August 2004
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2004
¤ Suicide Bomber Kills 10 at Moscow Subway
¤ How the Pentagon Has Failed US Troops
¤ The GOP Doesn't Reflect America
¤ The al-Qaeda striptease
¤ AMS condemns execution of Nepalese captives
¤ The Life and Crimes of George W. Bush
¤ Playing the War Card
¤ Florida Fixed Again?
¤ 'Bogged down'
¤ IMF Chief Received with Protests
¤ US airstrike kills eight in northeast Afghanistan
¤ Taking Stock After a Pre-emptive War
¤ 16 dead in twin suicide attacks on Be'er Sheva buses
¤ Democrats pounce on Bush for declaring 'war on terror' unwinnable
¤ President admits war on terror cannot be won
¤ President takes a time out on his road trip to admit war on terror can't be won
¤ Success in Afghanistan, Iraq to be beginning of end for extremists
¤ Nest of Spies
¤ Convention jeers for a laughing Moore
¤ Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs
¤ Africa takes tough stand on coups
¤ U.S. and Russia still top list of weapons dealers
¤ The Historic Roots of Oligarchic Racism
¤ American Lawyer Finds New Evidence of Recent Torture in Iraq
¤ First Night of RNC a Battle of Sound Bites
¤ The angry editor
¤ Big government is being reinvented by the US right
¤ 12 Nepalese executed in Iraq: website
¤ Chaba Heads Out to Sea, at Least 7 Dead in Japan
¤ Thousands attend funeral of tribesmen killed in Army operation
¤ Heads They Win – Tails You Lose
¤ Another failure
¤ Iran: Isolation or Engagement?
¤ Corpses betray the truth of Darfur as deadline passes
¤ Downed Planes Were Not Hijacked
¤ The Ripples of War, With a Dozen Dead
¤ Iraq success 'catastrophic': Bush
¤ Suicide Bombings on Two Israeli Buses Kill 12
¤ Twin Bus Blasts in Southern Israel Kill 12
Latest News
Posted: Monday, August 30, 2004
¤ Iraqi Desertion Rate Exceeds 80%
¤ Bush’s $417 billion bill beats Cold War average spending
¤ Oil attacks hurt Iraq 'badly'
¤ Venezuelan slams the U.S. on asylum
¤ Close, but Bush will win
¤ Iraq test for Russia
¤ 25 things we now know three years after 9/11
¤ Iraqi civilians killed in mortar attack
¤ Dozens killed, wounded in Sadr City clashes
¤ Between Venezuela and Nothingland
¤ Hundreds of Thousands March Against Bush, War
¤ Hear the Wounded U.S. Lion Roar
¤ USA Basketball in Black and White!
¤ A Long History: Israeli Espionage Against the US
¤ RNC Protest 8.29.04 NYC
¤ Oops, We'll Do It Again?
¤ 'That Real Old Stuff'
¤ Neocon vs. neocon
¤ Huge protest against Bush on eve of party meeting
¤ Chechens vote in 'farcical' election
¤ Reports Shine Hot Lights On Military Mistakes
¤ The prison built on fear
¤ The neo-cons give Iran the Iraq treatment
¤ Civilian airplanes shut down by air-defense missiles
¤ Why has Shabalkin been quiet?
¤ On Another Round Of Illegitimate Elections In Chechnya
¤ An attack on the U.S. economy
¤ The Truth About War
¤ Documents Helped Sow Abuse, Army Report Finds
¤ 16 killed in held Kashmir
¤ South African arms dealer faces death over failed coup
¤ 25 killed in two Afghan blasts
¤ Israeli historian documents 24 cases of mass murder by zionists
¤ The Cradle of Devastation
Flashback ¤ The Path To War
Flashback ¤ Iraq: The Trail of Disinformation
¤ Israel to US: Now for Iran
¤ False Terrorist Warnings: Like Rumors of The Second Coming
¤ Photos From NYC Protest
¤ France begins hostage release talks
Chávez’ victory with 5,800,629 votes or 59.25%
Posted: Sunday, August 29, 2004
Between Venezuela and Nothingland
Strange dictator this Hugo Chávez. Masochistic and suicidal: he created a Constitution that permits the people to throw him out, and he risked this occurring in a recall referendum.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela's Election Authority
Announces Final Recall Referendum Results
Yesterday, in an address to the nation, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the final results for the August 15th recall referendum. Having counted the approximately 1.4 million manual votes, and conducted an audit initially commissioned by the Venezuelan opposition—in which it later declined to participate in—the CNE declared Chávez’ victory with 5,800,629 votes or 59.25% against his recall, to 3,989,008 votes or 40.74% in favour of the recall.
In the final count, 9,789,637 Venezuelans turned out to vote despite waiting times of up to 12 hours in many cases, at an abstention rate of 70%. Abstention rates in Venezuela throughout the 1990s hovered around 40% or higher. In the months leading up to the referendum between 2 and 3 million new voters were registered (people who had never received citizenship identification, and naturalized foreigners). The combination resulted in a historic level of participation.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, August 29, 2004
¤ Anti-Bush Protesters March in New York
¤ Demonstrators walk past Madison Square Garden
¤ Massive anti-Bush rally in New York
¤ NYC marchers condemn Bush
¤ Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation.
¤ Uncle Sam Hides More And More From Americans
¤ IRAQ: Gripped by an uprising the US can't defeat
¤ Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
¤ Chavez blasts critics over vote
¤ Car bomb kills 7 at U.S. security firm in Kabul
¤ 'No more years!' chant Bush foes
¤ 17 killed in Kabul blasts, including 2 Americans
¤ Explosion Kills 7 at U.S. Firm in Kabul
¤ Ex-head of BBC says Tony Blair lied
¤ U.S. loses favor with British
¤ White Supremacist Love Connection
¤ 'Deserter's delight'
¤ Many dead in huge Afghan explosion
¤ Money to burn / The government tallies the misspending in Iraq
¤ The Unseen Cost of War: American Minds
¤ Internment Chic
¤ Rebel Cleric May Have Emerged the Winner
¤ Mayhem fears as protesters target Bush
¤ When the price is right
¤ How Blair double-crossed me, by Greg Dyke
¤ Bush Hails His Actions on Intelligence
¤ 'Black widows' link to air crashes
¤ Olympic gold hero accuses Bush
¤ Faltering Bush plays terror card
¤ Britain dragged into coup plot as rumours swirl over London meeting
¤ Australians to vote in Oct. 9 cliff-hanger
¤ How new Africa made fools of the white mischief-makers
¤ Mother of dead soldier takes on Tony Blair
¤ Why this election may be decided by the Supreme Court again
Flashback ¤ Scott Ritter on Israel's nuclear policy
¤ Neo-Cons, Israel and the Bush Administration
¤ Nepalese hostages shown saying US “lies” brought them to Iraq
¤ CIA ‘poisoned’ Iraq prison: Army
¤ Shia clerics deny opposing resistance
¤ Tense Chechnya votes
¤ Death in Iraq Leaves a Mother to Grieve, and to Rage
¤ Bodies out of sight, out of mind
¤ Howard tells Bush: I don't care if you won't see me
¤ Still Unreported: The Pay-Off In Bush Air Guard Fix
¤ The Clash Thesis: A Failing Ideology?
