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Sunday 5/29/2005
What's Next in Venezuela? Chavez Gets Proactive 5/29/2005 Counterpunch
‘New Castro’ threatens to take his feud with America nuclear 5/29/2005 Times, London: "In his latest challenge Chavez declared that Venezuela needed nuclear energy to prepare for when its oil ran out. He said that other Latin American countries should collaborate. “We want to initiate nuclear research and ask for help from countries like Iran,” he said.
While US officials have dismissed some of Chavez’s threats as bluster, intelligence sources are concerned about claims that he has given alleged terrorists Venezuelan passports.
Venezuelan officials dismiss Washington’s complaints as offensive and undemocratic. “The US is a very ideologically oriented administration and has a lot of animosity towards us,” said Andres Izarra, minister of information. “But we can ally ourselves with whomever we want.”
Washington has attempted to isolate Chavez by wooing his Latin American neighbours but when Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, raised concerns about Chavez during a tour of the region, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil remarked a few days later: “We don’t accept defamation and insinuations against a compañero (friend).”"
Nigerian Census: Igbo group protests exclusion of religion, ethnicity, 5/29/05 5/29/2005 Vanguard Nigeria
Mexico Supports Venezuelan Extradition Request 5/29/2005 Venezuela Analysis: "Despite the fact that Cuban terrorist Luis Posada Carriles illegally entered the US via the Mexican border in March, Mexico is not interested in prosecuting him for what Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez referred to as a relatively minor offense in a statement last week. In the event that the US would deport Posada to Mexico, Mexico would turn the former CIA agent over to the Venezuelan authorities. "We would be practically obliged to do this," stated Derbez, explaining that, "[w]e have an extradition treaty with Venezuela." Derbez went on to clarify that "[P]osada would have to go to Venezuela because the Venezuelan case is very clear, there is a crime, which is compounded by his escape from prison.""
Saturday 5/28/2005
 Amnesty International's List of US Officials who ordered the Use of Torture 5/28/2005 Global Research
Friday 5/27/2005
US denies Venezuela extradition of anti-Castro militant 5/27/2005 AFP: "Venezuela, meanwhile, said Friday that US officials had rejected only its request to arrest Posada Carriles, but not the request to extradite.
The embassy in Washington released a statement saying it would "submit any documentation necessary to seek the extradition.""
U.S. rejects Venezuelan move to extradite Cuban 5/27/2005 Reuters: "The United States rejected on Friday Venezuela's first move to extradite a Cuban exile wanted for an airliner bombing, in a case that could challenge the U.S. commitment to fight all forms of terrorism."
Thursday 5/26/2005
Uncovering a DOJ Coverup - The FBI, the Torture and Murder of Kenneth Trentadue and Advanced Knowledge of the Oklahoma City Bombing 5/26/2005 Counterpunch
Inmates Alleged Koran Abuse - FBI Papers Cite Complaints as Early as 2002 5/26/2005 Washington Post: "Detainees told FBI interrogators as early as April 2002 that mistreatment of the Koran was widespread at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and many said they were severely beaten by captors there or in Afghanistan, according to FBI documents released yesterday.
The summaries of FBI interviews, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of an ongoing lawsuit, include a dozen allegations that the Koran was kicked, thrown to the floor or withheld as punishment. One prisoner said in August 2002 that guards had "flushed a Koran in the toilet" and had beaten some detainees."
Wednesday 5/25/2005
An Unusual Day at hayer Prison 5/25/2005 Jihad Unspun: published 4/1/05, describes conditions in a Saudi jail, with interesting insight on the moral of the Saudi insurgency.
UN covers for Haiti’s killer cops, threatens American journalist 5/25/2005 SF Bay View
STATEMENT OF SEN. BARACK OBAMA ON AFRO-LATINOS 5/25/2005 TransAfrica: "Mr. President, I rise today to bring attention to the situation of Afro-Latinos throughout Latin America, in the hopes that we can encourage more action on this issue. From Colombia to
Brazil to the Dominican Republic to Ecuador, persons of African descent continue to experience
racial discrimination and remain among the poorest and most marginalized groups in the entire
region."
Tuesday 5/24/2005
Pentagon analyst charged with taking classified documents 5/24/2005 AP: "A Pentagon analyst previously accused of leaking top-secret information to a pro-Israel group was charged Tuesday with illegally taking classified government documents out of the Washington area to his West Virginia residence.
