Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who during his ten years in power has introduced extensive state-capitalist measures based on the country’s oil wealth, has embarrassed his international fan club in recent weeks with a series of gaffes when on diplomatic business. Chávez has long entertained close relations with such “anti-imperialists” as Colonel...
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We Won
Ha Ha Ha. From the NYT: almost three years after stepping down as chairman of the Federal Reserve, a humbled Greenspan admitted that he had put too much faith in the self-correcting power of free markets and had failed to anticipate the self-destructive power of wanton mortgage lending. “Those of us who have...
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We are all socialists now
A long time ago Milton Friedman asked Richard Nixon why he never took his economic advice to which Tricky Dick replied “We are all Keynesians now”. Less than ten years later Ronald Reagan would declare “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.”, and we were all Reaganomists now. At...
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Putting country first
From Marx and Coca Cola: As you are probably aware of by now the government has decided to bail out the two mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. From the Land Down Under: REPUBLICAN presidential hopeful John McCain backed a US government takeover of two mortgage giants overnight while his Democratic rival warned...
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Power and Privilege
And this man wants to be president. From MSNBC : Senators John McCain and Barack Obama released their Senate financial disclosure statements on Friday, revealing that Mr. McCain and his wife had at least $225,000 in credit card debt…The bulk of the McCains’ obligations stemmed from a pair of American Express credit cards that...
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Yeah, but they’re probably full of lead
What’s that old saying about the capitalist selling you the rope to hang him? ‘Free Tibet’ flags are made in China. From Marx and Coca Cola
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America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots
This article was recommended to us by a Haitian friend of the WSP. We reprint it for the information contained – the on the ground conditions as our contact in haiti confirms them. It doesn’t reflect the WSP policies. •••••• America’s Role in Haiti’s Hunger Riots By Bill Quigley Monday 21 April 2008 Riots...
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Are We All Hamas And Hezbollah?
A Critical Look at the Left’s Flirtation with Islamic Fundamentalism -from Communicating Vessels Magazine Issue 19 “I have striven not to laugh at human actions, nor to hate them, but to understand them.” Baruch Spinoza THE WORLD HAS undoubtedly changed since the late 1980s. No one can deny that when the Berlin wall crumbled...
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What’s the Matter with Pennsylvania?
From our friend at Marx and Coca Cola Recently at a campaign event Barack Obama made the following comment about the dying Rust Belt towns in Pennsylvania: You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years...
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The Visible Man
From our friend at Marx and Coca-Cola blog: Last week Barack Obama gave a big speech in Philly on race in America, mostly to distance himself from comments made by his former pastor (apparently when you run for president the opinions of people you know automatically become your own). At the risk of losing...
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