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Manuel Valenzuela is a social critic and commentator, international affairs analyst and Internet essayist. His articles as well as his archive can be found at his blog, http://www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com as well as at other alternative news websites from around the globe. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be reached at manuel@valenzuelas.net.
Mr. Valenzuela is also author of Echoes in the Wind, a novel made available at most online book sellers and at Authorhouse.com.
SHARE Thursday, October 19, 2006 Upon Red Rivers of Genocide
The lives of 25 million human beings lie in ruins, destroyed like the rubble and mortar that lines city streets and boulevards. The Iraqi genocide is what we at present see, a reality fated to continue well into the future, without a hint of when it will stop, a direct and proximate cause of America's war crimes and its illegal and immoral occupation.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 11, 2006 The Dumbing Down of America
The American people are being strangulated; unbeknownst to the masses they are being transformed and conditioned, becoming the entity the elite have long sought, the culmination of decades of social engineering designed to make of hundreds of millions the slaves of times past and the automatons of the future.
SHARE Tuesday, October 3, 2006 America the Tyranny
Behold and bear witness to what has become of America, in this era of uncertainty and bewilderment, in this time of fear and intimidation, that since towers were brought down and demolished has methodically fallen into the viper pit of neocon decadence, becoming, as it stands today, an authoritarian's heaven and a corporatist's promised land
SHARE Thursday, September 28, 2006 Human Hell and the Demons of War
The pages of history, those monuments to humankind's brief rule over the planet, are replete with violence, death and destruction. Indeed, it can be argued successfully that war, genocide, ethnic cleansing and human violence against each other have defined humanity's tumultuous existence on Earth.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 21, 2006 Into Pyramid's Shadow: At War with Ourselves
Democracy is such a charade that for centuries now, regardless of election or of time and place, the elites of all nations have yet to lose the power and control of their respective states. They have yet to be displaced by the people for an extended period of time. Democracy seems at odds with the historical preference of the masses, generation after generation, for authoritarianism and tyranny.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 13, 2006 Two Axioms of 9/11
The desperation of the Republican party, in the run up to the election, can be seen in the level of fearmongering and propaganda it has begun to generate... The search for what really happened on 9/11, besides being an investigation into a crime of the most malfeasant and nefarious degree, is also a search for an America now lost for five years, hidden beneath the ashes of the Twin Towers.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Empire in the Mirror
The brutality of the Pax Americana, with the stench of death, indigence and suffering apparent everywhere it lays its omnipresent grip, is the result of policies created and enforced towards maintaining wealth, power and standards of living, of expanding interests and of retaining control over the vast sphere of influence. It is the result of Empire building and of curtailing rivals and rebellions to its hegemony
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 24, 2006 Dear "Terrorist" Child: Life Under Empire's Claws
It is oil, little one, that has condemned you and your people to futures beholden to the arrogant Empire from America, for black gold has become like a heroin addiction to the world, making your lands the syringe feeding comfort and wealth and greed into the veins of billions.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Pitch Black Void; Neocon Wet Dream
The events of 9/11, with the destruction of the World Trade Center, as well as the hit on the Pentagon, were designed by the architects of mass murder as the oil needed to fine-tune our thirst for blood and start the engine of the American war machine as well as those sparkplugs of blind and unthinking support, the American people. 9/11 was, in short, the neocon wet dream come to life.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 19, 2006 The Untermensch Syndrome: Israel's Moral Decay
The ongoing Israeli onslaught in Lebanon reminds us of the state- endorsed collective punishment by Israel of Palestinians and contributes to show us the moral decay of the Jewish state.
SHARE Wednesday, February 15, 2006 Land of the Puppet People
It oftentimes boggles the mind to try and understand the ease with which the Establishment can manipulate the American citizenry into another warmongering escapade..yet it is easy to comprehend this phenomenon, for we live inside the United States of Amnesia, a country where all semblance of the yesterday becomes but a haze of blatant forgetfulness and convenient whitewash.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 9, 2006 The Bolivarian Revolution
With Venezuela prospering as it is, using social democracy as a model, eroding neoliberal policies and unfettered capitalism from its backbone, empowering its people through principles of justice and equality, there exists the possibility that like a domino effect nation after nation will want to replicate the Bolivarian Revolution inside their own borders.
SHARE Thursday, February 2, 2006 The Pestilent Presidency
Bush is an amateur dictator enraptured and corrupted by absolute power, depending on the army of conditioned Americans to continue his devastation, both in the Middle East and in the United States. Nothing he has ever done has been a success, and now he is sending one more business venture, the nation called America, down the precipice of failure.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 26, 2006 The Killing Fields
The coming depleted uranium holocaust will in the next few decades kill hundreds of thousands of both Iraqi civilians and American soldiers. Many of them are today ghosts of walking dead waiting only for time to take its toll.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 19, 2006 The Poisoning of the Well
To tens of millions of Americans, Christian fundamentalism, with the Bible seen as the literal interpretation of humanity, of the planet?s creation, and of how civilization is to be managed, remains their idea of truth and of reality, even in the face of incontrovertible scientific truth proving otherwise and even with the accumulated knowledge of an ever-progressing society.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Of the Evil Empire
Let us dive into the making of the Evil Empire so that we may see what our government has and continues to do in our name.
SHARE Thursday, January 5, 2006 The Army of Good Americans
Birthed from the rubble of the World Trade Center, rising like a phoenix on 9/11 to claim dominion over America, this army has been the oxygen-rich blood maintaining alive the criminals in office. They are the defenders of war crimes and the apologizers of corruption.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 29, 2005 America?s Tomorrow
Under the pretext of securing the homeland from the terrorists wanting to destroy us for our cherished freedoms and democracy, the police state will be ushered in during the quiet hours of citizen fear and shock, blindly approved by the people themselves
SHARE Wednesday, December 21, 2005 The Making of the Enemy [Part Two]
Into Orwellian times have we descended, with the creation of superhuman enemies to frighten us, psychological war to control us and with the making of even newer, more ominous enemies lurking on the horizon.
SHARE Monday, December 19, 2005 The Making of the Enemy [Part One of Two]
The manufacture, marketing and dissemination of bogeymen enemies, both real and fictional, for a long time endemic in American society, has always worked to perfection, becoming the inertia used to control the population. It becomes the energy needed to maintain America?s permanent wartime economy.