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  • The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism (ZNET)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall; April 12, 2006
    When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries’ treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud’s case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when a democratically elected populist president uses Venezuela’s oil profits to lift poor (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Channel 4 Smears Chavez
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela by David Edwards; April 10, 2006 On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ’Hugo to go?’
    Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, in a piece described by John Pilger as "one of the worst, most distorted pieces of journalism I have ever seen". (Email to Channel 4 News, copied to Media Lens, March 27, 2006)
    Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow introduced the film:
    "Now, he’s the president with his own (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    Mr. Danger and Socialism for the New Milennium A Discussion of the Current State of Venezuela by Maria Paez Victor; March 29, 2006
    [A talk prepared for the "Walter Gordon/Massey Symposium", Toronto March 15, 2006]
    Throughout most of its history, there has been very little interest in North America about Venezuela except as a supplier of oil. With the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999, all this changed. He ushered in the Bolivarian Revolution, founded on ideas expounded (…)

  • US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    US launches major military exercises in the Caribbean as a warning to Venezuela and Cuba by Jorge Martin; Hands Off Venezuela; April 01, 2006 According to a press release by the US Southern Command on Monday, March 27: "A U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group will deploy from the U.S. east coast to the Caribbean Sea to conduct Operation Partnership of the Americas from early April through late May 2006." The strike group will be composed of "aircraft carrier USS George (…)

  • US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ZNet | Venezuela
    US Planning Fourth Attempt To Oust Hugo Chavez by Stephen Lendman; April 18, 2006 http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10113&sectionID=45
    This essay has a dual purpose. I began it initially to explain how sophisticated and effective the dominant corporate media is in programming the public mind to believe whatever message they deliver regardless of whether it’s true which it rarely is. I chose the title Reeducation 101 - Defogging and Reversing the (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • 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 (…)