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April 2003
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, April 30, 2003
¤ Iraqi Groups Grab Power in Key City, Factions Fight
¤ History of Warfare for Dummies
¤ Mindanao is next target of US oil imperialism?
¤ Nuclear Power Plant Alert
¤ Coca-Cola promotes drink with 'swastika' robots
¤ American Navy 'helped Venezuelan coup'
¤ Hypocrisy and apple pie
¤ To the Iraqis it was murder
¤ Our Imperial Adventure Inflames the World
¤ Santorum's slip: Another GOP loose cannon backfires
¤ Risky Business Of Occupation
¤ Defense CEOs are big winners of Iraq war
¤ Look into the eyes of Ali Ismail Abbas: what do you see?
¤ Putin Challenges Blair, US on Saddam WMD
¤ We are not with you and we don't believe you
¤ Blair suffers double rebuff as peace-maker
¤ The mirage of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
¤ US war crimes case 'going ahead'
¤ US to Be Sued for Iraq War Crimes
¤ US troops gun down Iraqi demonstrators
¤ U.S. Troops Fire on Iraq Protesters Again
¤ France, Germany deepen UK rift
¤ Goodbye, Europe ... Hello, "Eurussia"
¤ Washington pushes for interim regime in order to pump Iraqi oil
¤ Suicide bomber kills 3 in Tel Aviv
¤ Blow to Nato is old Europe's payback time
¤ Bin Laden's main demand is met
¤ Pull-out is better late than never for Saudis
¤ Why the U.S. Is Pulling Out of Saudi Arabia
¤ Saddam 'will broadcast'
¤ Israeli Occupation Forces Kill Five Palestinians
¤ Turkish Cypriots relax border crossings
¤ Qataris vote on constitution to set up Gulf-style democracy
¤ We'll put a stop to terrorism, says Palestinian PM
¤ Settlers council proposes plan for 'Jewish, Arab cantons'
¤ Elbowed over, Arafat still reigns
¤ Abbas won't accept changes to roadmap
¤ In peacekeeping mode, US troops tested
¤ US forces 'turn down Sahhaf's surrender overtures'
¤ 13 killed as US troops fire on protest
¤ 13 dead after US troops open fire on Iraqi protesters
¤ At least 10 dead as US soldiers fire on school protest
¤ Four die, dozens injured in suicide attack
¤ Bush's weapons of mass deceit
¤ Weapons of Mass Delusion
¤ Putin reveals deep splits over Iraq
¤ US pulls forces out of Saudi Arabia
¤ Doubts over Iraq links to al-Qaeda
¤ Mission to win Iraq deals gets no favours
¤ Blair suffers double rebuff as peace-maker
¤ Anti-war powers to join forces
¤ Honoring Napoleon-Jefferson deal in age of Bush
¤ Talk is still better than war
¤ Saddam to give message in 72 hours
¤ 21 killed in held Kashmir clash
¤ North Korea says nuclear talks useless without US move
¤ Nuclear WMDs in South Asia
¤ Battling for the soul of the American republic
¤ Troops 'are letting looters smuggle Iraqi antiquities'
¤ Putin snubs Blair by refusing to lift sanctions
¤ Iraq war helps BP gush to record £2.3bn profit
¤ America: Bastion of White Supremacy
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, April 29, 2003
¤ US threatens Belgium over planned war crimes indictment
¤ U.S. Fears Ethnic Wars: Kurds want to reclaim land
¤ Vexing questions remain in wake of Iraq war
¤ U.S. Pulls Military from Saudi in Gulf Realignment
¤ Weapons of mass deception
¤ We went to war just to boost the white male ego
¤ US Spy Submarine Chased out of Russian Waters
¤ Layers of deceit that built a case for war
¤ Rumsfeld Says United States Not Threatening Syria
¤ Are we dumb or just numb?
¤ War profits and the US "military-industrial complex"
¤ Questioning the war: Matters of emphasis
¤ Did our leaders lie to us? Do we even care?
¤ Takeaway antiquities: art dealers may have 'ordered' looting
¤ Syria Smuggles Saddam Aides Out Of Country
¤ Bush Says Iraqi War Was Extended Because Of Turkey
¤ Iraqis Say US Troops Kill 13; US Says Returned Fire
¤ Russia and France to Collaborate More Closely in Area of Defense
¤ US-Saudi 'uneasy' ties
¤ Chinese villagers riot over SARS
¤ The Dixie Chicks episode has indeed been shameful
¤ Fleecing The Family
¤ Iraqis Say U.S. Troops Kill at Least 13 Protesters
¤ US TROOPS 'SHOOT DEAD 13 IRAQIS'
¤ Developments in Iraq's Oil Fields
¤ Blair 'confident' of weapons finds
¤ The Shiite Shockwave
¤ Russia, ex-Soviet republics set up rapid reaction force
¤ Nuclear war risk grows as states race to acquire bomb
¤ Bush vows to respect the rights of Iraqis
¤ Syria releases British troops
¤ Iraqis agree to form government within weeks
¤ Palestinians prepare the way for publication of 'road-map'
¤ Loyal family paint Tariq Aziz as an innocent patriot
¤ 'Even under Saddam pay was better than this'
¤ Forces chief questioned war legality
¤ Colombian rebel urges surrender
¤ North Korea offers new peace deal
¤ American Forces Reach Cease-Fire With Terror Group
¤ The sun rises on Japanese, U.S. 'neocons'
¤ Blair fears new Cold War over EU rift with US
¤ Avoid war for two years, says defence chief
¤ Mofaz: All illegal outposts to go
¤ Fuzzy math on Iraq
¤ Saudis lose out in US reshuffle
¤ Power play in northern Iraq
¤ Australia's Defence Minister, Hill veers away from providing more help
¤ Wary of US, India eyes China again
¤ US to trim military presence in Gulf, says Rumsfeld
¤ No nuke talks with South: North Korea
¤ Iraq: what next?
