On Sunday, March 4, Argentina's President De la Rua named Ricardo López Murphy as his new finance minister. This was a significant move, duly rewarded by an 8% surge in Argentina's stock market. Could he trigger a recovery after several lackluster years for the...
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South Africa: After Apartheid
A major crusader failing is that they seldom look back to their last crusade to see how it turned out. During my several South Africa visits during its apartheid era, up to three months on one occasion, I lectured at nearly all of its universities. I had the...
Israel’s Deal with the Devil
The last two months have witnessed a fresh outbreak of violence in Israel and the death toll keeps rising every day. The "peace process," which started with great fanfare when Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands in front of a beaming Bill Clinton and happy...
The U.S. Needs to Stop Arming and Training China’s Military
Part of the reason U.S. military leaders give away too much is naiveté, not disloyalty. Part of the explanation for such actions is this romantic sense of wanting to give China something in the hopes of developing a friendship. People do really dumb things.
Letter to the Greek Government Condemning Conscription
Dear Sir, The policy of military conscription followed by the Greek government is an absolute and unmitigated outrage. At the beginning of their adult lives, young Greek men are enslaved into the military, with their formative years, career plans, and even their lives...
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Before my arrival in Africa, I had spent four years reporting from southeast Asia. What I found in Asia was a region of amazing economic dynamism, a place largely defined by more than a decade of steady growth and development, vastly improved living standards, and...
The Solution to Africa’s Problems is Not Socialism But Freedom
Tidjane Thiam, writing in Newsweek's recent special edition, says democracy is vital to economic growth. As minister of planning and economic development of Cote d'Ivoire, Thiam says: "Africa has paid too little attention to political modernization. Too many African...
“Blood In The Streets” in Asia — Again.
While the eyes of the world have been focused on the spectacular rise and fall of the NASDAQ over the past 12 months, Asian stocks have had an even more spectacular ride, declining to levels not seen since the depths of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. The Asian...
The Peace Process War in Israel/Palestine
After seven years of tireless negotiations, we can finally see the hard-won result of the Middle Eastern "peace process": war. Make no mistake about it. The current orgy of killing in Israel/Palestine is not due to a failure or breakdown in negotiations, or even a...
Europe’s High Fuel Taxes: Virtue or Vice?
High oil prices and rising fuel taxes have lit an explosion of fury across the European continent, resulting in protests and blockades of depots and refineries. Following the recent oil price rise, the Europeans have finally realized what a massive burden fuel taxes...
The United Nations Wrestling Federation
Professional wrestling is the soap opera farce of sports. From the official bouts to the backroom posturing, all disputes and relationships are staged and meaningless. One can say almost the same for the United Nations, and particularly its recent Millennial Meeting,...
Bank of Japan Interest Rate Hike is a Canard
On August 11th, Japan's central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ), announced its first interest rate hike in ten years. For seventeen months, the BOJ had lent money overnight to the banking system at a rate of zero; that is, no interest. Now, with the hike, it will charge...
Torture in Castro’s Cuba
“I recall when they kept me in a punishment cell, naked, with several fractures on one leg which never received medical care; today, those bones remain jammed up together and displaced. One of the regular drills among the guards was to stand on the steel mesh ceiling and throw at my face buckets full of urine and excrement.” – Armando Valladares’, Chief of the US Delegation to the United Nations Human Rights’ Commission, 1988
The “Third Way” Moves Two Ways In Europe
In recent years, the leftist parties of England and Germany returned to power by promising voters that they had turned their back on command and control, tax and spend, economic policies. Instead they promised to "transcend" the old right and left by pursuing an...
“Sweatshop” Opponents Want to Violate Workers’ Rights
The anti-‘sweatshop’ campaign is driven, not by concern for Third World workers, but by hatred for American corporations.
Elian Gonzalez and the Death of America
Back in April, on the day that Eliàn Gonzalez was taken into custody by the federal government, the San Jose Mercury News published a letter by a 14-year-old girl. She suggested that Eliàn should return to Cuba with his father. Then, when he was older, he could decide...
“Humanitarian” Food and Medicine Bill for Cuba is Anything but Pro-Human
Fidel Castro’s use of food and medicine as weapons of control over the Cuban population is a tactic as old as the Revolution itself.
For Five Months Elian Was Free (Part 2 of 2)
The case of Elian Gonzalez is the morality of freedom versus immorality of dictatorship. It is the individual versus the all-powerful state.
“Life” in Cuba for Elian
I’d like to share some thoughts regarding life in Communist Cuba, important to know and understand prior to formulating an opinion on the Eliàn Gonzalez case, or life in the Island.
Elian Should Stay Free in America
“If the courts send Elian back to Cuba, it will be a slap in the face to every American living or dead — a repudiation of the very principles upon which this country was founded,” she said.
A Firsthand Account Of Child Abuse, Castro Style
I was in solitary confinement in Fidel Castro’s tropical gulag — where I spent 22 years for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Communist regime — when I heard a child’s voice whimpering. “Get me out of here! Get me out of here! I want to see my mommy!”
Elian Gonzalez Has a Right Not to Live in Slavery
Parental rights end where totalitarianism begins.
The Slavery Known as Communism
Elian’s mother knew firsthand that life under slavery is no life at all, which is why she fled Cuba to go to the land of the free.
Whitewashing Castro’s Crimes
One day Castro’s brutality will end. But that end will not be hastened by the Western press, which cannot seem to shed its esteem for Fidelismo
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