Contents

Latin America

Doug Dowd
Latin America: Spitting in Uncle Sam’s Eye

Paul Chatterton
The Zapatista Caracoles and Good Governments: The Long Walk to Autonomy

Norman Madarasz
Where to with Lula in his Second Term?
From Political Corruption to Legalization of Narcotics

Gideon Polya
South America, US Hegemony and Excess Mortality

Chris Carlson
Venezuela in the Center of the World

Poetry

Bryon Howell
The Underground Jail-road and other poems

Varia

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
Escalating Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise

Ron Jacobs
1968 to 2007 – Antiwar Student Movements in the US: Then and Now

Daniel Moshenberg and Ronald Wesso
Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law

Girish Mishra
FDI in Retail Trade Is Ruinous

Ed Kinane
It's a Dog's Life

Poetry

Little Big Pine
Everything They Teach You to Fear You Must Become