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Reports that two of Colombia’s most wanted drug traffickers traveled to Argentina to hold talks are only the latest evidence that the country is being used as a hideout and base of operations by members of the Colombian underworld.
On January 21, 2009, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and, in his inaugural address, pledged to America that he would “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.”
Attorney General Holder Joins U.S. Attorney, Wales Family and FBI to Mark 10th Anniversary of Tom Wales’ Murder.
Sometimes the writing on the wall is 10 feet tall, and you have to be willfully blind not to see it. The September attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul on September 13, which has now been linked to Pakistani secret service officials, is surely such an instance.
President Obama’s speech to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) this weekend was another rallying cry to pass his new jobs bill. Meanwhile, the country is losing faith in the “hope and change” people voted for less than four years ago.
Most Americans identify China as the country most likely to challenge the United States globally, and many even expect China to replace American dominance. U.S. lawmakers are finally waking up to the challenge, which is not only military and economic but extends to the spheres of information and public diplomacy.
Recently released information from the 9/11 Commission reveals that its original recommendation to condense and consolidate congressional oversight for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has yet to be implemented...
Progressive Presidents love war in the shadows. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson wanted to spy on all Americans. FDR created the OSS during World War II under “Wild” Bill Donovan.
Which comes first: supply or demand? This question has serious policy implications, especially as President Barack Obama proposes $447 billion in additional stimulus spending in order to try to spur job growth in America.
A flurry of newspaper articles reporting that the Obama Administration may decide to disregard the advice of its military commanders and reduce the U.S. military presence in Iraq to less than 4,000 troops by the end of the year prompted 42 distinguished American foreign policy experts to write an open letter to President Obama on September 15, urging him to reconsider.
President Barack Obama’s solution for America’s unemployment woes has been a stubborn campaign to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on economic “stimulus”–much of it on so-called “green jobs.” Report after report has shown the approach to be a total failure. And now, a new scandal involving Solyndra, a bankrupt solar panel company in California, should be the final nail in the coffin for the government’s meddling in the free market.
Venezuela’s authoritarian populist President Hugo Chávez announced that presidential elections will take place on October 7, 2012. Chávez, who continues to battle an unspecified cancer, is convinced he will win. In office since 1999, Chávez argues he must have another six years in order to install Socialism of the 21st Century, i.e. a slightly modernized version of Cuban communism.
Will securing our US-Mexico border solve our country’s entire illegal immigration problem? Of course not, but neither will turning a blind eye by a providing a pathway to citizenship for everyone who broke the law by immigrating to our country illegally.
In his address to the joint session of Congress last week, President Barack Obama called for $477 billion in new federal spending, which he said would give hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged young people hope and dignity while giving their low-income parents “ladders out of poverty.”
Last week, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Preparedness Group (NSPG)—a follow on to the original 9/11 Commission—reported that, 10 years after 9/11, nine of the 41 recommendations made by the commission remain unfulfilled. With scores like that, this report card certainly isn’t going to make it on anyone’s fridge.
Officials from the U.S. federal government have admitted to arresting, then releasing mere hours later, a man who admitted to manufacturing hundreds of improvised explosive devices for a Mexican drug cartel, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The man was arrested last week in Mexico, where authorities reportedly seized materials that could be used to manufacture 500 grenades.
Wonder who’s to blame for today’s stagnant economy? Look no further than 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to see where the buck ought to stop. Though President Barack Obama constantly points fingers at others for America’s economic woes, his policies are to blame for preventing the U.S. economy from getting back on track.
The most outspoken critic of Ecuador's leftist president is a tall, folksy businessman who is getting lots of attention for publicly ridiculing Rafael Correa and his inner circle with jokes, songs and satiric mimicry.
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination... This is the war of the future." (Adolf Hitler)
The decision to exterminate Osama Bin Laden is welcomed by all decent people, or at least it should be. Permission to capture or kill this terrorist -proven murderer of masses and innocent people- was given by American presidents Barack Obama and George Bush (Jr). It was both a legal and moral decision.
Castro’s insane dictatorship -Fidel and Raúl at the helm- has managed to stay in power thanks to a skillful use of propaganda and a planned capitalization of a great number of myths, which go from the supposed Ernesto ¨Che¨ Guevara de la Serna’s heroism to the promoted ´exemplary´ health care. The international community complicity completes the formula with their investments in tourism, mainly from Spain. Well below business and statistics, despair and resignation begin to show from the psychologically beaten Cuban society, the real victim that nobody seems to care for. Topics: Raúl Castro and Nikita Khrushchev. The creation of the Cuban intelligence apparatus and drug trafficking. Fidel’s fortune and Spanish investments in tourist infrastructure. Cuban society real standard of living. The Internet predominant role. Suitable approaches to stimulate an effective denunciation of the dictatorship and to achieve its weakening.
Jeffrey Carr -Taia Global CEO & author of the book 'Inside Cyberwarfare' (O'Reilly Media 2009)- shares his views and opinion in regards to the emerging threats that will make the headlines in the decades to follow.
Bread and Circuses: "merry-makings in the shape of benefits or entertainment, intended to placate discontent or divert attention from a particular policy or situation".
Brian Strader is a Canadian national and visits our website on a regular basis. He wrote a series of poems -some of them related to Argentina-, which we now begin to publish.
Financial constraints –in the best style of 2001– have already landed, albeit surreptitiously. While banknotes are scarce, the National Government insists on defending itself by foisting the responsibility off on Brazilians for failing to deliver the requested paper banknotes. However, decrepit and rusty Hercules C-130 from Argentine Air Force had been made available to the Dakar Rally. Simultaneously, public, provincial, and private banks have interposed restrictions on ATM withdrawals: being now impossible to withdraw more than five hundred pesos. There’s chaos and urban anger in La Plata city and holiday resorts. Retirees, police agents and social programmes beneficiaries are unable to take out their monthly wages. Dark alternatives are taking shape behind Amado Boudou and Mercedes Marco del Pont’s official ineptitude. Truck driver Hugo Moyano’s political game. The bank run is among us.
Lacking answers, Cristina Fernandez has ended up falling victim to a hazardous cocktail set by her own inexperience and ineptitude, the agenda of dark representatives from the hard-line wing of kirchnerism, and the social and security crisis that her late husband greatly contributed to fuel, for the sake of his political goals. The irony within the chaos: only the so called 'dissident' Peronism and the opposition can stop her fall.
“Markets are conversations” point out the authors of the ninety-five conclusions presented by The Cluetrain Manifesto, whose reading I strongly recommend. In the State there are also two conversations which are also carried on: one within the same State and the other one with the citizens.
Necessary notes regarding cables published by Australian Julian Assange´s website.
The obliged report on the recent chapters of the marrowy Argentine political soap opera.
Such should be the title of a future autobiography of ex-president Néstor Carlos Kirchner who –in spite of knowing of his little chance of winning- has made up his mind to bring to life a hypothesis which, a few years ago, seemed quite unlikely to be proved: the “Scorched Earth” maxim. An approach on the complex psychological pattern of Cristina Fernández’s husband. The pacts and secret agreements between the Government and alleged candidates from the opposition.