63 Articles

Monday, October 26, 2009
Villa and Zapata – A History of the Mexican Revolution, Part 3: the Civil War and its aftermath
This is a review of the book Villa and Zapata by Frank McLynn. This is the third part of the review which discusses his writing on the civil war itself

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Villa and Zapata – A History of the Mexican Revolution, Part 2: Villa and Zapata – the main players
(5 comments) The second part of a three-part review of the book, Villa and Zapata – A History of the Mexican Revolution by Frank McLynn. This part focuses on the main players as described in the book.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Part 1: Mexico at the Turn of the Century
A review of the book, Villa and Zapata, a history of the Mexican Revolution, part 1, Mexico at the turn of the century

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
US DOLLAR AS CURRENCY OF LAST RESORT
A review of the SDR and one possible scenario upon its implementation

Saturday, September 12, 2009
Chapters Twenty-six, Twenty-seven and Twenty-eight: Cuba Today, Summing Up Life and Revolution and After Fidel, What?
(2 comments) The final review of Fidel Castro's audio autobiography, Fidel Castro, My Life. A review of his life's work and the future post-Fidel.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Chapters Twenty-three, Twenty-four and Twenty-five: Cuba and Spain, Fidel and France, and Latin America
(2 comments) A review of chapters 23,24 and 25 of Fidel Castro's autobiography, Fidel Castro, My Life.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
WINNABLE VS UNWINNABLE WARS (Why the US has already lost in Afghanistan and Iraq)
(2 comments) A critical review of the difference between winnable and unwinnable wars

Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Chapters Twenty-one and Twenty-two: The Arrest of Dissidents in March 2003 and the Hijackings in April 2003
(2 comments) Review of chapters 20 and 21 of the book, Fidel Castro, My Life, by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Chapters Eighteen, Nineteen, and Twenty: Ochoa, Neoliberal Globalization and President Jimmy Carter's Visit
(3 comments) A review of the book, Fidel Castro, My Life, A Spoken Autobiography - Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet, around the topic of the trial of General Arnaldo Ochoa, neoglobalization practices and American President Jimmy Carter's visit to Cuba.

Saturday, August 15, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapters Sixteen and Seventeen: The Emigration Crisis and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
An indepth review of the autobiography, Fidel Castro, My Life

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter Fifteen: Cuba and Africa
(3 comments) An indepth review of the audio autobiography, Fidel Castro, My Life, by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet.

Monday, July 27, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter Fourteen: The Death of Che Guevara
(3 comments) An in-depth review of the book, Fidel Castro, My Life, examining in detail the life of one of the most enigmatic and influential leaders of modern times.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Chapter Thirteen: The Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962
(3 comments) A review of the spoken autobiographical book of Fidel Castro, "Fidel Castr, My Life."

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Operation Miracle: Cuban Health Care Gives Sight to the Near Blind for Free
An article on Operation Miracle and Cuba's program to bring sight to those with ophthalmological problems at no cost.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
The US National Soccer Team Wins in the Confederation Cup
A report on the recent American soccer team results from the Confederation Cup held in South Africa in June.

Sunday, July 5, 2009
What the New World Order Isn't
(39 comments) An essay on the New World Order

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life: chapter 12 - The Bay of Pigs / Playa Girón
(2 comments) A Book Review of Fidel Castro, My Life: Chapter 12 - The Bay of Pigs. The US invasion of Cuba from the Cuban perspective.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
American Policy Shift in Afghanistan Opium Production, or is it?
(13 comments) A review of the current US policy towards Afghan poppy production from an historical perspective.

Monday, June 29, 2009
When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns, and how guns REALLY become illegal
(24 comments) An exposé on ridiculous gun slogans and some reality behind illegal guns in America and Amercan's love affair with the gun.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 11: The Conspiracies Begin
(4 comments) This is a book review of Fidel Castro, My Life, a recorded oral autobiography of the life of Fidel Castro.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Guns don't kill people
(34 comments) Gun Control in America and the straw man arguments of the pro gun lobby. Here I discuss the argument that guns don't kill people.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 10: Revolution: First Steps, First problems (a book review)
(2 comments) A book review of Fidel Castro, My life, Chapter ten. This chapter deals with Cuba just after the victory of the revolution.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 9: Lessons from a Guerrilla War
(3 comments) A book review of chapter 9, lessons learned from a Guerrilla War, from the book Fidel Castro, My Life, a Spoken Autobiography, Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet.

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 8: In the Sierra Maestra
A book review of the autobiography of Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro, My Life, A Spoken Autobiography

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - History Will Absolve Me
A book review of Chapter 6 of Fidel Castro's autobiography, "My Life."

Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - Chapter 7: Che Guevara
A review of the book, Fidel Castro - My Life, chapter 7, Che Guevara

Saturday, May 23, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - History Will Absolve Me
(2 comments) Chapter 6 of Fidel Castro's autobiography, My Life. Fidel's failed coup and subsequent imprisonment.

Friday, May 22, 2009
Strawman - Guns in Self-defense
(21 comments) The straw man defense for pro gun lobbyists of the insignificant percentage of use of guns for criminal purposes is exposed.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Cuba Has Bypassed the US in Health Care
(11 comments) Cuba's continual improvement in health care has pushed it past the ailing, anemic American system.

