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  • Evo Morales, el socialismo comunitario y el Bloque Regional de Poder
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Evo Morales, Communitarian Socialism, and the Regional Power Block
    by Heinz Dieterich
    1. Evo Morales y el socialismo
    "Evo, ¿que entienden tú y el MAS por socialismo?", le pregunté durante aquellos horribles días de matanza de Sánchez de Losada, en La Paz, en febrero del 2003, donde estaba invitado por el Comité Ejecutivo de la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB). "Vivir en comunidad y en igualdad", me contestó. "Fundamentalmente, en las comunidades campesinas hay socialismo. Por ejemplo, si (…)

  • A Disastrous Appointment
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michelle Goldberg
    Bush’s backdoor choice of unqualified right-winger Ellen Sauerbrey to head the US refugee-response team raises the specter of Michael Brown.
    One of the Bush administration’s favorite ways of rewarding its Christian right base is to seed the foreign policy bureaucracy with its allies. Because appointments to international delegations or deputy- level State Department posts get little mainstream attention, there wasn’t much uproar when Bush made Christian radio host (…)

  • Venezuela’s Jews Defend Leftist President in Flap Over Remarks
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MARC PERELMAN
    The Venezuelan Jewish community leadership and several major American Jewish groups are accusing the Simon Wiesenthal Center of rushing to judgment by charging Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chavez, with making antisemitic remarks.
    Officials of the leading organization of Venezuelan Jewry were preparing a letter this week to the center, complaining that it had misinterpreted Chavez’s words and had failed to consult with them before attacking the Venezuelan (…)

  • Why the Democrats should impeach Bush/Cheney today
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Yes, Martha, I understand that US Representative John Conyers (D-NY) has filed an “impeachment resolution” (HR 635), plus two mentions for censure (HR 636 and 637) in the House Judiciary Committee. The impeachment resolution lays the foundation for bipartisan impeachment proceedings, which by the way is my first problem with it. Asking the Republicans to impeach Bush/Cheney is like asking the chickens to swallow a two-headed fox. But it’s more than that . . .
    The editor of Online Journal, (…)

  • Cheney calls Iraq " Remarkable Success Story"
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On the Pentagon’s own website , Vice President Cheney was quoted as telling Tony Snow of Fox News that Iraq has become ,in his words, " a remarkable success story."
    A country in ruins , hundreds of thousands dead , US journalists and diplomats billeted behind their Maginot Line , the so called Green Zone, a country polluted with depleted uranium , and the President of Vice regales in his "triumph".
    He furthermore is touting yet more forgeries created by the Pentagon’s Office of (…)

  • Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The National Security Agency advised President Bush in early 2001 that it had been eavesdropping on Americans during the course of its work monitoring suspected terrorists and foreigners believed to have ties to terrorist groups, according to a declassified document.
    The NSA’s vast data-mining activities began shortly after Bush was sworn in as president and the document contradicts his assertion that the 9/11 attacks prompted him to take the unprecedented step of signing a secret (…)

  • Intelligence sources warn Venezuela’s Chavez: Beware the Ides of January!
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    VHeadline.com editor & publisher Roy S. Carson writes: A United States move to ’deal with’ Washington D.C.’s percieved problem with Hugo Chavez Frias could be close to execution if usually accurate intelligence sources are to be believed ... warning that Venezuela’s President should take extreme care as the ’Ides of January’ approaches this Sunday, January 15.
    While we at VHeadline.com sincerely hope and trust that, contrary to indications, the imminent threat is baseless, the zeal (…)

  • Flashback: July 5, 1987 - REAGAN AIDES AND THE SECRET GOVERNMENT
    13 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ALFONSO CHARDY, HERALD WASHINGTON BUREAU
    WASHINGTON — Some of President Reagan’s top advisers have operated a virtual parallel government outside the traditional Cabinet departments and agencies almost from the day Reagan took office, congressional investigators and administration officials have concluded.
    Investigators believe that the advisers’ activities extended well beyond the secret arms sales to Iran and aid to the contras now under investigation.
    Lt. Col. Oliver North, for (…)

  • Why is there an Alito Hearing at all? Why is Bush, who lied us into a war, appointing anyone?
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush’s full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide some nuggets of insight into how the corrupt junta’s pathological liars actually work.
    The first order of amazement is that the process can actually take place. Shouldn’t precedence be given to hearings on impeaching and imprisoning the corporate (…)

  • Belafonte Blasts Bush in Venezuela
    12 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By IAN JAMES
    CARACAS, Venezuela (AP)- The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
    Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez’s (…)