Tag Archives: Libya

Stand By Your Man Chronicles

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

Showcasing once more his impecable sense of timing, Hugo Chávez picked Sunday evening for…a stirring denunciation of the Gaddafi Regime’s foes. And that, my friend, is how the mind of a guy who names his pet roosters after his best … Continue reading →

Posted in Chavez's mental health, International | Tagged | 19 Comments

A well regulated militia being deeply threatening to the security of an unfree State…

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

Over in Spanish, I think the unthinkable about Chávez’s plan to press absolutely everybody into serve in his militia…

Posted in International, Military, Opposition | Tagged , | 3 Comments

Chávez and Gaddafi: The Axis of Unpaganda

Posted on March 27, 2011 by

After initially dithering, Hugo Chávez has now decisively taken sides in the rhetorical contest between Muamar Gaddafi and the Sane World. In the face of what is now surely overwhelming evidence from dozens of journalists (some of whose salaries he … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged , , | 11 Comments

A fundamental unseriousness

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

If it had the slightest interest in such things, chavismo could build an honest, cogent, powerful case against international intervention in Libya. It could point out the thicket of contradictions that has led the United States to, at once, attack … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged , | 58 Comments

Yucky Bedfellows Chronicles

Posted on March 15, 2011 by

Something is very wrong in the world when the international figure I most agree with on the Libyan crisis is…Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Posted in In Other News, International | Tagged , | 122 Comments

The glut around the corner?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

CNN is reporting that other countries are joining Saudi Arabia and raising crude production in light of the prolongued conflict in Libya. The list, as you can fathom, does not include Venezuela. The money quote is from Michael Wittner, head … Continue reading →

Posted in International, Oil | Tagged , | 11 Comments

Chávez is now an embarrassment…to Sean Penn!

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

Pity Sean Penn*. After years working to position himself as an avant-garde progressive willing to push the envelope by hitching his brand to Chávez’s, his pet revolutionary starts unravelling all that  work by standing by the mass-murdering Libyan regime. As … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged , | 34 Comments

Telesur Correspondent Joins Anti-Libya Conspiracy

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

How sprawling is the global media conspiracy-of-lies against choir-boy Gaddafi’s regime? So sprawling, even Telesur’s correspondent in Eastern Libya is in on it.

Posted in International, The Media | Tagged , , | 14 Comments

The Real Chávez is The One Backing Gaddafi

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

Sooner or later, the balance of evidence becomes overwhelming: the real Chávez is the one convinced Gaddafi is facing a “campaign of lies” and keeps raving about wild gringo conspiracies where the rest of the world sees a genocide in the … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged , | 111 Comments

Ideal for Rounding Up Dissidents

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

You can’t make this stuff up. Above is ملعب هوجو تشافيز‎ - Hugo Chávez Stadium to you and me – in Benina, Libya.

Posted in In Other News, International | Tagged , | 9 Comments

Chávez starts to pay the price for that Bolivar sword replica UPDATED

Posted on February 23, 2011 by

Even longstanding Chávez ball-coddler Nikolas Kozloff is appalled by his chumminess with Ghaddafi… Update: Now long time friend-of-the-house Al Giordano piles on – taking it out, bizarrely, on Evita Golinger and Telesur. It’s like these guys’ heads would explode if … Continue reading →

Posted in International | Tagged | 174 Comments

Nausea

Posted on February 19, 2011 by

The thought that the man responsible for this has been honored and lionized in my own country fills me with a kind of dread-soaked rage that feels curiously like nausea.

Posted in International | Tagged | 53 Comments