>I would like to thank Shawgi for posting Fidel's speech and >the Granma article on the net. I would also like to point out, >in furtherence of his previous posting about Walmart's decision >to take Cuban made PJ's out of their Canadian stores, that the >company under Canadian pressure decided to sell Cuban PJs again >but that now the American government is again trying to enforce >US law in Canada by pressuring (prosecuting?) Walmart's American >head office. This is the most intolerable form of American >imperialism that I can imagine. It disgusts me that Americans >put up with such clearly anti-humane behaviour on the part of >their government. Paul: This is the most intolerable form of American imperialism you can imagine? I assume you're speaking hyperbolically. Imagination is not necessary to think of far more intolerable (at least to me) forms of American Imperialism; just remember U.S. training of Central American death squads and South American torture squads, or the ecological destruction of Vietnam, or the repeated (multiply x n) invasions, occupations, overthrows of elected governments, etc. in Latin America, etc., etc., etc. I mean, really! :) Blair P.S. Not a criticism, Paul; just thought I'd mention it, for the record, so to speak. _____________________________________________________________________ Blair Sandler "If I had to choose a reductionist paradigm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Classical Marxism is a damned good one." _____________________________________________________________________