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  • Bush’s Latest Nuclear Gambit
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Nuclear
    Bush’s Latest Nuclear Gambit
    by Lawrence S. Wittner; History News Network; April 18, 2006
    http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10114&sectionID=201
    In 2005, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, recognizing that the Bush administration’s favorite new nuclear weapon—the "Bunker Buster"—was on the road to defeat in Congress, told its leading antagonist, U.S. Representative David Hobson (R-Ohio): "You may win this year, but we’ll be back."
    And, (…)

  • Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (…)

  • Venezuela, like U.S., to hold military exercises in the Caribbean
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (…)

  • U.S. aircraft carriers head to Caribbean: President Chavez accuses US of planning an invasion
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (…)

  • APRIL 2006 : Venezuela Solidarity International Days of Action
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (…)

  • Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba Demonstration in Washington, DC MAY 20, 2006
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    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? By Gabriel Ash (Dissident Voice)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 (…)

  • THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ in April 2002
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE PROOF IS IN THE DOCUMENTS: THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ
    by:Eva Golinger
    http://www.venezuelafoia.info/english.html
    On April 12, 2002, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer stated: “Let me share with you the administration’s thoughts about what’s taking place in Venezuela. It remains a somewhat fluid situation. But yesterday’s events in Venezuela resulted in a change in the government and the assumption of a transitional authority until new (…)

  • The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq By Dahr Jamail
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq By Dahr Jamail
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806J.shtml
    Tuesday 18 April 2006
    The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public (…)

  • Resistance: the Remedy for Fear By RON JACOBS
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Antiwar Movement Needs to Take a Look Around
    Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
    By RON JACOBS
    The French students and workers force the repeal of a law that would have provided employers complete control over the work lives of French youth. Immigrants and their supporters maintain a growing series of protests across the United States to oppose proposed legislation that would criminalize the existence of any US residents without the proper papers and those that assist them. On a (…)