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Ex-Honduran Leader To Pen Book About 2009 Coup http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynews/2010/march/08/centam-10030802.htm
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya plans to write a book describing his ouster last year.Zelaya says Honduras' business elite was behind last June's military-backed coup that sent him into exile.In a television interview broadcast in Venezuela, Zelaya said the business leaders feared he planned to copy President Hugo Chavez's socialist policies and some were upset over his decision to seize control of fuel terminals used by store imported oil.Honduran officials say Zelaya was ousted for refusing to drop a campaign for a referendum on changing the constitution, which the Supreme Court had ruled illegal.Zelaya said Sunday he hopes to publish a book about his ouster within three months, but provided few details.
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MUST READ-EUROPE: Green Finance Wise, or Otherwise http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50580
As part of a series of reforms being considered for the European Investment Bank (EIB), a team of so-called wise persons recommended in late February that the Luxembourg-based institution should distribute loans worth 2 billion euros (2.7 billion dollars) to projects focusing on climate change between 2011 and 2013. The recipients of these loans would include schemes aimed at helping poor countries adapt to droughts and other extreme weather conditions. The team, led by Michel Camdessus, a former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, believes that releasing these loans would have "an exemplary value" as it would give the EIB's work a greater prominence in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Furthermore, his paper highlights how the bank lacks the expertise needed to take on greater responsibility for protecting the environment or fighting poverty. Over 90 percent of the energy-related projects it finances in developing countries rely on fossil fuels, a principal source of greenhouse gas emissions, while it has routinely paid greater attention to promoting the interests of European firms, than on nurturing local industry. In 2008, just 7 percent of the bank's loans to countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific went to their home-grown companies.Caterina Amicucci from the Campaign for the Reform of the World Bank in Rome indicated she had no confidence in the EIB's claims to be concerned about the environment.
She cited several examples, in which the EIB had allocated money to controversial projects, without properly consulting the communities who would be directly affected by them and without properly assessing their likely impacts on the environment. One "clear case of incoherence" between the EIB's work and the EU's broader development aid activities, she said, was the bank's support for mining in Zambia. Whereas a plan drawn up by EU officials identified transport, infrastructure, health and other areas of "human development" as the priorities for the Union's aid activities for Zambia in the 2008-13 period, most of the EIB's loans for that country have gone to mining.
That was despite how the mining sector was not viewed as an official priority in the EU's aid plan.Anders Lustgarten, a campaigner with the Bretton Woods Project, which monitors the activities of major financial institutions said he was not convinced that a new "mega-bank" of the type suggested by Camdessus would bring tangible improvements to the lot of the poor.
comment-the reality is this,this bank's history of lending practices shows it has allocated less then 7% of its foreign loans towards development projects in developing countries ,see ...'' . Over 90 percent of the energy-related projects it finances in developing countries rely on fossil fuels, a principal source of greenhouse gas emissions, while it has routinely paid greater attention to promoting the interests of European firms, than on nurturing local industry''
in fact most of its investment loans outside of Europe have been to open up loans to foreign investments in mining projects favoring foreign firms..see...'' In 2008, just 7 percent of the bank's loans to countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific went to their home-grown companies'' this project is nothing more then then same policeis practiced by world bank and imf...
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India tribes fight mining firm in real-life Avatar http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6241RL20100305
Set in the fantasy world of Pandora, Avatar tells the story of the Na'vi -- a clan of blue-hued humanoids whose existence is threatened by a mining corporation which wants to exploit a vast store of mineral deposits which lies beneath a giant sacred tree.In India's impoverished but mineral-rich state of Orissa, hundreds of indigenous tribespeople are battling to stop London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc from extracting bauxite from what they say is their sacred mountain.
"The fundamental story of Avatar -- if you take away the multi-colored lemurs, the long-trunked horses and warring androids -- is being played out today in Niyamgiri mountain in India's Orissa state," said Stephen Corry, director of the British charity, Survival International."Like the Na'vi of Avatar, the Dongria Kondh tribe are also at risk."
comment-i reported this about almost 2 months ago here's a better article on this struggle...Mining the Mountain: corruption and 'cultural genocide' brought by Vedanta Resources Ltd http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3530
also see...Protesters in Eastern India Battle Against Mining Giant Arcelor Mittal http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15544
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U.S. Black Sea military buildup could trigger Missile War http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/72193
The Pentagon has just completed the latest of four radar installations on Georgia's Black Sea coast. In recent days NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, and former U.S. envoy to NATO and current Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow among others have reiterated plans for Black Sea nations Georgia and Ukraine to become full NATO members. (Another former American NATO envoy, Kurt Volker, recently included Azerbaijan in the same category.)
On February 26 the U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy was in the capital of Estonia, Russia's neighbor and fellow Baltic Sea nation, and said: "We've made it very clear that even as we seek to find new ways of working with Russia we also are very clear that we don't accept certain of their policies, the assertion of their sphere of influence, particularly in this [Baltic] region." [15] According to the Pentagon Russia will not be permitted a "sphere of influence" anywhere on its borders or off its coasts. Instead the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and if Washington can manage it the Caspian Sea will be transformed into American lakes. With interceptor missiles and radar bases on and off its shores.
comment-also see...Russia opens new criminal case against Georgia http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58762.shtml
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Israeli film festival comes to Medellin http://colombiareports.com/events-nightlife/medellin/8576-israeli-film-festival-comes-to-medellin.html
Colombia's second city Medellin will be celebrating Israeli cinema next week, with a series of the country's most critically acclaimed films being shown in the city's libraries from March 11 to March 17.The event is designed to create a better mutual understanding between Israeli and Colombian cultures.Five different films from Israel, which have won nominations or awards at various international film festivals, will be shown at libraries around the city.
