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  • — White House insiders report / Pt 2
    23 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 23, 2006 — White House insiders report that an influential group of extreme right-wing gay Latino power brokers has been given almost total control over U.S. foreign and business policy decisions affecting Latin America. A number of members of the Young Hispanic Republican Association report that they have been sexually preyed upon by members of the influential Latino power brokers after accepting administration appointments, including positions on the White House staff.
    The gay (…)

  • Latin America and Asia are at last breaking free of Washington’s grip
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of independence in the global south
    by Noam Chomsky
    The US-dominated world order is being challenged by a new spirit of independence in the global south
    The prospect that Europe and Asia might move towards greater independence has troubled US planners since the second world war. The concerns have only risen as the "tripolar order" - Europe, North America and Asia - has continued to evolve.
    Every day Latin America, too, (…)

  • 10,000 protest at water summit
    22 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    About 10,000 protesters have marched in Mexico City, where 11,000 delegates and representatives met at the 4th World Water Forum to discuss ways to improve supplies for the poor.
    Opponents say that the seven-day forum, which began on Thursday, is a cover for privatisation.
    Participants from 121 countries, debated topics including the developing world’s growing reliance on bottled water bought from private companies, instead of on public water systems, which some call a form of (…)

  • The Failure of Hugo-Bashing by Mark Weisbrot
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Despite U.S. efforts, the Venezuelan leader is winning friends across Latin America.
    It was yet another public relations coup for Venezuela: Vila Isabel, the samba club sponsored mainly by the Venezuelan government, won the parade competition in Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval last week. A float with a giant likeness of Simon Bolivar, combined with thousands of ornately costumed participants parading down the avenue, trumpeted the winning theme: Latin American unity.
    U.S. Secretary of State (…)

  • Biotech Foods: International Safety Laws Agreed by Friends of the Earth International March 18
    19 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    CURITIBA (BRAZIL), 17 March 2006 - United Nations talks on the global trade in genetically modified (GM) foods and crops ended here today with an agreement on the labelling of GM grains traded worldwide.
    Friends of the Earth welcomed the agreement as a "small step forward" but attacked the biotech industry and the trade interests of a few countries for blocking progress towards better protection for developing countries and the environment.
    The biotech industry consistently opposed clear (…)

  • IF THIS IS JOURNALISM....
    18 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Italian daily La Repubblica in its Monday March 13 edition has dedicated an entire page to a bit of news that simply does not exist. In substance-the article is not available online-the usual Omero Ciai’s fanciful pen holds that since an exodus of biblical proportions of Cuban baseball players toward the US is now in progress, the perfidious Fidel Castro would like to extirpate baseball from Cuba and substitute it with cricket.
    Omero Ciai goes on for an entire pagelet with his little (…)

  • The "Yellow Peril" and the Latin Invasion!
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does anyone recall the incredibly realistic Right wing John Milius film "Red Dawn"? It told the story of an invasion by the Russians, the Nicaraguans,the Bolivians and the Cubans. They were enabled,of course,by the U.N.blue helmets.
    Well, truth is stranger than fiction! Recent reports indicate that China is beginning to train South American troops! Soon (I’m sure think tanks are musing), the Latin hoards...right on "our doorstep" will swarm across our secure borders and take over our (…)

  • The People Defeated the anti-Venezuela Mack Resolution! by Brian Becker, ANSWER (USA)
    17 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear friends of Venezuela,
    Following a massive outpouring of opposition, H. Con. Res. 328 (the Mack resolution) was withdrawn from the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs in the House Committee on International Relations. Due for a vote today, Rep. Mack (R-FL) and his supporters pulled the resolution before a vote could take place. Clearly, they felt that the resolution would now fail.
    In recent weeks the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, VoteNoWar.org, the Venezuelan Information Office (…)

  • H. Con. Res. 328 to condemn Venezuela set for vote Thursday, March 16, 2006
    16 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Venezuela Information Office asks for your help! By Urgent Reqest Mar 15, 2006, 04:51
    H. Con. Res. 328 will be voted on this week! Your calls are needed in Congress today Congressional Switchboard: 202-224-3121
    Friends,
    We just received word that H. Con. Resolution 328 will be up for a subcommittee vote this Thursday, March 16. Your help is needed to stop this intellectually dishonest, anti-Venezuela resolution. Please call Congress today!
    What is (…)

  • Bolivia: From Neoliberalism To A Homeland For All by Evo Morales
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Bolivia
    Green Left Weekly; March 13, 2006
    Today our government celebrates its first month, the first 30 days of the democratic and cultural revolution that we are heading, with the overwhelming popular mandate of December 18, 2005, when Bolivians from the countryside and cities decided to turn the page on a history full of injustice and discrimination.
    We have named a cabinet that is representative of the social movements, business owners, the middle classes, indigenous peoples, (…)