Latin America’s Long Fight for Sovereignty Against the US
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/05/13/latin-americas-long-fight-for-sovereignty-against-the-us/
John Perry reviews the book AMERICA, AMÉRICA: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin. By John Perry Special to Consortium News “An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me.…
#Politics #Books #CentralAmerica #Chile #Commentary #Cuba #Haiti #History #HumanRights #LatinAmerica #Spain #U.s. #GregGrandin #JohnPerry #MonroeDoctrine #SimonBolivar #Texas #WilliamWalker

Panama Tries Compromise; US Says It’s Not Enough
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/03/panama-tries-compromise-us-says-its-not-enough/
John Perry reports on the U.S. secretary of state’s visit to Panama on Sunday in the context of American imperialist history in the Canal Zone and U.S. obsession with China. By John Perry Special to Consortium News After intense pressure…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #BidenAdministration #China #Colombia #Commentary #Economy #Panama #U.s. #U.s.StateDepartment #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #1903HayHerranTreaty #BeltAndRoadInitiative #JohnPerry #ManuelNoriega #MarthaGellhorn #MatthewParker #OmarTorrijos #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentJimmyCarter #PresidentJoséRaúlMulino #SaúlMéndez #Suntracs #TeddyRoosevelt #WilliamMckinley

@UofGravity ...(more) ... of course basic problem was not the power of quantitative analysis, but the tendency to think it must be stronger than observation by the less-numerate. Kelvin's student Perry used a quantitative approach to point out flaws in Kelvin's model, but was ignored and attacked by Kelvin, and Guthrie Tait. It's not the quantitative that's wrong. It's the danger of over-confidence. Here's a couple of limericks I wrote about this: #Poetry #AgeOfThe Earth #LordKelvin #JohnPerry