¤ Bush vows to respect the rights of Iraqis
¤ Layers of deceit that built a case for war
¤ Iraqi delegates differ on best role for U.S.
¤ Search for Saddam takes a detour
¤ The road to St. Petersburg
¤ Top diplomats left out of the top gun party
¤ Iraqis don't need Allied's short-term remedies
Latest News
Posted: Monday, April 28, 2003
¤ SMOKING GUN STINKS OF SPOOKS
¤ Anti-war Crowd Demands Proof of WMDs
¤ US Lied About Iraq WMDs - Ritter
¤ Iraqis target Gen. Franks for war crimes trial
¤ I wonder when America will say it's had enough of the lies
¤ Springsteen backs under-fire Dixies
¤ US subservience to Israel
¤ Another Fine Mess From Army Intelligence
¤ Remember the lessons of Lebanon
¤ Hizbollah guerillas fire at Israeli planes over Lebanon
¤ Al-Qaida links still dubious
¤ Suspects stripped and paraded at gunpoint
¤ Further tests ordered on suspicious Iraqi chemicals
¤ Israel Wants EU to be Sidelined in Mideast Deal: Report
¤ Iran behind deadly suicide bombing in Israel: report
¤ Thievery in Baghdad
¤ No WMD? No Problem!
¤ No chemical weapons in barrels, tests reveal
¤ US military bases: The spoils and deceptions of war
¤ Garner declares a new beginning for Iraq
¤ Santorum's odious comparisons
¤ Hill sidesteps coalition requests for more help to rebuild Iraq
¤ N.Korea Wants Aid, Festivals but No Nuclear Talk
¤ Report: Aziz Tells Interrogators Saddam Is Alive
¤ Woolsey: Saddam probably still alive
¤ Supporters mark Saddam's birthday
¤ Real Looting
¤ Sharon allows Arafat visitors
¤ Abbas refuses to travel until Arafat ban is lifted
¤ Blair: Chirac's world view 'dangerous'
¤ N Korea nuclear claim 'hushed up'
¤ Paris and Berlin prepare alliance to rival Nato
¤ Did the United State murder journalists?
¤ Rumsfeld again warns Iraqi neighbours
¤ Was Tariq Aziz coalition's mole?
¤ Americans kick out 'mayor of Baghdad'
¤ Iraq weapons chief becomes 13th official captured on US hit list
¤ Peaceful activists caught in fight
¤ Rumsfeld to offer Franks top army post: report
¤ US defence secretary meets UAE officials
¤ Russia to boost mily presence along Tajik-Afghan border
¤ N. Korea Stonewalls Demands to Drop Nukes
¤ Beijing theatres and bars closed in crackdown
¤ Fighting is over but the deaths go on
¤ Al-Qaida links still dubious
¤ Women and children die in Afghan factional fighting
¤ Turkey denies sending commandoes into Iraq
¤ 'Nigerian polls better than US elections'
¤ Colombian rebels murder teacher in 'act of madness'
¤ Americans arrest 'mayor' as Garner struggles for control
¤ Argentina faces runoff poll to decide presidency
¤ Former bureaucrats will be asked to help - for now
¤ Washington heads for new UN row over control of oil wealth
¤ Saddam link to al-Qaeda in doubt
¤ Bush faces Chalabi row
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, April 27, 2003
¤ Germans feel tension at New Mexico Air Force base
¤ How to justify the murder of a 10 year old boy
¤ Halliburton Defends No-bid Iraq Contract
¤ Unembedded Thoughts on the Great Patriotic War
¤ We're sick of SARS -- but at least there's less Iraq blather!
¤ Rebuilding Iraq By Selling Out The Iraqis
¤ Iraqis demand restoration of utilities
¤ Iraqi War Sparks a Wave of Jokes in Egypt
¤ Shi'ite clergy take charge in Iraq
¤ Multiculturalism not for Israel - Leibler
¤ Iraqi Shiites, Sunnis Unite To End Anarchy
¤ Scepticism over Saddam-Osama link
¤ Pause the postwar glee to ask: Were supporters misled?
