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  • Tell Congress: Close the School of the Americas - Vote YES to cut its funding now!
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This week (the week of June 5) Congress will vote on an amendment to close the notorious School of the Americas/WHINSEC. The School of the Americas, funded by our tax dollars and located at Ft. Benning, Georgia, has trained - for more than 60 years - over 60,000 Latin American Soldiers in torture, psychological warfare and war against civilian populations.
    Many of the tactics of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay began at the SOA to be used on civilians and those working for justice in Latin (…)

  • Kerry may be called to testify in defense of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posada lawyer may call Kerry, North As Venezuela seeks to block U.S. citizenship for Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles, his lawyer may look to Sen. John Kerry and Oliver North to testify about Posada’s former ties to the U.S. government. BY OSCAR CORRAL AND PABLO BACHELET
    In an effort to free Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles from federal detention and help him qualify for U.S. citizenship, his attorney may call on U.S. Sen. John Kerry and Oliver North of Iran-contra fame (…)

  • Kucinich reveals American Accomplice of Terrorist, Army Col. Steele, Linked to Death Squads in Iraq
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, June 6 (ACN) US Army Colonel James Steele, who was involved in the Iran-Contras scandal along with international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles at his command, is now an advisor to death squads in Iraq.
    The presence of the US army officer in Iraq has just been revealed by US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Granma daily reports.
    Luis Posada Carriles, currently under arrest in the US charged with illegal entry into that country, was the first to report to Colonel Steele about the (…)

  • Resist this US backlash
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cuba is in danger of being punished by Europe for Washington’s loss of clout in Latin America
    by Ian Gibson
    Faced with a loss of influence in Latin America as a result of the shift to the left, the US government has been furiously lobbying sympathetic European states to create political leverage on Washington’s behalf. As a partner in a "special relationship", Whitehall is a prime target.
    The first test of the new US strategy towards its recalcitrant neighbours will come next week when (…)

  • Colombian and Peruvian Elections Prove Stalin Was Right
    7 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Colombian and Peruvian Elections Prove Stalin Was Right - by Stephen Lendman
    Joe Stalin wasn’t just an ordinary dictator, he was a very savvy one. He had to have been to have held on to power for over 30 years, succeed in outfoxing his rivals, and even be able to break the back of the vaunted Nazi Wehrmacht that turned the tide of the war in Europe and led to Hitler’s demise. His political control at home and over his allied Warsaw Pact countries was best explained by the philosophy he (…)

  • Bolivia head starts land handout
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By James Read
    Bolivia’s president has given more than 30,000 square km (18,600 sq miles) of land to indigenous peasant communities under a programme of agrarian reform.
    Evo Morales launched the programme after landowners walked out of talks with the government, warning they would take action to defend their estates.
    Thousands of peasants gathered in the centre of Santa Cruz to see Mr Morales launch his agrarian revolution.
    They cheered and waved rainbow flags symbolising indigenous (…)

  • Bachelet fires riot squad chief who beat up students
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Merco Press (Falklands)
    Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced Wednesday the firing of the head of the riot police and severely condemned the ’excesses’ committed by over-zealous Carabineros during the violent repression Tuesday in Santiago of protesting students.
    "We will not accept condemnable acts such as those we saw yesterday" she said during a joint press conference at the presidential palace next to the head of the reporters’ guild, Alejandro Guillier.
    Several journalists (…)

  • OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Fisher Amid the ever-escalating rhetoric between the United States and Venezuela, the president of the oil-rich Latin American country, Hugo Chavez, has been busily scoring points with low-income American consumers. Under a program sometimes dubbed petro-diplomacy, Citgo, Venezuela’s wholly-owned gas and oil subsidiary, has been providing discounts of up to 60 per cent on heating oil to poor communities in the U.S. The program is currently operating in Maine, Massachusetts, (…)

  • Globalization’s Watchdogs
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Engler
    When Bolivian President Evo Morales announced plans to nationalize his country’s oil and natural gas resources in early May, he did more than lay out a promising path for development. He also provided an ideal opportunity to illustrate how large segments of the U.S. and British press have adopted roles as watchdogs for corporate globalization. Since Bolivia’s energy exports go to Brazil and Argentina rather than the United States, and since the nationalization is unlikely to (…)

  • Morales Government Tackles Agrarian Reform
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Roger` Burbach
    The government of Evo Morales is tackling the explosive issue of agrarian reform less than three weeks after nationalizing Bolivia’s natural gas and petroleum resources. In a country riveted with glaring land inequities, Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera proclaimed that large tracts of agricultural land would be redistributed to “peasants and indigenous communities.” While “productive lands” will be exempted from expropriation, Garcia stated that this would not be the (…)