¤ Delegates, Protesters Descend on New York
¤ Dyke: Blair's world of 'lies and bullying'
¤ Eight little-known statistics
¤ Venezuela envoy to leave Panama
¤ Dyke: Blair tried to gag BBC war reports
How new Africa made fools of the white mischief-makers
Posted: Sunday, August 29, 2004
The days when white mercenaries could walk into small African countries and take them over appear to be gone. The coup plot against Equatorial Guinea, with its cast of old Etonians, adventurers and shady money men, failed because of its leaders' incompetence - and because of a new spirit of co-operation among Africans
By Raymond Whitaker and Paul Lashmar
"Things have changed in Africa over the past few years," said a friend of Simon Mann, the old Etonian now awaiting sentence in Zimbabwe for attempting to buy arms illegally. "The days are gone when you could recruit a bunch of moustaches, load up some ammunition and take over a country - especially if you are a white man."
Mr Mann says the weapons were for a mine security operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the Zimbabweans and others say they were for a coup in the oil-rich state of Equatorial Guinea. But the truth of his friend's words are evident as the 51-year-old former SAS officer sits in Chikurubi prison near Harare, facing a heavy sentence at his next hearing on 10 September.
Full Article : independent.co.uk
Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina
Posted: Saturday, August 28, 2004
Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday.
Kissinger knew of Argentine dictators' repression: US documents
Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, shown here in February 2004, did not try to stop Argentine military dictators from violating human rights in 1976, according to newly declassified US documents.
State department documents show the former secretary of state urged Argentina to crush the opposition just months after it seized power and before the US Congress convened to consider sanctions.
"We won't cause you unnecessary difficulties. If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better," Mr Kissinger told Admiral Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, the foreign minister, according to the State Department's transcript.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, August 28, 2004
¤ Allawi and the US have been Weakened
¤ An Israeli Spy in the Pentagon? Why Would They Bother?
¤ Media Declares War on Anti-War Protests
¤ FBI probes DOD office
¤ Bush's lies cause untold pain
¤ New Wave of Violence Kills 5 in Baghdad
¤ Several killed in al-Sadr City clashes
¤ Baquba attack kills six Iraqi policemen
¤ Hicks tells of '10 hours of hell'
¤ Avoid anti-US talk, Chavez told
¤ Reflections of a Torture Survivor
¤ 'Keep them standing,' Marine says he was told
¤ Israel's W.Bank barrier like apartheid
¤ New super strain of coca plant stuns anti-drug officials
¤ Six hurt in anti-US protests in held Kashmir
¤ A Reverse Cold War
¤ From Vietnam to Iraq: Pretext and precedent
¤ Swift Intelligent Smokescreen
¤ A Waste of Blood
¤ FBI looks at Pentagon worker in Israel spy probe
¤ Israeli agents jailed in NZ over spy case
¤ Pentagon aide 'spied for Israel'
¤ An uneasy peace reigns. Now Iraqis count the cost
¤ Two killed in Baghdad attacks
¤ 'Don't forget in Najaf they're slaughtering innocents
¤ Civilians killed as US bombs Falluja
¤ Mining the Matrix
¤ Two Turkish hostages shot dead in Iraq
¤ Powell echoes Bush on Iraq errors
¤ Israeli soldiers held for Palestinian killing
¤ Row breaks out on Kissinger's 'advice' to military junta
¤ Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina
¤ Suicide bombs and rebel attacks as disillusioned Chechnya votes
¤ 'US aims to paralyse Islam, seize oil'
¤ From Inside Skeptic To Public Dissident
¤ 'King George II' faces the rebels
¤ 25 charred bodies found from Sadr court
¤ Dirty tricks
¤ The FBI investigation
¤ Cuba cuts relations with Panama
¤ Venezuela withdraws ambassador from Panama
¤ Powell Cancels Athens Visit Amid Protests
¤ Frontier Justice
¤ Are military truckers expendable in the war in Iraq?
¤ Cynical Presidential Candidates
Latest News
Posted: Friday, August 27, 2004
¤ 'Coup bid ringleader' Briton found guilty
¤ Russia Blames Terrorism for Downed Plane
¤ The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
¤ Palestinian Political Prisoners
¤ African Union Force Seen as Main Hope for Darfur
¤ East Timor, Australia fight for riches beneath the sea
¤ Twelve U.S. Soldiers Wounded In Multiple Baghdad Hand-grenade Attacks
¤ Pardoned Trio Returns to U.S.
¤ The Pen and the Sword in Venezuela
¤ Beyond Hero-Worship
¤ Stop Talking About Vietnam and Start Talking About Iraq
¤ Sexed-up Reports, Pressure on the UN ... Here We Go Again
¤ Sexed-up Reports, Pressure on the UN ... Here We Go Again
¤ Americans Need to Connect the Dots
¤ Hey Big Media, Connect the Dots
¤ What Venezuela's Opposition Does Not Understand
¤ 'The real issue: Bush is incompetent'
¤ Cry havoc
¤ Bodies of Turkish captives found in Iraq
¤ 'Why did you bring us? This is a slaughter'
¤ Thatcher family had bags packed ready to flee to US
¤ It's time to bring Najaf back home
¤ America's problem
¤ Charges Unlikely for Dad of Dead Marine
¤ The planet goes haywire
¤ MI6 involved in Balkan spy plot, says Croatian paper
¤ Sadr orders fighters to lay down arms
¤ Bush Admits Iraq 'Miscalculations' - NY Times
¤ CIA Spurned Prison Rules, Report Says
¤ Chaotic prison always on the brink
¤ Anger at Kremlin refusal to blame air crashes on terror
¤ Faulty black boxes deepen mystery
¤ Alliances and the American election
¤ High crimes and misdemeanours
¤ Military Ignores Justice Again
¤ Media protest after journalists seized
¤ Public Remains Poorly Informed On Reasons for War
¤ Iraq is now more dangerous to the US than when they went to war
¤ Bush Campaign Refused to Pull Olympic Ad
¤ The abuse of power
¤ Applying the Geneva Convention
¤ Thatcher: the net tightens
¤ UN condemns Israel's use of Palestine school as detention center
¤ U.S. Denies Role in Cuban Exiles' Pardon
¤ Liberal MP has no apology for calling U.S. missile defence supporters idiots
¤ Poverty in the U.S. climbs for third year
¤ Bush Tries to Hide Poverty Numbers
¤ Zionist Neocon Timeline For War
Flashback ¤ Land of the What?
