Venezuela Proposes Oil-Backed Currency, South-South Alliances at Arab-South America Summit.We’ve had enough of the dictatorship of the dollar,” said Chávez President Chávez also echoed the Arab League in opposing the International Criminal Court’s order for the capture of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, who is wanted on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, related to what many world leaders have called genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region. Chávez said the ICC’s ruling reveals its bias against African countries. “Why don’t they order the capture of Bush, or the capture of the president of Israel,” asked Chávez, who severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. in September and Israel in January to protest U.S. intervention in Latin America and Israel’s attack on Gaza. “[The ICC] does not have the jurisdiction to make a decision of such magnitude against a president who is still in office. Ah, but they do it because it is an African country in the Third World!” Chávez said.The over-arching theme of the global economic crisis and the Global South’s reaction to it is the end of U.S. hegemony over the world, Chávez said. “Every empire has its hour. The hour has arrived for the Yankee Empire to definitively fall,” he said. “We think this is a good opportunity to continue shaping and giving form to what some call the new architecture of the world post-U.S. empire... we must pick up the pace toward a pluri-polar world.” www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4344 www.qatar-conferences.org/south/english/index.php Brazilian President calls for international peace conference on Palestine ... 04-03-2009: Police Ordered To Release Video Of 7/7 Bombings