Stratfor's step by step guide to taking a dump on Venezuelan sovereignty

*shrugs*
And why do Communists need to trade with capitalist pigdogs in the first place again? Saying Cuba's policies working would cause America to want it is no more different than saying that Americas will want authoritarianism/Communism after the rise of China.

 

I'm just wondering if you have ever been right on anything in your whole life. Since you started posting here, I can't remember an instance.

 

I'd say he's pretty damn accurate. Factual history is hard to argue with, which is why you don't see any talking heads taking on Chomsky.

 

It's true. I know many Cubans, real poor ones not the rich ones who bolted, and have studied the subject. You've done neither. So stay quiet.

 

I think the whole board wonders the same about you.

 

I agree, we need to elect better leaders here in the USA.

I normally try to give Mathloom's posts respectful attention, but this time it's left me considering ignoring him. It's just getting old, the jaded, angry perspective.

I guess just once it would be nice to see him call someone else out.... or to see him try not to trump something up for effect. This is a private company. You can assume what you wish, but bottom line is the connections you imply are not fact. The accusations you throw in this case are not as factually incendiary as you portend, unless one shares your other views of our Gov't. I don't claim to say this means you are completely wrong, just trying too hard to point fingers.

Does that mean we are perfect, or beyond reproach? Not at all, these things are worthy of discussion, but the usefulness of your insight dwindles, in my eyes, the more deliberately partisan it seems to become. We get enough of that around here. Be glad we're not discussing leaked information from the country you call home. I doubt any of us, you included, could defend all the actions of those in power in our respective countries.

I will refrain from the ignore, as I think the perspective is still valuable, but I lend less credence to it as it seems to be more reactionary, jaded, and deliberate.

 

Comparing Stratfor writing emails and opinion papers to the UN monitoring elections?

You seem to have either a hyper inflated sense of what Stratfor is and the impact they have, or you have a hyper deflated sense of what the UN is.

 

I'm not sure you understand what Stratfor is or does.

 

What was necessary to remove the embargo?

Seems like what was necessary was. . . DO WHATEVER THE ***** WE TELL YOU TO DO . . .then we will release the embargo.


Rocket River

 

Would what they do be similar to what the KOCH brothers do here in America?

Rocket River

 

You wish.

The words of someone who considers Republicans terrorists hold very little weight.

 

No. Stratfor is an American company that does analysis and publishes that information for profit.

It's like a security/international relations think tank, but not exactly. Mathloom's excitement is completely misplaced here.

Mathloom freaking out about Stratfor reminds me of the recent episode of The Americans where all the Russian spies think that when Reagan is shot and a general gives a news conference that it means a coup is occurring. They freak out and think it's time for guerrilla warfare in the United States.

 

I didn't have any outrage over the UN thing. But, I can't muster many hackles over this either, though I probably should. Medlding in the sovereignty of foreign governments is unethical. But, it's so routine for the US, the shock value is all gone. I'm accustomed to my country doing all kinds of crooked stuff in the realm of foreign relations, ostensibly for my benefit. I'd only by shocked if I found out we were not engaged in some clandestine efforts to oust Chavez, given how we talk about him publicly.

Originally, the US was pissed about American business assets seized without compensation -- the casinos and plantations whose exploitation caused the revolution in the first place. Since then, the embargo has taken on a life of its own. The whole thing has been stupid for the last 20 years, and indeed since the beginnning, but it preserves itself.

 

Says the person who supports a murderous dictator and hates Muslims.

 

Who is the dictator that ATW supports?

 

I believe da1 is referring to ATW's opposition to arming Syrian rebels, and his disdain towards the Egyptian revolution.

 

Allow me a brief plunge into conspiracy but I can't help but wonder if there is more Chavez's death that seems to be.

 

Perhaps, though I don't buy the bit about US as the root cause of Chavez's cancer. If he was poisoned a la Litvinenko or Arafat there would be some residual effects that could be traced.