Good News For Once
Diplomacy sometimes works. It did in South America. Which is good — we need both the oil to flow and our client-state in Columbia to remain viable. War would not have been in the best interests of any of the… Continue Reading
Venezuela
Maybe It Starts Where You Aren’t Looking, or, Cocaine and Armaments and Uranium Oh My!
Admit it. You weren’t paying any attention at all to South America. Well, maybe you’d better start, because a three-way shooting war looks like it’s about to get started there. Here’s the deal. Columbia’s President, Juan Uribe, is considered a… Continue Reading
Good News Monday
Good news on the international front brought to you today by the BBC. First, it appears that our evaluation (meaning that of the United States) of the threat of a nuclear Iran has been ratcheted down from “high alert” to… Continue Reading
Why The Customer Is Always Right, Or, Hugo Chavez Threatens To Cut Off His Own Nose To Spite The United States
Hugo Chavez, the unabashedly America-baiting leftist wannabe-dictator of Venezuela, is trying to push through a referendum that would restructure Venezuela’s constitution, permit him to run for re-election indefinitely, and allow him to sidestep the legislature and courts of that country… Continue Reading
Wages of Demagoguery
One of the world’s leading challengers to U.S. hegemony demonstrated his strength and grasp over power today by shutting down a TV station that aired points of view in opposition to his own. It is no coincidence that nations unfortunate… Continue Reading