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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

Chilean student firebrand Camila Vallejo speaks out on movement against neoliberalism

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, ANNOTATED NEWS, CLASS STRUGGLE
Apr 162012
 
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The cult of beauty: Where politics & culture intersect—

Vice-president of the University of Chile Student Federation, 23-year-old Camila Vallejo has led a campaign for better access to education that began in April 2011. The student movement in Chile (which comprises many more people than just students) opposes neoliberalism and shook the country’s elitist democracy, currently headed by Sebastián Piñera, one of Chile’s richest men and a former supporter of Augusto Pinochet. 

She was voted person of the year in a poll of guardian.co.uk readers
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Zeta Jones: Lookswise, she and Camila could be twins. And that’s where the similarity stops.

It doesn’t hurt one bit that she’s as smart as she’s beautiful. Some call her Chile’s version of Catherine Zeta Jones, but that may be selling her short. One thing is for sure: The distance in social consciousness between Zeta Jones and Vallejo can be measured in parsecs. A curious side note attesting to the internationalization of culture, the effects of social media, etc., is the sight of Chilean students, normally a staid crowd, doing the steps of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”

 

 

 

 

 

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