http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics of South America, San Francisco to Buenos Aires overland, 2003-2007 en-us tones@projectallende.org 2011-11-22T13:14:17+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2011_11.html I translated part of an Interview with the Octogenarian Dr. Aldo Ferrer (mini bio. below), November 2011 at the University of Buenos Aires an interviewer for the Argentine Times ("El Tiempo") asked Ambassador Ferrer whether he ever might have... 166@http://www.projectallende.org/ Finance 2011-11-22T13:14:17+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2011_03.html Corporate city Vietnam, 2011: This "Patrick's" day of ritualized alcohol consumption has long since become dissociated from the mythical man who gave this day his name. Patrick was a Roman Britain who wandered dangerously close to the edge of empire... 165@http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics 2011-03-18T01:52:47+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_12.html December 9, 2010 by Tony Phillips Tony Phillips is an Irish researcher in the University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Economics. He specialises in alternative development, sovereign debt issues and ecological economics. Ireland in December 2010 shows many parallels... 163@http://www.projectallende.org/ 2010-12-09T19:51:02+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_11.html UPDATED: Buenos Aires, Argentina: Dec 6, 2010: Does the new 5.8% rescue fund interest rate demonstrate European solidarity with Ireland? Is the European Union abandoning the Irish people? What about the IMF, will they save Ireland? Why are voices... 162@http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics 2010-11-29T15:36:33+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_11.html 150 protestors shouting "Cowen, Cowen, Cowen, Out, Out, Out" pushed open the gates of Government Buildings in Dublin on Nov. 22nd after a €100Bn.[1] bailout and IMF intervention the day before. Avoiding answering allegations of his own involvement, Brian Cowen,... 161@http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics 2010-11-26T14:28:06+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_11.html The Irish Times "Opinion" section has spoken. It welcomes the IMF to Ireland. Maybe the Irish Times should ask Latin America why they decided to pay back all of their debt to the IMF so as to kick their... 160@http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics 2010-11-19T13:16:14+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_10.html Buenos Aires Thursday Oct 28, 2010 Thirty five thousand Argentines, mainly supporters of Nestor Kirchner's "Peronist" party, waited patiently in front of the Presidential Palace, The Pink House or "Casa Rosada". They were there to pay their respects. In the... 158@http://www.projectallende.org/ Argentina 2010-10-29T04:25:21+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_05.html This week is Bicentenary week in Buenos Aires. As I sit here sucking my Guarani tea (mate) from a straw/bombilla, I reflect on the bombastic inventiveness of history. 155@http://www.projectallende.org/ Argentina 2010-05-22T18:31:34+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_04.html An unprecedented theft from the Irish people by a small elite of less than 100 patriots with their global network of property and other speculative investments culminated in the 2009 legalization, absolution or amnesty by a complicit Fianna Fáil government.... 154@http://www.projectallende.org/ Finance 2010-04-30T01:29:55+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_04.html 153@http://www.projectallende.org/ Economics 2010-04-02T15:53:56+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_04.html Reclaim Power [ www.cinerebelde.org ]... 152@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2010-04-01T16:25:35+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_03.html Returning for a moment to Economics and Finance from my activities in Ecology. In the end it is all the same thing really. I translated the following piece by a professor of mine on the takeover of the Argentine Central Bank by the Elected president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Funny in Argentina that seems to a bigger problem than a takeover by the IMF or the Club de Paris (go figure) 151@http://www.projectallende.org/ Argentina 2010-03-02T21:26:16+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_01.html This article was sent to me by the author Patrick Bond from South Africa. Patrick presents it today at the World Social forum tenth anniversary in Porto Alegre (Brazil). It is an Africa- and US-centric viewpoint of the collapse of... 150@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2010-01-27T12:29:12+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_01.html O.K. Copenhagen is over and it showed that the UNFCCC COP process is not yet capable of the incredibly urgent task that it has been tasked to do. So what? Wait for another calamity in COP-16 Mexico City December... 149@http://www.projectallende.org/ Bolivia 2010-01-18T18:54:01+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2010_01.html Five days ago I returned to South America to gather my thoughts. Back from Denmark, people ask what I had seen in Copenhagen. Most of those asking were short on hope and long on fear, there were still a few... 148@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2010-01-13T13:17:27+00:00