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Yes the shift in tone has been VERY striking. The first indication that I noticed was Fidel's column on Obama's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. This was followed by a savage comment from Fidel read by Hugo Chavez at the ALBA summit, and pretty much everyone on the revolutionary left in Latham have aligned themselves with Fidel. He may no longer be "commander in chief" of Cuba's armed forces, or President of the Island's government, but he is still looked to for leadership --and followed-- by the revolutionary-patriotic-anti-imperialist left of "our" America. Two big factors that have soured the civility appear to have been the CIA agent who snuck into Cuba as a tourist, the socalled "contractor." The other are the sharply escalated provocations from Colombia, including the signing of an agreement giving the United States nine, if I remember right, military bases, the repeated border incursions, and now UAW over flights. I hope these over flights give Venezuelan hackers a good chance to darkle this tech. Obviously, what was said about the unscrambled picture transmission in Iraq and Afghanistan indicates that all the data streams are simply wide open, but even if the command stream is encoded, it should not be hard to find the frequencies and jam them. Based on Obama's track record in winding down U.S. involvement in the Muslim World, we have every reason to fear a U.S.-sponsored war in South America soon, if not a direct imperialist military intervention. Joaquin ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
