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  • "The Price of Sugar": The enslavement of Haïtian Workers
    23 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    "The Price of Sugar" (thepriceofsugar.com) follows a charismatic Spanish priest, Father Christopher Hartley, as he organizes some of this hemisphere’s poorest people, challenging powerful interests profiting from their work. When he arrives in the Dominican Republic, he’s warned against entering the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live. Breaking a centuries old taboo, he discovers shocking examples of modern-day slavery intrinsic to the global sugar trade.
    On an island (…)

  • Twenty Thousand Protest at Ft. Benning: Eleven Face Federal Criminal Trials
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    11/19/07 "ICH" — — In what has become the nation’s largest annual gathering for peace and human rights, over twenty thousand people protested outside the gates of Fort Benning, GA on November 18, 2007. Eleven people were arrested on federal criminal charges and face up to six months in prison.
    By Bill Quigley
    Fort Benning is the site of the internationally notorious U.S. Army training school for Latin American military and security personnel. For decades it was called the School of the (…)

  • VENEZUELA: Events Are Ugly and Coming to A Head
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen Lendman
    The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental agency, National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for International Development (USAID). The documents also showed the White (…)

  • Chavez in Tehran: "Empire of dollar is crashing"
    20 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez in Tehran: "Empire of dollar is crashing"
    Reuters – November 19, 2007
    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday the "empire of the dollar is crashing", a day after his country and anti-U.S. ally Iran advocated action over the weakening U.S. currency during an OPEC summit in Riyadh.
    Chavez, who on Saturday said oil prices could double to $200 per barrel if the United States attacks Iran over its disputed atomic ambitions, spoke to reporters after talks with his Iranian (…)

  • VENEZUELA BETWEEN BALLOTS AND BULLETS By James PETRAS
    17 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    COUNTERPUNCH.ORG
    November 14, 2007
    Venezuelan Democracy, the Presidency of Hugo Chavez and the Great Majority of Popular Classes Face a Mortal Threat
    Venezuela’s democratically elected Present Chavez faces the most serious threat since the April 11, 2002 military coup.
    Violent street demonstrations by privileged middle and upper middle class university students have led to major street battles in and around the center of Caracas. More seriously, the former Minister of Defense, (…)

  • How one country became Bio-Friendly: Cuba, ‘The Accidental Revolution’
    13 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    While certain counties battle with their citizen over the legality of labeling genetically modified foods, and chemically produced and enhanced foods as ‘natural’, other countries are showing us how to work with nature.
    The following two part CBC documentary from ‘The Nature of Things’ with David Suzuki examines Cuba’s ‘Accidental Revolution’, where in less then a decade Cuba learned how to grow food that feeds its people using only 5% of the energy that is required in Northern (…)

  • BOLIVIA : A Democratic Revolution Transforming Society
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Last March Evo Morales, first indigenous president of Bolivia, instituted in his country a loan to be granted to all children under the age of 12 years living in poor rural communities. During the launching event, Morales approached an indigenous boy and asked him, "What are you going to do now with this money?" The little boy answered "I am going to use it to study because I want to become a president of us like you are."
    Such an answer from an indigenous child would have been unthinkable (…)

  • Full Spectrum Mercenaries: Blackwater Goes to Mexico
    10 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Eric Prince & Company appear to be set to expand into both border enforcement and the Bush White House drug war with an operational role in Plan Mexico, the $1.5 billion U.S.-Mexico drug war scheme to fuse drug-fighting agencies on both sides of the border under Washington’s control.
    November 9, 2007 By JOHN ROSS
    If and when private security contractor Blackwater USA and its heavily-armed operatives are forced to pull out of Iraq as the result of the September 16th rampage in (…)

  • BUSH THREAT OF WIII = CUBAN MISSILE REDUX by Pr Francis BOYLE
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global Research
    November 8, 2007
    During the course of an October 17, 2007 press conference, President Bush Jr. terrorized the entire world with the threat of World War III if he could not work his illegal will upon Iran . Then Russian President Vladimir Putin responded in kind by likewise terrorizing the entire world with the prospect of yet another Cuban Missile Crisis if he did not get his way on the provocative anti-ballistic missile (A.B.M.) systems that the Bush Jr. administration (…)

  • BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT EVO MORALES...
    9 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bolivian President Evo Morales on Indigenous Rights, Climate Change, Iraq, Establishing Diplomatic Relations with Iran, Che Guevara’s Legacy and More on Democray Now (Amy Goodman)
    In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia. In a wide-ranging conversation, Morales discusses the impact of the war in Iraq on Latin America, warns against the use of biofuels to reduce carbon emissions and highlights the importance of indigenous (…)