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Global Research March 4, 2008 The Bullet, Socialist Project e-bulletin
"Never again will they rob us -the ExxonMobil bandits. They are imperial, American bandits, white-collared thieves. They turn governments corrupt, they oust governments. They supported the invasion of Iraq."
This was the response from Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to the successful lawsuit by the world’s biggest corporation (ExxonMobil), freezing $12 billion in assets of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, (…)

By RICHARD GOTT
The deaths of Raúl Reyes and Julián Conrado, two senior figures in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the Farc, is clearly a serious blow to the guerrilla organisation. It will also call a halt to the release of hostages held by the Farc in the jungle over many years, a process that had been proceeding slowly under the auspices of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Freedom in the short term for the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, in which the (…)

Global Research March 2, 2008
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8065
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-17306950.html
At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Six members of the Izziddin al-Qassam Brigades were in it at the time. Five of them were killed. The sixth one was seriously injured.
Twenty minutes later, another aircraft attacked (…)

“Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there’s no place to hide.” - Charles R. Morris

By David Glenn Cox
There is something strange going on in the political landscape of America. Something both parties see as a threat to national security, well to their national security at least. The candidates of both major political parties strike terror into the hearts of both political parties’ leadership for the same reason, and for opposite reasons. Last year it was a foregone conclusion that the Democratic nominee would be Hillary Clinton, no one doubted it for one minute, she (…)

Global Research, March 2, 2008
On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves."
This date will go down in history as the beginning of a new phase in the colonial conflict between Israel and the (…)

Global Research March 1, 2008
International Tribunal for U.S./NATO War Crimes in Yugoslavia - 2000-06-10
The EU, the US, NATO and the UN Mission in Kosovo bear responsibility in the criminalization of Kosovo State institutions.
The following article, written in March 2000, focusses on the formation of a Kosovar Mafia State integrated by former members of the KLA.
With the February 2008 declaration of Independence, this process has reached its completion. Kosovo is not a mafia state (…)

Global Research March 4, 2008
“We have an appointment with death We have become familiar with our shores of despair ...” Ali Ahmad Said: “Victims of a Map” , Saqi Books
The world community is encouraged to celebrate and commemorate two occasions this year: Israel’s theft of Palestine and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights.
As the British government announces that the educational curriculum is to now include school children visiting Auschwitz “lest we forget” the (…)

By Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail*
DAMASCUS, Mar 3 (IPS) - More Iraqis continue to flee their country than the numbers returning, despite official claims to the contrary.
Thousands fleeing say security is as bad as ever, and that to return would be to accept death.
"Return to Iraq?" asks 35-year-old Ahmed Alwan, an Iraqi engineer now working at a restaurant in Damascus. "There is no Iraq to return to, my friend. Iraq only exists in our dreams and memories."
The United Nations High (…)

High Time for a Worldwide Boycott March 02, 2008 By Omar Barghouti
Yesterday, Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling the Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, [the Palestinians] will bring upon themselves a bigger holocaust because we will use all our might to defend ourselves."[1] This date will go down in history as the beginning of a new (…)