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Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
By Greg Brosnan Tue Apr 18, 6:43 PM ET
President Hugo Chavez, who accuses Washington of planning to invade Venezuela, said on Tuesday recent deployment of U.S. warships in the Caribbean Sea threatened his country and its ally Cuba.
Four U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, and 6,500 sailors, are in a two-month deployment in the Caribbean Sea dubbed "Partnership of the Americas" by the U.S. Navy.
"They are doing maneuvers (…)

Anger at Peugeot decision to quit Britain
· Unions blame weak labour laws for loss of 2,300 jobs · Workers hear of closure on the news before being told
Mark Milner and Paul Lewis Wednesday April 19, 2006 The Guardian
Britain’s hard-pressed manufacturing base received a new blow yesterday when the French carmaker PSA Peugeot-Citroën said it was pulling out of the UK, closing its Ryton car factory at Coventry in the West Midlands with the loss of 2,300 jobs.
The news, which threatens (…)

EXCELLENT OILCRASH DOCUMENTARY - Watch the Trailer
http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/film.html
OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion - our industrial society, built on (…)

China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust Apr 18 3:17 PM US/Eastern Email this story By JOE McDONALD Associated Press Writer
BEIJING
Beijing will use artificial rainmaking to clear the air after a choking dust storm coated China’s capital and beyond with yellow grit, prompting a health warning to keep children indoors, state media said Tuesday.
The huge storm blew dust far beyond China’s borders, blanketing South Korea and reaching Tokyo.
The storm, reportedly the worst in at (…)

Venezuela, like U.S., to hold military exercises in the Caribbean 20.04.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/79367-military-0
Venezuela plans to hold military exercises soon along its coasts and with neighboring countries’ armed forces, the defense minister said Wednesday, while U.S. warships were conducting their own maneuvers in the Caribbean.
Adm. Orlando Maniglia did not specify when Venezuelan troops would train with other countries, but said the Venezuelan military is (…)

April 11, 2006
Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455
A Glimpse into the Mind of a Terrorist By JOSÉ PERTIERRA
http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=7729
Last week in Miami, Luis Posada Carriles?s accomplice in the downing of the Cuban passenger plane that was blown out of the sky with 73 innocent people on board on October 6, 1976 was interviewed by Juan Manuel Cao of Channel 41 in Miami. His name is Orlando Bosch. (…)

U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean: Venezuelan President Chavez accuses US of planning an invasion
April 13, 2006 SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 · Last updated 4:23 p.m. PT
U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON — An aircraft carrier strike group moved into the Caribbean this week to begin two months of naval exercises in (…)

Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action By Hands Off Venezuela Monday, 03 April 2006
Dear friends,
The last few weeks have been full of events related to Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution. It seems that the United States have stepped up their campaign of pressure against Venezuela with a number of statements by Condolezza Rice and other high officials in Washington, including Director of National Security John Negroponte.
In Britain this was followed by comments by Prime (…)

WHEREAS, Washington, under the Bush Administration, with bipartisan support in the US Congress, has an open policy of overturning the Cuban government and destroying the Cuban Revolution.
WHEREAS, the US government has openly allocated millions of dollars towards that end, including direct payments to its clients and agents inside Cuba, the so-called dissidents.
WHEREAS, US citizens and legal residents continue to be deprived of our Constitutional right to travel to Cuba to learn the (…)

Why Oppose the Israel Lobby? Comments on Mearsheimer and Walt Gabriel Ash, www.dissidentvoice.org
April 18, 2006
Two academics from the Chicago University Political Science Department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University shocked the tender sensibilities of the chattering classes when they published a damning study of how and to what extent "the Israel Lobby" influences U.S. foreign policy.
The paper has been dissected and criticized, often hysterically, by both (…)