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General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, now head of Hondutel I’m sure Hondurans are relieved to hear Velasquez assessment of his abilities. “One of the specialties that I have is intelligence, and intelligence must be applied properly to try to have as much information to make the necessary corrections,” the General said. ... [Link] [Cache]

Honduras: Opposition Calls Consultation on Assembly Escrito por Fany Rodríguez martes, 09 de marzo de 2010 Tegucigalpa, Mar 9 Prensa Latina The National Popular Resistance Front FNRP announced on Tuesday the carrying out of a consultation to the population to create a constituent assembly to refound the country. The Front ... [Link] [Cache]

Then the U.S. must have supported it, 'eh?"Coup draws praise in Niger; In twist, junta seen as protector of democracy" by Todd Pitman, Associated Press | February 28, 2010NIAMEY, Niger - It’s politics, upside down. The elected president of a uranium-rich nation morphs into a despot and refuses to relinquish ... [Link] [Cache]

Hillary Clinton’s “Damage Control” Trip to Latin America By Mark Weisbrot This column was published by The Guardian Unlimited on March 5, 2010. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original. Hillary Clinton’s Latin America tour is turning out to be about as successful as ... [Link] [Cache]

Chomsky Post-Earthquake: Aid Should go to Haitian Popular Organizations, not to Contractors or NGOs Keane Bhatt For decades, Noam Chomsky has been an analyst and activist working in support of the Haitian people. In addition to his revolutionary linguistics career at MIT, he has written, lectured and protested against injustice ... [Link] [Cache]

Nation by Nation Insurrection Daily, Mar 4 2010 Dispelled should be all the worries relatively recently raised questioning the terminality of the west prolapse. The west media whores did indeed try staging a “recovery” juggernaut campaign raping all econ indicators, reinventing econ concepts, and razing all reason to justify the ... [Link] [Cache]

I'm really, really, really tired of the endless agenda-pushing, enemy-creating, and war-promoting of the BG and AmeriKan MSM, readers.The GUY SENT US CHEAP HEATING OIL while we we freezing, fart-misters while the AmeriKan oil companies gouge us, so PFFFFFFFFFT!!!"OAS rights report criticizes Venezuela" by Juan Forero, Washington Post | February ... [Link] [Cache]

By Tamar Sharabi | Upside Down World | February 28, 2010 Johnny Rivas is a vocal member of the Unified Movement of Aguan Farmers MUCA , an organization that claims over 3,500 families demanding the redistribution of land in the North Coast of Honduras. For over five years Rivas has ... [Link] [Cache]

By Belen Fernandez |Pulse Media | February 27, 2010 A headline in this morning’s edition of the Honduran daily La Tribuna, fervent defender of last year’s coup d’état against President Mel Zelaya, announces the search for the “gang member” that killed the daughter of veteran union organizer and anti-coup resistance ... [Link] [Cache]

Independent Latin America Forms Its Own Organization By Mark Weisbrot This column was published by The Guardian Unlimited on February 25, 2010. If anyone wants to reprint it, please include a link to the original. Latin America took another historic step forward this week with the creation of a new ... [Link] [Cache]

South Atlantic: Britain May Provoke New Conflict With Argentina Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, Feb 23 2010 On Feb 22, two major developments occurred in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. The two-day Rio Group summit opened in Mexico and the UK started drilling for oil 60 miles north of ... [Link] [Cache]

Stop NATO February 23, 2010 South Atlantic: Britain May Provoke New Conflict With Argentina Rick Rozoff On February 22 two major developments occurred in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. The two-day Rio Group summit opened in Mexico and Great Britain started drilling for oil 60 miles north of ... [Link] [Cache]

Thursday, 18 February 2010 Cuba: Strides Towards Sustainability Cuba: Strides Towards Sustainability • by Helen Yaffe. http://ratbnews.blogspot.com/2010/02/cuba-strides-towards-sustainabili~ Cuba’s successful models of sustainable development – food, housing and health – are now being widely replicated throughout Latin America. by Helen Yaffe CUBA marked the 50th anniversary of its revolution in 2009. ... [Link] [Cache]

The Coast Guard, disaster relief, Oxfam world-wide civilian specialists... but the USA makes a totally inefficient military cock-up battalion MOVE IN. Why? Does the USA have no civilian disaster relief?? Here is why: The U.S. in Haiti: Neoliberalism at the Barrel of a Gun By Arun Gupta From the February ... [Link] [Cache]

