Street. How did this deadly ménage-a-trois come about?
Global Economic, Political and Military Configurations
03.08.2016 :: AnalysisIntroduction: Mapping the emerging global economic, political and military configurations requires that we examine regions and countries along several dynamic policy axis:
Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left
03.04.2016 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: Over the past three years Latin American leftist leaders, who presided over heterodox free trade and commodity based welfare economies, lost presidential, legislative and municipal elections and referendums or faced impeachment.
Wars: US Militarist Factions in Command
11.19.2015 :: United StatesIntroduction: Over the past 15 years the US has been engaged in a series of wars, which has led many writers to refer to the rise of militarism the growth of an empire, built primarily by and for the projection of military power and only secondarily to advance economic imperialism.
The Demise of Incumbents: Resurgence of the Far Right and the Absence of the Consequential Left
11.06.2015 :: AnalysisIntroduction: Incumbent politicians and parties, both center-left and right, have suffered serious defeats in recent elections. The principal beneficiary has been the extreme right. Nowhere did the consequential left register a victory, although in a few instances it marginally increased its vote.
The Two Faces of Capitalism and Left Options
09.06.2015 :: AnalysisIntroduction: Rightwing politics now dominate the globe. Broadly speaking, the Right can be divided into a US-centered rightwing bloc and a variety of anti-US rightwing regimes and social forces.
The Age of Imperial Wars
08.22.2015 :: AnalysisIntroduction: 2015 has become a year of living dangerously. Wars are spreading across the globe. Wars are escalating as new countries are bombed and the old are ravaged with ever greater intensity. Countries, where relatively peaceful changes had taken place through recent elections, are now on the verge of civil wars.
The Right-Left Crossfire and the Post Neo-Liberal Left
07.12.2015 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction:The post neo-liberal regimes which flourished in five Latin American countries in the first decade of the 21st century were a product of three inter-related historical processes.
Comparing and Contrasting the Class Struggle in Latin America: 2000-2015
07.06.2015 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: Class conflict is always present, endemic, in Latin America. What changes, over time, is the character of the class struggle. By character we mean, the principal classes and leaders, who direct in the struggle, set the political agenda and define the parameters of socio-economic changes.
Washingtons Two Track Policy to Latin America: Marines to Central America and Diplomats to Cuba
05.28.2015 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: Everyone, from political pundits in Washington to the Pope in Rome, including most journalists in the mass media and in the alternative press, have focused on the US moves toward ending the economic blockade of Cuba and gradually opening diplomatic relations.
Latin America and the Anglo-American Booby-Left
03.25.2015 :: Latin AmericaNumerous prominent progressive US pundits, whose political pronouncements carry great weight in the alternative media, have proclaimed Latin Americas decisive break with US domination and have gone on to announce the beginning of a new post-imperial epoch.
Obamas War in our Hemisphere and Venezuelas National Liberation Struggle
03.15.2015 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: Why did Obama declare a national emergency, claim that Venezuela represents a threat to US national security and foreign policy, assume executive prerogatives and decree sanctions against top Venezuelan officials in charge of national security, at this time?
US and Venezuela: Decades of Defeats and Destabilization
03.04.2015 :: Latin AmericaIntroduction: US policy toward Venezuela is a microcosm of its larger strategy toward Latin America. The intent is to reverse the regions independent foreign policy and to restore US dominance; to curtail the diversification of trading and investment partners and re-center economic relations to the US; to replace regional integration pacts with US centered economic integration schemes; and to privatize firms partly or wholly nationalized.
Looking Backward, Looking Forward: 2014 - 2015
01.03.2015 :: AnalysisIntroduction: The balance sheet for 2014 and the prospects for 2015 provide us with a complex panorama of negative and positive outcomes. In most cases the advances, are not earth-shattering but open possibilities for further progress. The negative developments, however, have greater and more threatening systemic outcomes.
The Con-man Cornered: Obama and the Democratic Debacle of 2014
11.11.2014 :: United StatesIntroduction: The meteoric rise to power of Barack Obama in 2008 was propelled by one of the greatest demagogic US Presidential campaigns of all time: To millions of young Americans, he promised to end the US wars in the Middle East. To millions of working and middle class voters, he promised to end the economic crisis by confronting Wall Street.
Positive Thoughts on Dark Times
07.06.2014 :: AnalysisIntroduction: There is no question that over the past decade and a half, Europe, the US and Israel have engaged in a series of bloody wars, inequalities have increased throughout the globe, economic crisis has become endemic and, more recently, right-wing military and civilian regimes have swept to power throughout Asia, North Africa, Europe and Canada.
Violence and Terror: The Ukrainian and Colombian Road to Empire Building
03.20.2014 :: Latin America - AnalysisIntroduction: The two paths to 21st century empire-building-via-proxies are illustrated through the violent seizure of power in the Ukraine by a US-backed junta and the electoral gains of the US-backed Colombian war lord, Alvaro Uribe.