¤ Japan's UN ambitions legally unfounded
¤ The future of the USA?
¤ 2004 Iraq deaths now exceed 2003 deaths
¤ Thai troops start pull-out from Iraq
¤ Physical attacks on journalists worldwide have increased
¤ Made in Iraq: the new antiwar veteran
¤ Guantanamo abuses amount to war crimes
¤ Kerry’s ‘unwavering’ Commitment To Israel
¤ US intelligence tortures and abuses Iraqi children
¤ Israel seeks to deport UK journalist
¤ Group kills Italian journalist in Iraq
¤ Najaf standoff ends
¤ 74 dead, 300 wounded. Sistani Arrives in Najaf
¤ Out with American self-censorship
¤ US troops abused my son: Terry Hicks
¤ ‘Albright ashamed of Bush’s Iraq policy’
¤ Discover U.S. finger prints in Darfur!
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2004
¤ Africa puts hope in Darfur talks
¤ Blindsided in Haiti
¤ Mosque attack as top cleric returns
¤ Bush is No Sun Tzu
¤ Augusto Pinochet: The Al Capone of the Southern Cone
¤ CIA Spurned Prison Rules, Report Says
¤ Ecuador OKs Brazil Oil Drilling
¤ New Spotlight on Pinochet
¤ Neocons have Iran in their Sights
¤ The Big Lie Lives On
¤ A Failed Presidency
¤ Putin's hands on the oil pumps
¤ US Launches Biggest Offensive On Fallujah Yet
¤ Iraq war cost in New Yorkers' faces
¤ Gandhi proposes new Palestinian resistance
¤ Israeli assassination attempt fails
¤ 27 killed in Kufa mosque attack
¤ Twin Kufa attack kills many marchers
¤ Mark Thatcher faces court showdown over coup plot
¤ Thatcher and a very African coup
¤ Oil rich, dirt poor
¤ Soldiers arrested after Iraqi beaten and drowned
¤ Darfur's War of Definitions
¤ Man Sets Van, Himself on Fire after hearing son is killed in Iraq
¤ Clock in New York's Times Square Counts War Cost
¤ Rumsfeld’s Panel Says ‘Don’t Punish Rumsfeld’ for Abu Ghraib
¤ Alliances and the American election
¤ Saboteurs Attack About 20 Iraq Pipelines
¤ Auditor Criticizes Iraq Contract Oversight
¤ Corruption gives impunity to Afghanistan's drug lords
Navigating Chávez's Venezuela
Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias is a force for change in Latin America; he could be a friend of the USA
There are good reasons why the United States should pay attention to what happens in Venezuela and why its referendum Sunday, enabling President Hugo Chavez to remain in office, was important. The first is oil.
Full Article : vheadline.com
Navigating Chávez's Venezuela
To understand the enigma that is Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, you have to start up high-way up in the hills, in slum neighborhoods like El Paraiso. The view from this poor Caracas barrio helps explain the rise of the ebullient former paratrooper-a small stretch of shiny skyscrapers surrounded by a sea of shacks and shantytown developments, providing a geographic reflection of the Venezuela's brutal economic inequality.
At the very top of the hill stands a monument to the work of President Chávez-a government-run market that sells subsidized food to the poor. Down the road, government contractors are installing a pipeline to bring potable water to communities that frequently go for two weeks without having water delivered to their houses.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
US seeks 'coalition' to force Zimbabwe regime change
Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
By Basildon Peta, Southern Africa Correspondent
The United States has called for the building of a "coalition of the willing" to push for regime change to end the crisis in Zimbabwe. The new American ambassador to South Africa, Jendayi Frazer, said quiet diplomacy pursued by South Africa and other African countries in its dealings with the Zimbabwe president needed a review because there was no evidence it was working. She said her country would be willing to be part of a coalition if invited.
The US could not act on its own, "put the boot on the ground" and give President Robert Mugabe 48 hours to go as requested by beleaguered Zimbaweans but the US would be willing to work in a coalition with other countries to return Zimbabwe to democracy.
Full Article : independent.co.uk
Was overthrowing Mugabe the deal Bush and Blair made? Blair helps bush with his bogus war in Iraq, in exchange for U.S. support to overthrow the leader in Zimbabwe who is definitely no friend of Blair?
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2004
¤ Chavez's New Brand of Populism
¤ U.S. Strikes Insurgent Positions in Iraq
¤ Two Killed, Five Wounded In Iraq Demonstration
¤ Olympics Chiefs Want Bush Campaign to Back Off
¤ Why is Florida's voting system so corrupt?
¤ Why Bush is not so welcome in small-town America
¤ Navigating Chávez's Venezuela
¤ Venezuela Defeats the Coupmakers
¤ US seeks 'coalition' to force Zimbabwe regime change
¤ Mugabe voted history's third-greatest African
¤ Najaf bombed, al-Sistani calls for march
¤ Smell Of Burnt Flesh, Blood Smeared On Streets Of Najaf's Old City
¤ Can I Have 9.8 Seconds of Your Time?
¤ Defining and Redefining Torture
¤ Double air disaster in Russia
¤ The protesters are coming...
¤ Rumsfeld implicated in Abu Ghraib abuse by damning report
¤ A Pretext for War
¤ A dumb book defends a discredited policy
¤ The Strange Case of the Vanishing Terrorists
¤ High Prices as Policy
¤ Adolf Hitler, Jesse Owens and the Olympics Myth of 1936
Flashback ¤ The Invasion of Iraq was perhaps the most cowardly War ever
¤ Blame the terrorist behind that tree!
