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Biden to speak directly to Israelis from Tel Aviv http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1153312.html

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will address the Israeli public directly next week during a speech he is scheduled to deliver at Tel Aviv University, focusing on American commitment to Israel's security, Iran's nuclear program and the peace process.

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Crime Against Humanity http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/Crime-Against-Humanity?lang=es

The document issued by the organization quotes Eutimio Diaz, from the Wixarika indigenous people and activist at the Network in Defense of Corn since 2001. “Corn is part of our lives, of our history, economy, of who we are. We take care of it and we grow it, and corn makes as grow and takes care of us as well. Losing corn is like death for peoples and this is what the government will achieve if it continues letting transnational corporations to contaminate and take over corn.

This is another war against indigenous peoples and we will not allow it”, he said. On February 23rd, Pat Mooney, Alternative Nobel laureate and executive director at the ETC Group, resigned from the steering committee of the FAO´s Conference, to which he joined after the organization promised him a fair process. “I feel used and abused by the entire process. I was shocked that none of the issues I raised were addressed”, said Mooney.

Octavio Rosas Landa, activist at the National Assembly of Environmentally Affected People, has stated that thousand of Mexican farmers are suffering from the “contamination and destruction” of their territories, water resources and biodiversity as a consequence of the settlement of industrial farms of pigs, poultry and cows, mining and big hydroelectric dams. 

Something similar was what Alberto Gomez Flores from La Via Campesina said, stating that the FAO is wrong when saying that biotechnology and GMOs will serve to face hunger in the world and the climate crisis.“It seems that decades of Green Revolution have taught them nothing. With industrial agriculture and chemicals the production of some grains increased, but so did hunger in the world. There are more poor people, more displaced people, less farmers”, he said.

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SPINWATCH-New calls for Obama to add Venezuela to USA's 'Terror-Sponsor' List http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/62188

Accusations about links between the Venezuelan government and terrorists in Colombia and Spain add weight to calls to designate Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, a Latin American specialist said Tuesday.Heritage Foundation scholar Ray Walser was commenting on claims by a Spanish prosecuting judge that President Hugo Chavez’s government had assisted two terror groups that plotted to assassinate Colombian President Alvaro Uribe

Walser of the Heritage Foundation said Tuesday the latest claims reinforced the case for the Obama administration to act.In a detailed report on the subject last January, Walser called President Obama’s view that Venezuela is not a threat to U.S. national security “dangerous.”“Placing Venezuela where it belongs, on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, will not resolve every challenge the U.S. faces with regard to Venezuela, but it will send a powerful signal that the American people understand that oil, extremism, terror, and anti-Americanism make a dangerous mixture, whether in the Middle East or the Americas,” he wrote.

COMMENT-first of all,there is no links,and the spanish judges claims are unsubstanciated,in fact these accusation are absurd and have been rebuked...see article below...

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The accusation that links to Chávez with ETA and the FARC is Fraudulent  http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58739.shtml

The Aporrea writer provides a fine analysis and debunking of these spurious claims by the Spanish judge. We only wish to add something about the motivation behind this new onslaught against Venezuela and President Chávez himself. For several years, the United States, Spain and other European countries have been pushing to implicate President Chávez with terrorism and to charge Venezuela with "state-sponsored terrorism".

One thing can be said about them - they lay foundations for their plans, years in advance. In this case, they are attempting to create cause for future sanctions against Venezuela and possible military action in the future. These charges also come at a time when the U.S. is ramping up its aggressive campaign to discredit the Chávez administration as we approach the national elections in September.

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AUDIO-ENGLISH-MUST LISTEN Podcast: Extradited Paramilitaries and “Truth Behind Bars” http://www.cipcol.org/?p=1407

Here is a cross-post of a Colombia-related podcast produced for the CIP-LAWG-WOLA “Just the Facts” program. It’s an interview with Roxana Altholz of the University of California at Berkeley Law School Human Rights Clinic, author of “Truth Behind Bars,” a hard-hitting report on 30 Colombian paramilitary leaders’ extradition to the United States, which has complicated efforts to win justice for their victims.

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"Treason in America: 911, the Wars & Our Broken Constitution" Conference http://www.treasoninamericaconference.com/

A two-day non-partisan truth conference with speakers, movie clips & music discussing our current state of affairs and how we got here. From 9/11, the "wars on terror" and the private, not public, Federal Reserve to the undermining of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights via Patriot Acts 1 & 2, to connecting the dots between different events that go unreported (or under-reported), as a whole, in our mainstream media. Calling on left & right truth-seekers to find common ground and work together to help revive our country! Come learn what many do not know, but what many are waking up to. Knowledge is power.