¤ U.S. Seeks to Keep Gulf Military Presence
¤ 'Empire' creeps into analyses of U.S. world role
¤ Iraq victory may be opening move in U.S. strive for supremacy
¤ Richard N. Perle; From Disinfopedia, the encyclopedia of propaganda
¤ Carving Up The New Iraq
¤ How the road to war was paved with lies
¤ Bush plan to win over Democratic voters lags
¤ Gagged by the flag
¤ Unembedded thoughts on the Great Patriotic War
¤ Newest U.S. colony ruled by air power
¤ Erosion of Rights; Freedom denied -- at home
¤ The history that winners write
¤ There are signs something fishy happened
¤ U.S. empty-handed in Iraq search for WMD
¤ Iraq war: Worse lies ahead
¤ Iraq 'may have to quit Opec'
¤ Controlling the news with 'embedded' journalists
¤ Revealed: How the road to war was paved with lies
¤ The damning of Gorgeous George
¤ Iraqis emulate Palestinians by stoning troops
¤ Five killed in attack on Kashmir TV station
¤ Millions trapped as Beijing shuts gates
¤ Seoul to press North to scrap arms
¤ Baghdad blast kills 40
¤ The spooky provenance of the smoking gun that backfired
¤ Farce mask: it's safe for only 20 minutes
¤ Fury as explosion at weapons dump kills 40
¤ Revealed: the moment Bush pulled war trigger
¤ Blair and that vital vote
¤ Powell rules out US military action in subcontinent
¤ 14 more killed in occupied Kashmir
¤ Rumsfeld sacks army secretary
¤ US asks Syria to stop supporting terrorist groups
¤ Allied troops should leave Iraq: Kuwait
¤ Senior UK ministers prepare to quit over Iraq war
¤ Colony Iraq
¤ Shock & awe indeed
¤ Living with the American empire
¤ Nuke talks over, UN sanctions next step
¤ Rebel leader promises 'thousands of bin Ladens'
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, April 26, 2003
¤ US should focus on Israel's WMDs: Pak MP
¤ Why won't Washington allow the UN weapons inspectors into Iraq?
¤ Bio-Terrorism & SARS
¤ Conquest but no success for Bush in Iraq
¤ U.S. threatens Syria 'to serve Israeli interests'
¤ Is Everything We Learned a Myth?
¤ Administration bent on dictatorship
¤ Weapons inspector says US lied
¤ The Bush 'Warbucks' Family Cashes In
¤ Bush's Revenge
¤ Puzzle pieces fit to reveal US fundamentalism
¤ Bush on a revenge mission
¤ What happened to free speech in America?
¤ After Iraq,It's Syria, North Korea, Iran
¤ No proof of Powell's arms claims
¤ UN heads for new rift over Iraq role
¤ Kashmir Car Bombing, Gunbattle Kills 5
¤ 2nd U.S. Soldier Dies in Afghan Gunbattle
¤ U.N., U.S. Battle Over Iraq Sanctions
¤ U.N.: Iraqis Ought to Run Oil Industry
¤ American to oversee Iraqi oil industry
¤ Thanks, Mr President
¤ New Iraq Isn't Shaping Up The Way War Party Envisioned
¤ Iraq envoy Khalilzad reveals Iran strategy behind the first Gulf War
¤ Fury As Us Strips Thieves
¤ Finding banned weapons in Iraq irrelevant, British official claims
¤ Canada will be left out of first contracts in Iraq: Powell
¤ Iraqi Arms Dump Blast Kills at Least 12 Civilians
¤ Developments in Iraq's Oil Fields
¤ Rumsfeld Heads to Persian Gulf
¤ Iraqis Protest Against U.S. After Baghdad Blast
¤ Unexploded Bombs Kill, Maim Iraqis
¤ U.S. May Consider N. Korea Sanctions
¤ Chavez: Iraq People Should Control Oil
¤ Rift Exposed in Sept. 11 Terror Panel
¤ 21 killed in held Kashmir violence
¤ Iraq occupation could last two years: Bush
¤ Two US soldiers among four killed in Afghan fighting
¤ Muslim clerics demand withdrawal of US forces from Iraq
¤ Bush masters snub as political weapon
¤ Iraqis pick up pieces to rebuild domestic media
¤ Iraq war: From defiance to yielding
¤ Real weapons of mass destruction already destroyed
¤ US and its allies confront dangerous options
¤ U.S. will not allow Islamic state in Iraq
¤ U.S. to Europe: 'Who wants allies?'
¤ Time up for US troops in Saudi Arabia
¤ With the breakdown of the old order came disorder
Latest News
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2003
¤ Can An Entire Country Go Mad?
¤ Meet the new bosses
¤ Powell defends attack on Baghdad hotel
¤ Journalists grilled over theft of Iraqi treasures
¤ Winnie Mandela jailed
¤ US accuses Iran of stirring up protests
¤ Straw plays down N Korea threat
¤ North Korean 'threat' over weaponry
¤ Iraqi Spy, Taken Into Custody, at Home in a Shady World
¤ Syria: Where are weapons of mass destruction?
