By Stephen Lendman The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental agency, National Endowment [...]
By Euler Calzadilla , Wanderci Silva Bueno and Darrall Cozens in Caracas Monday, 26 November 2007 If Wednesday, November 21st belonged to the students and the teaching unions, Thursday, 22nd belonged to the workers from the factories and the government departments. From 9 in the morning they had begun to gather outside the Teatro Teresa [...]
BY STEVEN JONAS Simulpost with BuzzFlash on Wed, 11/21/2007 The President, his loyal generals, the PMoP (Privatized Ministry of Propaganda), and even the news media that are not part of the latter (like, for the most part, CNN), are making a big thing about the “success of the surge.” Iraqi civilian deaths are down, violence [...]
By Marty Kaplan // Resident Blogger at HP Dateline: November 25, 2007 | Crosspost with HUFFINGTON POST The perfect meshing of phony politics and phony media: the supposedly uber-democratic CNN-YouTube debates, with completely massaged outcomes. American democracy has truly become a simulacrum of itself. It’s just show business, folks. Over 4,000 Americans have submitted video [...]
BY WILLIAM PATCHING Moore is never afraid of controversy. Whatever his personal contradictions, he rarely shies away from putting the spotlight on issues that the system managers would like to avoid. Michael Moore’s work invariably gets slated by rabid right wingers but that does not mean he is wrong. The facts outlined in his film, [...]
BY BILL MAHER Dateline: November 20, 2007 | Crosspost with Huffington Post New Rule: The president can’t pardon just one or two turkeys this Thanksgiving. He’s got to let them all go. It’s probably too much to expect from the man who wanted “no child left behind,” then vetoed health care for kids. But think [...]
THIS IS AN AUDIO PRESENTATION: CLICK HERE TO VISIT AUDIO PAGE Ralph Shoenman Mya Shone A special program (first aired 20 November 2007) on animal rights and factory farming. Listen to the editors of this celebrated radio show on New York’s WBAI describe with their customary eloquence the unspeakable suffering of mind-boggling numbers of fully [...]
By John McGough Coming to Terms with Nature Socialist Register 2007 edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006. 363 pages, $25 paper. [Crosspost with original site, SOLIDARITY, a fraternal site] IN THEIR PREFACE to the 43rd volume of the Socialist Register, Coming to Terms with Nature, editors Leo Panitch [...]
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