Truth in comedy
By Saul Landau
Have mainstream politicians grown so out of synch with the needs of the people that only comedians address the issues? Traditionally, the court jester dared shine a satiric light on imperial problems. In our society, standup comics and “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”, under the guise of clowning, get away with exposing corporate rip offs and self-serving government agencies. The mainstream media accept these thug operations as national axioms.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert don’t joke about tens of millions of people moaning, not whining, from pain of economic ...
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José Luís Fiori
Taken from ALAI-AMLATINA
"One might ask why a strong State would wish to attack a weaker State, but that's not the point. The decisive fact is that, at an interstate level, the larger unit can attack the weaker groups. Since there's no one around who can prevent those attacks, the weaker human groups live in a constant and unavoidable state of insecurity." Norbert Elias, Involvement and Alienation, Bertrand Publishers, Rio de Janeiro, 1990, pg. 214.
The reactivation of the U.S. Navy's Fourth Fleet in the South Atlantic will provoke a radical and permanent change in the United States' military relationship with Latin America. For that reason, the first U.S. explanations made about the fleet's reactivation (it was created in 1943 and dismantled in 1950) to the effect that it was a simple "administrative" decision made for "peaceful, humanitarian and ecological" objectives, were so surprising.
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Al’s Loupe
Miami Hispanic Democrat group wants to ‘advise’ Obama
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
Some Hispanic democrats have taken the offensive with the Obama for president campaign. Feeling left out of the Hispanic and Latin American agenda, former Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre sent out a confidential July 4 memo to 25 prominent South Florida Hispanics, according to The Miami Herald.
His plan, create a policy advisory group from this area “to counterbalance what he [Ferre] perceives as excessive micro-management of state campaigns by Obama’s Chicago headquarters.” The memo was issued just days after the naming of Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Figueroa, a Mexican-American with strong ties to labor, as head of the Obama national Hispanic vote getting effort.
Figueroa was a top official with the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). From 2001-02, he was in Florida to help a democrat beat Governor Jeb Bush in the 2002 election. This firebrand’s specialty is getting out the vote not setting the policy agenda. Temo left Florida in early 2002 before the election for governor.
Renew the New Yorker -- for life!
By Bill Press
Barack Obama's campaign denounced it as "tasteless and offensive" and an insult to all Muslims. John McCain called it "totally inappropriate." They both take themselves too seriously.
Pardon my political incorrectness, but when I saw the cover of this week's New Yorker magazine, I laughed out loud -- as Obama should have, too. First, it was LOL funny. The image of Barack and Michelle Obama invading 
the Oval Office in Muslim garb, while giving each other what Fox News dubbed the "terrorist fist jab," highlights the absurdity of the fear campaign which Republicans are trying to stir up against Obama. Indeed, cartoonist Barry Blitt named his artwork "The Politics of Fear."
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A service by the Radio Progreso Alternativa Havana Bureau
Fannie
and Freddie
“Whatever
their sins, Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] clearly couldn’t
be allowed to fail, but
that’s no argument for letting them go on as they are. Either they
should be forced to make it as private companies or they should be
nationalized. […] If Fannie and Freddie are going to run
up a tab and stick taxpayers with the bill,
why should shareholders profit?”
-- James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