¤ N. Korea Military Tactics In A War With US
¤ Puppets and puppeteers in Iraq
¤ Document exposes pro-Israel lobby's manipulation of US public
¤ U.S. Arms Dealer To Run Iraq's 'Humanitarian Relief'
¤ U.S. Wants to Shut Down UN Controls on Iraq's Oil
¤ Annan: US-UK's war on Iraq was illegitimate
¤ US anger at Annan remarks
¤ Banned weapons may never be found in Iraq: Bush
¤ U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan
¤ Nasrallah urges Arab unity to face down US, Israel
¤ US Seen Using Trade as Foreign Policy Stick -Analysts
¤ South casts doubts on North Korea's nuclear claims
¤ US accuses Iran of stirring up protests
¤ Return to violence feared as Aceh peace process unravels
¤ Garner pledges a new Baghdad government within days
¤ Former Iraqi spy chief captured by US forces
¤ Minister still a mine of misinformation
¤ With the breakdown of the old order came disorder
¤ No haggling over Middle East plan, warns Powell
¤ How some soldiers were, for a few hours, hugely and illegally rich
¤ UK soldiers to be tested for toxic exposure
¤ Blair's secret war meetings with Clinton
¤ North Korea pushing ahead with "deterrence"
¤ North Korea's nuclear gamble will change face of Asia
¤ N Korea vows to 'prove' nuclear strength
¤ 'Dixie sluts' fight on with naked defiance
¤ Why Hizbullah may be the next terror target for US
¤ Hey kids, let's bankrupt America! Bush launches tax cut offensive
¤ Ashcroft: Many illegal immigrants can be jailed indefinitely
¤ Those who built up Hussein will profit from his demise
¤ Chris Floyd: 'Open book'
¤ An antiwar American looks for a new place to call home
¤ Bush stays on war footing for his re-election drive
¤ N. Korea Warns U.S. It Has Nuclear Arms
¤ Amnesty finds race factor in US death sentences
¤ Rumsfeld: Iraqis Free to Form Own Gov't
¤ Suicide bombing sends warning to Palestinian PM
¤ Tariq Aziz gives himself up to US
¤ The first global epidemic of the 21st century
¤ North Korea threatens test explosion of nuclear weapons
¤ A huge symbolic coup: The suave face of the regime is in US hands
¤ Q & A: What is this disease and why is it so deadly?
¤ UN need not join in hunt for weapons, says Hoon
¤ US not to allow Iran-like govt in Iraq: Rumsfeld
¤ Wishing for the impossible
¤ Pakistan not next US target: Pak HC
¤ Student kills principal, self in US
¤ Nine killed in held Kashmir violence
¤ The lessons of Lebanon
¤ Powell says talks over and warns Pyongyang
¤ Pyongyang wants US security guarantee
¤ MILF rebels attack buses, kill 16 civilians
¤ Chalabi: with friends like the US...
¤ Ashcroft says illegal aliens in U.S. can be held indefinitely
¤ Nigerian bus crash kills 46
Argentina's Redemption Not Likely
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2003
Presidential Election Promises not a New Start, but Business as Usual in a Corrupt and Cynical Society
The twentieth anniversary of the restoration of representative democracy in Argentina coincides with a nadir in the population's confidence in the country's political system and democratic institutions.
Corruption, misguided economics, and corporatism bordering on neo-fascism, remain chronic maladies that plague Argentina. These persist partly due to the populace's acceptance of the anti-Christ of a civic society and too much indifference, if not fanaticism, to break with the past.
The presidential candidates are for the most part uninspiring, epitomize the status quo and, in Carlos Menem's case, belong behind bars rather than on the presidential ballot.
Presidential campaigns resemble low theater as much as political dialogue; indeed, political posturing, pseudo-populist appeals and vacuous promises substitute for coherent and realistic platforms, and with the exception of Elisa Carrio, devoid of ethical content.
Disenchanted by electoral politics and left with few viable options, Argentines are likely to passively accept more of the same.
On this Sunday, April 27, 2003, Argentines will head to one of the thousands of polling stations across the country to elect its first president of the 21st century. Coincidentally, this year marks the twentieth anniversary of the ostensible restoration of democracy in South America's second-largest economy. The military, which instituted authoritarian rule intermittently since 1930, and most recently and brutally from 1976-1983, has now returned to the barracks. But a new form of dictatorship—the tyranny of the spiritless—has overtaken the nation.
For the most part, this year's field of presidential aspirants are the heirs of the country's chintzy past. Of the five leading candidates, one has served as head of state twice before, another is viewed as the surrogate of the outgoing interim president and a third is an archetype of the sinister traits embedded in Peronism. Bereft of but a few viable alternatives, only a pair of candidates running on independent tickets are largely unblemished by the country's malignant political lymphoma, dejected Argentine voters have yet to rally decisively behind any candidate. Rather than marking a clean break with the country's ugly and pitiful past, the very tendencies that precipitated Argentina's descent from the opulence and the international respectability it enjoyed at the beginning of the twentieth century to its present ruinous condition are poised to be carried over into the twenty-first. The upcoming ballot has little prospect of delivering any respite for the profound political, social and economic problems that bedevil the country.
Continuity Personified
None of the candidates vying for a four-year stint at the Casa Rosada better epitomize Argentina's shortcomings, and by implication the wretched continuity of its deeply distressed political culture, than Carlos Menem, a political parasite, who during his decade of rule, humiliated his nation and drained it of any dignity that it might have once possessed. Having already served two terms as president and with some polls predicting that despite all of his negative baggage he still might serve a third, Menem hopes to eclipse his professed political hero, Juan Peron's, time in office. The self-perceived similarities between Menem and the country's most revered iconic figure do not end there, for the former likens his 2003 candidacy to Peron's triumphant return to the country's presidency in 1973 after 18 years in exile. Now married to the 1987 Miss Universe, the 72 year-old Menem fancies his pregnant Chilean wife, Cecilia Bolocco, to be the next Evita Peron, a notion not lost upon the Argentine electorate.