¤ Hooked on winning
¤ A degree in bullying and self-interest? No thanks
¤ Falluja under sustained US attack
¤ US warplanes pound Najaf
¤ US 'gave al-Qaeda a training ground'
¤ A Push for More Power at Iraqi Plant
¤ Blair drops troops plan as line softens on Darfur
¤ Elevated terror alert expected to continue
¤ America marks A first in Iraq
¤ U.S. disinformation no match for Al-Jazeera's honest reporting
U.S. Black History Revisited
Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Every February I invariably hear the same thing: "Why is Black History taught in school?" My response is usually, "Isn't it obvious? The rest of history is about white people – specifically white men." The real reason to teach 'Black History' is the same for teaching any type of history: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Florida, New Mexico, et al, are dangerously close to repeating history. And it is not recent history (the 2000 Presidential Election) to which I am necessarily referring.
No, the history that I refer to is that which America all too often wishes it could forget but all too willingly reminds itself of on a regular basis. America has a racist history, ladies and gentlemen. That is an irrefutable fact.
Full Article : counterbias.com
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2004
¤ U.S. Black History Revisited
¤ Islamic world’s hatred of occupiers of Iraq on the rise
¤ Rumsfeld, senior Pentagon officials share blame for prisoner abuse scandal
¤ Rumsfeld faulted for 'sadistic' Iraq torture
¤ U.S. Warplanes Bomb Fallujah
¤ President Chavez Calls for National Dialogue in Venezuela
¤ Three successive attacks rattle Japanese troops in southern Iraq
¤ WALLOWING IN THE MEDIA MUDFEST
¤ The Olympics in Greece, everyone is welcome, except Bush
¤ The Bush family tradition of war profiteering
¤ Bush's games hijack leaves a very sour taste
¤ Afghanistan Down The Memory Hole
¤ Afghan President Karzai Rejects Call to Resign
¤ Black and Indian Power
¤ With Chávez?: Reading the International Private Media
¤ Denying Atrocities: From Vietnam to Fallujah
¤ What is so Radical about Iraq's Rebel Cleric?
¤ The downloading of the president '04
¤ Brazil Probes Homeless Killings
¤ Idris in clear on Bali, and laughing
¤ Guantánamo hearings begin
¤ Russian Military: 12 Killed in Chechnya
¤ U.S. Denies Claim It Damaged Najaf Shrine
¤ The beginning of history
¤ Iraqi ministers escape assassination bombs
¤ For the grief-stricken of Iraq, burying the dead is a dangerous business
¤ What Went Wrong in Iraq
¤ An answer in Somerset
¤ The 9-11 Commission Charade
¤ CNN: 'Hijacker' Visa Found in Flight 93 Wreckage
Flashback ¤ Hijacking suspect's family claims mistaken identity
¤ 54 invaders, collaborators killed in Mujahideen attack
¤ Russian justice
¤ Coalition of the Coerced
¤ Najaf: Cost outweighs gain for US
¤ The Thief of Baghdad
¤ Thank Government for the Mess We’re in
¤ Iraqi ministers escape attacks
¤ Mortars Hit Central Najaf After U.S. Attacks
¤ Abu Ghraib picture begins to fill in
¤ This just in: the factors behind newspapers' rush to contrition
My 'revolution' will not hurt you, Chavez tells foes
Posted: Monday, August 23, 2004
My 'revolution' will not hurt you, Chavez tells foes
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told his opponents on Sunday they should not fear his left-wing "revolution" after his referendum win and pledged to respect private wealth and fight corruption.
Chavez said he would no longer deal with the opposition Democratic Coordinator coalition, which promoted the referendum challenge and now refuses to accept his win.
"We cannot talk with people who don't recognize this result or the constitution ... if they want to start a rebellion in the mountains, then let them," said Chavez.
Full Article : chinadaily.com.cn
Latest News
Posted: Monday, August 23, 2004
¤ Guantanamo's Torture Regime is a Shameful Disgrace
¤ Anti-Terrorism Tip: Quit Spying on Nonviolent Activists
¤ How the Mighty Post has Fallen
¤ Soccer: We're No Symbol of Freedom, Iraq Coach Says
¤ Anger as Bush bids to exploit Olympic games
¤ North Korea rules out new talks with US, says Bush worse than Hitler
¤ Bush a tyrant, declares Pyongyang
¤ Pinochet funds cache expands
¤ Why Israel is not a democracy
¤ Oil's slippery slope
¤ The Unraveling of Afghanistan
¤ Brave New World of Iraqi Sovereignty
¤ Libya warns against foreign intervention in Darfur crisis
¤ US aerial assault on Najaf, Sadr City
¤ Iraqi cleric slams media war coverage
¤ US rockets damage Najaf shrine wall
¤ China's view of US 'lily pad' strategy
¤ My 'revolution' will not hurt you, Chavez tells foes
¤ 14 accused of Africa's biggest mercenary plot
¤ US deal 'wrecks Middle East peace'
¤ Anger as Bush bids to exploit Olympic games
¤ Audit finds no fraud in Chávez win
¤ Wounded by friendly fire
¤ Air pollution 'masking global warming'
¤ Marine Goes on Trial in Death of Iraqi
¤ Israel announces hundreds more West Bank houses
¤ Tanks close in on sacred shrine as US launches fresh assault on Najaf
¤ Senior Muslim figures back Iraqi insurgents
¤ Iran heightens stakes in battle to control Najaf
¤ Child soldiers square up to US tanks
¤ Afghanistan probe implicated Abu Ghraib interrogators
¤ Hippocratic oath a casualty of war
¤ When the Marines make policy, Iraq burns
¤ Blair refuses accept US award
¤ A Bush "Ask the President," Stump "show"
¤ Breaking News: Watch the Crash as it Unfolds
¤ The Persistence of Bigotry
¤ Beware a rush to judgment on Iran
¤ As American deaths near the 1000 mark, the horror is covered up
¤ US gunships pound militia in Najaf; 40 killed in Kufa
¤ US fire damages wall of Najaf shrine
¤ More US soldiers face Abu Ghraib tribunal
¤ Unrest hits Bangladesh
¤ Israeli troops kill Palestinian
What's behind the crisis in Darfur?
Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2004
The province of Darfur in western Sudan is the newest global hot spot. All of a sudden our corporate media are full of reports by U.S. and UK-based human rights organizations alleging mass murder, rape and ethnic cleansing.
Secretary of State Colin Powell and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) have recently toured the region. The have called, in effect, for a "humanitarian intervention." U.S. and British imperialism, their hands still stained by Iraqi blood, are threatening to send in military troops.
The situation on the ground is certainly bad. Human rights groups suggest that, over the past year, thousands of people have been killed and more than 1 million people have been displaced in the region.
