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| Thursday, March 20 | | · | Bush vs. Chavez |
| Monday, March 17 | | · | 10 Rules for Understanding Civil Society Imperialism |
| Friday, March 14 | | · | Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America |
| Wednesday, March 12 | | · | The Sheriff of Wall Street |
| Monday, March 10 | | · | Bush and Uribe v. Chavez and Correa |
| Thursday, March 06 | | · | OAS supports Ecuador, Venezuela on 'path of true peace' |
| Wednesday, March 05 | | · | Zunes' Compromising with Capitalism's Sad Reality |
| Wednesday, February 27 | | · | Food price rises will kill millions |
| · | Castro and Cuba |
| Tuesday, February 26 | | · | A Response to Stephen Gowans' False Accusations against Stephen Zunes |
| Friday, February 22 | | · | Interview with Franz J. T. Lee: Not even God trusts the greenback anymore |
| Tuesday, February 19 | | · | Fact Sheet: Arbitration between ExxonMobil and Venezuela |
| Monday, February 18 | | · | Stephen Zunes and the Struggle for Overseas Profits |
| · | War on the Psyche |
| Wednesday, February 13 | | · | Fidel Castro's 'Life' |
| Friday, February 08 | | · | Who's pushing ongoing violence in Kenya? |
| Wednesday, January 30 | | · | Venezuela: It is socialism now or never! |
| Wednesday, January 23 | | · | Canadian Government Acknowledges the Obvious, US Ambassador Fumes |
| Friday, January 18 | | · | What Can Barack Obama Do For America? |
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 | | Israel-Palestine: Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering
Thursday, May 08 @ 11:16:57 VET |  by Stephen Lendman
May 5, 2008
On May 14, Israelis will commemorate the 60th anniversary of their "War of Independence" and founding of the Jewish State. It also marks 60 years of Palestinian Nakba suffering. The web site www.alnakba.org recounts the history:
-- from the late Ottoman empire period; to
-- the birth of Zionism; to
-- the early Jewish colonization of Palestine; to
-- the 1917 Balfour Declaration support for a "Jewish national home in Palestine;" to
-- the simultaneous British betrayal of the indigenous Arabs; to
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Latin America: Venezuela Declares Solidarity with Bolivia's Govt
Tuesday, May 06 @ 22:32:07 VET |  Venezuela Declares Solidarity with Bolivia's Government in Face of Separatist Effort
By Kiraz Janicke
May 3rd 2008
Venezuelanalysis.com
The Venezuelan government reaffirmed its support for the territorial integrity of Bolivia and the government of Evo Morales in the face of moves by rightwing oppositionists in the state of Santa Cruz, to hold an unconstitutional referendum on autonomy this Sunday, May 4.
The referendum in Bolivia’s wealthiest state has provoked fears that rightwing governors opposed to President Morales’s policies of wealth distribution, in the states of Tarija, Pando and Beni, - which possess large fields of crude oil, natural gas and other minerals and represent Bolivia’s most productive agricultural land – could convoke similar referendums, potentially leading to a civil war and the break up of Bolivia.
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Africa Focus: Zimbabwe: More Than Complicity of Silence
Friday, May 02 @ 20:59:10 VET |  By Netfa Freeman
BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator
May 01, 2008
When Collin Powell gave his infamous presentation to the United Nations, "proving" Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction Iraq dominated the headlines. It took some time and subsequent discoveries before many realized most of what we were fed was untrue.
Although not as elevated, today Zimbabwe has taken a high profile place in corporate media headlines. Are we getting the truth this time and can we rely on the same progressives who broke through misinformation around Iraq to do the same for us again?
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Inside U.S.A.: Jeremiah Wright Delivers the Knockout Punch
Thursday, May 01 @ 08:16:33 VET |  by Mike Whitney
April 29, 2008
smirkingchimp.com
Reverend Jeremiah Wright appeared on PBS Bill Moyers Journal on Friday night and delivered a knockout punch to the bully-boys in the corporate media. It was an impressive performance that left the political assassins over at FOX News choking on their sausage-rolls. Wright showed that he is neither a fanatic nor an “America hater”; just an extremely well-read and principled man with an unshakable commitment to justice. Wright has also paid his dues; he's an ex-Marine who served in Vietnam when most of his critics were either hiding behind their student deferments or languishing in the "Champagne Unit" of the Texas National Guard. He's earned the right to say whatever he chooses.
