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  • VENEZUELA : As Elections Loom, Venezuela’s Opposition Won’t Commit to Participation
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1701
    Wednesday, Apr 05, 2006 By: Eric Wingerter - VIO
    Last Thursday the New York Times ran a remarkable profile of the Venezuelan opposition. Titled “Rifts Plague Anti-Chavez Venezuelans[1],” Times reporter Juan Forero details the chaos that marks Venezuelan opposition parties in the run-up to this year’s presidential elections. Significantly, these rifts are not ideological in nature-precious little of the discussion centers on values, (…)

  • Please, Not Fidel Castro’s Fortune Again!
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From AxisofLogic.com
    Please, Not Fidel Castro’s Fortune Again! By Pascual Serrano. Translated from Spanish for Axis of Logic by Barbara Maseda and revised by Nancy Almendras, Tlaxcala*
    May 15, 2006, 14:46
    Forbes magazine says that he has a 900 million dollar fortune. Let’s see how they calculated it.
    Once again Forbes magazine has included the Cuban president in the list of what they call the richest “kings, queens and dictators." Of course, all the media enthusiastically echoed this (…)

  • ALBA: Social Debt and Human Rights
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From AxisofLogic.com
    Featured ALBA: Social Debt and Human Rights By James Petras May 15, 2006, 22:36
    Forum 2
    Proposals for the New Social, Economic and Cultural Order
    Introduction
    Under the leadership of President Chavez and with the backing of the great majority of the Venezuelan people, a process of social transformation is underway which challenges the old neo-liberal, imperial-centered, political-economic order. Equally important President Chavez has proposed a new project for (…)

  • Letter from Venezuela
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Julie Tuesday, 07 March 2006
    Dear All,
    My apologies for sending round one of these here round robins but it is the best I can do in the time I have...
    Well, there is simply TOO MUCH to tell you all about this revolution here, but perhaps the most important thing is that it is happening all over the country and is being carried forward not by the officials and bureaucrats but the ordinary people who through a massive effort of will and as an expression of love, conviction and (…)

  • CHAVEZ : “Socialism will help to find a solution to poverty and misery”
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/socialism_solution_poverty_misery.htm By National Radio of Venezuela Tuesday, 16 May 2006
    The head of the Venezuelan State attended a mass rally where British people and the London Mayor Ken Livingstone showed their support for the Bolivarian Revolution and its leader, Hugo Chávez Frías.
    As planned, this Sunday May 14, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, addressed a mass rally at the Camden Centre, organised by (…)

  • LONDON : Hugo Chávez Addresses Mass Rally Organised by Hands Off Venezuela
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1728
    Hugo Chávez Addresses Mass Rally Organised by Hands Off Venezuela
    Sunday, May 14, 2006
    By: Hands Off Venezuela Chavez addresses enthusiastic crowd at Hands Off Venezuela event in Vienna, Austria.
    Last night at the Arena cultural centre in Vienna, President Chavez spoke to an audience of 5,000 enthusiastic young people in a mass meeting organised by Hands off Venezuela and Cuba, the Austrian section of the HOV international solidarity (…)

  • Chavez Advocates Socialism to European Summit
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1964
    Chavez Advocates Socialism to European Summit
    Sunday, May 14, 2006 By: Stephen Castle - The Independent
    The Venezuelan leader, Hugo Chavez, yesterday paved the way for a politically-explosive visit to London this weekend as lambasted Tony Blair’s brand of free market economics and said Europe should note the rise of socialism in Latin America.
    Mr Chavez’s rhetoric put him centre stage at a summit in Vienna as he claimed that (…)

  • Venezuela Proposes Discounted Heating Oil to Low-Income Europeans
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1966
    Monday, May 15, 2006 By: Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, Venezuela, May 15, 2006-Yesterday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez proposed providing a low cost heating oil program to low income Europeans. The proposal comes after Venezuelan subsidiary Citgo provided a well received heating oil subsidy to hundreds of thousands of households across six states in the US.
    “I want to modestly offer help to the poorest people who in winter, don’t have (…)

  • Solidarity Street Demonstrations to Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity Street Demonstrations To Demand US Keep Hands Off Venezuela and Cuba - by Stephen Lendman
    Maybe it’s just a coincidence that just days before an international expression of solidarity demanding the US keep its hands off Venezuela and Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton (a right wing Republican in good standing) introduced an anti-Venezuelan resolution in the US House of Representatives. His resolution on May 11 was just another step along the way in the Bush administration’s fourth attempt (…)

  • WTC 7
    16 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With WTC 7, it looked more like the building imploded and this could only happen by weakening the structure from multiple internal sites somehow uniformly distributed throughout.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
    "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Only (…)