But wait a minute. How can we tell if the U.S. government and the mass media are telling us the truth about Sudan, when they lied to us about Iraq? Perhaps Washington and big business have another, less obvious agenda in Sudan.
The remoteness of Darfur, the small number of journalists inside the province, and the traditional Western demonization of the Sudan and Arabs generally — all these factors color mainstream news reports about the situation and should give us pause.
A better understanding of the crisis in Darfur requires an objective overview of the situation in the country and the region. It also requires looking at Washing-ton’s imperial ambitions in the world today.
Full Article : pww.org
Check out AfricaSpeaks.com Sudan's Crisis page at:
www.africaspeaks.com/articles/2004/sudan.html
Ancient pest crunches through Africa's food
Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2004
A plague of Biblical proportions threatens to decimate the fragile agricultural communities of west Africa. The culprit is a six-legged munching machine called Schistocerca gregaria, otherwise known as the desert locust.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome has warned repeatedly that not enough is being done to contain the immense swarms of locusts that are eating their way through vast swathes of food crops stretching from Mauritania in the west to as far as Chad in the east.
Swarms up to 40km long and containing billions of insects have been sighted in southern Mauritania, northern Senegal, Mali and Niger. The FAO said there is a high risk of them spreading to Bukina Faso and the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan.
The FAO said that the situation is getting worse by the day as a series of prolonged rains have helped the locusts to breed quickly and go through four generations in quick succession.
Full Article : iol.co.za
Latest News
Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2004
¤ What’s behind the crisis in Darfur?
¤ The strange twists of U.S. refugee policy
¤ Conspiracy, or Stupidity?
¤ Empire of the 21st century
¤ Violence erupts in Bangladesh as government denies involvement in blasts
¤ Car bomb explodes in north Iraq
¤ Bus explosion in Jerusalem "mechanical problem"
¤ Again: Israel-& US-Admin Involved In Sudan Conflict?
¤ Zionist sources: 10,000 army deserters last year
¤ IRAQI DESERTION RATE EXCEEDS 80%
¤ Parade of Nations, Parade of Ignorance
¤ 'Trying to gauge the 'Fox Factor''
¤ Audit of Referendum Vote Shows no Discrepancies
¤ Carter Center Report on the Venezuelan Recall Referendum
¤ Five US soldiers die in 24 hours
¤ Talks stall as fighting rages in Najaf
¤ Oil Cost, Anxiety Are Both Rising
¤ Besieged Al-Sadr keeps grip on shrine
¤ U.S. Forces Kill Three Afghan Civilians
¤ Bomb attack kills 12 at Bangladesh rally
¤ Bush is 'exploiting 9/11 for re-election'
¤ Bombed from the air, surrounded on the ground
Flashback ¤ The Zionists and Torture in Iraq
¤ An exposé of dishonest media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict
¤ Who attacked America?
¤ A nation of prisoners
¤ Non-aligned states want sanctions on Israel
¤ Two bombs explode in Spain
¤ Two French Reporters Missing In Iraq
¤ 10 Killed by Bombs at Bangladesh Rally
¤ US warplanes pound Najaf
¤ Dhaka blasts toll rises
¤ Rights group slams Guantanamo trials
¤ Najaf erupts as US death toll tops 600
¤ A Look at U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq
Venezuelan audit confirms victory
Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2004
Venezuela's electoral authorities say an audit of the vote on President Hugo Chavez's rule found no proof of fraud.
"The results of the audit were very positive... allowing us to turn the page," said National Electoral Council director Jorge Rodriguez.
Mr Chavez won 59% of the vote in the 15 August poll, sparking claims of vote-rigging from the opposition, who refused to take part in the review.
It is the third time that international observers have endorsed the result.
The audit was carried out by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council and international observers from the Carter Center and the Organization of American States (OAS).
Full Article : bbc.co.uk
Latest News
Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2004
¤ Moral Cowardice, as Practiced by Experts
¤ A Democracy of Killings and Bombings
¤ A Taste of Reality from Baghdad
¤ 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire
Flashback ¤ U.S. economy, oil contracts & war
¤ Polish soldier killed, six hurt in Iraq car bomb attack
¤ Scores killed in Bangladesh blast
¤ Killing goes on despite claims that siege is over
¤ Nervous in Najaf
¤ 77 Iraqis Reported Killed in Najaf Fighting
¤ 2 Marines killed in action; 1 GI dies in ambush near Baghdad
¤ The Warlords of America
¤ 'Staggering Amount' of Cash Missing in Iraq
¤ Maoists tighten grip on Kathmandu
¤ Confusion reigning in Najaf
¤ Vote of no-confidence for national meet
¤ Idema: Trigger-happy and troublesome
¤ Halliburton Contracts Balloon
¤ Halliburton: Designer of the real Manchurian candidate?
¤ Weapons of Minimum Destruction
¤ US news media admits promoting lies about Iraq's WMD
¤ Sinking in Their Own Sea of Lies
¤ Iraqi Olympians denounce 'criminal' Bush
¤ Darfuris made pawns in Western power play for oil? pt II
¤ Aggression may not work
¤ Drugged under occupation
¤ All eyes on Iraq as oil price nears $50
¤ Chavez Urges Foes to Accept Defeat, Scoffs at Fraud
¤ Iraqi civilians killed in latest attacks
¤ Most in US still believe Iraq had WMDs
¤ Al-Sadr men remain in Imam Ali mosque
¤ Aljazeera ban: Iraq silences the messenger
Latest News
Posted: Friday, August 20, 2004
¤ The Return of Racial Profiling
¤ Docu calls WMDs a big neo-con job
¤ Maxine Gentle's letter to Tony Blair
¤ Voting While Black
¤ Iran: The babble and the bomb
¤ Venezuela audit 'confirms' result
¤ Opposition rejects audit of Chávez recall vote
¤ Testimonial from the Ground in Venezuela
¤ America's Disease is Greed
¤ US unleashes new anti-Taliban weapon: charm
¤ Najaf faces final assault
¤ Residents lament Sadr City's 'pointless battle'
¤ Balancing the risks in holy Najaf
¤ Abu Ghraib doctors knew of torture, says Lancet report
¤ Rebels Explode Two Bombs in Katmandu
¤ Colombia's oil pipeline is paid for in blood and dollars
¤ How the Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld
¤ U.S. Poll Firm in Hot Water in Venezuela
¤ The Chávez Victory: A Blow to the Bush Administration
¤ Chavez Victory: Defeat for Bush Policy
¤ Despite superior firepower, U.S. loses ground to al-Sadr's militia
¤ The Washington Post still doesn’t get it.
