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  • VENEZUELAN REFERENDUM A Post-Mortem and its Aftermath
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Prof. James PETRAS
    Venezuela’s constitutional reforms supporting President Chavez’s socialist project were defeated by the narrowest of margins: 1.4% of 9 million voters. The result however was severely compromised by the fact that 45% of the electorate abstained, meaning that only 28% of the electorate voted against the progressive changes proposed by President Chavez.
    While the vote was a blow to Venezuela’s attempt to extricate itself from oil dependence and capitalist control over (…)

  • The University That We Want in France
    4 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    An appeal by teachers at the University of Paris-VIII Vincennes - Saint-Denis - a petition to halt the "Law for the Reform of the University"
    We, teachers, researchers and members of the personnel of the University, state our categorical opposition to the Law for the Reform of the University (LRU), our total support for the student protest movement and our participation in that movement.
    Under the misnomer of “autonomy” (autonomy of management, but neither intellectual nor scientific (…)

  • CIA Operation
    29 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Eva Golinger
    Last night CNN en Español aired the above image, which captions at the bottom "Who Killed him?" by "accident". The image of President Chavez with the caption about killing him below, which some could say subliminally incites to assassination, was a "production error" mistakenly made in the CNN en Español newsroom.
    The news anchor had been narrarating a story about the situation between Colombia and Venezuela and then switched to a story about an unsolved homicide but - (…)

  • VENEZUELA: Another CIA sponsored Coup D’Etat?
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Prof James PETRAS
    Venezuela’s D-Day: Democratic Socialism or Imperial Counter-Revolution The December 2, 2007 Constituent Referendum
    On November 26, 2007 the Venezuelan government broadcast and circulated a confidential memo from the US embassy to the CIA which is devastatingly revealing of US clandestine operations and which will influence the referendum this Sunday (December 2, 2007). The memo sent by an embassy official, Michael Middleton Steere, was addressed to the head of (…)

  • More rioting in Paris suburbs after angry youths fire shotguns at police
    28 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    November 27, 2007 Police union reports 77 injured By Nicolas Garriga, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Youths rampaged for a third night in the tough suburbs north of Paris and violence spread to a southern city late Tuesday as police struggled to contain rioters who have burned cars and buildings and - in an ominous turn - shot at officers.
    A senior police union official warned that "urban guerrillas" had joined the unrest, saying the violence was worse than during three (…)

  • Racism: Guerrilla on Paris’ Doorstep
    27 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Claude Ribbe translation : Idriss Stelley Foundation (ISF)
    The north of Paris’ suburbs currently lives an unprecedented explosion. There has not been any precedents to compare to this time, the violence expressed towards the police is extreme and the Youth are seeking all the local politicians to lynch them.
    Abruptly, the police chief of Sarcelles, a nearby city, was seriously struck in the face and sixty policemen were injured (five of them critically) last night. It would seem that (…)

  • Radio Venezuela en Vivo: Broadcasting Live from Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform Referendum
    26 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Romain Migus
    What is Radio Venezuela en Vivo?
    Radio Venezuela en Vivo is an internet radio, launched by a group of international journalists and academics based in Venezuela, to broadcast continual objective coverage of Venezuela’s upcoming Constitutional Reform Referendum. Radio Venezuela en Vivo will principally broadcast in English and French, with support programs and news coverage in Portuguese, Arab and other languages.
    Why Radio Venezuela en Vivo?
    As international observers (…)

  • Indian ’slave’ children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ian McDougall in New Delhi
    Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
    Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
    Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using (…)

  • Why We Shouldn’t Celebrate Thanksgiving
    22 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert JENSEN
    Thanksgiving Day should be turned into a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of America’s indigenous peoples.
    After years of being constantly annoyed and often angry about the historical denial built into Thanksgiving Day, I published an essay in November 2005 suggesting we replace the feasting with fasting and create a National Day of Atonement to acknowledge the genocide of indigenous people that is central to the creation of the United States.
    I (…)

  • depleted uranium : Wall Street Czars depopulating the World
    21 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leuren Moret
    Leuren Moret is an American independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She has devoted her life to awakening the public to the destructive consequences of depleted uranium munitions that are used by the US military. She has made relentless efforts to stop the US from continuing to pollute the environment.
    Q. The US is using DU weapons in violation of international treaties. Why is not the international community forcing the US to (…)