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  • Morales calls for ’reparations to the earth’ (video)
    29 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source: cialnanterre.googlepage
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-24129560.html

  • Venezuela: National Security = Personal Insecurity
    10 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    * This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security.
    Civil insecurity is a problem that has certainly been inherited by the so-called Bolivarian government, the product of, among other things, an immense social debt with large sectors of the population, getting worse to the point of being considered the mayor problem (…)

  • Brazil, Argentina abandon US dollar
    7 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Brazil, Argentina abandon US dollar
    Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:03:52 GMT
    Brazil’s President Lula da Silva (R) and Argentina’s President Fernandez de Kirchner
    Brazil and Argentina have launched a new payment system in their bilateral trade, doing away with the US dollar as a medium of exchange.
    The two Latin American nations started the Payment System on Local Currency (SML) on Monday following a last month agreement inked by their presidents to use local currencies in a bid to end (…)

  • Call to an International Meeting of Solidarity with Bolivia in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, from 23 to 25 October
    4 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Those who Stand with Bolivia, Stand for all People, all the Time
    1. The dignified inhabitants of this Abya Yala1 (American) continent have been struggling for centuries to re-establish SUMAK KAWSAY2 (Living Fully) that was seized from us by the invaders and subsequent colonizers. Throughout the ages they have murdered worthy leaders, usurped the wealth of the people and at the height of their greed, violated all human rights and those of Pachamama3 [Mother Earth], aided and abetted by (…)

  • Mexico, October 2, 1968: The Night of Tlatelolco; the Death of the Student Movement
    4 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ernesto Páramo, translated by Machetera
    The events of the night of Tlatelolco are still concealed, 40 years later, by a cold, dense fog that obscures the identity of a multitude of secondary actors, who nevertheless played important roles in the tragedy. The main actors who took the decisions and had direct responsibility for the events that led to the slaughter were: the President of the Republic, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz; the Interior Secretary, Luis Echeverría Álvarez, the head of the (…)

  • The "Kosovo Option" by Michel Chossudovsky
    25 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Destabilization of Bolivia and the "Kosovo Option"
    The secession of Bolivia’s Eastern provinces is part of a US sponsored covert operation, coordinated out of the US State Department, in liaison with US intelligence.
    The death squads armed with automatic weapons responsible for killing supporters of Evo Morales in El Porvenir are supported covertly by the US. According to one report, "USAID has an "Office of Transition Initiatives" operating in Bolivia, funneling millions of dollars (…)

  • Video: Five Arrested at the White House
    12 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video: Five Arrested at the White House
    Five activists protesting the injustice of the “Cuban Five” case, on Sept. 12, 2008, were arrested, around noon today, outside the White House. When the police ordered them not to cross a “police line,” set up arbitrarily on the sidewalk, they refused to comply in an act of civil disobedience. Prior to the arrests, a rally was held on the street, (just north of the White House). It was sponsored by the “National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.” (…)

  • 9/11/1973 : US backed Coup in Chile (War on Democracy film extracts)
    11 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22521524.html

  • 9/11: CIA Chile 1973 (video)
    11 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22521419.html

  • 9/11/1973 : Salvador Allende: Last Words/Ultimo Discurso (video)
    11 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22690195.html