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  • Engineered Earthquake? US is Occupying Haiti as Troops Flood In
    21 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    2010 January 19
    by Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince
    The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts.
    U.S. Air Force troops patrol downtown Port-au-Prince Monday January 18, 2010. Thousands more U.S. troops will keep order on Haiti’s increasingly lawless streets as tens of thousands of survivors wait desperately for aid. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Alain Joyandet (…)

  • Cuba is Missing... From US Reports on the International Response to Haiti’s Earthquake
    19 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dave Lindorff
    There are only two US media outlets that have reported on Cuba’s response to the deadly 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti. One was Fox News, which claimed, wrongly, that the Cubans were absent from the list of neighboring Caribbean countries providing aid. The other was the Christian Science Monitor (a respected news organization that recently shut down its print edition), which reported correctly that Cuba had dispatched 30 doctors to the stricken nation.
    The Christian (…)

  • Caribbean at risk of more large earthquakes
    18 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    (c) newscientist
    * 18:32 15 January 2010 by Kate Ravilious
    Earthquake experts are warning that the devastating quake that struck Haiti on Tuesday could be the first of several in the region. They say historical records suggest that not all the energy that has built up in the faults running through the Caribbean region was released in this week’s tragedy.
    Their fear is that enough energy remains in the fault system to trigger another earthquake of the same scale as Tuesday’s.
    The (…)

  • HAITI: FORGOTTEN & FORSAKEN
    17 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    A JAZZMAN CHRONICLE by Jack Random. DISSEMINATE FREELY.
    “To the people of Haiti we say clearly and with conviction: You will not be forsaken; you will not be forgotten.”
    President Barack Obama 14 January 2010.
    “We have been living for one year now under this de facto government which is destroying the country. 95% of the people…who were working government jobs have been fired. Children cannot go to school. Students cannot advance in their studies. We are wondering how far this (…)

  • Cuban involvement in "sensitive areas"
    15 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cuban involvement in "sensitive areas" threatens the Venezuelan State Experts warned against the work of Cubans in airports, public registry and notary’s offices
    The defection of Cuban doctors who arrived in Venezuela to work with health care social program Mission Barrio Adentro and later fled to the United States produced evidence of Cuba’s "security officers" working in the immigration area of Maiquetía, Venezuela’s major airport. Claims had been formerly made, yet now there is a (…)

  • World conference of the Peoples on the Climate change and the rights of the Earth-mother
    11 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today;Noting the serious danger that exists to islands, coastal areas, glaciers in the Himalayas, the Andes and mountains of the world, poles of the Earth, warm regions like Africa, water sources, populations affected by increasing natural disasters, plants and animals, and ecosystems in general;
    Making clear that those most affected by climate change (…)

  • U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution
    6 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    U.S.-Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution
    5 JANUARY 2010, by James Petras*
    President Chavez’s election in 1998 marked a decline of US hegemony in Venezuela and throughout Latin America. In this study, James Petras reminds us that Washington’s chief interest in overthrowing Chavez was political, not economic, and revolved around his steadfast opposition to the Bush administration’s "War on Terror" doctrine. Washington feared that Chavez’ dissent might provide an alternative (…)

  • letter of january to Obama
    2 January 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Obama,
    The White House,
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
    Washington, DC 20500
    2nd of January, 2010
    President Obama,
    Two events occurred at the end of 2009 that called me attention:
    First: New sentences given to Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino by the Miami Federal Court.
    Second: Your Nobel Prize award in Oslo.
    Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Ramon Labañino are three of the five Cubans who are inhumanely detained in your (…)

  • Campaign for the liberation of political prisoners in Colombia
    22 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The European campaign 2009- 2011 for the liberation of political prisoners in Colombia was launched on October 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. The prisoners number 7,500, and they are mainly prisoners of conscience and social activists - when they are not workers, peasants, indigenous people or students fighting for a dignified Colombia, one with peace and social justice!
    Because of the September 11 2001 attacks in New York, the United States conceived and imposed the “Colombia Plan”, (…)

  • letter of december to the President Obama(traduction)
    2 December 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    President Barak Obama,
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N. W
    Washington, D.C. 20500
    Mister President,
    Last month an international symposium was held in the Cuban town of Holguin, dealing with the liberation of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and René Gonzalez, imprisoned since more than eleven years in the United States.
    Over forty five nations attended, and numerous journalists, lawyers, writers, political officials (…)