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April 8, 2005
In June of 2000, several writers for the Wall Street Journal won awards for daring reports of specific instances of terror: terror that continues systematically throughout Columbia. A frightening timeline leads to a trail of US funded terror squads operating in a similar manner today.
"Parmilitaries routinely induced fear in the rural population by entering villages and rounding up the residents in the town plaza. They would then brutally kill a handful of villagers, often dismembering them with machetes and chainsaws, before ordering the rest of the people to leave the region...
By forcibly displacing the rural population in this manner, the paramilitaries hoped to eliminate local support for the guerrillas. This strategy has aggravated the already grossly inequitable distribution of arable lands as large landowners, as well as multinational corporations interested in oil, coal and natural gas resources, have taken over much of the abandoned land."
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Global Warming Campaign Promise"We must send a strong message to the President and the country that Congress will hold Mr. Bush to his campaign pledge, that it recognizes that global warming poses grave dangers to our environment, our economy, and our national security, and that this country must reduce its CO2 emissions,"April 30, 2001 17.4.04
Andre Apaid's Splendid Little Coup in HaitiAndre Apaid is by far the largest sweatshop operator in Haiti: with employees who are paid as little as 68 cents a day, far below the minimum wage of $1.50 a day in Haiti. DOGSPOT UKBuilding a Bigger Debacle:
The architect of the Vietnam war came to the Kennedy administration with a astonishing resume. At Ford Motor Company, he was responsible for the world's most unsuccessful product: the Edsel. Yet MacNamara was destined for even greater ventures after Vietnam...
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| Status of Haiti Delays Economic NegotiationsTrinidad and Tobago Express(03-28)Jamaica Observer (03-28) "So intense was behind-the-scenes lobbying from Washington, the Sunday Express was reliably informed that while one Prime Minister felt obliged to refuse to take a telephone call from a Bush administration official, another was aggravated enough to respond with expletives when presented with what was viewed as a virtual ultimatum. " DOGSPOT UK |
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| Inter-American Development Bank Draws Fire on Camisea Development"Camisea is an environmental disaster and the IDB should stop supporting this nonsense with US taxpayer dollars given the issues of non-compliance"The project involves: q Drilling platforms and pipelines inside a reserve established to protect nomadic indigenous peoples, who lack immunity to common illnesses and are seriously threatened by the project; q Pipelines cutting through pristine tropical rainforests, protected areas, indigenous communities and across the Andes to the coast; and q A fractionation plant and export loading facility next to an internationally renowned marine reserve. |
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| Technology and Terror:Two Responses to Globalization"We can have our whole global supply chain on the screen at the same time," holding a virtual meeting, explained Nilekani. The room's eight clocks tell the story: U.S. West, U.S. East, GMT, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia. As I looked at this, a thought popped into my head: Who else has such a global supply chain today? Of course: Al Qaeda... |
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| Haitian Rebels Have a HistoryAnother figure to recently reemerge is Guy Philippe ...who fled Haiti in October 2000 after authorities discovered him plotting a coup ...with others trained in Ecuador by US Special Forces during the 1991-1994 coup. Since that time, the Haitian government has accused Philippe of master-minding deadly attacks on the Police Academy and the National Palace in July and December 2001, as well as hit-and-run raids against police stations on Haiti's Central Plateau over the following two years. "I believe that this is a group that is armed by, trained by, and employed by the intelligence services of the United States," Said Haiti's legal representative Ira Kurzban of Wednesday's coup. |
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| Interview with Aristide Confirms US CoupěThis is what I call a real coup díČtat,î Aristide said. ěThis is an issue for all African Americans and Africans.îěItís like he is in jail, he said. He said he was kidnapped,î Waters said. She said Aristide had been threatened by U.S. diplomats who reportedly told the Haitian leader that if he failed to leave, Guy Phillippe, the rebel leader, would storm the palace and he would be killed. |
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| Indianapolis Star (03-03)
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"...Republican Party's diversity and Hispanic outreach, Roger Noriega was the State Department's chief negotiator in efforts to bring a satisfactory resolution to the unrest that threatened the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide...
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| Bush Administration Backed the Ouster of AristideRon HowellNewsday (03-01) "The departure of Haiti's Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a victory for a Bush administration hard-liner who has been long dedicated to Aristide's ouster, U.S. foreign policy analysts say..." more |
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U.S. policy toward Cuba is dominated by one man, a scandal-plagued Cold War relic who has no business being President Bush's chief adviser on Latin America. | That's what U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, has to say about Otto Reich. more |
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old links to save post 911: | http://oregonpeaceworks.org/news/AFL_CIO.htm http://oregonpeaceworks.org/news/OilWar.htm |
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| Discovering Why We are in IraqSeparate statements by Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), and U.S. retired Gen Jay Garner, who was in charge of planning and administering post-war reconstruction from January through May 2002, suggest that other, less public motives were behind the war, none of which concerned self-defence, pre-emptive or otherwise. DOGSPOT |
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| UN Global Compact undermines corporate accountabilityFebruary 24, 2004, Washington, DC ń The Alliance for a Corporate Free UN has written a letter to the heads of five UN agencies asking them to withdraw from the UNís Global Compact. The letter details specific ways in which the Compact undermines corporate accountability, and follows several years of correspondence with the Global Compact Office by the Alliance. |
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| Bush Appoints Iran-Contra Figure To Head Up Iraq "Intelligence" ProbePACIFICA RADIO (02-12)
"The impartiality of the commission has... Judge Silberman has been described as a longtime Republican operative and is widely thought to have helped orchestrate Ronald Reagan's1980 "October Suprise" when Reagan secretly made contacts with the Iranian government before he was elected. More about the return of the contras at DOGSPOT |
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| A New Contra Arms Scandal in Haiti?Otto Reich is a known quantity when it comes to controlling the press and manipulating events to achieve U.S. foreign policy objectives in Latin America and the Caribbean... ...Otto Reich? Is this the same Otto Reich who once used taxpayer dollars under the Reagan administration, from within his shadowy Office of Public Diplomacy, to cajole the U.S. press into supporting the Contra war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua? |
Haiti's President Arisitide Faces Overthrow
Reversal in US Policy may lead Haitiís ěarmed oppositionî launched its most lethal offensive yet last week, creating the civil strife that may be used by the US State Department to justify military intervention. On Feb. 10, State Department officials gave their first public hints that they would favor President Jean-Bertrand Aristideís resignation... |
Unocal Still on Trial for Rights AbusesCheney ruled on January 23 that Unocal cannot be held liable under one legal theory, the "alter ego" theory. However, plaintiffs have asserted two other theories of liability, which means that Unocal may yet be held liable for gross human rights pipeline area. Full article |
Prepare for Another WhitewashIn the wake of an investigation that largely cleared Prime Minister Tony Blair of falsifying intelligence that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq, President Bush now calls for a similar inquiry into the "sources" that lead to our involvement. As the New York Times blighthly notes, this undertaking is awash with difficulties. Some would say flawed form the outset. Notably Jay Rockefeller, vice chairman of the senate committee tasked to investigate this type of failure. continued at DOGSPOT |
False Basis of Iraq War Precipates International Scandal"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on weapons of mass destruction because it was the one issue everyone could agree on." Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz |
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