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Fidel Castro adds his voice to the growing international chorus against neoliberalism and the globalization of the world economy.
"Library shelves are full of books touting the wonders of globalization: perhaps there should also be room for a dissenting voice."-Booklist
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Incredible.......2006-06-23
Inspiration is so important, especially when one is part of a society controlled by monkeys and vampires and other malignancies. So, let's talk about Castro.
What is there to say about one of the truly great men in world history? How many people throughout history have been blessed with the guts, strategic brilliance and cunning to become a leader of his people? And blessed with the deep sympathy and understanding of the powerless, the weak, the sad? As this book proves, Castro is one of the great intellectuals of his time and one of the great political historians. (Imagine the United States being led by a combination of Malcolm X and Noam Chomsky!) Fidel Castro is a man who could have used his power to be just another vampire, pimp, or baboon -- instead chose to be a protector of all those needing protection. And, yes, by any means necessary! Yes -- any means! Why give up the weapons of violence to the scum of the earth?
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Viva Fidel!
Brilliant! Objective World Assessment Outside American Journalism........2005-09-05
This book relates global issues historically and economically and does so without the American propaganda, nor the European which is tied up in US Hegemony and constraints. Fidel is a reader. I think that speaks for itself. I did my usual note taking when reading a book and this time around under what I call "quotes," I have so many that I couldn't possibly use all of them in this book review, there are just too many!
Fidel speaks of the American and global economy based on the U.S. dollar the US inflating the dollar no longer backed by gold, which then like the alchemists turns paper into gold. And when the trust is evaporated, which will happen one day, then we get the idea of the eschatological implications in a global economic crash far worse than the 1929 depression where only a small percentage invested in he stock market. Also the benefits of Europe's currency needed for their survival. What I really enjoyed was Castro words on Cuba when she several times re-evaluated the currency there. It has proven a truth that I find outweighs and shows the falseness of the free market fundamentalists of capitalism - libertarians and conservatives alike. If Cuba has followed the WTO and IMF she would have lost many educators, doctors and closed down hospitals and schools, (Although something all together different are the libertarians who reject all government intervention in favor of a helmless free market).
Just a short review here: Some of the thoughts conveyed are the superficiality of mass media and TV over the reading of books; the destruction of culture from US hegemonic values based on consumerism, sex, violence and extravagant life styles; capitalism consumer created pollution and the destruction of our planet; the WTO and US interests - an example is the private ownership of two banana U.S. corps vote for the removal of the privileges of the small Caribbean nations that severely depend on this industry - the Lemone Act. Anotherwards the WTO and the IMF, they would like to privatize all the poor underdeveloped as owned private property, countries for "free trade," This in turn would reduce all of Latin American to US large Corp. private property where persons, now mere commodities, would be reduced to cheap labor, including all the raw materials and so forth, all so to support the wealthy in the US so they can increase their automobiles and luxury items and so forth.
Also Cuba produces doctors that are sent out across the world in aid for the poorer people, all so under one of the most brutal blockades, now a double one since the demise of the Soviet Union.
Fidel speaks of the Cuban missile crises and the new declassified documents that Noam Chomsky also writes about in his book on US hegemony, of the U.S. scandalous lies and deceit against Cuba - the same they have recently employed against Iraq - but sadly for Iraq, they had no other superpower, the USSR, to back them for protection.
OK, there are thoughts on Bolivar, Marti, Marx, Freidman, Keynes, Hidalgo, Miranda, on Adam Smith and Lenin, on the author Garcia Marquez, on Roosevelt, Reagan and Carter, on the Serb and Yugoslavia - this man is a learned man and very informative- no beating around the bush, but straight forward and honestly open. He also speaks straight forward for Cuba, a country that has never tortured or murdered people for political gain, unlike the US record which is horrendous and then claims it fights for humanitarian purposes, using that as an accusation against other countries. The list of US abuses around the world are also brought out here.
Castro recognizes that world globalization is not only necessary but part of the historical process that must occur. The idea is not for the globalization based on imperialistic domination of a superpower which exploits poorer and weaker countries but rather a globalization that brings fraternal unity and peaceful relations in trade and economics and a balance of power and wealth. And the point is Cuba's history supports this belief. What does the U.S. record show? It simply cannot be defended honestly apart from blind nationalism.
