Entries from March 2008

March 27, 2008

HAITI: The DEA Hunts for Guy Philippe Again! US, Is This Any Way to Treat the Guy Who Did Your Dirty Work?

Guy Philippe was one of two primary leaders of a paramilitary group that the US housed, trained and armed in the Dominican Republic to make cross-border attacks into Haiti beginning in 2002 in order to kill their countrymen aligned with the administration of the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last year, he started shooting his [...]

March 26, 2008

VENEZUELA: Wash Post’s Diehl Gets a Long-Deserved Dressing Down from Chavez’ Communications Minister

Below is a letter from Venezuela’s Communications Minister, Andres Izarra, to Jackson Diehl, an editor at the Washington Post. Diehl has been responsible for some of the most vicious disinformation about President Chavez produced by any newspaper in the US. Hats off to Minister Izarra!
See Related article: “Washington Post’s Obsession with [...]

March 23, 2008

HAITI: The Benefits of a Weak State

This is an excellent and comprehensive summary of the “weak state” prescription that the international community has been administering to Haiti for years. Now, Haiti is more sick than ever. Darren Ell is right — the only way this will stop is for the citizens of US, France, and Canada to learn [...]

March 21, 2008

“CUBA: Transition Without End”- An Indictment of Imperialism and A Tribute to the Cuban Revolution

It’s always a pleasure to find an article that features a tribute to the Cuban revolution. It’s equally pleasurable to find an article that showcases a scathing indictment of imperialism. The following article offers BOTH!
Cuba : Transitions without End
By Dr. Frederic Clairmont
Global Research, March 21, 2008
” The victory of the Revolution is [...]

March 20, 2008

VENEZUELA: Chronology of the Fourth Generation War Against Venezuela by Eva Golinger

Chronology of the 4th Generation War Against Venezuela
March 20th 2008, by Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution
The US Government is waging war on Venezuela - not your typical, traditional war, but a modern, asymmetric - 4th Generation War - against President Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution. Below is a presentation I created regarding the [...]

March 18, 2008

COLOMBIA-ECUADOR: This Time USA Cut Down to Size

It’s been a breathless couple of weeks since Uribe and his murderous Colombian army bombed a FARC camp inside Ecuador. When the Colombian soldiers arrived at the camp site, they finished off those wounded and lured others to surrender so they could be killed on sight.
So what came out of it all? Thanks [...]

March 13, 2008

HAITI: Laura Bush Visits Haiti Four Years After Her Husband Turned It Into a Killing Field

On February 29, 2004, Bush’s Deputy Ambassador in Haiti, Luis Moreno, and US Special Forces kidnapped the democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and put him on a plane to the Central African Republic. Bush’s initial objective in Haiti had been achieved — the guy who bucked the neoliberal system was out of the way. [...]

March 13, 2008

VENEZUELA: OAS Ambassador Says US Gov’t. is “Terrorist Gov’t. Par Excellence”

Watch out - when the Venezuelans start speaking French, they mean business!
Venezuela: U.S. Government is “Terrorist Government Par Excellence”
March 12th 2008, by Kiraz Janicke - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, March 12, 2008, (venezuelanalysis.com) - The United States government is “the terrorist government par excellence,” Venezuela’s representative in the Organisation of American States (OAS), Jorge Valero said in [...]

March 12, 2008

HAITI: President Aristide Sends Message on the Occasion of Fourth Anniversary of Coup

 
P. Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Pretoria, South Africa

Dear Friends,

May the spirit of International Day in [...]

March 10, 2008

HAITI: Lavalas Movement in Haiti Will Not Quit

Lavalas movement in Haiti will not quit
HIP- The Lavalas movement of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti simply will not quit. Despite pronouncements by the United Nations that the movement was dead nearly six months ago, over ten thousand supporters demonstrated in Port au Prince this last February 29, 2008. The date was auspicious in [...]