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  • Palestine cries out for help (Online Journal)
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Palestine cries out for help By Linda S. Heard Online Journal Contributing Writer
    Apr 19, 2006, 01:17
    Israeli policy makers and their allies, the US and the EU, are determined to bring the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to its knees. This “Axis of Double Standards” touts its moral high ground even while it bullies, bombs and blackmails countries that refuse to mold themselves in its image.
    This uncompassionate triad merrily spends billions on wars and selectively sprinkles largesse to (…)

  • 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, (…)

  • Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Chavez says US warships threaten Venezuela, Cuba
    By Greg Brosnan Tue Apr 18, 6:43 PM ET
    President Hugo Chavez, who accuses Washington of planning to invade Venezuela, said on Tuesday recent deployment of U.S. warships in the Caribbean Sea threatened his country and its ally Cuba.
    Four U.S. warships, including an aircraft carrier, and 6,500 sailors, are in a two-month deployment in the Caribbean Sea dubbed "Partnership of the Americas" by the U.S. Navy.
    "They are doing maneuvers (…)

  • Venezuela, like U.S., to hold military exercises in the Caribbean
    20 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Venezuela, like U.S., to hold military exercises in the Caribbean 20.04.2006 Source: URL: http://english.pravda.ru/world/79367-military-0
    Venezuela plans to hold military exercises soon along its coasts and with neighboring countries’ armed forces, the defense minister said Wednesday, while U.S. warships were conducting their own maneuvers in the Caribbean.
    Adm. Orlando Maniglia did not specify when Venezuelan troops would train with other countries, but said the Venezuelan military is (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq By Dahr Jamail
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq By Dahr Jamail
    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806J.shtml
    Tuesday 18 April 2006
    The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public (…)

  • Iraq’s rising numbers of orphaned children
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Iraq’s rising numbers of orphaned children
    Report, IRIN
    18 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - Orphans in Iraq, who often lack protection, food supplies and medical assistance, require urgent assistance, according to officials at the Orphans Houses Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
    "Orphaned children have become a very serious issue," said department director Abeer Mahdi al-Chalabi. "We have 23 orphanages with limited capacity, capable of housing only (…)