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Latin America: Venezuela Will Not be Affected by Food Crisis Says Chavez
Tuesday, April 29 @ 05:13:59 VET |  by Chris Carlson
April 28th 2008
Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez assured that Venezuela will not be affected by the world food crisis on his weekly talk show Aló Presidente on Sunday. Speaking from the coastal fishing village of Chuao, the Venezuelan president discussed the current food crisis and explained his government’s agricultural polices that have increased Venezuelan food production.
“This year we have dedicated almost every show to this topic,” he said. “There is a food crisis in the world, but Venezuela is not going to fall into that crisis. You can be sure of that. Actually, we are going to help other nations who are facing this crisis.”
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Latin America: Venezuela: The International War of Ideas
Tuesday, April 29 @ 05:10:39 VET | By Franz J. T. Lee
April 29, 2008
We already know that in the epoch of globalization the ruling ideas spread by the huge mass media are the ideas of the international ruling elites. Reading two recent articles -- "Venezuelan student leader who challenged Chavez wins prize" and "Venezuelan Student Movement Leader Awarded $500,000 Milton Friedman Liberty Prize" -- I arrived at the logical conclusion that their venomous content reflects precisely that what is to be understood by a typical ruling class non-governmental 'think tank,' namely, what the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a mind and thought control laboratory and a mental holocaust is all about.
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Caribbean: The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots
Tuesday, April 22 @ 18:27:29 VET |  30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?
By Bill Quigley
April 22, 2008
www.whatiffoundation.org
Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
The Economist, which calls the current crisis the silent tsunami, reports that last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16%, but since January rice prices have risen 141%. The reasons include rising fuel costs, weather problems, increased demand in China and India, as well as the push to create biofuels from cereal crops.
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World Focus: No individualist solution to foundations
Monday, April 21 @ 12:21:06 VET |  By Stephen Gowans
April 21, 2008
gowans.wordpress.com
A number of articles published here and elsewhere have been critical of progressives who have become entangled with foundations sponsored by corporations, imperialist governments and wealthy individuals. These progressives have been criticized by some for being willing to accept foundation support and by others for presenting themselves and other foundation-connected leftists as "independent" left voices. The first group of critics complains that progressives undermine their credibility by taking foundation grants and accepting foundation positions or unjustifiably enhance the credibility of the foundations they take money and jobs from. This group has no basic disagreement with the political positions of the foundation-connected progressives. The criticism of the second group, on the other hand, originates in disagreement over fundamental political positions. It defines the political position of foundation-connected progressives as pro-imperialist, not in intentions but in its effects, and argues that it is this basic political position which makes these progressives attractive to foundations. They appear to be credibly progressive - even radical - but in fact promote views that pose no real threat to corporate domination and indeed even buttress the ideological foundations of that domination. They are independent in the sense that they are not told to what to do or say, but their views considerably overlap in important ways those of their foundation sponsors.
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Latin America: For all contenders: 'civil war' is a bloody, dirty, fearful business
Friday, April 18 @ 15:56:35 VET |
In our wonderful, beautiful, glittering world of global high-tech, which finds itself in a severe capitalist crisis of overproduction, is the massive production of biofuels not a heinous "crime against humanity" (Jean Ziegler)? As a result, will not millions of pauperized human beings ... as 'collateral damage' ... now already vegetating in the South very soon starve to death, will die like flies?
by Franz J. T. Lee
April 18, 2008
Should the United Nations not take the United States of America, that is, take itself to court, to The Hague, to answer for well-known capital and capitalist crimes perpetrated over the last centuries against humanity?
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Caribbean: Crisis in Haiti as World Bank issues food price warning
Tuesday, April 15 @ 20:19:37 VET | by Sadie Robinson
Tuesday 15 April 2008
socialistworker.co.uk
The global crisis over rising food prices continues to grow. Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, warned last Sunday that the price rises have put 100 million lives under threat.
His fears were echoed by Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the United Nations. "The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability around the world has reached emergency proportions," he said on Tuesday of this week.
Food riots in Haiti forced the prime minister to step down last Saturday. This followed a week of protests against rises of more than 50 percent for many staple foods in Haiti over the past year.
