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http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0419-07.htm Published on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 by Reuters
Global Warming Hits Canada’s Remotest Arctic Lands by David Ljunggren
RESOLUTE BAY, Nunavut - Even in one of the remotest, coldest and most inhospitable parts of Canada’s High Arctic, you cannot escape the signs of global warming.
Polar bears hang around on land longer than they used to, waiting for ice to freeze. The eternal night which blankets the region for (…)

April 15, 2006
Continuing Quiet Death Of Democracy
By John Pilger
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-04/15pilger.cfm
People ask: Can this be happening in Britain? Surely not. A centuries-old democratic constitution cannot be swept away. Basic human rights cannot be made abstract Those who once comforted themselves that a Labour government would never commit such an epic crime in Iraq might now abandon a last delusion, that their freedom is inviolable. If they knew.
The (…)

ZNet | Iraq
Baghdad Morgue Overflowing Daily by Dahr Jamail ; dahrjamailiraq.com; April 15, 2006
BAGHDAD, Apr 14 (IPS) - As sectarian killings continue to rise in Iraq, the central morgue in Baghdad is unable to keep up with the daily influx of bodies. *
The morgue is receiving a minimum of 60 bodies a day and sometimes more than 100, a morgue employee told IPS on condition of anonymity.
"The average is probably over 85," said the employee on the morning of April 12, as scores of (…)

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 (…)

ZNet | Venezuela
The Danger of Hugo Chávez’s Successful Socialism by Ted Rall; April 12, 2006
When the hated despots of nations like Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan loot their countries’ treasuries, transfer their oil wealth to personal Swiss bank accounts and use the rest to finance (in the House of Saud’s case) terrorist extremists, American politicians praise them as trusted friends and allies. But when a democratically elected populist president uses Venezuela’s oil profits to lift poor (…)

ZNet | Venezuela by David Edwards; April 10, 2006 On March 27, Channel 4 News included a report by Washington Correspondent Jonathan Rugman: ’Hugo to go?’
Rugman relentlessly smeared Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, in a piece described by John Pilger as "one of the worst, most distorted pieces of journalism I have ever seen". (Email to Channel 4 News, copied to Media Lens, March 27, 2006)
Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow introduced the film:
"Now, he’s the president with his own (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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, (…)