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200!
Senator Obama needs slightly fewer than 200 delegates to pass the winning post and there are more than enough John Zogby — Clinton ‘heading for the exit’ — BBC NEWS | Americas | Clinton ‘heading for the exit’
Worst. President. Ever.
Worst. President. Ever. Scott Horton — HARPER’S MAGAZINE
Uribe’s atack on Obama
during the same 2007 spring when former vice president Al Gore cancelled his appearance at a Miami environmental conference because he did not want to share a podium with Uribe, the hemisphere’s poster boy for state-sponsored terrorism, narco-trafficking, and assassinations of opposition political, labor and social movement leaders Al Giordano, Narco News: Uribe’s Attack on Obama
The Godstitution
There has recently been a heated discussion over the mention of God in the new Constitution that is being crafted by the National Assembly. It is not clear what all parts in this discussion are expecting from the constitution. It would be helpful to take a step back and clearly state what our responsibility as citizens is […]
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What the Data Says
No matter how you parse it, the data is clear that Obama is the more competitive November candidate for the Democratic Party. Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Support from the Right
En el Ecuador, el mezquino “respaldo” al Gobierno por parte de la derecha ultra de charreteras o de corbatín, golpista o conspiradora, astuta o bobalicona, y su periodismo alineado, ha sido más bien un apoyo… a Uribe. Qué grandeza… Omar Ospina García, Los hechos, que son tercos… Translation: In Ecuador, the stingy support for the government from the right, being […]
Transparent Society
You cannot evaluate the value of privacy and disclosure unless you account for the relative power levels of the discloser and the disclosee Bruce Schneier’s Security Matters: The Myth of the ‘Transparent Society’
What is Socialism of the XXI Century?
The discourse around this new wave Socialism seems to be lost in the air. While some throw it around insultively, or mock it as a backwards soviet nostalgic utopia, many hold it up in the air looking at it with glaring eyes. Its proponents are fiercely attacked not only as yielding an radical undesirable ideology, but […]
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Parents
Movie Minutes: ‘Parents’ | New York Times Video A great movie I saw a while ago. It gives you a perspective into a kind of multiculturalism that is different from what we’re used to. It also has incredible insight into the general southamerican struggle for sovereignty, and independence.