In civilized countries that uphold the rule of law, as opposed to the rule of man, as sacrosanct, Menem's numerous indiscretions would have him languishing as a disgraced political figure in prison or in political limbo in any self-respecting nation instead of being on the verge of again leading his country. In 2001, the former president spent 5 months under house arrest on account of arms-trafficking for personal aggrandizement and is also alleged to have accepted a $10 million bribe from Arab terrorists in exchange for covering up details surrounding the bombings of several Buenos Aires-based Jewish facilities in the 1990's. His macroeconomic policies specifically linking the Argentine peso to a one-to-one ratio to the dollar, extensive privatizations of state industries in an invariably tainted process, and his lavish fiscal expenditures, are blamed by economists for accumulating an ultimately unsustainable external debt, stoking unemployment, impoverishing millions and decimating the country's middle class. Currently one of the frontrunners, if elected, Menem vows to forge closer ties to the U.S. and the multilateral lending institutions, honor external debt obligations and institute a floating currency regime that circumscribes central bank underwriting of government deficits.
Enter the Other Contenders
Joining Menem in the presidential fray is fellow Peronist Nestor Kirchner (another frontrunner). Drab and business-like, the slightly center-left governor of sparsely-populated but oil-rich Santa Cruz province is a relative newcomer to the national political scene. However, perceptions of independence are compromised by Kirchner's intimate links to the current interim president, Eduardo Duhalde. In reality, the upcoming election is viewed by many observers as a proxy war between Menem and Duhalde, once nominal allies, for control of the Peronist Party's soul. Although one should commend Duhalde for refusing to endorse the U.S. intervention in Iraq, one wonders if Kirchner, who already has agreed to retain Duhalde's minister of the economy, Roberto Lavagna, if elected, will emerge as his own man or remain beholden to his political patron and leader of the Peronist elite old guard.
Rounding out the clutch of Peronist contenders (this is the first time the party has ever failed to settle on a single candidate) is Adolfo Rodriguez Saa. The man who suspended interest payments on the country's external debt during his brief, 7-day presidency in December 2001, Saa is the quintessential Peronist. An avowed populist (he plans to channel the state's resources into creating 3 million new jobs in a mere 6 months) the governor of San Juan province reputedly has relied on a combination of inducements and intimidation to quell opposition to his provincial administration.
Two independent candidates, both of whom broke ranks from a Union Civic Radical Party (UCR) that is still tarnished by the abrupt and premature 1989 and 2001 exodus of two of its party leaders (Raul Alfonsin and Fernando de la Rua) from the Casa Rosada, merit attention as well. One of them, Elisa Carrio, a center-left legislator campaigning under the Republic of Equals banner, plans to purge the Argentine political system of its penchant for corruption. Objectively, she is the most unsullied and most highly regarded of any of the candidates who are running. Her former UCR counterpart, Ricardo Lopez Murphy, is a U.S.-trained economist running on a campaign advocating orthodox macroeconomic reforms. As the election has drawn nearer, he has increasingly posed a serious threat to Menem and Kirchner. In fact, Lopez Murphy's vote total on Sunday might surpass one of them, enabling him to slip into the second round. While Carrio's emphasis on honesty and integrity makes her attractive to middle class voters and while Lopez Murphy's fixation with fiscal prudence prompts approval from the commercial sector, neither one has been able to make significant inroads in the now rapidly disappearing factory belt around Buenos Aires, a portion of the electorate which remains mesmerized by Peronism's intoxicating hybrid of populism, statism and nationalism.
Political Drama
Many pollsters reckon that working class districts, like the patchwork communities comprising the 9 million-strong Buenos Aires conurbano, will determine the outcome of the April 27 presidential election. Keenly aware of this, the candidates, mainly the Peronists, are adopting electioneering tactics suitable to their target audiences. In what better resembles entertainment than political discourse, the candidates routinely address throngs of Argentines in venues like soccer stadiums and other open spaces in an attempt to outdo opponents in terms of promising employment and in exuding personal warmth. In a country where one of the most popular game shows dangles the prize of a job before its contestants, such campaign pledges are no small beer. Ex-president Menem, who harbors no qualms about sacrificing principle on the altar of expediency, has been at the forefront of this political farce. In a bid to cozy up to voters, he employed soccer icon Diego Maradona's number 10 jersey to tout his orthodox economic reforms, despite the fact Maradona resides in socialist Cuba and is chummy with Castro, a man whom Menem loathes because he has a thought. Equally blatant in terms of the breadth of its cynicism and lack of fair play, was the Duhalde government's April 14 announcement that it plans to impose a one-time transfer of 50 pesos ($17) from private sector enterprises to each of its employees. However, it is important to note that not all of the five leading presidential candidates have stooped to such self-serving depths: Elisa Carrio has shied away from radio and television advertisements, saying "I am not a soap or detergent, I am not part of the political marketing and I don't respond to questions with a view to seducing society."