¤ Rebels' threat sends oil prices surging
¤ Five killed as US bombs Falluja
¤ US audit: Iraq scammed of $8.8 billion
¤ Iraqi oil company torched in Basra
¤ Explosions near Najaf's Imam Ali mosque
Final Notes from Caracas
Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2004
President Jimmy Carter:
Venezuela Election Trip Report, Aug 13-18, 2004
By Jimmy Carter, 19 Aug 2004
In the Minds of the Rich, the Venezuela Poor Aren't Even Members of Society...Guess Who's Laughing Now
By Diane Barahona
Then there is the wonder of the red brick shantytowns clinging precariously to the hillsides in and around Caracas. They say that Chavez gave the people the bricks to solidify these improvised homes, which sprang up as people from around the country gave up on the impoverishment of rural life and migrated to the big city looking for work. Chavez granted land titles to these people, who make up a large part of the 6 million inhabitants of Caracas -- nearly 25% of the population of the country. He also gave them paved roads, free running water, telephone lines, and electricity at about $1.00 a month. I know because I went to one of these neighborhoods and asked them.
The elites are terrified of these folks, and extremely put out that the shanty dwellers would not only be taken into account by the government, but that they represent a permanent army encamped around the city, ready to march down from the hills at any time and defend their revolution. I truly believe that this is the primal source of the violent, irrational hatred that the opposition has for Chavez -- his widespread support among the poor who, in the minds of the rich, are not even members of society and should not be playing any role except that of the silent worker or servant. You can't avoid hearing the phrase "participatory protagonistic democracy" which is replacing "representative democracy." Something the ruling class really fears, because it loosens the grip on power held by the economic elites.
Full Article : counterpunch.org
Latest News
Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2004
¤ I Lived to Tell the Tale
¤ Mohamed Atta loved pork chops, and 49 other things you may not know
¤ Al Qaeda Does Not Exist and Never Has
¤ What. A. Mess
¤ New York Crude Smashes Past 48 Dollars For First Time
¤ Heavy Fighting Rages in Baghdad Slum
¤ Mortar attack in Najaf kills 7, wounds 21
¤ U.S. General Violated Rules with 'Satan' Speeches
¤ Pakistan serves the US heads, not tales
¤ The five-ring circus
¤ Probe clears US officers of wrongdoing
¤ US Baghdad embassy shelled
¤ Explosions near Najaf's Imam Ali mosque
¤ The Oily Parachute
¤ Final Notes from Caracas
¤ Fervant Believers in Their Own Fantasies
¤ Iraqi football players warn Bush
¤ Sharon loses crucial party vote
¤ Iraqi government threatens to storm Najaf shrine
¤ Chaos and farce as Iraq chooses first assembly
¤ US forces kill two in Iraq jail riot
¤ Iran Disquieted by Nearby U.S. Presence
¤ False claims about boat people could sink Australian leader
¤ Anti-terror police arrest 19-year-old man
¤ BBC runs into trouble with documentary on black men
¤ New Iraqi legislature voted by default
¤ GOP Congressman: War Was a Mistake
¤ What do we call the enemy?
¤ Doctor May Get Life for Violating Iraq Sanctions
¤ Bush's dubious terror alerts
¤ To Vote or Not To Vote, and For Whom?
¤ Bereuter: War in Iraq not justified
¤ Darfuris made pawns in Western power play for oil?
¤ Greek sprinters beat expulsion by walking out on the games
VIVA CHAVEZ! VIVA VENEZUELA!
Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2004
The Challenge of Hugo Chavez
By Jack Random
The referendum soundly denying a recall of President Hugo Chavez was
not only a victory for the common people of Venezuela, it was the empowerment of the powerless all over the world. It was a demonstration of the power of democracy and an astonishing defeat for corporate imperialism, for the new world aristocracy, for avarice without borders, and for the self-anointed directors of a global economy. It was the stone that fell the beast.
For Hugo Chavez, the road ahead will not be easy. The corporate masters have unlimited resources and the prize of Venezuelan oil is too great to be discarded but, after costly failures at military and political coups, they are compelled to change tact. What they failed to achieve by insurrection, they will attempt to achieve by corrupting the Chavez government. The president and his most trusted officials will be tempted by visions of treasure and bounty yet they will stay the cause.
Now is the time for celebration. Though the war is by no means over, democracy has won a great battle. People all over the world rejoice and nations take note: There is another way.
We will watch with great interest the future of Venezuela and its regional allies. We wonder how long a nation's people can be denied while its resources are siphoned away by corporate thieves. We wonder how far governments will sink into debt before they find the courage to stand with Chavez and Bolivar in defiance.
For now we applaud and we pray that the vision of Simon Bolivar finds its way.
Viva Chavez! Viva Venezuela!
Jazz.
Jack Random is the author of The War Chronicles (Jazzman Chronicles, Crow Dog Press) and Ghost Dance Insurrection (Dry Bones Press). His commentaries have been published by CounterPunch, Albion Monitor, FirstPeoplesCentury, Trinicenter, Global Research, Matrix Masters, IndyMedia and Dissident Voice. The War Chronicles is available at City Lights SF and Amazon.com. Contact via: www.jackrandom.com.
Marcus Garvey and the age of terror
Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Marcus Garvey, Jamaica's first National Hero, made an observation in the early 20th century as relevant today as it was then, about the terror that accompanied the colonial process.
Garvey wrote in poetic form:
"They (the colonialists), have stolen, murdered, on their way here,
Leaving desolation and waste everywhere;
Now they boastingly tell what they have done,
Seeing not the bloody crown they have won."
The "they" that Marcus Garvey spoke of were the "great men" of colonial exploits regaled by venal historians, but such was Garvey's insight that it may well apply to the modern-day crusaders and their bloody adversaries on the world stage as well as our own home-grown terrorists, engulfed in an orgy of murderous mayhem.
Full Article : jamaicaobserver.com
Latest News
Posted: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
¤ How to steal Sudanese oil while pretending to be a "humanitarian"
¤ De facto dictatorship USA
¤ Venezuela's Referendum Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the U.S.
