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  • AMERIQUE LATINE : In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-25.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the Boston Globe In El Salvador, An Invasion of American Agriculture by Derrick Z. Jackson
    When the US-backed government and military of El Salvador brutally repressed their people in the 1980-92 civil war that took 75,000 lives, Gregorio Rosa Chavez was one of those who pleaded to the outside world, ’’We don’t need bullets; we need beans."
    Today, he still pleads for the (…)

  • National March: Hands Off Venezuela, Hands Off Cuba : May 20, 2006: Washington, D.C.
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    May 20, 2006: Washington, D.C.
    National March: Hands Off Venezuela, Hands Off Cuba
    DETAILS :
    http://www.internationalanswer.org/

  • Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than the U.S.
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Blake Fleetwood
    Statistics don’t lie.
    Figures from the World Health Organization clearly show that The United States lags behind 36 other countries in overall health system performance ranging from infant mortality, to adult mortality, to life expectancy.
    20 countries in Europe and four countries in Asia have a better life expectancy than the U.S. If you are a male between the ages of 15 and 59, your chances of dying are higher in the U.S. (140 per thousand) than in Canada, 95, (…)

  • Venezuela Plans More Oil Discounts
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0425-01.htm
    Published on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 by the Boston Globe Venezuela Plans More Oil Discounts 2 from Mass. play role in deal for region
    by Susan Milligan
    CARACAS - Leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said yesterday he would greatly expand the discounted home heating oil program he started last year for needy people in Massachusetts and other northeastern states.
    Chavez, a firebrand populist who has clashed repeatedly with (…)

  • The Citizens of Porto Alegre
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    In which Marco borrows bus fare and enters politics
    by Gianpaolo Baiocchi
    Marco is a self-employed handyman in his mid-30s who moved to the city of Porto Alegre from the Brazilian countryside eight years ago. A primary-school-educated son of a farmer, he’d had few opportunities in his small town and had heard about the city’s generous social services. He borrowed money for bus fare and landed in Porto Alegre, where he found construction work. But when his wages wouldn’t cover rent he (…)

  • It happened before, not so long ago.
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s said that during the height of the Cuban Missiles Crisis, when President Kennedy was faced with backing-off or starting World War III, he looked seriously rattled. Understandable for a normal human being you might think. Fortunately for the world it was the Russians who had the sense to defuse the confrontation by turning their ships away. Life went on.
    Forty-four years later the world is again faced with the prospect of a US President incumbent (albeit fraudulently elected) (…)

  • THE US NOW PLANNING A FOURTH ATTEMPT TO OUST HUGO CHAVEZ
    23 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Lendman
    This essay has a duel purpose. I began it initially to explain how sophisticated and effective the dominant corporate media is in programming the public mind to believe whatever message they deliver regardless of whether it’s true which it rarely is. I chose the title Reeducation 101 - Defogging and Reversing the Corporate Media’s Programming of the Public Mind which I’m now using as the heading of my introductory section. Along with that discussion, I then planned a (…)

  • Why USrael Won’t Fight Brazil’s Nuke Program
    22 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brazil follows Iran’s nuclear path, but without the fuss
    Associated Press, RESENDE, April 21
    As Iran faces international pressure over its nuclear programme, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own uranium-enrichment centre, capable of producing exactly the same fuel.
    Brazil, like Iran, has signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Brazil’s constitution bans the military use of nuclear energy.
    Continue to read:
    http://www.indianexpress.com/story/2890.html

  • BOLIVIA : Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?(ISR)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ISR Issue 46, March-April 2006
    Hope and challenge in Bolivia Will Evo Morales end neoliberalism?
    TOM LEWIS reporting from Bolivia
    WINNING THE presidential election in Bolivia last December with an impressive 54 percent of the vote, Evo Morales joined Luis Inácio “Lula” da Silva (Brazil), Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Tabaré Vásquez (Uruguay), Alejandro Toledo (Peru), and Néstor Kirchner (Argentina) as part of Latin America’s electoral backlash against neoliberalism.1 Morales, an Aymara (…)

  • BRAZIL : The Lula government and the “new ruling class” : the definitive bankruptcy of centrism
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org
    The Lula government and the “new ruling class” The definitive bankruptcy of centrism in Brazil By Hector Benoit 20 April 2006
    When the Workers Party (PT) of Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began to win mass support among workers, beginning with the big metalworkers’ strikes of 1978-80, many so-called “Marxist” intellectuals maintained that we would finally see a “legitimate” workers’ party.
    Finally, they said, Marxism would break free (…)