A Disenchanted but Complacent Electorate
When asked by how much the country will change after the election, many Argentines respond "little or nothing." Indeed, negligible differences in support for the five leading presidential candidates testifies to this apathy. Many polls indicate that all of the candidates are struggling to pass over the 20 percent plateau, let alone gaining the 45 percent total and the 10 percent lead over the second-highest finisher that would be requisite to avoid holding a May 18 run-off election. Some analysts suggest that the proportion of spoiled ballots may even exceed the total attracted by the leading vote-getter.
Disenchantment with democracy in Argentina has been gathering apace since the heady days immediately following the military handover of political power to civilians in 1983. According to a 2002 survey taken by Latinobarometro, a Chilean polling firm, over 90 percent of Argentine respondents were dissatisfied with democracy (up from 60 percent in 1996) and almost 20 percent preferred authoritarian government to a democratic variant.
Pervasive corruption fuels a considerable portion of this disgust. In the thousands of complaints filed at the four-year-old, Buenos Aires-based anti-corruption division, not one has been successfully prosecuted. Law enforcement units, particularly the Buenos Aires contingent of the Bonarense have been notorious for abetting organized crime since the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. The judiciary is known to be commensurately tainted, especially the Supreme Court, where the majority of justices owe their appointments to a Menem-orchestrated court-packing scheme.
Furthermore, the Argentine society has yet to come to terms with its brutal, corporatist past. Since 1930, the military has routinely intervened in the country's political system, uprooting the institutions requisite to foster a free and democratic society. Sympathetic to neo-fascism, the ruling military elite over the years provided refuge to fleeing Nazis and in 1976 executed its largely successful, if hate-driven, "dirty war" to systematically eradicate leftist "subversives." The military's round-the-clock extermination of its political enemies claimed the lives of tens of thousands of Argentines. Almost all of the perpetrators of these heinous acts have gone unpunished for a variety of reasons and, as an institution, the military remains largely unrepentant. Ex-president Menem even had the audacity to commend the military officers responsible for conducting the grisly campaign, saying in 1994, "We triumphed in the dirty war, which had placed our society on the verge of dissolution."
However, this appalling and bloody venture could not have been undertaken without the complicity of Argentina's sizeable middle class. Before the country can recover from its 70-year decline and be a respectable member of the Latin American community of nations, its citizens have to confront their nation's shameful misdeeds, their mystifying indifference over the mass murders that occurred around them and address the petty, self-serving mentality that is pervasive throughout Argentine society. Sadly, a single presidential election will not ameliorate Argentina's pitiful state of affairs—only deep introspection will.
This analysis was prepared by Grant M. Nulle, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. Issued April 24, 2003.
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, founded in 1975, is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt research and information organization. It has been described on the Senate floor as being "one of the nation's most respected bodies of scholars and policy makers." For more information, please see our web page at www.coha.org; or contact our Washington offices by phone (202) 216-9261, fax (202) 223-6035, or email coha@coha.org.
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Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2003
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Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2003
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¤ Crown jewel of American empire
¤ US signals action against France
¤ Powell puts France on notice
¤ Administration moves ahead on nuclear 'bunker busters'
¤ Seeking solace in intrigue
¤ Gloves come off on the US home front
¤ What happened to Iraq's "weapons of mass destruction"?
¤ BLIX: WHERE ARE THE WMDs?
¤ U.S. Planners Underestimated Iraqi Shi'ites
¤ Bush bars UN weapons teams from Iraq
¤ Bush slams door on U.N. inspectors
¤ BLIX: NO EVIDENCE OF ILLEGAL WEAPONS
¤ Bush's Body Language Speaks Volumes
¤ Playing political games with the public mind
¤ Unilateral reconstruction
¤ Anything into Oil
¤ Sars virus 'mutating rapidly'
¤ Mystery deepens over SARS key
¤ Scientists find there is no quick cure for Sars
¤ Is the Sub-continent immune to SARS menace?
¤ Country needs a dialogue, not just a battle cry
¤ What, no smoking gun? The media and the specter of WMD
¤ Madonna sets the record straight for the first time
¤ American designs on Iraqi bases confront an explosive history
¤ US forces to replace UN arms inspectors
¤ Clash looms over call for Blix's return
¤ Case for war built on fake reports, claims Blix
¤ Iraq's looted artefacts begin to emerge
¤ SARS mutating, becoming more virulent: new warning
¤ A first strike could cost the world
¤ 26 killed in held Kashmir
¤ Iraqis should govern Iraq, says Musharraf
¤ UN experts should return to Iraq: Blix
¤ France proposes suspension of Iraq sanctions
¤ US forces kill one in Afghanistan
¤ Exiles relish re-awakening of Iraq's political culture
¤ Carrot and stick game
¤ A stony road to freedom
¤ The horrible face of state-ism
¤ Next target -- Syria
¤ Don't believe all the patriotic fire on American TV
¤ Another casualty of the war - global prosperity
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Posted: Tuesday, April 22, 2003
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¤ Bombing Ends but Not Danger
¤ UN must step into the breach
¤ Syria in the US spotlight
¤ Israel poses serious threat to region: Asefi
¤ Looted Iraqi art starts to surface in the U.S.