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Latin America: Venezuelan Government Takes Over 32 Landholdings for Land Reform
Tuesday, April 15 @ 08:54:07 VET | By James Suggett
April 14th 2008
Venezuelanalysis.com
The Venezuelan army occupied 32 farms in the western state of Lara last Thursday, sparking protests from local sugarcane producers, after the National Land Institute (INTI) expropriated the lands as part of the government efforts to boost national food production amidst global shortages.
INTI President Juan Carlos Loyo called the intervention a "rescue" of idle farmland aimed at the "agricultural reactivation" of the area outside the state capital Barquisimeto, in accordance with the 2001 Land and Agricultural Development Law.
The law is based on Venezuela's 1999 constitution, which deems large, idle estates known as Latifundios, "contrary to the interests of society" and opens the door to their taxation or expropriation.
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World Focus: BBC v. Hugo Chavez
Friday, April 11 @ 00:06:34 VET | by Stephen Lendman
April 10th 2008
At a time of growing public disenchantment with the major media, millions now rely on alternate sources. Many online and print ones are credible. One of the world's most relied on is not - the BBC. It's an imperial tool, as corrupted as its dominant counterparts, been around longer than all of them, now in it for profit, and it's vital that people know who BBC represents and what it delivers.
It was close but not quite the world's first broadcaster. Other European nations claim the distinction along with KDKA Pittsburgh as the oldest US one. BBC's web site states: "The British Broadcasting Company Ltd (its original name) was formed in October 1922....and began broadcasting on November 14....By 1925 the BBC could be heard throughout most of the UK. (Its) biggest influence....was its general manager, John Reith (who) envisioned an independent British broadcaster able to educate, inform and entertain the whole nation, free from political interference and commercial pressure."
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Latin America: The New York Times v. Hugo Chavez
Tuesday, April 01 @ 14:07:19 VET | by Stephen Lendman
April 01, 2008
Carly Simon's theme song from the 1977 James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" says it all about The New York Times' agitprop skill - "Nobody Does It Better" nor have others in the media been at it longer. Most important is The Times influence and reach and what media critic Norman Solomon says about its front page. He calls it "the most valuable square inches of media real estate in the USA." It's read by government, business leaders and opinion-makers everywhere and for that reason is hugely important.
Hugo Chavez is its frequent target, and Simon Romero has the assignment as The Times' man in Caracas. His latest March 30 offering is headlined "Files Suggest Venezuela Bid to Aid Columbia Rebels," and it relates to the spurious claim that captured FARC-EP computers contained potentially smoking-gun evidence "t(ying) Venezuela's government to efforts to secure arms for Colombia's largest insurgency" and is aiding its efforts through funding and other means to destabilize the Uribe government.
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Inside U.S.A.: Clueless In America: Primed to protect the Homeland
Tuesday, March 25 @ 19:10:48 VET |  By Ben Roberts
March 25, 2008
Observing our environment around us and drawing the right conclusions is how we ensure our safety, preserve our individual and group well-being, and extend our longevity. That applies to us sophisticated humans as well the lower forms of animal life. That said, I will now add that we in America are some of the most clueless people around who, if coming to accurate conclusions ensured our longevity, would last about as long as a snowflake in hell. We commonly make an art form out of misreads and arriving at wrong conclusions. This is not good for us as a nation or a people, if we are to be of much consequence in the world. My observation of this came at 37,000 feet on a recent trip down the East coast.
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Latin America: Globalization: From Economic Crash to Climate Crash!
Tuesday, March 25 @ 07:21:59 VET | By Franz J. T. Lee
March 25, 2008
Will our great grandchildren invariably fall down the cataclysmic abyss?
The global Via Crucis is getting more and more dangerous.
On 27th February 2008 occurred the largest earthquake in the United Kingdom for the last 24 years with its epicenter near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. Many people reported of having seen strange bright flashes of light.
http://www.louthleader.co.uk/news/More-earthquake-light-sightings-.3864580.j
What does such a phenomenon have got to do with the dialectical laws of continuum / discontinuum ... as explained by Marxism and quantum physics ... also with the destruction of 95% of all species on earth, of all flora and fauna, directly with Venezuela's biodiversity, water and oxygen, with its oil and gas, with its 'revolución bonita'?
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