Commentary

Alfredo Bremont // Capitalism subsists on inequality
Bylined to: Alfredo Bremont
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Alfredo Bremont // Capitalism subsists on inequality
VHeadline's Paris (France)-based commentarist Alfredo Bremont writes: It is imperative for the salvation of the Bolivarian revolution and the South America continent that President Chavez begins t

The vanguard of Venezuela's rural proletariat is being armed and trained
Bylined to: Arthur Shaw
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

The dignity of the Venezuelan revolution is really looking up in the countryside. The vanguard of the rural proletariat is being armed and trained militarily. The peasant militia units are receiving weapons training, mobility experience, basic tactic

Fred Cederholm: US' debt to exceed $18 trillion in only a few years...
Bylined to: Fred Cederholm
Monday, February 08, 2010

I've been thinking about oracles, predictors, money, politics, the economy, and the "recovery." I remember back to High School Latin classes when I think about Oracles -- most specifically the Oracle at Delphi. The ancients in particular depended on

Arthur Shaw: There is no "repression apparatus"� to rev up...
Bylined to: Arthur Shaw
Sunday, February 07, 2010

VenEconomy, a virulent propaganda outlet of the bourgeois media in Venezuela, wrote "It looks as though Hugo Chavez is putting his men into position to mount a frontal assault and set up a despotic communist regime in Venezuela once and for all."

Castro regime's third strong man brought to Venezuela by Hugo Chavez
Bylined to: VenEconomy
Sunday, February 07, 2010

Cuban presence in Venezuela is one of the most ignominious surrenders of a country to a foreign power ever seen. And it is ironical, to say the least, that it is Hugo Chavez, the alleged champion of Venezuelan sovereignty, who has laid the nation at

Arthur Shaw: It's true however that worldwide reactionaries detest Chavez
Bylined to: Arthur Shaw
Sunday, February 07, 2010

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review (TBR) ... a riff raff propaganda outlet of the bourgeois media in the USA ... put out a seven paragraph article on the Venezuelan government. Not only is each of the seven paragraphs a pack of lies, each of the seven par

El Nuevo Herald: A difficult year ahead for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
Bylined to: Casto Ocando
Sunday, February 07, 2010

"This year will be a very difficult one and an uphill [battle] for Chavez, and he has little maneuvering room, because he is coming up against a huge crisis,'' said political analyst Manuel Felipe Sierra in Caracas.

Oscar Heck: Chaderton giving the right-wing Canadian government hell...
Bylined to: Oscar Heck
Friday, February 05, 2010

I am watching VTV (Venezuela's main government-run TV station) ... and I see and hear Roy Chaderton, Venezuelan Ambassador to the OAS, castigating Canada for sticking its not-very-clean nose into Venezuela's internal broadcasting laws and policies.

VenEconomy: Chavez putting in key man to mount a frontal assault
Bylined to: VenEconomy
Friday, February 05, 2010

This Tuesday, February 2, during a ceremony to commemorate the 11 years Hugo Chavez has been in power, he announced that Cuba's minister of computer services and communications and president of its State Council and Council of Ministers, Ramiro Valde

World Citizen: 2010 Will be a reckoning for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
Bylined to: Frida Ghitis
Thursday, February 04, 2010

In the 11 years since Hugo Chavez became president of Venezuela, the country has experienced almost constant political and economic drama. The past decade brought a cinematic -- and ultimately failed -- coup d'etat against the president, a national s