In These Times

Latest Comments view all 127

• • 24 Feb 10
  • 4:23 pm

  Many years ago, back in my country, Argentina, while I worked for a USA Company, I used to ask high ranking employees who periodically visited us about the messages and images they launched in Hollywood films and novels towards us, the rest of the world, in which they showed a high level of arrogance and violence, as well as disregard for others. The answers I received were usually indicators that they fully shared that outlook, or in one occasion I was told they did that because the rest of the world liked it but they were not really that way. As …

  Posted to Rogues Gone Wild

• • 19 Feb 10
  • 7:56 pm

  ¿Does it really surprise you? ¿What else could be expected? This is the kind of world we are living in, where everything has a price and humane feelings have been suppresed and to make things even worse one has to listen to all the hypocresy spread in the news, or watch the "christians" claiming they only tried to help the poor Haitian children. Their modus operandi has been the same they have been using for decades in poor Latin American countries, where they operate from luxurious hotels, as is the case in Guatemala, where groups of people arrive from the USA …

  Posted to Helping Haiti, for a Price

• • 12 Feb 10
  • 11:16 pm

  In ARgentina, many years ago we had a "War Ministry" which as time went by turned into a "Defense Ministry". I suppose it's because defense sounds more humane and logical than war but in the case of USA I think it's about time people start to admit that they are taliing about invasions, unilateral wars and meddling into other countries' affairs by sending troops and setting up bases all over the planet without being atacked, so it sounds quite paranoic and false to have to justify such expenses on "defense". although I can see the obvius difficulty anybody would have to …

  Posted to Beyond Budget Brainwashing

• • 12 Feb 10
  • 10:58 pm

  I don't agree with the author's paragraph that begins "...Despite Carlos Menem's best efforts.." Best efforts to do what, sell all the State-owned companies which had taken years to raise and develop and which really belonged to the Argentine people, not to him or to any particular government, delivering plentiful bribes to diputados and senators to pass the necessary bills, sinking the pension system and leading an absolutelly corrupt administration? Independently from how profitable these enterprises taken over by workers may be, at least they have shown dignity, will to work and they should be encouraged and helped instead of being …

  Posted to ‘To Resist is to Survive

• • 22 Jan 10
  • 3:35 pm

  After the many movements arising in the 60s and 70s in many Latin American countries which were courageous enough to aim for a change were crushed, causing many deaths and "disappearances" by dictatorships sponsored by the USA and trained at the School of the Americas in Panama, the following generations decided it was too dangerous and had few chances of succeeding. The "bete noir" of capitalism has been creating new ways of domination, which include films, TV, journals and education which leave very little space to new attempts at change. I feel it has gone too far in its never-ending greed …

  Posted to Obama and America's Forbidden Word: 'Class'