All is America, America is all!

[M.J.Medjeral]

While most (not all) discussions (and news) are centered in the 
narcissistic issue of who is
going to govern the next 4 years the nation which sets the standards to 
the world, we had in Argentina,
since 1989 the show piece of neo-liberal policies, heavy social unrest 
in various places of the country,
within this week.
In Tartagal, in the north, the un-employed put on fire the police and 
the council houses, after one demonstrator
was shot.
The country is going from one recession to the other, with un-employment 
running above 14%, the small
bussiness base bankrupt, high taxation, public services cut to bare 
minimum (except for security and
police services receiving ever higher assignments), everyting possible 
privatized and the nation sovereign
debt increased from 65 billion in 1989 to now 145 billion.
The President, in this new economic crisis (or is it an old one?) reacts 
with more fiscal adjustment ( 5 year
freeze in public administration salaries, scrapping the last remaining 
public pension system, etc), of the
many fiscal adjustments undergone in the last 10 years and receives a 
phone call from Mr Clinton
assuring moral support.
Believe it or not, Argentina (in spite of all this) was good investment 
for Wall Street and the other
financial centres since 1989 and whatever happens now, if at all, will 
not cause them any loss.
It was good business!
What chances have countries, if they see that the neo-liberal system is 
un-sustainable, to change.
This countries have mostly a political class which has been educated in 
the USA or were employed
by the World Bank or some of their sattellite institutions. They have 
sold their soul and honestly they
do not know otherwise. Where do you get the politician which is not 
ideologically blindfolded by the 'Empire'.
In Argentina we reached the extreme that even the little remaining 
'left' is part of the present government
alliance. The un-employed picketeers are now (for them) not protesters 
but manipulated or terrorists!.