¤ Rumsfeld calls for regime change in North Korea
¤ Blix Questions Case for Iraq War Before U.N. Speech
¤ Chalabi's men shot dead by American Marines
¤ Media and U.S. Govt, Traitors Of Humanity and the American People
¤ US soldiers find Iraqi cash fortune
¤ Iraqi anger boils over
¤ Case for war built on fake reports, claims Blix
¤ BLIX: US TRIED TO DISCREDIT ME
¤ Blix: 'US undermined inspectors'
¤ Iraq arms hunt erodes U.S. assurance
¤ U.S. plans to bomb Nokor nuke plant
¤ Suspicious powder tests nontoxic CNN
¤ Report: U.S. Has Plans to Bomb N.Korea Nuke Plant
¤ The many faces of Donald Rumsfeld
¤ Adios, 'rule of law'
¤ Europeans Are Baffled by Bush's America
¤ For 2004, Bush's Aides Plan Late Sprint for Re-election
¤ Refusing lollipops of deception from Bush's imperialist bazaar
¤ We now return to our regularly scheduled programming
¤ Did Bush deceive us in his rush to war?
¤ Jury still out on Iraq war's aftermath
¤ Nina Simone, high priestess of soul, dies aged 70
¤ Russia demands UN role in weapons checks
¤ 100 more Sars cases in Beijing
¤ US troubleshooter fails to impress Iraqis
¤ US to hold talks with Pyongyang on nuclear arms
¤ Syria seals border with Iraq in nod to US
¤ Weapons of mass destruction still haunt the Allies
¤ Iraqi scientist says regime destroyed chemical weapons before war
¤ US refuses to allow return of UN aid staff
¤ US won't say how long it will stay
¤ Election may be years off: senator
¤ Iran terms Garner as 'Israel's agent in Iraq'
¤ U.S. Finds Suspicious Chemicals in Iraq
¤ Chechen Official: 16 Died in Bus Attack
¤ Galloway denies he was on Saddam's payroll after 'discovery' of secret memo
¤ Washington split over how to deal with North Korea
¤ China admits Sars may spread out of control
¤ The Iraqis' idea of democracy may differ from that of Mr Bush
¤ Crimes against culture are remembered for ever
¤ Pakistan agrees to UN inspections
¤ Attack if N Korea does not drop nukes: US senator
¤ Patients suffer as Basra hospitals lack drugs
¤ 24 killed in weekend fighting in Colombia
¤ The nature of war and conflicts
¤ Stop the invader
¤ Double jeopardy
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¤ Charges against officer who ordered shots at press dropped
¤ Freedom unbound, and out of control
¤ American governor for Baghdad says she does not recognise 'mayor'
¤ Secret US file: oust regime in Pyongyang
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Posted: Monday, April 21, 2003
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¤ Empty-Handed U.S. Focuses on Iraqi Arms Scientists
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¤ 'Freedom' Exposes Internal Splits for Iraqi Shias
¤ U.S. Does Not Recognize Baghdad 'Governor'
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¤ Rumsfeld Calls for Regime Change in North Korea
¤ Administration Divided Over North Korea
¤ How American Power Girds the Globe with a Ring of Steel
¤ US denies move to phase out sanctions
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¤ Chalabi Backs U.S. Military Presence in Iraq
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¤ MSNBC Reveals Facts on Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction
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¤ Shi'a will to power: Downfall of Bush and the Neocons?
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¤ Tikrit Residents Mourn Fallen Statue Of Saddam
¤ The unthinkable is becoming normal
¤ US seizure of Baghdad provokes political crisis in France
¤ US imposes sanctions on Pakistani nuclear firm
¤ Attacks Aimed At Coalition Forces In Afghanistan
¤ Report: Iraq destroyed chemical weapons just before war CNN
¤ US caught in "weapons of mass destruction" lies
¤ Secret US file: oust regime in Pyongyang
¤ Iran calls Garner "Israel's agent in Iraq"
¤ Fast food comes to Iraq
¤ Britain's Secret Army
¤ No liberation, just pain and tears
¤ 'Hundreds are dying who should not die'
¤ Israel mounts biggest incursion into Gaza since intifada
¤ Chinese cover-up creates new sense of insecurity
¤ US 'to keep bases in Iraq'
¤ U.S. Opens Baghdad Warehouse for U.N. Aid
¤ Marines Give Control of Baghdad to Army
¤ Bodies of 2 British Soldiers Identified
¤ Six killed as Israeli tanks push into Gaza
¤ Iraq not grateful for manner of its liberation
¤ Ba'athists slip quietly back into control
¤ Pope puts pressure on US
¤ Anger at UN role for rights violators
¤ How CNN hid the truth about Saddam and betrayed the world
¤ Panic grips Beijing as leaders admit tenfold rise in Sars
¤ Death toll tops 200 as countries struggle to stem spread of disease
¤ Delaying the peace plan may help Palestine's new leader
¤ War lessons that Mr Blair should apply at home
¤ 30 die in Afghan floods
¤ Pope appeals to avoid clash between cultures, religions
¤ N Korea asks South to unite in resisting US war moves
¤ Fast food comes to Iraq
¤ Hopes of breakthrough in Kashmir dispute
¤ Al-Jazeera correspondent detained in Basra
¤ For Iraq's oil wealth, tangled pipes
¤ US struggles with new rules as war turns to occupation
¤ Government may block inquiry into Iraqi arms
¤ Self-appointed mayor of Baghdad challenges Pentagon's authority
¤ Hollywood revives McCarthyist climate by silencing and sacking war critics
South America's emerging role
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2003
Matthew Riemer drafted this report.
