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Costa Rica: The lowest form of military aggression

by Luis Roberto Zamora Bolaños

29 August 2010

On 1 July 2010, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly authorized the U.S. military to undertake policing duties in Costa Rica, based on an expired “Cooperation Agreement.” There is only one small problem: Costa Rica abolished its armed forces in 1949 and since then has had no standing army, (...)

A Historic Moment:

The Election of the Greatest Con-Man in Recent History

by James Petras

New York (USA) | 12 December 2008

Just as Obama’s electoral campaign and subsequent victory will go into the annals as the political con-job of the new millennium, his economic and political appointments will mark another ‘historic’ moment: The nomination of corrupt and failed speculators and warmongers. Let us join the (...)

"Market Democracy"

Friedrich von Hayek, the father of neo-liberalism.

by Denis Boneau

Paris (France) | 4 March 2004

The Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek is stubbornly attempting to discredit economic regulation claiming that is too complex to try to organize it. His theory of the "minimum State" became a sort of religion for the Republican Party in America in opposition to both the "New Deal" of the (...)