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  • Athenian democracy
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Hilary Wainwright
    The fourth European Social Forum, held in Athens in May, outstripped the modest expectations of the Greek organisers. Hilary Wainwright reports on the key themes of the Athens forum - and what might come next
    In the build up to the European Social Forum (ESF) in Athens, the fourth since Florence in 2002, the Greek organisers were modest in their expectations of its political significance. ‘It will be a well organised event; but that’ll be it,’ said Panayotis Yulis (…)

  • Chavez Advocates Socialism to European Summit
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1964
    Chavez Advocates Socialism to European Summit
    Sunday, May 14, 2006 By: Stephen Castle - The Independent
    The Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, yesterday paved the way for a politically-explosive visit to London this weekend as lambasted Tony Blair’s brand of free market economics and said Europe should note the rise of socialism in Latin America.
    Mr Chavez’s rhetoric put him centre stage at a summit in Vienna as he claimed that (…)

  • Venezuela Proposes Discounted Heating Oil to Low-Income Europeans
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1966
    Monday, May 15, 2006 By: Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, Venezuela, May 15, 2006-Yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proposed providing a low cost heating oil program to low income Europeans. The proposal comes after Venezuelan subsidiary Citgo provided a well received heating oil subsidy to hundreds of thousands of households across six states in the US.
    “I want to modestly offer help to the poorest people who in winter, don’t have (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency? BY Julio Godoy (IPS)
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=33205 Saturday, May 13, 2006 06:41 GMT
    LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency?
    Julio Godoy
    VIENNA, May 11 (IPS) - The EU-Latin America/Caribbean summit, to take place Friday in the Austrian capital, will be marked by the contradictions that pervade relations between the two regions. While the governments tout cooperation, civil society organisations complain that it often merely serves to strengthen ties (…)

  • VIENNA SUMMIT : Live video streaming of the Meeting with the Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Live audio and video streaming of the Meeting with the Presidents Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez
    Date: 13th May
    http://www.alternativas.at/English/indexenglish.htm

  • VIENNA SUMMIT : LATIN AMERICA-EU: Transnational Corporations Stand Condemned
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency Saturday, May 13, 2006 06:20 GMT
    LATIN AMERICA-EU: Transnational Corporations Stand Condemned
    Julio Godoy
    VIENNA, May 12 (IPS) - The governments of Argentina and Bolivia joined civil society organisations, in the Austrian capital, to accuse European companies of disregarding laws on the environment, civil rights and labour in their operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The thirty or so corporations put in the dock by activists work in a wide (…)

  • Third Reich Tyrants
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 12, 2006 "ICH" — — I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
    The day that the apparently reformed war-monger, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, envisioned decades ago has finally come. It is time for governments to get out of our way.
    I have had a chance since Camp (…)

  • MEDIA : Pack Journalism can be Lethal
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pack Journalism can be Lethal Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying
    By Gregory Clark
    April 10, 2006 Japan Times
    Some call it pack journalism. It is also lazy journalism.
    Instead of checking facts, the media prefer to follow what others are saying. And what others are saying is often inspired by establishment hardliners seeking to impose their agendas with the help of bogus news agencies, subsidized research outfits and hired scribblers. (…)

  • EUROPE : Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-26.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism by William Pfaff
    Paris — The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France’s student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.
    The election that has just given Italy a fragile center- left (…)

  • Swiss president criticizes Europe for boycott of Palestinian govt
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Swiss president criticizes Europe for boycott of Palestinian govt
    24.04.2006, 00.33
    AL KUWAIT, April 24 (Itar-Tass) — Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger criticized European countries for their boycott of the Hamas Palestinian government in a Sunday interview with the Qatari satellite television channel Al Jazeera.
    The new Palestinian government should be given a chance instead of being forced to abide by preliminary conditions, he said.
    Hamas took the office through democratic (…)