(PINR) -- The Andean region of northern and western South America will undoubtedly become increasingly important to the Bush administration and its foreign policy focal point, the "war on terror," as instability in the region continues to spread and oil production is expected to increase.
Venezuela has been in and out of the headlines over the past year beginning with the attempted coup of April 2002. President Hugo Chavez was ousted for a matter of hours only to be ushered back to power by loyalists within his own military.
The next attempt to thwart Venezuela's democratically elected government came this past December when opposition leaders fueled a "general strike" in protest of Chavez's presidency; though in many cases the strike was really a "lockout" as opposition leaders and upper managers literally locked workers out of their places of employment, ostensibly forcing them to take part in the protests.
After two months the strike crumbled and, to the chagrin of many in Washington, Chavez remained in power once again. Recently, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the failed coup, Chavez supporters staged gatherings in Caracas.
The past year has been hailed by many as a victory for leftist agendas in Venezuela, in the region, and more broadly, in the hemisphere. Obviously, this has not escaped Washington's attention; U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell remarked last week that he has "concerns about Chavez's commitment to the kinds of democratic institutions that we believe are vital in a democracy."
In recent weeks, Venezuela has also become notably involved with its crucial neighbor to the west, Colombia. Bogota, as well as anti-Chavez elements in Venezuela, has accused Caracas of not only sympathizing with but also providing shelter and aid to Colombian leftist guerrillas on Venezuelan soil in remote border regions. The Colombian government, prompted by reports from its own villagers living along the northeast border with Colombia, are also conducting an investigation of alleged Venezuelan military strikes within Colombia's borders against Colombian right-wing paramilitary forces engaged with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangal has rejected such allegations, claiming that Colombian paramilitaries had crossed into Venezuela: "This is part of an arsenal of lies which are permanently used to discredit Venezuela and make her look like a refuge for guerrillas and other elements involved in Colombia's violence."
Chavez is scheduled to meet with recently elected Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on April 23 to address these contentious issues of global interest.
An indication of how some in Washington are regarding the current situation is a telling Washington Times editorial released April 16, which observed with alarm: "Colombia's narcotics and terrorism cabals are spreading violence beyond Colombia. They have been given sanctuary in Venezuela, are involved in coca cultivation in Peru, are behind some drug-related violence in Brazil and launch forays into Ecuador. This regional aspect of the Colombian problem has developed a dangerous dynamic. Eyewitnesses claim the Venezuelan military has selected which narco-terror group they are backing, and are bombing their adversaries in Colombia. Thus far, the Colombian response has been subdued. But, if such bombing continues, the situation could erupt in conflict."
Such events and formulaic reactions to them illustrate how any region, any conflict in the world, can be neatly molded and packaged to interface with the "war on terror" paradigm. For Bogota's part, the Uribe administration knows it can most easily gain Washington's attention through its use of the rhetorical lexicon of the "war on terror" -- all one need do to emphasize the seriousness of a given situation or to justify one's actions is to dub one's enemies "terrorists."
Chavez, Rangal, and other outspoken members of the Venezuelan leadership are also well familiar with the usefulness of such propaganda, albeit from the other side as they defend themselves against various allegations of "terrorism."
Washington, though seemingly aloof, is anything but and has expressed its concern and commitment to Colombia several times over the last year. In a December 4, 2002 address in Bogota, Colin Powell promised Colombia: "When I return to Washington, I intend to make the case before our Congress for full funding for our Colombia programs. This is a partnership that works and a partnership we must continue to make and invest in." He later added, "I would like to be able to get a lot more funding for Plan Colombia but, as you know, there are limits to what the United States is able to do within our own country and around the world."
Colombia was also significantly mentioned in the U.S. State Department's 2002 report on human rights as being the source of 44 percent of the terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in the form of the FARC.
Colombia's oil production, while far less than Venezuela's, is still among the highest in Latin America. Many foreign companies, such as Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles have significant investments there. Ecuador's oil production is also expected to increase over the next few years and may reach as high as 600,000 barrels per day by 2005.
Now Venezuelan officials have claimed that they have "evidence" that the United States was involved in the April '02 coup aimed at removing President Hugo Chavez. Without much surprise, the U.S. embassy in Caracas has denied such claims, calling them outright lies.
With the recent elections of Lula da Silva in Brazil and Lucio Gutierrez in Ecuador, both considered populist in nature and prone to making neoliberals nervous about the state of the South American economy, the U.S.-backed government of Alvaro Uribe in Colombia is feeling a bit isolated.
Because of this coalescing of many key events: the popularity of "leftist" leaders, Chavez, Lula, and Gutierrez; the continuing tension and friction between Washington and Caracas; the emerging involvement of Venezuela, though at this point only alleged, in Colombia's civil war; the admission on Washington's part of both its commitment to Plan Colombia and the significance of FARC as the source of 44 percent of terrorist attacks against U.S. interests; and the increasing importance of South American oil over the next 25 years, the United States will only become more intimately involved in the region.
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