Neocons and the truth: Bitter enemies to the end

In a July, 2006 article in Rolling Stone — entitled “Iran: The Next War” — the superb journalist James Bamford detailed the shady activities of numerous neoconservatives inside and out of the U.S. Government to plan an attack on Iran. Bamford focused on the role [...]

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Greater Regulation of Financial Markets?
Gary Becker
The major deregulation movement of the past 100 years started with the Ford and Carter administrations in the 1970s, and continued through the Reagan years. This movement came to an end with the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 under the administration of George W. Bush. [...]

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Under Clinton’s rules, Obama still wins By: David Paul Kuhn and Avi Zenilman
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Jenna Bush marries Henry Hager in a private ceremony at the Bush ranch

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McCain paints Obama’s portrait
WASHINGTON — Three months ago, Sen. John McCain made a calculated decision to begin painting a not-so-pretty picture of Sen. Barack Obama.
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Descentralization is not Division:
RELIAL Supports Referendum in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
The referendum in Santa Cruz province, Bolivia, has a very important connotation. It is the first of a series of referendums in the country. The purpose of the referendum is to turn the administration of Bolivia, a traditionally centralized country, into a decentralized and therefore [...]

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Ecuador’s Constitution:Going nowhere
The Economist
Another leftist bogs down
Pioneered by Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, it has become the customary route to “21st century socialism”: win an election, call a Constituent Assembly, get a new constitution approved by referendum and use it to place your supporters in all the organs of state.
That is the [...]

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The Case For $80 A Barrel OilDaniel Fisher
Oil prices may hang above $100 a barrel for the rest of this year but will fall as low as $80 next year as world demand slackens and Saudi Arabia tries to buy influence with the incoming president by pumping more crude oil, an influential Lehman Brothers analyst [...]

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Oily Chavez Oozes Beyond Venezuela
The Hemisphere: Oil spiked $4 Friday on new evidence of Venezuela’s deep involvement in terrorism. There’s no glossing over such news: Hugo Chavez intends to destabilize the region. The U.S. will need to take action.

After poring over some of the 10,000 documents captured from the computer of dead FARC terrorist Raul [...]

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Putin’s imperial Russia

Dmitry Medvedev may be the new president, but his predecessor is still the one with power.
By Garry Kasparov
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