Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Russell Brown,
Shame, bro
It didn't use to be like that. We used to spend a lot of money, for instance, in Somalia. With much the same effects of the money spent by the US south of their borders. So you could say it's probably a good thing that we give less now. Also, we have a staggering amount of people who volunteer for stuff at home and abroad.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Simon Grigg,
And large parts of the ongoing disaster, aside from the from the natural, that Haiti has been over the last 100 years is a result of American policy in the regions south of its borders. Hell, in Haiti they reinstituted slavery there in the early 1930s and every coup since has had US involvement through to this century. It, as Cuba was until 1959 and Central America still is, was stripped and trashed to enrich US interests. They really should be the ones with their hands in their pockets there.
Word. Saying admiringly that the US poured half a billion dollars in Haiti would be like cheering them for spending a lot of money in Iraq. Come on, do we even still need to say these things? Just in case we do, here's Peter Hallward.
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Sorry. You may resume your thread about important world events now.
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You should have called out!
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Hah! You people are collectively so nice, but especially Hilary. I looked for you but didn't think of actually looking up at your office window... some doctor, eh?
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I believe the phrase American imperialism was coined back then, yes. I still have the literature.
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Jessica Valenti makes some clarity around the allegations.
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
(But thanks; I wasn't about to tackle a six-hundred-page book in search of whatever Neil was referring to.)
On the other hand, you should because it's extremely awesome. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going flambé myself some bananas.
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Tom Beard,
WILD applause!
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Neil Morrison,
It's really not worth trying to deny what is true and what there is plenty of evidence for.
There is what now?