There is also the lawsuit of the U.S. suing Cuba - 3 persons at over 62 million a piece and if you read how they came to this number you can question the U.S. Judicial system and the judges we have appointed there. In turn, now that the embarrassing U.S. declassified documents are out (not all of course), which openly reveal CIA terrorist operations in Cuba. Cuba has subsequently made a lawsuit against the U.S. with far reasonable claims in damages - the comparison is so blatant here. And what patriotic nationalist, free market fundamentalist and Right Wing absolutist will admit to themselves without emotional discharge the actions being taken here.
Masterpiece of hybrid philosophy & reality........2003-08-31
As a lonely warrior who has fought for his & his people's dreams for years, Mr. Castro has exhibited his honest opinions on the capitalistic society & its catastrophic modus operandi in this era, which for most people who are well-enjoying their lives, are not AT ALL aware of.
The chapters of the books are organized in a seemingly logical way that educates and instil insights to the reader step by step. The content also lays out the important points of the development of capitalism, and of course, its gradual threat to humanity in a objective manner.
For those who doubt their existence and their un-conscious enslavement brought about through capitalism & hegemonic oppression, this book is a must-read option that opens your mind.
Capitalism In Crisis by Fidel Castro.......2001-10-03
Many books written by Dr. Fidel Castro are difficult if not impossible to find in the United States; I felt lucky to locate this one. It is a compilation of many speeches given in different parts of the world, and in each one Mr. Castro drives home his point that capitalism is not a viable economic structure for the longevity of mother earth or her inhabitants. He explains at length the effects of neocolonialism, the loss of culture, the abuse of natural resources, and the ever widening gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots."
An insightful analysis of many 20th century issues.......2001-02-26
This book is a collection of speeches delivered by Castro at various Cuban and international gatherings, addressing groups like the WTO and the South African parliament. It does not contain endless rhetoric and polemic, but rather an alternative point of view on the issues of globalisation and the emerging global economy. Castro's insights are worth reading, because he speaks as one outside of the system, partly because of Cuba's socialist economy, but even more so because they are closed out of the global economy by the US blocade. The book provides an useful overview of the Cuban government's understanding of these issues as well: the third chapter gives an excellent overview of Cuba and its relations with the USA and the Soviet Union from the revolution to the present day. Overall, this book is an excellent source of information for those interested in Cuban politics. Besides that, it provides useful warnings for the countries involved in globalisation and First World-Third World relations--warnings that come from a leader who, due to his forced international isolation, cannot speak out for selfish interests alone, but with a view to the good of all mankind.
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Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions, & Strange Statutes
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There ought to be a law against making laws this wacky! But since there isn't, why not have fun with the silliest statutes, looniest lawsuits, and dumbest decisions on record?
Who ever thought a law book would be funnier than a joke book? Well it is--just take a look at these: Children under the age of seven can't attend college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Anyone flying over Maine should remember: it's illegal there to step out of the plane while it's in the air. And why can't the chicken cross the road in Quitman, Georgia? Because it's "fowl" criminal behavior. That's just the beginning, because this collection also uncovers some of the most incredible, unbelievable lawsuits, government grants, and court verdicts. For example, the United States Navy spent $792 for a designer doormat. A psychic sued doctors because she lost her "aura" after a brain scan. Each fact is stranger than the one before!
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Funny but no LOL.......2007-01-12
Funny book showing just how stupid people are in making laws that have no ending or make no sense in today's world. Politicians need to read it and repel some of these silly laws instead of making more.
Drunken reasoning at the bar.......2005-03-06
There's an old Calvin & Hobbes Sunday strip where Calvin takes his tiger out into the woods, signs the landscape, and offers to sell it to Hobbes as a work of art. "It doesn't match my furniture," Hobbes says, walking away, leaving Calvin to observe that the problem with being avant-garde is knowing who's putting on whom.
That strip was the first thing that I thought of when I read in this book about a real-life incident in which the National Endowment of Arts gave a government grant to an artist who boarded a small aircraft and threw small crepe streamers into the sky, claiming that her work called attention to the higher spirit of mankind. Bill Watterson probably only THOUGHT that he was kidding.
"Wacky Laws" is yet another book about some of the strange incidents that find their way into the legal system and some of the strange decisions that make their way OUT of the system. However, this book also has a separate section on "Government Waste" detailing some of the more outre projects on which our money is being spent - which is where the above story comes from.
