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  • A New World Is Possible
    27 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And necessary! This is the theme for the World Social Forum that I (along with tens of thousands of people from all over the world) am attending in Caracas this week. I know the idea of a world where everyone lives in peace and with justice is very "subversive," but the theme is very close to my heart and soul.
    We need a new world. This one is broken.
    Before my son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, I had never traveled much to speak of. I had gone to Israel and Mexico (…)

  • Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur. Some outlets spread spurious charges of anti-Semitism
    24 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It began with a bulletin from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles (1/4/06) accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of invoking an old anti-Semitic slur. In a Christmas Eve speech, the Center said, Chavez declared that "the world has wealth for all, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, have taken over all the wealth of the world."
    The Voice of America (1/5/06) covered the charge immediately. Then opinion journals on the right took up the (…)

  • Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias did not fire off missiles at innocent women and children
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    It is so typical of the United States media to sound the alarm as they just did in an editorial: Halt Chavez arms buildup as if the sky is falling. Meanwhile, under this Bush administration, and as reported in a previous article, they allow Russia to rebuild the arms race ... which is far more devastating to the human race.
    Easy does it, my fellow Americans, you have nothing to fear from President Hugo Chavez ... but you do from Bush. Come to think of it, so does the (…)

  • Evo Morales Has a Dream for Bolivia
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Luis Enrique González (Special Envoy)
    La Paz, Jan 22 (Prensa Latina) Only by thinking about the people, about Bolivia, I want to be the best president, to lead the best government, Evo Morales said on Sunday, just a few hours before his inauguration.
    For the first time, I can reveal this desire of mine, he said. The elections of December 18 made me fall in love with all of Bolivia, according to our indigenous culture, Morales told Prensa Latina at a meeting with Cuban journalists. (…)

  • Latin America Shifts Left: It’s the Economy
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bolvia’s Evo Morales is the sixth presidential candidate in the last seven years to win an election while campaigning against economic neoliberalism.
    By Mark Weisbrot
    Evo Morales’ election in Bolivia, with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.-sponsored attempts to eradicate the production of coca. He has talked about nationalizing the natural gas (…)

  • Anti establishment candidate leads in Peru
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Peruvian nationalist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala for the first time is leading public opinion polls, 28%, but conservative candidate Lourdes Flores would anyhow defeat him in the event of a run off, 46% to 39% according to the Lima Sunday press.
    According to the survey published in Lima’s leading daily El Comercio, anti-establishment candidate Humala leads with 28%, followed by Flores 25% and two former presidents, Alan Garcia and Valentin Paniagua, with 15 and 10%.
    Peru’s (…)

  • African World Social Forum Meeting Opens
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, Jan 20, (Granma) The African gathering of the Sixth World Social Forum (WSF) opened in Bamako, Mali on Thursday with around 30,000 participants.
    The opening ceremony began with a march from the independence monument to the Modibo Keita Stadium. Aminata Dramane Traere, former minister of culture and Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former general director of the UN Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) were among the participants.
    The 2006 WSF is being held at three (…)

  • Morales’s rise inspires Andean groups
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Indigenous organizations in the region hope to gain a boost from Evo Morales’s victory in Bolivia.
    By Lucien Chauvin
    LIMA, PERU - The day before Bolivia’s president-elect Evo Morales dons the presidential sash in front of more than a dozen visiting heads of state Sunday, he will stand barefoot and wear a traditional woven poncho at the Tiahuanaco ruins near the shores of Lake Titicaca, paying homage to mother earth and father sun in an ancient indigenous ceremony.
    The pre-inaugural (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela: Building Solidarity at the 2006 World Social Forum
    21 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. It is incontestable that at the current stage, what Chavez and his supporters are doing in Venezuela amount to Social Democratic reform implementation, not a socialist revolution. Given the current global politics of imperialist neoliberalism imposed by the WTO, IMF, World Bank and the US treasury department (for these four have to be considered together), and the fact that since the collapse of the so called socialist countries of East Europe and the USSR and the capitalist (…)

  • President Hugo Chavez Frias believes that the Bush administration is is plotting it...
    20 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    UPI Intelligence Watch
    By JOHN C.K. DALY, UPI International Correspondent
    WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (UPI) — The Venezuelan government President Hugo Chavez Frias believes that the Bush administration is plotting it, and Vheadlines.com reports that Venezuelan intelligence believes that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency is preparing the ground for a coup.
    Among the allegec contenders for leadership in Washington’s post-Chavez contingency planning is billionaire Gustavo Cisneros. Cisneros is (…)