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  • 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 (…)

  • VENEZUELA : The Washington Post vs. Venezuela (CounterPunch)
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Jackson Diehl: Worse Than Page Six? The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
    By ERIC WINGERTER
    Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez.
    When Diehl writes a particularly unsubstantiated column, the Post publishes his work on the right-hand side of the opinion page, thus (…)

  • Venezuela Reaches Landmark 75% Debt Retirement
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1944
    Tuesday, Apr 18, 2006
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 18, 2006-After almost a year of buying billions of dollars in Argentine bonds, Venezuela moves to buy back its own, saving, according to the Ministry of Finance, $676 million in debt repayments in 2006.
    Venezuela announced in late February it would retire 3.9 billion dollars in Brady bonds, which would have matured in 2020. Last week the Ministry of Finance announced that 75 percent of the (…)

  • New Poll Gives Venezuela’s Chavez 82.7% Approval Rating
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Michael Fox www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1934
    Venezuela’s President Chavez during his weekly television program Aló Presidente. Credit: Prensa Miraflores
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 4, 2006-According to the latest survey conducted by the Venezuelan Institute for Data Analysis (IVAD), 82.7% of the Venezuelan population looks favorably upon the job done by President Hugo Chavez.
    Of those interviewed; 22.9% said the President had done a regular to good job; 41.8% good; (…)

  • CARACAS : Venezuela Unveils Monument for Victims on Coup Anniversary
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wednesday, Apr 12, 2006 By: Michael Fox www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1943
    Chavez supporters gather at the Puente Llaguno to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the April 11 coup against Chavez. Credit: Silvia Leindecker
    Caracas, Venezuela, April 12, 2006-Venezuelans commemorated the 4th anniversary of the April 11, 2002, coup d’etat, yesterday, with the unveiling of a monument to the victims at the Llaguno Bridge, one of the centers of the violence in 2002.
    The (…)

  • IRAN : Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Warning Letter to President Bush
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Warning Letter to President Bush
    By Newswise
    04/18/06 "Newswise" - Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”
    The physicists include five Nobel laureates, a recipient of the National Medal of Science (…)

  • Theocons and Theocrats By Kevin Phillips 04/18/06 ("The Nation")
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Theocons and Theocrats
    By Kevin Phillips
    04/18/06 "The Nation" - [from the May 1, 2006 issue] — Is theocracy in the United States (1) a legitimate fear, as some liberals argue; (2) a joke, given the nation’s rising secular population and moral laxity; (3) a worrisome bias of major GOP constituencies and pressure groups; or (4) all of the above? The last, I would argue.
    The characteristics are not inconsistent. No large nation—no leading world power—could ever resemble theocracies like (…)

  • Italian Court Confirms Prodi’s Victory
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A top Italian court Wednesday confirmed the slim electoral victory of center-left economist Romano Prodi over Premier Silvio Berlusconi, according to Italian television.
    Italian Sky TV news said the Court of Cassation confirmed the result after reviewing 5,200 ballots that were not immediately included in the overall count because they were unclear.
    The court said an official announcement about the review would not be made until later Wednesday.
    Prodi said he would not comment until (…)

  • WHY RUMMY SHOULD GO - NOW !
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Of course let’s premise the notion of Rumsfeld’s much deserved ouster with the predicate that Bush is the responsible officer in all the fiascos that have characterized this deranged administration...... Rummy was no free agent , running off without presidential authorisation for the mad schemes concocted by himself , Cheney and the Likud Crazies who run the Pentagon and OVP...... We all know what a horror show Iraq has become........... But the current bloodbath taking place in Iraq is (…)

  • Dem Congressmen write letters to Bush on Iran- a man who doesn’t read nor understand US Constitution
    18 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I do believe the course of action that the constitution requires is the immediate introduction of articles of impeachment.
    Democratic Congressmen ask Bush about reports of US military operations in Iran
    Two Democratic Congressmen have written letters to President Bush on the heels of a growing number of news reports that American forces may have already begun military operations in Iran, RAW STORY has found.
    Both House members express concern that if the stories are true, then the (…)