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  • Venezuela joins Mercosur trade bloc
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez, a fierce critic of US-backed free trade policies in the region, has called for closer regional integration, including seeking support for his own proposal - the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas trade pact, or ALBA for its Spanish initials, named after Latin American independence hero Simon Bolivar.
    Venezuela will become a permanent member of the Mercosur trade bloc, helping to strengthen cooperation between the oil-rich country and its regional neighbors, the Venezuelan (…)

  • Levee Breaks, 9-11 Part of Govt. Plot, Farrakhan Implies
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (CNSNews.com) - Forty-eight hours before the Louis Farrakhan-led march of African Americans through the streets of Washington, D.C., the controversial minister Thursday repeated his charge that levees in New Orleans were intentionally blown up on Aug. 29, following Hurricane Katrina. He also implied that the Bush administration may have orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S.
    Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, and his followers on Saturday will commemorate (…)

  • Venezuela Warns: Bush Is the True Atomic Threat
    12 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan authorities denied with indignation an accusation by US Rev. Pat Robertson that Venezuela is preparing a nuclear attack against the United States.
    Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel asserted Venezuela is willing to launch "love, affection, and appreciation" to the US people, but the true atomic bomb threatening the United States is President George W. Bush.
    Speaking at Monday’s celebration of Venezuelan Soldier’s Day, Rangel said the significance of the new (…)

  • hunger strike
    11 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    hi, Am busy right now, but am wondering why the mainstream media is not covering the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay?
    – http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en...

  • U.S. Threatens to Shun Nicaraguan Business if President Is Ousted
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JOEL BRINKLEY Published: October 6, 2005
    MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 5 - Robert B. Zoellick, the deputy secretary of state, warned business leaders here on Wednesday that they should not continue supporting the political parties that are trying unseat Nicaragua’s president if they hoped to continue doing business with the United States.
    "Your opportunities will be lost," Mr. Zoellick said he told the businessmen.
    On the second day of a visit here, Mr. Zoellick also met with politicians (…)

  • Political Leaders Announce Support for Re-Election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Jesse Jackson and Dennis Kucinich were joined by actors, historians and others in sending their support to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, just days before he faces a historic vote on the future of his administration.
    Noting the accomplishments of the Chavez administration to improve the lives of Venezuela’s impoverished majority, the joint letter expressed the signers’ "hope and expectation that, on August 15, you will once again win an electoral mandate from the Venezuelan people to be (…)

  • OPERATION NORTHWOODS: US PLANNED FAKE TERROR ATTACKS ON CITIZENS TO CREATE SUPPORT FOR CUBAN WAR
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following. Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
    ...In [Joint Chief’s chair] Lemnitzer’s view, the country would be far better off if the generals could take over. [JFK assassination legend has it some general presided over the fudgy JFK autopsy. —Mk]
    For those military officers who were sitting on the fence, the Kennedy administration’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion was the last straw. "The Bay of Pigs fiasco broke the (…)

  • FlashBack: The Bush’s, The CIA, and their Terrorists Friends in Miami
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    GRANMA July 16, 2002
    BUSH’S LIASONS The scandalous release of Letelier’s killers
    HOW José Dionisio "Bloodbath" Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero were able to personally express their gratitude to their master . As CIA head, George Bush Sr. never had to explain his role in this dirty story of murder and disinformation . A few weeks before September 11, President Bush released two dangerous terrorists, who are also CIA collaborators and CANF mercenaries
    BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD (Special for (…)

  • Cuban Terror Case Erodes US Credibility, Critics Say
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) - The decision Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge in Texas to deny Venezuela’s request to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, whom Caracas has dubbed "the Osama bin Laden of Latin America", was greeted with surprise and disappointment by Latin America activists and even some former U.S. officials.
    Venezuela wants Carriles to stand trial for the October 1976 bombing of a civilian Cubana Airlines flight that killed all 73 people aboard shortly after it took off from (…)

  • FBI let Puerto Rican independence fighter bleed to death
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The leader of the underground Puerto Rican People’s Army (EPB-Macheteros), Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, bled to death - virtually killed - due to lack of medical attention after being hit by a bullet in his right clavicle, it was confirmed today in this capital.
    FBI let Puerto Rican independence fighter bleed to death
    Dr. Héctor Pesquera told Prensa Latina that "the FBI let him bleed to death," after being shot by a sniper brought in from the United States.
    Pesquera, spokesperson for the (…)