By David May
Activists of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign, joining over 90 trade unionists, members of Chicago and Cincinnati Bolivarian Circles and Latin American Solidarity Center supporters, marched to demand suspension of AFL-CIO financial support for the NED during the first day of the trade union federation’s national convention in Chicago Sunday. The occasion also marked the introduction of the US Trade Union Appeal for the HOV campaign, which collected 73 signatures from trade (...)
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Hands Off Venezuela protests the NED at AFL-CIO Convention
3 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Lula’s "Workers’ Regime" : plummets in Stew of Corruption
2 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Lula’s "Workers’ Regime" : plummets in Stew of Corruption
By JAMES PETRAS
"Nobody has the moral authority to discuss ethics with me" President Lula da Silva
Corruption has devastated the Lula regime in Brazil. Every sector of Lula’s "Workers Party"(PT) has been implicated in bribery, fraud, vote buying, theft of public funds, failure to report illicit campaign financing and a host of other felonious behavior, revealed almost daily between May-July 2005. All of Lula’s closest and most (...) -
70% approval rating; USA needs Chavez-style leadership not Bush terror!
1 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsby Mary MacElveen
The Gallup Poll that was just released on July 29, shows that Bush’s approval rating now stands at 44%. According to their findings: “Four in 10 Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the country.”
The poll also shows a “continued positive momentum for the Democratic Party in terms of national party identification and ratings” ... I just wish that the Democratic Party would spend this political capital.
Shortly after the London and Egypt attacks, (...) -
MACK VS. VENEZUELA
30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
5 commentsBy William Fisher
As some Latin American analysts complain that Washington has declared "electronic war" on Venezuela with a plan to target the country for special radio and television broadcasts, it remains uncertain whether the project will ever get off the ground.
If approved by a joint congressional committee, the broadcasts would be financed by the U.S. government and implemented through the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the quasi-independent corporation established to (...) -
CAFTA: Democracy Sold Out
30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsBy Deborah James
At 12:03 a.m. on July 28, the House of Representatives approved CAFTA, the Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement.
The bill, which would expand NAFTA to Central America and the Dominican Republic, would devastate farmers, privatize essential public services, and accelerate the race to the bottom on wages in the U.S. and all over Central America.
At the end of the allotted 15 minutes of voting time, the count was 180 to 175 against (...) -
Chavez’s ’citizen militias’ on the march
22 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy Mike Ceaser In Caracas, Venezuela
Rafael Cabrices does not know whether the attack will come by sea, by land, or even from within Venezuela.
But he is sure that US President George W Bush is plotting to oust leftist President Hugo Chavez - and Mr Cabrices is preparing his people to fight.
"That crazy man wants the petroleum," Mr Cabrices, 60, says in his office decorated with posters of Che Guevara, Simon Bolivar and President Chavez.
In the empty parking lot outside, civilian (...) -
Secret Recipe: Terrorist soup with all the "fixings"
18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
8 comments"knowledge is an antidote to fear" - Emerson
Ingredients:BushPosada Carriles Self-censoring Media
Background on Posada Carriles
Wim Dankbaar on Luis Posada Carriles, reflections from a foreigner.
Why does this terrorist get such protection from Bush? Here is the story!
"Without the support from higher powers, Posada Carriles would just be a pawn. A pawn who would not have been able to bribe his escape from prison, to plan and execute terrorist attacks, and to slip through (...) -
FLASHBACK: The Bush’s, The CIA, and their Terrorists Friends in Miami
8 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentGRANMA 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 (...) -
Chávez explains the fundamentals of Petrocaribe
1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 comments– Venezuela has greater oil reserves than any Middle Eastern nation To contribute $50 million initially for Petrocaribe to immediately begin functioning
BY JOAQUIN RIVERY TUR Granma daily special correspondent
PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela, June 29 President Hugo Chávez explained during the 1st Energy Summit of Caribbean Heads of State and Government that the Venezuelans had designed a plan for Petrocaribe, according to which oil supplies would be directed toward three points: Cuba (...) -
Terrorists Protect Their Own
27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
by PeopleJudgeBush
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
Luis Posada Carriles is a convicted international terrorist; yet the Bush Administration is protecting him and refusing to extradite him to Venezuela to stand trial for his crimes. In the meantime the US routinely violates international law: killing Iraqi civilians in an illegal war, imprisoning and torturing thousands of innocent people, acts which Amnesty International has condemned, as well as other crimes too numerous to (...)