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27 Dec 09

Bloggers are Africa's new rebels - Chicago Tribune

"The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon’s establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field."

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  • Dagem, as he chose to be called, was a new type of African revolutionary: a blogger.

  • The U.S. should take note. As it prepares to engage with Africa more intensely than at any time since the Cold War, in part by the Pentagon’s establishment of a new Africa Command headquarters to coordinate military and security interests, the U.S. will be competing on an increasingly flat information playing field.
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25 Nov 09

Rich Lowry on National Review Online

Quite appropriately, Rich Lowry leaves out the fact that these U.S. Pilgrim economists depended on the displacement and destruction of native civilizations, the stealing of their land and exploitation of their labor. Sounds somewhat like the destruction of the commons in later Europe.

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24 Nov 09

BOLIVIA: The Credibility of Campaign Promises - IPS ipsnews.net

An incomplete but still useful counter to the O'Grady Wall Street Journal blather.

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22 Nov 09

AFP: Ahmadinejad heads to nuclear-backers Brazil, Venezuela

"Lula said he believed US-led criticism of Iran was reminiscent of Washington's fallacious justification for the war in Iraq.

"Even today, those leaders in favour of the war in Iraq are unable to explain why they invaded if there were no chemical weapons. Well, I am seeing the same sort of things starting to happen over Iran," he said."

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  • Lula said he believed US-led criticism of Iran was reminiscent of Washington's fallacious justification for the war in Iraq.

    "Even today, those leaders in favour of the war in Iraq are unable to explain why they invaded if there were no chemical weapons. Well, I am seeing the same sort of things starting to happen over Iran," he said.

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