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  • LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency? BY Julio Godoy (IPS)
    13 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Inter Press Service News Agency http://www.ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=33205 Saturday, May 13, 2006 06:41 GMT
    LATIN AMERICA-EU: Cooperation or Dependency?
    Julio Godoy
    VIENNA, May 11 (IPS) - The EU-Latin America/Caribbean summit, to take place Friday in the Austrian capital, will be marked by the contradictions that pervade relations between the two regions. While the governments tout cooperation, civil society organisations complain that it often merely serves to strengthen ties (…)

  • South American leaders to study Bolivia’s decision to nationalize gas reserves
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    South American leaders to study Bolivia’s decision to nationalize gas reserves 04.05.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/79861-Bolivia-0
    Presidents of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela asked Bolivia’s Evo Morales for an urgent meeting to discuss his determination.
    Presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela meet on Thursday with the Bolivian leader, Evo Morales, in northern Argentina, to dicuss the decision of La Paz to nationalize its energy sector, a (…)

  • LATIN AMERICA : Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Sun, Apr. 30, 2006
    Bolivia joins Cuba, Venezuela in rejecting U.S.-backed trade
    By Anita Snow Associated Press
    HAVANA - Bolivia’s new left-leaning president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional cooperation.
    Cuban authorities did not release copies of the so-called Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas signed by Bolivia’s Evo Morales, so its contents were unclear.
    Local media (…)

  • RALPH NADER : Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Republican Rhetoric; Democratic Cluelessness
    Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
    By RALPH NADER
    What a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.
    Oil man (…)

  • EUROPE : Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0429-26.htm
    Published on Saturday, April 29, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune Why Europe Should Reject U.S. Market Capitalism by William Pfaff
    Paris — The specter of Anglo-American market capitalism dominated France’s student unrest in March and April, and motivated popular rejection in France a year ago of the proposed new European Union constitution.
    The election that has just given Italy a fragile center- left (…)

  • US to Commit Genocide Over Opening of Iranian Oil Market
    28 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The US media refuses to acknowledge that Iran plans on opening it’s Oil exchange up in EUROS beginning next week. The sanctions being placed on Iran through the UN will outlaw countries from using this market, thus keeping the US’ stranglehold on the oil markets who have traded solely in the US dollar up until now. US would lose $1 Trillion a year if this market is opened.
    The United States committed genocide by doing the very same thing in Iraq. Over One Million people were killed. The (…)

  • NEWS JUNKIE
    25 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Leopold
    Please consider buying a copy from Amazon or at a bookstore near you. Check out www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview and a sample chapter
    From Publishers Weekly
    Leopold, one of the reporters who broke the Enron story, is now breaking his own story: how he got addicted to cocaine, committed grand theft, cleaned himself up and found happiness as a "news junkie." While residential rehab programs and an incredibly committed wife were key to his turnaround, what saved his (…)

  • From Bolivia to Iraq, "Trickle-Down Economics" a Total Failure
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Charlie Cray
    While it’s hard to see it here in the U.S., "trickle- down" economics is beginning to be confronted by popular democratic movements, which are bubbling up in communities across the country as well as all over the world in countries like Ghana and Bolivia, where fierce resistance to the privatization of water not only pushed big water multinationals like Bechtel out of the country , but led the government of Bolivia to begin pushing the world’s international financial (…)

  • Chinese Official: Don’t Buy U.S. Bonds
    5 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chinese Official: Don’t Buy U.S. Bonds
    Tue Apr 4, 6:00 AM ET
    HONG KONG - China should stop buying U.S. Treasuries and take steps to reduce its holdings in those bonds, a Hong Kong newspaper on Tuesday quoted a high-ranking Chinese official as saying.
    China should instead increase imports from the United States, said Cheng Siwei, a vice chairman of China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, the Wen Wei Po reported.
    Currency traders said the report caused some players to sell (…)

  • Venezuela Experienced Record Growth of 17% in 2004 By: Sarah Wagner
    2 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, February 17, 2005-Venezuela’s gross domestic product grew 17.3% in 2004, closing the year with a "notable recuperation" according to the Central Bank of Venezuela. The oil economy, which accounts for 80% of the country’s exports, experienced an 8.7% growth rate. This growth "constitutes the highest level reached since the Central Bank of Venezuela began to calculate the figure (GDP)," said the Central Bank.
    The average growth rate for non-oil economy was (…)