http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics of South America, San Francisco to Buenos Aires overland, 2003-2007 en-us tones@projectallende.org 2010-05-22T18:31:34+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+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 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_12.html Wednesday December 16th, “Reclaim Power” day in Copenhagen, inside the Africans are shouting at the Ethiopians and outside the Climate Justice advocates are shouting at the COP who they accuse of being co-opted by corporate lobbyists. To a lobbyist... 147@http://www.projectallende.org/ Political Economics 2009-12-16T19:56:54+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_12.html 146@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2009-12-16T13:05:30+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_12.html The lobbyists in Copenhagen are paid by organizations who don’t agree with . They sleep in five star hotels renamed “Bright Green” for the show. Quarterly results blur their vision. They don’t go to museums any more. 145@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2009-12-13T07:44:28+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_12.html 144@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2009-12-11T16:43:32+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_12.html Naomi Klein was in fine form as she opened the Klimaforum09 counter-conference in Copenhagen Monday night 7/12. She gave a keynote opening speech to open the summit of ecological NGO’s that bills itself as The People’s Climate Summit. 143@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2009-12-08T15:31:33+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_12.html Hello from Denmark, Decided to come freeze my little tush off in Copenhagen for eleven days for global warming (COP-15, look it up). Sounds like fun? Well, sort of! Anyway I'm writing articles for a few people here and... 142@http://www.projectallende.org/ Environment 2009-12-08T13:47:30+00:00 http://www.projectallende.org/archives/2009_09.html A call to unite to deal with emerging world crises. Instead of trade treaties and investments (the destructive macinations of economics), lets construct a truly sustainable future before it is too late. 141@http://www.projectallende.org/ 2009-09-07T19:02:50+00:00