Lawrence Anthony Franklin, 58, was not authorized to take such documents to his home in Kearneysville, according to the federal charge issued along with an arrest warrant by U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Johnston in Martinsburg. ...Tuesday’s charge of unlawfully possessing classified federal defense documents focuses on six of the documents, which were written between October 2003 and June 2004. Four were CIA documents, including three about al-Qaida and one involving Osama bin Laden. Two of those documents were classified top secret, the rest as secret."
UMass Hire Ignites Claims of Racial Bias 5/24/2005 AP: "State Rep. Gloria Fox, a Democrat from Boston's predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood, said the decision reinforces a perception that the city is plagued by an "atmosphere of racism and bias.""
Venezuelans demand US turn over Cuban for bombing trial 5/24/2005 AP: "Venezuelan troops stood guard outside the embassy, while some protesters held a towel printed with the American flag upside down, then let it fall to the ground, trampling on it.
"Cuba yes, yankees no!" the crowd chanted. One woman shouted, "Yankees, go home!"
Protester Noel Marquez had strong words for McFarland, telling him, "You should apologise to the Venezuelan people for having a terrorist like the criminal Posada Carriles on US soil.""
J. Keith Motley denied as Chancellor of UMass Boston - Mass Community Rally For Dr. Keith Motley 5/24/2005 Black Voter Network
U.S. covering up mad cow cases, scientist says 5/24/2005 CTV, Canada: "Lester Friedlander, now a consumer advocate, was fired from his job as head of inspections at a large meat-packing plant in Philadelphia in 1995 after criticizing what he called unsafe practices.
Friedlander said he knows U.S. Agriculture Department veterinarians who sent suspect cow brains to private laboratories that confirmed mad cow infection, but samples from the same animals were cleared by government labs.
"It's several veterinarians that have given me similar stories about sending cow brains in,'' he said in an interview Tuesday. "It might be shocking for Canadians but it wouldn't be shocking for veterinarians that have worked for the USDA."
Customs Cops Visit Bill Conroy with an Attack on Press Freedom 5/24/2005 NarcoNews
The Media as an Instrument of War 5/24/2005 US Army: "When it is determined that civilian media broadcasts are directly interfering with the accomplishment of a military force’s mission, there is no law of war objection to using the minimum necessary force to shut them down. The extent to which force can be used for purely psychological operations purposes, such as shutting down a civilian radio station for the sole purpose of undermining the morale of the civilian population, is an issue that has yet to be addressed authoritatively by the international community."
Monday 5/23/2005
Chavez considers breaking US ties 5/23/2005 BBC: with commentary by Michael Ruppert
Attack on election board whistleblower and leaked Blackwell threats re-fire Ohio's election theft scandal 5/23/2005 Colombus Free Press: "The potential firing of Ohio whistleblower Sherole Eaton, Deputy Director of the Hocking County Board of Elections, has re-fired bitter controversy over the stolen 2004 presidential election.
And newly released documents confirming a pre-election threat by Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell against election board officials has added to the mix, as has the dismissal of Blackwell's highly publicized sanction attempt against attorneys who challenged the election outcome.
A paid Hocking County Election Board staff official, Eaton gained national notoriety when she blew the whistle on a Triad vote count technician. The technician swapped-out a hard drive in the tabulating computer located at the Board of Elections office before a statewide recount could be completed. According to a December 3, 2004 affidavit sworn by Eaton, the Triad technician "advised" the Hocking County Board of Elections' Republican Director Lisa Schwartze on how to "post a 'cheat sheet'" to make the recount match the officially reported election total. Advocates of the recount complain that the unexplained intrusion by the technician compromised the integrity of the vote count."
Venezuela: building a social model that avoids the Marxist errors of the past 5/23/2005 Vheadlines
Sunday 5/22/2005
Venezuela to Seek Nuclear Power With Iran's Help, Chavez Says 5/22/2005 Bloomberg
Affirmative inaction 5/22/2005 Boston Globe: "It is no small irony that a black man and a legal champion of affirmative action in public higher education lost their bids to run the University of Massachusetts at Boston to a beneficiary of this city's own peculiar brand of preferential treatment.Surprise: After a nationwide search and the usual lip service to diversity, the job went to a local, well-connected, white Irish guy. Marvin Krislov, vice president and general counsel at the University of Michigan, and J. Keith Motley, the career administrator serving as interim chancellor at UMass-Boston, were passed over for Michael F. Collins, an out-of-work (but hardly down-at-the-heels) healthcare executive in search of a soft landing after being ousted from Caritas Christi, the local Catholic hospital network that paid him more than $1 million a year. ...All three candidates were arguably well qualified for the job, but only Collins benefited from the social and political connections that have so much to do with hiring decisions in this parochial town. Consider the ascension of the man who for years single-handedly blocked legislative approval of stem cell research to the presidency of an organization committed to advancing that cause. The Massachusetts Biotechnology Council is not paying former House speaker Thomas M. Finneran hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for his thoughts. It is buying his clout, which remains formidable among his coat holders on Beacon Hill, even on the eve of his anticipated indictment on a federal perjury charge.
