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Sunday  8/22/2004

Iran heightens stakes in battle to control Najaf  8/22/2004 Scotsman: "The Americans are not in the mood for compromise. The reason is that in Najaf there is a dangerous extra dimension Sadr has the implicit, if not the overt, backing of Iran, which has moved up Washington’s list of pariah states to share the number one slot with Sudan. Ever since a group of radical students climbed into the American embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days, successive American administrations have been obsessed with Iran."


Saturday  8/21/2004

Jimmy Carter's Report from Caracas  8/21/2004 NarcoNews 


Friday  8/20/2004

Guatemala to pay paramilitaries  8/20/2004 BBC: "Guatemala says it will pay at least $420m to paramilitaries who battled rebels during the country's civil war. The former fighters, who activists say are responsible for war crimes, had threatened to paralyse the country if Congress did not approve the payments."

Venezuela audit 'confirms' result  8/20/2004 BBC: "The audit is being carried out by the official electoral authority - the Venezuelan National Electoral Council - and international observers from the Carter Center and the Organization of American States (OAS). They were due to visit 150 polling sites, checking the results produced by voting machines against paper records, in the presence of government and opposition representatives."

Colombia's oil pipeline is paid for in blood and dollars  8/20/2004 Guardian: "Why has Arauca been singled out for "enhanced" security? One answer is oil. It is home to the Caño Limón oilfield, which accounts for 30% of Colombia's oil production. The oil is pumped to the Caribbean through a pipeline that has been a major target for guerrilla forces. Now a complex mosaic of armed groups - rightwing paramilitaries and the army, often working closely together, and leftwing guerrillas - struggle for control of the lucrative pipeline and cocaine routes."

Yes, Colombia's Uribe Is a Narco  8/20/2004 NarcoNews 

Medical Personnel Complicit in Abu Ghraib Torture, says the Lancet  8/20/2004 Under the Same Sun 

DISIP agents seize +100 lbs. of C-4 plastic explosive in Venezuelan rebel opposition stronghold  8/20/2004 Vheadlines 


Thursday  8/19/2004

Iran warns of preemptive strike to prevent attack on nuclear sites  8/19/2004 AFP 

Operation Condor Still Alive in South America  8/19/2004 IPS: ""We know that during the entire time my father was in the Santa María clinic, intelligence service personnel were there. Five doctors have been identified" as agents of the DINE army intelligence service, a special group created by the dictatorship. DINE agents "were assigned to the most high-profile cases, like my father's death or the murder of trade union leader Tucapel Jiménez, and the killings by sarin nerve gas, botulin, anthrax and other products that that crazy genius, Berríos, created," said Frei."

Doctor May Get Life for Violating Iraq Sanctions  8/19/2004 New Standard: "In the eighteen months since central New York oncologist Rafil Dhafir was arrested and charged with violating the U.S. embargo against Iraq, he has been sitting in a Syracuse jail, ignored by most of the national media, as prosecutors continue to add charges threatening him with a maximum sentence of almost 300 years in prison."

Opposition Rejects Audit Plan in Venezuela Recall Dispute  8/19/2004 NYT: "After demanding an audit of voting results upon failing to oust President Hugo Chávez in a recall referendum, representatives of Venezuela's opposition movement said Wednesday that they would refuse to participate in or recognize the review, asserting that the audit would fail to detect the deception that they insist took place."

Commentary: Iran's war threat is very real  8/19/2004 UPI: "Some political leaderships specialize in using tough talk that they never seriously mean to back up with equally ruthless actions. But the Iranians are not like that. They lost around a half-million dead to repel Saddam in the eight-year Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988. So when Shamkhani threatens the prospect of a major war against the United States: Believe him."

Smartmatic Mugica: Fraud cannot be committed with our vote technology  8/19/2004 Vheadlines 


Wednesday  8/18/2004

Havana Nights in Las Vegas, 8/18/04  8/18/2004 AfroCubaWeb 

‘We still have dignity’  8/18/2004 SF Bay View: "The dismantling of popular education under the new U.S-backed regime in Haiti by Haiti Information Project"

All power to the people  8/18/2004 SF Bay View: "Chávez has understood the potential power of women as primary carers. Four months of continuous lobbying got women the constitution they wanted. Among its anti-sexist, anti-racist provisions, it recognizes women’s unwaged caring work as economically productive, entitling housewives to social security. No surprise then that in 2002 women of African and indigenous descent led the millions who descended from the hills to reverse the coup - by a mainly white elite and the CIA - thereby saving their constitution, their president, their democracy, their revolution."

Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton’s band  8/18/2004 SF Bay View: "77 percent of Venezuela’s farmland is owned by 3 percent of the population, the ‘hacendados.’ I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I’ve ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, “Chavez - dic-ta-dor!” The plantation owner griped about the “socialismo” of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible."

U.S. tries GPS-aided supply drops to counter anti-trucker terror  8/18/2004 World Tribune: This article in a paper located in CIA HQ's backyard of Northern Virginia shows how stretched and under attack US supply lines are in Iraq. Unlike Viet Nam, where the whole coast could be used for re-supply, all supplies go through one southern port and other routes from Jordan and Turkey are higly vulernable to low-tech attacks.


Tuesday  8/17/2004

Chávez declares referendum victory, but is battle over?  8/17/2004 CSM: "Chávez's critics immediately pointed out that the number of reported "yes" votes was nearly the same as the approximately 3.5 million signatures the opposition had collected last year to trigger the referendum. During that petition drive there were numerous charges that voters were intimidated into not signing by threats of loss of government jobs or benefits. Opponents claim that many people who were intimidated into not signing did indeed vote and therefore the "yes" vote should have far exceeded the number of signatures." [But it did not.]

C.I.A. Officer Denounces Agency and Sept. 11 Report  8/17/2004 NYT: "In the Sept. 11 commission's final report, "you never mention that the D.C.I. starved and is starving the bin Laden unit of officers while finding plenty of officers to staff his personal public relations office, as well as the staffs that handled diversity, multiculturalism, and employee newsletters," he wrote in a letter that was sent July 31. He also said that the United States gave short shrift to protecting American lives before the Sept. 11 attacks so that it could pursue the sale of fighter jets to an unnamed Arab government, which other officials identified as the United Arab Emirates."

Venezuela: Crean desde internet el operativo Rescate que permite anular la utilización fraudulenta de su firma contra Chávez  8/17/2004 Rebelion: publicado el 29 de mayo, 2004


Monday  8/16/2004

Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band - Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio' President  8/16/2004 Baltimore Chronicle: "What the affable president sees in his reflection, beyond the ribbons of office, is a "negro e indio" -- a "Black and Indian" man, dark as a cola nut, same as the landless and, until now, the hopeless. For the first time in Venezuela's history, the 80% Black-Indian population elected a man with skin darker than the man in the Jaguar."

Why He Crushed the Oligarchs The Importance of Hugo Chávez  8/16/2004 Counterpunch 

Haiti has not been forgotten  8/16/2004 Final Call: "In essence, then, we cannot get over, or get beyond, what has taken place in Haiti. In large part, this is because the effects of the events of February 2004 in Haiti continue to unfold. It is also because the motivations behind the Bush administration’s duplicity and destabilization in Haiti remain central to their approach to handling other international flash points. Unless the underlying approach is challenged and ultimately rejected, we will never be able to get over February 29th, because that will be only one day in a terrible line of infamies."

Venezuela: The Chávez Victory by the Numbers  8/16/2004 NarcoNews: "More likely, the remaining votes will fall in similar percentages as the 95 percent already counted, bringing the final total to something like 5.26 million "NO" votes to 3.76 million votes. This means that the opposition did not even succeed at garnering the 3.8 million votes that, had the pro-Chávez vote not turned out in these record numbers, would have been required to provoke a recall referendum. Thus, it is a double loss for the dwindling opposition in this oil-rich country of 24 million men, women, elders, and children."

Suppress the Vote?  8/16/2004 NYT: "State police officers have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them as part of an odd "investigation" that has frightened many voters, intimidated elderly volunteers and thrown a chill over efforts to get out the black vote in November. The officers, from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which reports to Gov. Jeb Bush, say they are investigating allegations of voter fraud that came up during the Orlando mayoral election in March. Officials refused to discuss details of the investigation, other than to say that absentee ballots are involved. They said they had no idea when the investigation might end, and acknowledged that it may continue right through the presidential election."

U.S. to Remove Up to 70,000 Troops from Europe, Asia  8/16/2004 Reuters: "Advisers to Democratic presidential rival John Kerry warned the plan could make America more vulnerable. "This ill-conceived move and its timing seem politically motivated rather than designed to strengthen our national security," said retired Gen. Wesley Clark."

Venezuela's Chavez Triumphant: History Making Democracy in Latin America  8/16/2004 Venezuela Analysis 


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