Posted on February 29, 2008 by Mike Booth
Let’s call it de-gringo-ization, that penchant the United Statesians have for placing universal labels on things that are uniquely gringo. The first thing that comes to mind, of course, is the World Series, the annual end-of-season baseball playoff in the United States. Insofar as there are no teams from other baseball-playing countries represented–neither Japan nor, [...]
Filed under: gringos | Tagged: gringos, International Monetary Fund, politics, School of the Americas, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, World Bank, World Series | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 27, 2008 by Mike Booth
Last night we watched “Nuremberg” again. It’s the made-for-television film with Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy and Brian Cox which presents a semi-documentary treatment of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg, the trial of the most important Nazi party members after World War II. Though it’s unremarkable as cinema, it’s historic content keeps it timely and [...]
Filed under: The Impending Apocalypse | Tagged: crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, Nuremberg Tribunal, The Nuremberg Principles, war crimes | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 23, 2008 by Mike Booth
A Lesson in Linguistic Geography for the People of the United States The land mass properly called “America” extends from the northern tip of Greenland to Cape Horn (properly Cabo de Hornos) at the southern tip of Chile and, besides the United States and its territories, Greenland, and Chile, includes Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, [...]
Filed under: United States, gringos | Tagged: America is more than the U.S.A., gentilicios, United States co-opts "America", United Statesians, What is America? | 4 Comments »
Posted on February 21, 2008 by Mike Booth
Is John McCain’s memory failing him, or is he trying to insult our intelligence again? Neither hypothesis says much in favor of the Republican front runner’s decency or competence. In a recent interview with K. Brinkbäumer and M. Hujer for Der Spiegel, reported in Spain’s El País newspaper, when asked (my translation), “Would you agree [...]
Filed under: US primary elections | Tagged: Israeli nuclear arsenal, John McCain, McCain insult our intelligence, McCain's memory failing, presidential primaries, Republican contender | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 20, 2008 by Mike Booth
The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell on Castro’s resignation and President George W. Bush’s reaction.
Filed under: gringos | Tagged: Cuba, democratization of Cuba, Gitmo, Guantanamo, President Bush on Cuba, Steve Bell, The Guardian | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 18, 2008 by Mike Booth
For most of my adult lifetime the New York Times, the American newspaper of record, was practically an object of reverence for me. “All the news that’s fit to print…” proclaimed the masthead, and still does. I still read it online even though, over the years, it has lost some of its luster. To begin [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2008 by Mike Booth
Faster than a speeding pork barrel, more powerful than executive privilege, able to leap tall ballot boxes in a single bound. There in the sky, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Superdelegate! Now that the contest for the Democratic nomination is intensifying we see the term “superdelegate” popping up more and [...]
Filed under: US primary elections, United States, politics | Tagged: politics, democratic primaries, Clinton, Obama, superdelegates, elections 2008, history of superdelegates, democracy in America | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 7, 2008 by Mike Booth
British journalist, editor, world traveller, and old Spain hand David Baird has written a new book, his seventh, and he didn’t have to go far to research it. He’s been sitting virtually on top of it since he arrived in the Andalusian village of Frigiliana to live in 1971. Between Two Fires: Guerrilla War in [...]
Filed under: books | Tagged: anti-Franco guerrilla movement, anti-Franco resistance, Costa del Sol, Editorial Almuzara, el maqui, Frigiliana, gente de la sierra, Maroma Publishing, Spain, Spanish Civil War | 1 Comment »