QUOTE: Over the postwar years, we have granted to the elite and secret police within our system vast new powers over the lives and liberties of the people. At the request of the trusted and respected heads of those forces, and their appeal to the necessities of national security, we ... [Link] [Cache]

I'm just trying to figure out how the CIA-sponsored coup on behalf of United Fruit and the subsequent civil strife helped the situation.I'd rather the Guatemalans have gotten by without our murderous interference and maybe have had a good and happy life at home."Guatemalan village salutes expatriates who kept ties; ... [Link] [Cache]

By Gabriel Schivone Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 After an intensive anti-sweatshop campaign last spring led by students in the Sweatshop-Free Coalition and University Community for Human Rights, President Robert Shelton had the UA divest our financial holdings in the Russell Corporation due to the company’s singularly cruel labor abuses ... [Link] [Cache]

Via Intifada VoiceBy Cynthia McKinneyMunich Peace Rally Speech Thank you for allowing me to come from the United States and participate in this rally for peace.My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on using the hard-earned dollars of the American people for war, occupation, and empire.As a ... [Link] [Cache]

A United Nations “Peacekeeping” Force is only the latest of US-conceived occupations of Haiti Benighted Journalists Assail Haiti By Joe Emersbergerhttp://canuckmediamonitor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=35~ Friday, February 12, 2010The Economics of Mass Murder German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote that “In democratic countries the violent character inherent in the economy doesn’t show itself; in authoritarian ... [Link] [Cache]

More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation By Arun Gupta, AlterNet Posted on February 12, 2010, Printed on February 12, 2010 http://www.alternet.org/story/145647/ Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster ... [Link] [Cache]

Stop NATO February 12, 2010 Crescono le tensioni militari tra USA e Cina di Rick Rozoff Traduzione dall’inglese per www.resistenze.org a cura del Centro di Cultura e Documentazione Popolare http://www.resistenze.org/sito/os/dg/osdgab08-006308.htm ———- Anche se il bilancio militare degli USA è quasi dieci volte quello della Cina che ha una popolazione di ... [Link] [Cache]

Picture and Story from Honduras Resists: Monday, February 8, 2010 January 28, 2010 Meeting with Dr. Juan Almendares Dr. Almendares has been a figure in the Honduran social movements since the 1970’s. He told us that he currently has three projects: One is the resistance; second, the environmental struggle against ... [Link] [Cache]

‘More Terror’ in Honduras, as Another Unionist Murdered February 8 8:31 am By Kari Lydersen The body of 29-year-old Vanessa Yamileth Zepeda, still dressed in her nurse’s scrubs and killed by a bullet, turned up in the Loarque neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on February 4. Zepeda had young children and ... [Link] [Cache]

Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than $2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists have revealedA new report, "State Robbery", to be published later this month, says the "theft" continued ... [Link] [Cache]

Nation By Nation Insurrection Daily, Feb 4 2010 Beside deliberately targeting children for the gamut of the west beast’s sordid crimes, here’s another 15 reasons accrued just in the last 10 years bolstering the “west is THE disease” concept: Afghanistan, Kosovo, Palestine, Lebanon, Russia, Honduras, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Panama, Eritrea, ... [Link] [Cache]

Thursday, February 4, 2010 It’s good news to see that boycott and divestment campaigns against companies profiting from Israeli occupation and apartheid are becoming increasingly mainstream. Here’s a couple of recent examples. The National Catholic Reporter ran a great article about the Kairos Document produced by the Palestinian Christian community, ... [Link] [Cache]

By Eva Golinger3 February 2010 – As is custom at the beginning of each year, the different US agencies publish their famous annual reports on topics ranging from human rights, trafficking in persons, terrorism, threats, drug-trafficking, and other issues that indicate who will be this year’s target of US agression. ... [Link] [Cache]

Frustrated Arab\s dairyA Banana repuplic......but without bananas I have tried,recently, to make a parallel between Haiti´s disasterand Gaza´s and about the similarities within a basic difference.But what I did not pay attention to, was the fact thatHaiti , in 1947, has voted for the establishment of the State of Israelat ... [Link] [Cache]

Literally: Going MissingIn a more figurative sense:"The Kidnapping of Haiti The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the ... [Link] [Cache]

So much for all the world huffing-and-puffing, huh?"Honduran leader sworn in; Zelaya in exile" by Associated Press | January 28, 2010TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Former president Manuel Zelaya of Honduras left his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy and flew into exile yesterday, ending months of turmoil and his quest to be ... [Link] [Cache]