¤ Enough Imperial Crusades
¤ An Electoral Dien Bien Phu for Bush
¤ Israel and the American Elections
¤ US hopes to establish "friendly militias" for the world's "ungoverned areas"
¤ Aristide Foe's Murder Acquittal Decried as Sham
¤ Twisting the law on interrogating detainees
¤ Pakistan turns on itself
¤ Venezuela, America's anti-universe
¤ Venezuela Opposition Refuses Recall Audit
¤ U.S. welcomes 'an important end' to crisis
¥ Sure
¤ Israeli Nuclear Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu U.S. Interview
¤ Americans running private 'war on terror' allege cover-up
¤ US to move military bases closer to Russian borders
¤ Battling the truth Cartoon
¤ US suspends Halliburton decision
¤ The American-Israeli settlements dance cannot continue
¤ Living with the danger of politicized terrorism
¤ Calling the shots in Najaf
¤ US Accounts for Global Surge in Military Spending
¤ Sudan puts pressure on charity after lynching of worker
¤ IDF assassination bid in Gaza kills 5
¤ U.S. doesn't condemn Israel for new settlement tenders
¤ Enough of the winking
¤ An occupier’s nightmare
¤ Firm quits Iraq for staff's release
¤ Several killed in Gaza missile strike
¤ US soldier sues Rumsfeld on Iraq policy
¤ Iraqi vote postponed amid protests
¤ More deaths as delegation quits Najaf
¤ British soldier killed in Basra
¤ US army to prune Halliburton bills
¤ Sharon orders 1,000 homes in West Bank
¤ Venezuela to Hold Partial Audit of Recall
¤ Upset at Haiti acquittal
Opposition Refuses Results
Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Venezuela, America's anti-universe
Hugo Chavez, a war veteran, wears civilian clothes while his US counterpart, George W Bush, who evaded a war he supported, cannot appear often enough in a military uniform. Chavez raised taxes to pay down Venezuela's debt, while Bush regards taxing billionaires as something close to unconstitutional. Quantum physicists have a name for what we see here: parallel universes. - Ian Williams
Full Article : atimes.com
Venezuela Opposition Refuses Recall Audit
Venezuela Opposition Leaders Refuse to Participate in Audit of Failed Referendum to Oust Chavez
Full Article : abcnews.go.com
Chavez Wins Big and the Opposition Refuses to Recognize the Obvious
If one were to believe the opposition, the Chavez government just committed the largest fraud in history, with the help of the Carter Center and the OAS. The only "evidence" the opposition has are exit polls, whose accuracy has not been established.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
An irrational bunch of dishonest, whisky-drinking sifrinos and aprovechadores
Viva Venezuela! The Coordinadora Democratica (CD) said that it will not accept the referendum results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The CD is a group of mostly-US-financed, active (and sometimes radical) anti-Chavez organizations … all with only one thing in common: They hate Chavez and they want to "get rid of him."
Wow! What a surprise!
They do not accept the results!
Full Article : trinicenter.com
Latest News
Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2004
¤ Oiling welfare's wheels
¤ Midnight Trial Acquits Ex-Haitian Paramilitary Leader
¤ Iraqi officers threaten reporters
¤ Al-Sadr rebuffs Iraqi truce delegates
¤ Dafuris Made Pawns in Western Power Play for Oil?
¤ The Meaning of Venezuela
¤ Proxy Soldiers in Bush's War
¤ NBC Said To Have Mounted Media Ploy To 'Prove' Security Lapses
¤ CIA-backed opposition suffers defeat in Venezuelan referendum
¤ Mistake jeopardizes FBI sting
¤ Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian boy
¤ Iraqi-Americans demand elections in Iraq
¤ Votes for Chávez Amid Cries of Foul Play
¤ Brain Dead, Made of Money, No Future at All
¤ U.S. logic hard to follow
¤ Geopolitics in Iraq an old game
¤ Iraqi vote postponed amid protests
¤ Several dead in Baghdad blast
¤ Chavez Wins Big, Opposition Refuses to Recognize the Obvious
¤ Death and destruction across the divide
¤ The Slave Mentality
¤ Bush’s Venezuelagate
¤ INTERVENTIONISM LEADS TO WAR
¤ Crying Wolf in the War Against Terror
¤ 57-year-old veteran called for duty
¤ President Chavez celebrates crushing referendum victory
¤ City of defiance
¤ Howard lied to voters, says aide
¤ International Observers Ratify Chávez's Triumph in Referendum
¤ Fresh fighting in Najaf ahead of peace talks
¤ Iraqi 'human shields' flock to Najaf
¤ Najaf fighting claims three US soldiers
¤ The killing of Muslims in the name of "freedom and democracy".
Why He Crushed the Oligarchs
Posted: Monday, August 16, 2004
The Importance of Hugo Chávez
By Tariq Ali
The turn-out in Venezuela last Sunday was huge. 94.9 percent of the electorate voted in the recall referendum. Venezuela, under its new Constitution, permitted the right of the citizens to recall a President before s/he had completed their term of office. No Western democracy enshrines this right in a written or unwritten constitution. Chavez' victory will have repercussions beyond the borders of Venezuela. It is a triumph of the poor against the rich and it is a lesson that Lula in Brazil and Kirchner in Argentina should study closely. It was Fidel Castro, not Carter, whose advice to go ahead with the referendum was crucial. Chavez put his trust in the people by empowering them and they responded generously. The opposition will only discredit itself further by challenging the results.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
Venezuela's Chavez Triumphant
Posted: Monday, August 16, 2004
History Making Democracy in Latin America
By: Sharmini Peries, www.venezuelanalysis.com
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, first elected in 1998 made democratic history today in a triumphant defeat of the recall referendum on his Presidency.
The very Constitution that he championed in 1999, that re-elected him in 2000, allows for a mid-term recall referendum for the President’s term in office. After six years in office, in this recall referendum held on Sunday, August 15th, Chavez lead with a 58% majority. Voters clearly exercised their constitutional right to confirm the President in a historic referenda process, never practiced in the history of this hemisphere.
Under the watchful eyes of over six hundred international observers and media scattered throughout the country, a majority of Venezuelan’s prevented their president from being ousted by a coalition opposition led by Accion Democratica (AD) and the Christian Democrats (COPEI), both parties representing the moderate and ultra right. Renowned international election observer delegations from the Carter Center, Organization of American States (OAS), and European Parliamentarians hailed the referendum process as free and fair.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Thousands Gather Outside Venezuelan Presidential Palace for Chavez Victory Speech
Outside the presidential palace, thousands listened to President Hugo Chavez’ victory speech shortly after the country’s only electoral authority (CNE) announced the preliminary results of the presidential referendum which show that a majority of Venezuelans voted to keep Chavez as President of Venezuela.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Crude Oil Declines After Chavez Wins Recall Vote
Posted: Monday, August 16, 2004
Crude Oil Declines From Record After Chavez Wins Recall Vote
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil futures fell from records after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won a referendum that might have removed him from office.
