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  • If anyone is guilty of trying to make Venezuela unstable it is the United States
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    The other day, I sat down to watch Molly Ivins on C-Span.org. Ms. Ivins is a columnist after my own heart. In the interview, a caller phoned in and cited that he was once a moderate Republican, but felt the need to leave that party since it no longer represented his values.
    The date of the interview was January 27 and was one day off of my six year anniversary where I too felt as that caller did and left the Republican Party. While he did not say if he joined another (…)

  • NAFTA and Nativism
    11 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Harold Meyerson
    Everybody talks about globalization; nobody ever does anything about it. The world labor market looms over every horizon with its promise of cheaper goods and lower pay. The public is skeptical, rightly, about the benefits of globalization, but the process of harnessing it, of writing enforceable rules that would benefit not just investors but most of our citizens, is hard to even conceive. And so globalization is experienced by many Americans as a loss of control. (…)

  • The Bolivarian Revolution: A Movement of Hope and Threat
    9 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    Winds of Change
    The warming winds of true democracy have been spreading from the tip of Patagonia to the shores of the Rio Grande, traversing all lands in between, with the will of the People trumping the wishes of the Empire. These winds carry within them elections of hope and fury, marked by loud voices and uncompromised ballots, devoid of charades and mirages, lacking Diebold electronic voting machines and corporate media manipulation. (…)

  • A ghost is haunting Mexico: the ghost of the EZLN
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Boris Leonardo Caro, La Zezta
    A number of Mexican news agencies have reported the statements of Luis H. Álvarez, the Mexican government’s peace commissioner in Chiapas, regarding the supposed inexistence of the EZLN as a group. Below, an article from La Jornada newspaper:
    The EZLN no longer exists as a group, Luis H. Alvarez affirms The peace commissioner for Chiapas, Luis H. Alvarez, asserted that the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) no longer exists as a group, and said (…)

  • BABY BUSH RESCUES PA’S JM WAVE GANG
    2 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ever the dutiful son , Bush the Dumber, rescued Bush the Elder’s Miami Vice Squad in early Septembre 2004. .
    We speak of the the seventy something Cuban exiles who attempted to over throw Fidel Castro in 1961 , but ended up tossed ashore like Pigs of Bay Watch .
    In the recently published book by author Gerald McKnight , " Breach of Trust : How the Warren Commission failed the nation and why" , we read of the charade constructed by CIA asset Lee Harvey in the city of New Orleans in (…)

  • World Social Forum: Series of Global Protests to Begin in March
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS- A day of international protests against the occupation of Iraq, on Mar. 18, will mark the start of a series of demonstrations and mobilisations organised at the sixth World Social Forum, which ended Sunday in Venezuela.
    A conference against the U.S. occupation of Iraq will be held Mar. 24-27 in Cairo, Egypt, announced the international Assembly of Social Movements, which met on the final day of the WSF in Caracas.
    Some 2,200 civil society organisations (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan Ponders Running Against California Senator Dianne Feinstein
    30 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In this photo released by Venezuela’s Miraflores Press, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez greets U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2006. Sheehan, who in Caracas attending the 6th World Social Forum, said Saturday she is strongly considering running for office against U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein because the California lawmaker will not support calls to immediately bring the troops home. (…)

  • WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A Loud, Multicoloured ’No’ to Imperialism and War
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez
    CARACAS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Although the sixth World Social Forum grants equal importance to all of the myriad workshops, seminars and other activities taking place this week in the Venezuelan capital and to all of the participating civil society groups and figures, that has not kept some personalities from standing out, like U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq.
    "We need to bring our troops home immediately," Sheehan told the (…)

  • US diplomat flees Venezuela rather than face charges of CIA espionage
    29 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Prensa Latina: The naval attache of the US Embassy in Venezuela, John Correa, has left the country after his participation in an espionage case involving several Venezuelan low-ranking officers was revealed.
    When he realized the espionage network had been discovered, Correa organized the escape of several of the officers involved to Miami, and then he fled when Venezuelan authorities called him up for a meeting, according to a report on Friday’s VEA newspaper.
    Vice President Jose (…)

  • BOLIVIA: Indigenous Leaders, Women Head New Cabinet
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Franz Chávez
    LA PAZ, Jan 24 (IPS) - Reforms to Bolivia’s current "neoliberal" free-market policies and the fight against corruption and red tape announced by incoming President Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian, were put in the hands of a cabinet made up largely of indigenous people, trade unionists and women.
    Bolivia’s first-ever indigenous president, sporting the same red, grey, white and blue sweater that became famous on his tour to Europe as president-elect, swore in his new cabinet (…)