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Statist control of food supply in Venezuela and the US: Different in form, equal in substance
While Hugo Chavez’s latest move towards state-owned food distribution translate into thousands of tons of rotten food, with the concomitant billions of taxpayer dollars wasted (and/or appropriated by the kleptocrats) of the regime, things in the US don’t look much … Continue reading
1984-like control device of the day: The Pain Ray
Developed by U.S. defense contractor Raytheon, the device “shoots a beam of millimeter waves that penetrate the human flesh through clothing causing a sensation supposedly akin to being hit by scolding water, or the blast of heat when opening a … Continue reading
Onechot’s “Rotten Town” on the horror of Caracas’ street violence
Not that I shouldn’t have expected it from the sort of people that for years have banned the publication of official murder statistics in my country, but Hugo Chavez censoring this video, which so eloquently denounces the nightmare of Caracas’ … Continue reading
Six dangerous cliches about how the economy works
Giordano Bruno at Neithercorp Press has a brilliant essay that deconstructs six typical cliches people recur to for rationalizing the sheer insanity of the global economic system, despite the mountains of evidence in front of our eyes: 1. The economy … Continue reading
Something fishy about WikiLeaks latest mega-leak? Part 2
William Engdahl has some interesting thoughts about the apparent fishiness of WikiLeaks latest mega-leak: Since the dramatic release of a US military film of a US airborne shooting of unarmed journalists in Iraq, Wiki-Leaks has gained global notoreity and credibility … Continue reading
Something fishy about WikiLeaks’ latest mega-leak?
As much as I like WikiLeaks, co-founder John Young raises several good points about why we should be skeptical about the site’s latest mega-leak on Afghanistan’s war. Here’s Young being interviewed at CNN: And at the Alex Jones show: And … Continue reading
Uribe accuses Chavez of supporting FARC, but harasses journalists exposing his administration’s ties to paramilitary squads
The latest Chavez-Uribe clash motivated me to look for FARC-related material in my RSS reader, and I found this little gem from the Center for Investigative Reporting: One of Colombia’s foremost journalists, Hollman Morris, has been denied a visa by … Continue reading
Chavez may be an incompetent, autocratic and downright disastrous President, but there is little evidence that he is a significant supporter of the FARC or ELN
A great piece by Pablo Rojas Mejía adds a bit of refreshing rationality to the disinformation war surrounding the latest political clash between Venezuela and Colombia: Many Uribistas were surprised when the international media and, to a lesser extent, the … Continue reading
On Hayek, Pinochet, and disillusion
I recently re-read Friedrich Von Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, which I read for the first time ages ago, with high expectations as to its relevance for understanding the current trend towards authoritarianism sweeping most of the Western world. I found … Continue reading
Posted in Demagoguery and sophism, Globalization, Latin America
Tagged Chile, Financial crisis, Hayek, Pinochet, Yves Smith
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s roaring bravery
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange talked to The Guardian after a month in hiding. Having the boys at the Pentagon chasing your ass for telling the world the truth about their dirty war secrets must not be easy, but the man … Continue reading