The motion to recall Chavez was rejected by 58 percent of voters, based on 94.5 percent of the ballots counted, the National Electoral Council said. Oil had risen earlier to records on concern that supply might be disrupted in Venezuela, the fourth-largest exporter to the U.S., because of violence surrounding the vote.
"He's won the referendum, the oil market is moving lower, which is a move that should be expected on this news," said Paul Goodhew, a broker at GNI/Man Financial in London.
Full Article : bloomberg.com
Venezuela and Chavez's Victory
Posted: Monday, August 16, 2004
Why Venezuela has Voted Again
for Their 'Negro e Indio' President
by Greg Palast
Jimmy Carter corroborates President Hugo Chavez Frias as clear winner in RR
Former US president Jimmy Carter has corroborated preliminary figures issued just after 4:00 a.m. this morning which show President Hugo Chavez Frias as the clear winner in Sundays' recall referendum on his rule.
Carter told a news conference "our findings coincide with the partial returns announced today by the National Elections Council." On the same platform, Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Cesar Gaviria said that "observers have not found any element of fraud in the process."
According to those results, 58.2% of voters voted NO to a question on whether President Hugo Chavez Frias (50) should end his mandate ... 42% voted SI (Yes).
"Until elements of fraud emerge we are not going put the results in doubt," said Gaviria. "If the opposition has a serious concern, we are willing to work with them ... but not to put the results in doubt."
Full Article : vheadline.com
Venezuela's Chavez Triumphant
History Making Democracy in Latin America
By: Sharmini Peries, www.venezuelanalysis.com
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, first elected in 1998 made democratic history today in a triumphant defeat of the recall referendum on his Presidency.
The very Constitution that he championed in 1999, that re-elected him in 2000, allows for a mid-term recall referendum for the President’s term in office. After six years in office, in this recall referendum held on Sunday, August 15th, Chavez lead with a 58% majority. Voters clearly exercised their constitutional right to confirm the President in a historic referenda process, never practiced in the history of this hemisphere.
Under the watchful eyes of over six hundred international observers and media scattered throughout the country, a majority of Venezuelan’s prevented their president from being ousted by a coalition opposition led by Accion Democratica (AD) and the Christian Democrats (COPEI), both parties representing the moderate and ultra right. Renowned international election observer delegations from the Carter Center, Organization of American States (OAS), and European Parliamentarians hailed the referendum process as free and fair.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Thousands Gather Outside Venezuelan Presidential Palace for Chavez Victory Speech
Outside the presidential palace, thousands listened to President Hugo Chavez’ victory speech shortly after the country’s only electoral authority (CNE) announced the preliminary results of the presidential referendum which show that a majority of Venezuelans voted to keep Chavez as President of Venezuela.
Full Article : venezuelanalysis.com
Crude Oil Declines From Record After Chavez Wins Recall Vote
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil futures fell from records after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez won a referendum that might have removed him from office.
The motion to recall Chavez was rejected by 58 percent of voters, based on 94.5 percent of the ballots counted, the National Electoral Council said. Oil had risen earlier to records on concern that supply might be disrupted in Venezuela, the fourth-largest exporter to the U.S., because of violence surrounding the vote.
"He's won the referendum, the oil market is moving lower, which is a move that should be expected on this news," said Paul Goodhew, a broker at GNI/Man Financial in London.
Full Article : bloomberg.com
Chavez Frias wins with 4,991,483 votes (58.2%)
President Hugo Chavez has claimed a "victory for the Venezuelan people" after the release of results indicating he won a referendum on his rule.
Officials from the National Electoral Council said that, with 94% of ballots counted, Mr Chavez had 58% of the vote.
Full Article : bbc.co.uk
¤ Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote
¤ Chavez wins referendum
¤ Chávez claims victory in Venezuela vote
¤ US nervous about Chavez
¤ UK's Independent Newspaper Falsifies Venezuela Election Results
¤ Venezuela's Opposition Resorts to Phony Exit Polls
¤ Venezuelan Election Officials Say Recall Failed
¤ Crude Oil Declines From Record After Chavez Wins Recall Vote
¤ Oil prices ease on Chavez news
¤ Venezuela's Barrio Voting Centers Overloaded with Voters
¤ Massive turnout as Venezuela goes to polls
¤ Marathon vote ends in Venezuela
¤ Recall Results Delayed by Unprecedented High Voter Turnout
¤ Venezuela Election Officials Denounce Fake Information
Latest News
Posted: Monday, August 16, 2004
Photo credited to AFP
Look out! On 15 August I am going to hit [a home run]
so hard that it will land in the gardens of the White House -
Hugo Chavez, speaking during Alo Presidente, 1 August 2004
¤ Chavez celebrates victory
¤ Crushes Opposition in Referendum
¤ Why He Crushed the Oligarchs
¤ Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio' President
¤ Support for Chavez Unwavering in Slums of Venezuelan Capital
¤ Chavez Survives Recall, Observers Dismiss Fraud
¤ Venezuelans Vote to Keep Chavez in Office
¤ Venezuela's Chavez Wins Recall Vote
¤ Chavez wins referendum
¤ Chávez claims victory in Venezuela vote
¤ US nervous about Chavez
¤ UK's Independent Newspaper Falsifies Venezuela Election Results
¤ Venezuela’s Opposition Resorts to Phony Exit Polls
¤ Venezuelan Election Officials Say Recall Failed
¤ Crude Oil Declines From Record After Chavez Wins Recall Vote
¤ Oil prices ease on Chavez news
¤ Venezuela's Barrio Voting Centers Overloaded with Voters
¤ Massive turnout as Venezuela goes to polls
¤ Marathon vote ends in Venezuela
¤ Venezuela Recall Results Delayed by Unprecedented High Voter Turnout
¤ Venezuela Election Officials Denounce Fake Information
¤ Saving Afghanistan from the killing fields
¤ 1.3 billion reasons to worry about oil
¤ 'The vile smell of voter suppression'
¤ Israel's pipe dream: getting oil from Iraq
¤ Police fire at reporters as US tanks roll up to shrine
¤ Family of Iraq Abuse Whistleblower Threatened
¤ Gaza: Thousands back hunger strike
¤ The Ultimate Stupidity: The Attack on Najaf
¤ Is Our Media Covering its Errors or Covering Them Up?
¤ The Perils of Consumption
¤ Bush plan to bring home troops slammed
¤ Najaf: The Silence of a Si |
