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Singer and activist Harry Belafonte visted Venezuela this week, along with a delegation of 13 other U.S. activist leaders, to see "with their own eyes" what is happening in Venezuela. The delegation saw social projects, met with government officials, and opposition leaders.
by Gregory Wilpert
The singer, actor, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte visited Venezuela this week, leading a delegation of 13 other prominent activists from the U.S. During their visit, the delegation toured (…)

Physicians for a National Health Program Meet in Philadelphia
by Andy Coates
Physicians for a National Health Program held its annual meeting on December 10, 2005. Originally planned for New Orleans, it was relocated to Philadelphia after Hurricane Katrina. Founded in 1987, the organization has over 14,000 members nationally. PNHP advocates and educates for a single national health insurance plan: in the words of PNHP National Coordinator Quentin Young, MD, "everybody in, nobody out." (…)

By Michael T. Klare
President Bush has lost the support of most Americans when it comes to the economy, the environment, and the war in Iraq, but he continues to enjoy majority support in one key area: his handling of the war on terrorism. Indeed, many analysts believe that Bush won the 2004 election largely because swing voters concluded that he would do a better job at this than John Kerry. In fact, with his overall opinion-poll approval ratings so low, Bush’s purported proficiency in (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

– Economists say official estimates are far too low New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers
by Jamie Wilson in Washington
The real cost to the US of the Iraq war is likely to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion (£1.1 trillion), up to 10 times more than previously thought, according to a report written by a Nobel prize-winning economist and a Harvard budget expert.
The study, which expanded on traditional estimates by including such costs as lifetime disability and (…)

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 (…)

18 innocent people killed in air strike
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — (OfficialWire) — 01/14/06 — Acting on local intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) targeted and killed at least 18 innocent civilians including women and as many as five children.
While American TV channels reported that Ayman al-Zawahiri was the target of a CIA air strike Friday in Pakistan Bajur tribal region and may have been among those killed, the reality is quite the opposite.
What really happened is that (…)

Here we go again . The war drums are beating . The New York Times is spewing forth yet more baloney . Judith Miller is gone but James Risen has taken her place as Chief Correspondent for the Neocon War Party and it’s The Toilet Paper of Record .
Risen claims that Iran has been pursuing the dreaded nuke for the past twenty years . Oh Really? Where are they hiding this programme? For the past three years , The International Atomic Energy Association has scowered the country from one (…)

The Army cited incentives approved by Congress for the current budget year that may help further. New recruits now can receive up to $40,000 as sign-up bonus and up to $90,000 for re-enlisting.
This is the last paragraph of a long and winding article, unrelated to recruitment.
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