Venezuela: The World Upside Down

For people who actually get to verify the news, Venezuela is the case in point why the media is so dangerously bought up by corporate interests – the news distort … Continue Reading →

What is Behind Ecuador’s “Default” on its Foreign Debt

On December 2008,  President Rafael Correa declared that Ecuador would default on $30.6M payment on state bonds.  The decision was taken after an appointed international commission determined that most of … Continue Reading →

The Prison Industrial Complex

Prisons are big business in the United States, and the building, running and supplying of prisons has become the fastest-growing industry in the country. Factories are moving into the prisons, … Continue Reading →

Maybe Raping Is Not That Tragic Afterwards, right?

There is a book called “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and that is the slogan that our society is giving to victims of rape. We live and reinforce a male domination culture … Continue Reading →

Two Opposing Dimensions of The Ecuadorian President and His Inform to the Nation from New York

Rafael Correa is at least one of the most intriguing political personalities of the day. It is like we are talking about two different people, but it is the same … Continue Reading →

Plutocracy

Just bite the bullet and take it as a man another slap on your face but you must apologize. One dollar, one vote This is government by the rich, to … Continue Reading →

Mass Shootings – a Pattern that Marks the American Way of Life

Killing is the business and business is great – that is the slogan of the day behind the executive doors of the guns and psychotropic drugs industries. The brand new … Continue Reading →

U.S. Assassin Drones May Be Intelligent, But Certainly They Are Not Polite

  The deaths of half a million children as a result of the absolute, all-embracing deprivations of the UN embargo were: A hard choice, but the price, we think the … Continue Reading →

Business of War, Business of Corruption

  . . . I know I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghetto without having first spoken clearly to the greatest … Continue Reading →

Latin America: The Media Have Become a Bigger Threat than the Military

Recently Hebe de Bonafini, the head of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, stated  that the media has become a bigger threat than the military [El Comercial]. The media … Continue Reading →