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THE PROOF IS IN THE DOCUMENTS: THE CIA WAS INVOLVED IN THE COUP AGAINST VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT CHAVEZ
by:Eva Golinger
http://www.venezuelafoia.info/english.html
On April 12, 2002, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer stated: “Let me share with you the administration’s thoughts about what’s taking place in Venezuela. It remains a somewhat fluid situation. But yesterday’s events in Venezuela resulted in a change in the government and the assumption of a transitional authority until new (…)

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 (…)

electronicIraq.net
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 (…)

The Antiwar Movement Needs to Take a Look Around
Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
By RON JACOBS
The French students and workers force the repeal of a law that would have provided employers complete control over the work lives of French youth. Immigrants and their supporters maintain a growing series of protests across the United States to oppose proposed legislation that would criminalize the existence of any US residents without the proper papers and those that assist them. On a (…)

Jackson Diehl: Worse Than Page Six? The Washington Post vs. Venezuela
By ERIC WINGERTER
Anyone looking to keep up to date with the current talking points for the Venezuelan opposition need only follow the writings of Jackson Diehl in the Washington Post. As deputy editorial page editor, Diehl drafts the un-bylined editorials about President Hugo Chavez.
When Diehl writes a particularly unsubstantiated column, the Post publishes his work on the right-hand side of the opinion page, thus (…)

The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy
A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th. ITV News interview with Peter Power, Managing Director of Visor Consultants, and a former Scotland Yard official who worked at one time with the Anti Terrorist Branch.
Video of interview - (…)

www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1944
Tuesday, Apr 18, 2006
Caracas, Venezuela, April 18, 2006-After almost a year of buying billions of dollars in Argentine bonds, Venezuela moves to buy back its own, saving, according to the Ministry of Finance, $676 million in debt repayments in 2006.
Venezuela announced in late February it would retire 3.9 billion dollars in Brady bonds, which would have matured in 2020. Last week the Ministry of Finance announced that 75 percent of the (…)

See the video : http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12665.htm
"Director Toshikuni DOI exposes the side of the U.S. war in Iraq that Americans do not see or hear in mainstream media."
Ten days after the siege of Falluja was lifted, Toshikuni Doi, a Japanese independent journalist, went into Falluja. His documentary, investigates the causes of, conditions during, and damages from the siege.
Warning
This film contains graphic images. Viewer discretion advised.

Published on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 by the Guardian / UK http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0418-02.htm
UK Scientists Attack Oil Firms’ Role in Huge Arctic Project Sixty-country survey to search for fossil fuels in pristine environment
by David Adam http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0418-02.htm
British scientists are at loggerheads with US colleagues over a controversial plan to work alongside oil companies to hunt for fossil (…)

Published on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 by CommonDreams.org Iran: The Day After by Phyllis Bennis http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0419-23.htm
The airwaves and the headlines are full of talk of a U.S. military strike against Iran. That is as it should be - the danger of such a reckless move is real, and rising, and we should be talking about it. The Bush administration claims that negotiations are their first choice. But they have gone to war based on lies (…)