No one questions Collins's administrative skills. In a decade at the helm of Caritas Christi, he helped the struggling six-hospital network begin to turn a profit. His departure may have been precipitated by his fiscally prudent, if politically foolish, effort to shield the network's endowment from the financial fallout of the clergy sex-abuse scandal."
As Chavez Rises in Venezuela, Ties With U.S. Sour 5/22/2005 LA Times: "The case of pro-democracy activist Maria Corina Machado, who is scheduled to go to court next month on charges of treason and conspiracy, illustrates just how far the U.S. image has fallen in the nine months since President Hugo Chavez defeated a recall effort.
The act of treason Machado allegedly committed? Her human rights organization accepted $31,000 from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy for voter education workshops before the divisive August recall referendum."
Officers Plot Exit Strategy 5/22/2005 LA Times: "Many young lieutenants and captains, key leaders in combat, are deciding against Army careers in light of the open-ended war on terrorism."
Saturday 5/21/2005
Report implicates top brass in Bagram scandal 5/21/2005 Guardian
Is Venezuela going nuclear? Conversations with Iran give cause for concern 5/21/2005 Houston Chronicle: "Standing side by side with Khatami in Caracas, Chavez said, "Iran has every right to develop atomic energy and to continue research in that area. ... Faced with the threat of the U.S. government against our brother people in Iran, count on us for all our support."
After receiving the report that Chavez might be trying to acquire nuclear technology or weapons from Iran, I met with a high-ranking U.S. official to voice my concerns and ask what he thought about such speculation. He answered me point blank: "It would not surprise me. Chavez is dangerous, underestimated and capable of almost anything. We are hearing a number of curious and disturbing reports. He is actively working to recruit terrorist nations and developing countries into his campaign of hatred against the United States.""
Friday 5/20/2005
Ethiopia call for unity goverment 5/20/2005 BBC: "The United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) bloc made the call as initial results showed that it, and the main opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), had made big gains.
The opposition and the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) have both claimed victory.
The final results of Sunday's vote are due to be announced on 8 June."
More than 1,000 people flee fear of clashes in Colombia's north-west 5/20/2005 Reuters: "The internally displaced people (IDPs), mostly Afro-Colombians, say they fled because they were afraid of fighting between the Colombian army and various armed groups operating around the Buey River, a tributary of the Atrato River in the north-western Chocó province. Some say they left after they saw a helicopter overhead and were afraid they would be shot at if mistaken for rebels. Others complain of having nothing to eat back home, having run out of supplies due to the unrest.
According to the IDPs, these fears and conditions have provoked the displacement of the entire Afro-Colombian population in seven communities – San Jose de Buey, La Vuelta, Curuchí, San Antonio de Buey, Aurobuey, Chibugá and Mansa."
Thursday 5/19/2005
NORMAN RICHMOND: Malcolm X and the music 5/19/2005 Chicago Defender
Bolivia Erupts 5/19/2005 Counterpunch
Nazi-like Experiments at N.I.H. - Testing AIDS Drugs on Unwitting Foster Children 5/19/2005 Counterpunch
Afro-Descendants Marginalised and Ignored 5/19/2005 IPS: "There are almost four times as many people of African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean than indigenous people, yet the poverty and discrimination they suffer are largely ignored, despite the fact that they are just as severe, or even worse, than the conditions facing the region's aboriginal inhabitants.
The indigenous population, which comprises an estimated 40 million people, has taken on an increasingly active political role in Latin America. By contrast, the 150 million Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have extremely limited political power and lack cohesive organisations to represent their interests. Their situation also receives far less attention in international forums and academic research… In Brazil, the white population is 2.5 times wealthier than the black population; in Colombia, 80 percent of Afro-descendants live in extreme poverty; and in Cuba, the only country in the hemisphere with a socialist economic system, blacks are largely relegated to the worst housing and the poorest paid jobs, according to studies conducted in these countries."
