1. Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
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...ealthcare at risk. The initial Bush proposals to deal with the crisis ...

2. Bolivian Political Crisis
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...vez to denounce the U.S. role in Bolivian events, leaving the U.S. out of the discussions entirely. The Bush Administration has yet to issue any denouncement of the Pando massacre, one of the few move...

3. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
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... mood of the senatorial hearings of David H Petraeus and Ryan C Crocker, and the statement of George W Bush on 10 April 2008 - effectively killed it (see "A war of decades", 10 April 2008). Thus th...

4. Debtonation: how globalisation dies
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... as concern about the financial markets pushed share prices worldwide into slump on 9 August, President Bush used his White House press conference to comment on the issue. He said the US economy ...

5. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
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by Sidney Blumenthal    President Bush's political strategy at home is an implicit if unintended admission of the failure of his military strategy in Iraq and toward terrorism generally

6. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...; Hugo Chávez, however, is the child of antagonism. Throughout 2006, his heckling of George Bush and veiled threats to established property rights served to identify and demonise the old, ...