As you might expect, this book also has the usual collection of blue laws that defy belief - and some that don't. I don't think that it's too much of a mental strain to figure out why some ancient Wisconsin legislators made it illegal to serve apple pie in their state without a cheese topping.
But why would the city fathers of Macomb, Illinois make it illegal for an automobile to impersonate a wolf? It must be the only city in the world whose in-custody defendants would have to wait for trial parked in a garage.
The last section contains a number of true-life cases, in which the reader is asked to apply the law to the facts and compare his decision with that of the trial courts and appellate courts who heard the same case.
As a member of the bar, I missed a fair number of these, and I can't help but wonder if I didn't over-analyze them. Quite possibly, the average non-attorney reader who doesn't find himself wondering what the authors were leaving out will do better than the average attorney.
Then again, I'm not sure that the authors always described the facts correctly or were always aware of which facts were important (there is nothing in this volume to indicate that any of the four authors are attorneys themselves) or that the decisions handed down at the time would necessarily be arrived at today.
We are told, for instance, that a homicide victim's statement to a nurse that her husband had poisoned her was thrown out of court as "classic hearsay". Well, I'd assumed that she'd made that statement while conscious of her impending death - which would certainly have made it admissible as a "dying declaration" in most jurisdictions.
And I have a hard time believing that an insurance company negligently issuing a policy that gave the beneficiary a motive for murder could really be held civilly liable for the murder of the insured by the beneficiary. That really sounds like a highly speculative Palsgraf-like chain of causation, determinable only with hindsight. Wouldn't ANY policy of life insurance provide its beneficiary with the same motive?
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Multi-Party Politics In Kenya (Eastern African Studies)
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Perfect for enticing the insomniac with an interest in Kenya.......1999-06-22
This book is an important resource in the arsenal of sleeping aids for people with an interest in colonialism and its long-term effects in Kenya. I highly recommend it for anyone who wishes to fall asleep within 5 minutes any time of day.
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Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new institutional economics approach, this book explores the history of economic activity through the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods, including the transformative period of British rule. During the colonial period, Asians were brought in to build the railways and subsequently focused on urban-based activities. Africans, meanwhile, found it difficult to move out of agriculture. Thus, the ethnic-sectoral division of activities was entrenched by the formal laws and powers of the British. Following independence, the network and financial capital that Asians had built up allowed them to survive early attempts at the Africanization of industry. Africans, now supported by the formal institutions of the state, still found it difficult to engage in manufacturing because they lacked the informal networks that support trade and credit. The analysis is supported by the results of a contemporary survey of 120 manufacturing firms in Nairobi's metal sector that highlight the division between smaller African firms and larger Asian ones.
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As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. Robert Bates focuses on Kenya, a country that continued to grow while others declined in Africa, and criticizes the neo-classical turn in development economics. Attributing Kenya's exceptionalism to its economic institutions, Bates relates its subsequent economic decline to the change from the Kenyatta to the Moi regime--and the subsequent use of the power of economic institutions to redistribute rather than to create wealth.
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By the 1990s, Kenya had experienced over a quarter of a century of sustained economic growth as an independent nation. The authors of this study use econometric analysis to seek to explain this exception to a depressing African rule. Initially, a crucial feature was growth in human capital, the result both of government priority and popular demand, but physical-capital accumulation lagged behind and held back the pace of growth from optimum levels. The study examines the reasons for slow physical-capital growth and concludes that an overwhelming state sector, protected behind financial and legal defenses, was the primary cause. Kenya could, therefore, have grown even faster with a more liberal economy. That reasonable growth rates were maintained, concludes the study, was due more to the ingenuity of Kenyan businessmen, with passive collusion from the state, in avoiding restrictive regulations, than to their appropriateness.
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This study investigates the gender implications of agricultural sector reform in Kenya. The author focuses on smallholder tea production with the aim of pinpointing the factors that influence the adoption of tea among male and female farmers, assessing female farmers’ perceptions of the changes in living standards over the research period, and suggesting appropriate policy reforms to ensure that women’s interests are taken into account in the design of agricultural reforms.
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Great research into unknown known sector of the encomy.......1998-02-13
This is a great book. I had never read about this sector of the economy. It shows that capitalism is alive and well at the grass roots level. Lets hope that the economic system allows it to prosper in the future.
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