Massacres, corruption accompany Plan Colombia 5/19/2005 Worker's World: "The “rogue American soldiers” refers to three incidents reported recently in the media. Shortly after midnight on May 3, an anonymous caller alerted police in Cundinamarca, the municipality where the capital Bogotá is located, to a “big” event in the region—the delivery of a shipment.
When the police arrived, they found 29 metal boxes with 32,900 rounds of ammunition and three men—one Colombian plus a colonel and a sergeant from the Special Forces of the U.S. Army. The last two were shooting instructors at the nearby National Army Training Center of Tolemaida.
The booty was reportedly going to be sold to right-wing paramilitaries.
This incident comes after two others: one on March 29, when five U.S. soldiers who were part of the “anti-drug” operations in the south of Colombia were arrested for carrying 16 kilograms of cocaine in a U.S. military plane, and a recent case of a U.S. soldier being investigated for the hit-and-run death of two Colombian soldiers last year.
These episodes are not unique nor isolated incidents. In fact, as part of Plan Colombia the Colombian government had to, at Washington’s request, sign a treaty that grants immunity to the 800 U.S. military personnel and 600 U.S. contractors operating in that country.
What is unique is that these incidents became news in the Colombian media, which reflects the opinion of part of the oligarchy. It is still early to ascertain their real meaning."
Wednesday 5/18/2005
The Secret Raids of Alberto Gonzales - Operation Falcon: 10,000 Swept Up 5/18/2005 Counterpunch: "We're really amazed. We had no idea we'd apprehend more than 10,000 bad guys," said one federal law enforcement official who asked not to be identified. "We didn't know what to expect, but the response from law enforcement personnel everywhere was truly amazing." (CNN)
The media's approbation does little to disguise the real purpose of Operation Falcon. (which is an acronym for "Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.")
The Bush administration is sharpening its talons for the inevitable difficulties it expects to face as a result of its disastrous policies. With each regressive initiative, the governing cabal seems to get increasingly paranoid, anticipating an outburst of public rage. Now, they're orchestrating massive round-ups of minor crooks to make sure that every cog and gear in the apparatus of state repression is lubricated and ready to go."
On nuclear issues, Bolton's a failure 5/18/2005 NY Observer: "So instead of progress toward increased safety, his four years in that most sensitive post have led to stagnation and stalemate. According to the authoritative Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, international cooperation to reduce the nuclear threat is now approaching a crisis of "unsolved problems and lingering policy disputes."
Mr. Bolton's sole mission since 2001 has been to resolve those problems and disputes. He works for a President who says "the biggest threat facing this country is weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist network," and whose stated policy is to reduce that threat with urgency and diligence.
But among the most knowledgeable members of Congress in both parties, Mr. Bolton has developed a poor reputation as both administrator and negotiator. He hasn't gotten the job done."
Join the Free Haiti Movement by Marguerite Laurent, Esq. 5/18/2005 SF Bay View
Desecration of Koran Had Been Reported Before 5/18/2005 Washington Post: "But American and international media have widely reported similar allegations from detainees and others of desecration of the Muslim holy book for more than two years.
James Yee, a former Muslim chaplain at the prison who was investigated and cleared of charges of mishandling classified material, has asserted that guards' mishandling and mistreatment of detainees' Korans led the prisoners to launch a hunger strike in March 2002. Detainee lawyers, attributing their information to an interrogator, have said the strike ended only when military leaders issued an apology to the detainees over the camp loudspeaker. But they said mishandling of the Koran persisted.
Erik Saar, a former Army translator at Guantanamo Bay who has written a book about mistreatment of detainees at the military prison, said in interviews and in his book that he never saw a Koran flushed in a toilet but that guards routinely ignored prisoners' sensitivities by tossing it on the ground while searching their cells.
And numerous detainees, whose stories are uncorroborated, have said to various media outlets that at detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan, the Koran was stepped on, tossed on the floor and placed in latrines.
"They tore the Koran to pieces in front of us, threw it into the toilet," former detainee Aryat Vahitov told Russian television in June 2004."
Tuesday 5/17/2005
Don't blame Newsweek - Despite sloppiness, Newsweek didn't fabricate Koran story 5/17/2005 Working for Change
Monday 5/16/2005
CITGO gas station locator 5/16/2005 CITGO
Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott! 5/16/2005 Venezuela Analysis: "Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations. And tell your friends. Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush." "
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is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and
security to all, but especially to Democracies as against despots:
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