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  • Not the Hay Festival: Juhasz, Muttit, Christodopoulos
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Sarah Meyer
    I used to be a Guardian Hay Festival addict. Good talks, good bookshops, good food. This year the festival is a bit incestuous. The blog editor of The Guardian is interviewing Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, for example. Now this would have been a stimulating conversation if one of the Media Lens editors had conducted the interview. The BBC, under continual criticism from bloggers for ‘unbalanced’ reporting, is much again in evidence at Hay - unchallenged. It (…)

  • CHAVEZ IN LONDON : ABOUT THE WORKER’S MOVEMENT IN EUROPE
    20 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The workers’ movement of Great Britain is an example for the world By National Radio of Venezuela Wednesday, 17 May 2006
    During the opening speech given to representatives of the British trade unions, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias reiterated that the main reason for his visit to London was to give thanks for the gestures of solidarity that have been organised by the different social organisations in Britain, the TUC prominent amongst (…)

  • HUGO CHAVEZ IN HISTORIC VISIT SO LONDON by HANDS OFF VENEZUELA
    18 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hugo Chavez in Historic Visit to London By Hands Off Venezuela Thursday, 18 May 2006
    The visit of President Hugo Chavez to London was one of enormous enthusiasm. Thousands of supporters turned out to see the President over his two-day visit, which was hosted by Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London.
    Five welcoming rallies were organised by Hands Off Venezuela in different locations over the two days with the full support of the Bolivarian Circles and the Venezuela Solidarity (…)

  • State Department Memo: "16 Words" Were False
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Sixteen days before President Bush’s January 28, 2003, State of the Union address in which he said that the US learned from British intelligence that Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Africa - an explosive claim that helped pave the way to war - the State Department told the CIA that the intelligence the uranium claims were based upon were forgeries, according to a newly declassified State Department memo.
    The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded (…)

  • Revolution in the Camden air as Chávez - with amigo Ken - gets a hero’s welcome
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Revolution in the Camden air as Chávez - with amigo Ken - gets a hero’s welcome
    · Show of solidarity for Venezuelan president · Three-hour speech wins over 800-strong crowd
    Duncan Campbell and Jonathan Steele Monday May 15, 2006 The Guardian
    Hugo Chávez addresses crowds of supporters at the Camden Centre in London. Photograph: Edmond Terakopian/PA
    He has been called a terrorist by Washington but for three and a half hours yesterday in London he could do no wrong. An adoring audience (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain
    12 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1962
    Venezuela’s Chávez on Private Visit to Britain
    Thursday, May 11, 2006 By: Richard Beeston and Tom Baldwin - The Times
    HUGO CHÁVEZ, the President of Venezuela and one of Tony Blair’s most vocal critics abroad, arrives in London this weekend on a whirlwind visit during which he will be fêted by Ken Livingstone, Labour MPs and the TUC but will avoid contact with the Prime Minister and his Government.
    The diplomatic snub will be delivered (…)

  • Racist UK-US democratic tyranny, "free market", "drug patent rights" & African HIV/AIDS catastrophe
    10 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Of course, unlike the situation in the 19th century, the democratic West is now politically correct (PC) and eschews explicit racism. Kurtz’s assertion of "exterminate all the brutes" in Joseph Conrad’s African novel "Heart of Darkness" was acceptable back in circa 1900 when it was first published in an explicitly racist Britain. Western intellectuals armed with Darwin’s "Origin of Species" justified racist colonial impositions in terms of "survival of the fittest" (i.e. those with guns). (…)

  • British Chancellor to call for Blair to step down, warns of "civil war" if he doesn’t. Blair refuses
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brown’s challenge to battered Blair: Name the day Unprecedented attack by Chancellor, calling on PM to ’set down’ timetable for exit. Secret letter leaked to ’IoS’ reveals plan by rebel Labour MPs to ’ambush’ leader By Marie Woolf and Francis Elliott Published: 07 May 2006 Gordon Brown will today urge Tony Blair to stand aside as Prime Minister, challenging his embattled rival to "set down" a clear timetable for a handover of power.
    In a carefully timed intervention, (…)

  • The Downing Street Fixation
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Downing Street papers are proving a formidable challenge to the White House PR machine as it desperately tries-in often-ludicrous ways-to slow down a train that has already left the station. And interest continues to build. The leaked British documents are now on the top-ten list of Google queries.
    One huge fly in the ointment for the administration was British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s early decision that it would be a fool’s errand to challenge the authenticity of the papers. Why? (…)

  • The Downing Street Memo Proves that Ray McGovern is Right ’the facts were fixed around the policy’
    6 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    publisher’s note: this is a repost from last year. When this came out last year, it really seemed that congress might finally act toward accountability however nothing has come of this information which proves that Ray Mcgovern is correct in calling Rumsfeld a liar. The entire administration lied repeatedly in the run up to war in Iraq and they are doing it again for Iran. The Downing Street Minutes Demand Action
    (- ; mp3 Cliff Notes to teach your neighbors :o)
    The "Downing Street (…)