Monday, May 11, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - The Backdrop of the Revolution
(7 comments) A review of chapter 5 of Fidel Castro's spoken autobiography, My Life.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Illegitmo Legacy
(3 comments) A review of the history of the US military base with emphasis on its more recent notoriety

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The IlleGitmo Legacy
A review of the history of the US occupation of Guantanamo Bay and its place in the war on terror.

Sunday, April 5, 2009
Surgified Iraq: How the US has guaranteed a state of chaos for years to come
(3 comments) A look at the real policy and goal of the US government in Iraq

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Chapter Four: The Assault on the Moncada Barracks
(9 comments) The spoken biography of Fidel Castro as recorded by Ignacio Ramonet

Sunday, March 29, 2009
The Day They Shot the Sheriff and the Day He Shot Back
(6 comments) The death and rebirth of the Sheriff of Wall Street

Sunday, March 22, 2009
An Open Letter to the 9/11 Truth Movement.
(67 comments) An open letter to the people sincerely trying to find out what happened on 9/11

Sunday, March 22, 2009
Fill-in-the-Blank Protesting Services
(7 comments) A purely satirical look at the truth movements in the US and how they are thinking outside of the brain to keep their protests going.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - The Forging of a Rebel
(2 comments) review of chapter 2 of Fidel, My Life.

Thursday, February 12, 2009
Fidel Castro, My Life - The Childhood of a Leader
(4 comments) The continuing review of Fidel Castro's spoken autobiography with Ignacio Ramonet.

Saturday, January 10, 2009
O Israel, How Many Terrorists Did You Kill Today?
(2 comments) A personal poem concerning the current fighting in Gaza

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
President Bush Fires All Retirees
A satirical look at how President Bush might reduce overall government spending.

Friday, October 31, 2008
President George Bush - the Perfect Man for the Perfect Job
Over the decades, Americans have grown increasingly obnoxious among its planetary friends. Bush has finally achieved closure on one of the darkest sides of Americans.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Hu's Your Daddy, Bush??
(2 comments) Foreign debt and mounting deficits mean the end to America's freedom of choice. We no longer serve the the needs of the American people, but of the foreign nations who own us.

Friday, October 10, 2008
THE SUICIDE BOMBER
a treatise on the phenomenon known as the suicide bomber

Sunday, October 5, 2008
The Tarahumara Indians of Mexico "Olympics Too Short"
(5 comments) This is my news article on one of the best kept secrets of human endurance in the world. These Indians from Northern Mexico get drunk, smoke like chimneys, and run farther and faster than the most fit human beings anywhere else on the planet. They are deservedly legendary in Mexican folklore.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
CHINA FROM YESTERDAY TO TOMORROW
(5 comments) A treatise on the economic development of China and its future role on the world stage.

Monday, September 22, 2008
THE US BELLICOSE FOREIGN POLICY
(5 comments) a treatise on the make up of the US foreign policy since the beginning of this nation.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
How Paranoid Is America?
(12 comments) a treatise on the paranoia gripping Americans today and its life-destroying effect on normal citizens across the country.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008
THE FOURTH POWER AND THE RISE OF YELLOW JOURNALISM
(4 comments) a treatise on the creation of Yellow Journalism and the loss of independent journalism in America.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Woody & Arlo Guthrie: True American Patriots
(10 comments) a small tribute to two shining Americans who have profoundly, and positively, changed America and how tens of millions of us see her. This is a small gift to two giants who influenced us all and who continue to do so. God bless them both.

Monday, September 15, 2008
IMMIGRATION FROM THE IMMIGRANT'S POINT OF VIEW
(18 comments) A treatise on the issue of illegal immigration to the US from an immigrant's point of view.

Saturday, September 13, 2008
Fidel Castro, Cuba's Revolutionary Leader
(24 comments) A treatise on the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro

Wednesday, September 10, 2008
The Gini Factor, or How the US Flunked the Equality Test
(1 comments) A treatise on the economic measurement of the distribution of wealth in each country.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
THE FALSE WARS: IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND TERROR
A treatise about the current status of undeclared, declared wars of Iraq, Afghanistan and Terror

Saturday, September 6, 2008
The Depopulation of Planet Earth
(27 comments) A treatise on the centuries-old issue of depopulating the planet.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Has America Started to Fall Apart?
(10 comments) A small treatise on the current status of the United States and its standing in the world

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
THE REALITY OF TERRORISM IN TODAY'S WORLD
An updated treatise on the actual level of terrorism around the world today vs other causes of death.

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Warning Against Searching for Monsters to Destroy
(6 comments) A short review of one of the more elegant speeches given by a former US president

Saturday, August 30, 2008
What Cost This War on Terror
(1 comments) A treatise on the real and actual cost of our war on terror

Thursday, August 28, 2008
The Rise and Fall of the US Dollar as the The World Reserve
(7 comments) A treatise on the history of the US dollar including its downfall.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The False Enemies of the United States
(29 comments) A treatise on the US government's use of nonexistent enemies in order to rally the public into supporting otherwise horrific agendas.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
European Missle Defense Plan
(2 comments) A treatise on the validity of proposing a missile defense system for Eastern Europe.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008
THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF WAR
This is a treatise on the history of commercializing wars through to the present.