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Sorry, I'm not even in Argentina. The site owner allows me to post here out of the kindness of his heart (I met him in Buenos Aires in 2005 and 2006). There is a myth that hordes of people are dying each day to come to the US. Sure, five years back, ten years back. Today Mexicans are returning...

Not just Argentina: it seems that everywhere foreign investors pull out much more than they put in, aided and abetted by local businessmen and politicians. To put it politely, it's a mixed blessing.

Is poverty in Chile and Brazil any less than in Argentina? More generally, does foreign investment ever ameliorate poverty? Maybe in China?

Yeah, rumors circulating the great man has fled the country.

Couldn't agree with you more. The idea that Obama is "intelligent" is confined to a small (and diminishing) segment of US liberals, who don't want to be thought "racist." Obama has been a beneficiary of affirmative action at every stage of his life. If mouthing tired and vacuous cliches and...

Faux News rent-a-pundits pontificating on the "Islamic threat" in Egypt: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201102110020

Agreed. Even rabid Islamophobes like Daniel Pipes are not making this kind of lunatic argument.

This has been circulating:

I think this is incisive analysis of the great man's speech, but this is merely my opinion.

Did anyone watch Obama's speech yesterday? A moving performance by a great orator....

That is a telling point. The truly rich own the political system, call the shots, and as such are master of their destiny: not much frustration and anger there. The frustation, anger, and hysteria -- all born of political impotence -- are among the lower orders, regardless of political...

It's interesting to pursue this line of reasoning further. As I see it, Limbaugh et al are peddling nothing other than inchoate rage and frustration. They're not peddling a coherent worldview on which constructive action can take place. Which makes sense, since under their faux populist appeal...

I long ago came to the conclusion that this vacuous nincompoop is paid a president's salary to look grave, sombre, and thoughtful while mouthing empty cliches and platitudes. The USA is a military empire externally and a paranoid national security state internally. And then everyone is amazed...

On the contrary, the impression I get is that politicians and media on both sides of the fake Democrat-Republican divide are trying to sweep troubling questions about this under the rug. Personally I think the gunman was a lone nutcase -- but there are still questions about the cultural milieu...

What "ideas?" It's just an incessant barrage from you of venomous bilge copied and pasted. You have some obsession about moslems. Go and discuss it with them. Or go to loony sites like Jihadwatch. Of course you are. You hijack other people's threads. You drown their posts in a barrage of...

I agree, but you can't reason with this fellow. He's off his rocker. A certifiable loony. He goes on manically with one post after another. What the purpose is, I know not. If he feels so strongly he should go out to those parts and try to make an impact.

Interesting essay by Max Blumenthal:

Good essay by Chris Hedges:

Do you read or understand what other people post? Or are you as usual engaged in just shouting out other people? Of course I question the award. Just as I questioned awarding it to Obama and Kissinger. Because it hypocritical bullsh!t, that's why. When it suits the West, it turns a blind eye...

This is a trifle disingenuous. Suppose Liu, in addition to (legitimately) criticising China's record, also criticised USA's double standards and how it uses "human rights" as a selective instrument of foreign policy (for example, by attacking China's record but staying mum about Saudi Arabia's...