comment-Colombian Forces Trained By Former Israeli Commandos http://www.infolive.tv/en/infolive.tv-25080-israelnews-colombian-forces-trained-former-israeli-commandos-set-betancourt-14-
Flashback-Israeli Planned to Train Cartel Killers, Colombians Say;Former Commando Claims School on Antigua Would Have Been for Anti-Noriega Panamanian Exiles http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-1139661.html
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12 New England Towns Demand 9/11 Reinvestigation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbWg5OJPowE
A new movement to reinvestigate the 9/11 attacks is gaining pace in the US. With major public support, 12 towns are set to decide whether to ask the federal government for a new independent probe.New York and New Hampshire are more than 200 miles apart, but for all that distance, the two US locations intersect on one issue: the 9/11 attacks. While it was in Manhattan where three buildings fell, the people of Keene, New Hampshire are pushing for a new probe to find out why.
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US military pact to be challenged in Colombia's Constitutional Court http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=120239§ionid=351020703
Colombia's Constitutional Court is to review a treaty that gives US forces access to Colombian military bases, following a legal challenge of its unconstitutionality. The lawsuit brought by a legal group called 'Jose Alvear Restrepo,' argue that the October 2009 military accord is invalid since it was signed by the government of President Alvaro Uribe without a prior discussion in Congress, as mandated by the constitution.
They, additionally, accuse Uribe of ignoring the advice of the State Council, the highest court on administrative matters, which has also urged him to allow the congress take up the agreement before it was signed.The Uribe administration deemed the State Council's opinion nonbinding arguing that the accord was not a new one but merely an extension of a 1974 military pact with the United States, and as such required no legislative oversight.The military pact, part of what the US-backed Uribe government calls a joint effort to counter drug trafficking and insurgencies, has been denounced by neighboring Venezuela as US interference in the region, raising tensions between Bogota and Caracas.
comment-see posts below more a more indepth account of this new development...
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Quo Vadis, Africa? Some historic Reflections about a truncated Future http://www.pr-inside.com/quo-vadis-africa-some-historic-reflections-r1760759.htm
We do not want to offend anybody, however, it is time to call a spade a spade. Who wants to know the truth always gets hurt in capitalism. Nonetheless, if we cannot stand too much African revolutionary heat, we should just take a few steps backwards, away from the transgenic, radioactive kitchen of 'MacDonald's Farm,' and try to get the African 'Humpty Dumpty' off his feudal wall.With all its mineral, metal, water, gas and oil wealth, Africa is one of the poorest continents. However, the annual profits of giant corporations ... like Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, Repsol, Mitsubishi or Microsoft, which proudly 'make a billion dollars profit a week,' ... by far surpass the total budget of the whole African continent.
Africa is disappearing from the global economic map; as indicated before, a great part of Africa our 'great' leaders have 'sold out' to the multinational corporations. Also, this is happening all over the South by means of so-called 'joint ventures' or "new economic partnership" with giant corporations. which, inter alia, finance "military humanism" in Africa; others, like Chevron, finance both US Democrats and Republicans and support destabilization campaigns in Africa and America.
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Arthur Shaw: US imperialists don't want to win the "war" on drugs http://www.pr-inside.com/arthur-shaw-us-imperialists-don-t-want-r1760746.htm
The current transitional state in Venezuela with its mixed bourgeois-proletarian content has scored great law enforcement victories against the dope capitalists based nearby in Colombia where they are protected by US imperialists. But the bourgeois and pro-imperialist elements that remain in the bureaucratic-military-police apparatus of the mixed Venezuelan state have shown themselves to be unreliable in the war on drug trafficking waged under the command of Venezuelan revolutionaries.
The present is not the first time US imperialism formed alliances with organized crime in drug trafficking sector of capitalism.In the 1920s and 30s, US imperialists, acting the through the FBI, used such alliances to combat the spread of labor unions.In the 1940s, US imperialists, acting through US intelligence agencies, used such alliances to guard US seaports.
In the 1960s and 70s, US imperialists, acting through intelligence agencies, used such alliiances to murder Latin American government leaders.In the 1980s, US imperialists themselves, acting through their own intelligence agencies, imported tons of dope into the USA for delivery to organized crime for subsequent distribution to US drug addicts in US cities, to finance US aggression against the Sandinista Government in Nicaragua after the US Congress cut US public funds for the contras.Today, US Drug Enforcement Administration is partner with almost every major drug cartel and takes a huge cut from the cartels' earnings as the price for getting most of cartels' drug exports inside the USA.
comment-also see...Of Course Narcs Are Crooked: Douglas Valentine’s Study of the DEA http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/03/of-course-narcs-are-crooked-douglas-valentines-study-of-the-dea/ President Evo Morales expels US DEA from Bolivia http://www.nowpublic.com/world/president-evo-morales-expels-us-dea-bolivia
Enforcement Scandals Lead to Death and False Convictions http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/124/scandals2and3.shtml Major DEA Scandal http://www.opednews.com/articles/Major-DEA-Scandal--Time-M-by-Sibel-Edmonds-090614-565.html
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Rachel Corrie's Parents Get Vile Letter From Haifa Univ http://rense.com/general90/rach.htm
You are coming to our lovely town to sue Israel, claiming that your daughter was "killed by an Israeli bulldozer." But you neglect to mention the circumstances under which she was so killed (nor the fact that she died from her injuries while under Palestinian medical care).
Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent, on behalf of a movement of Arab fascists seeking to destroy Israel and murder as many Jews as possible. Your daughter died while interfering with an anti-terror operation carried out by soldiers in a land in which she had no business being at all.
comment-sick zionists sick and evil...
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Chavez to Sheehan: "We are not anti-American, we are anti-Imperialism" http://www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/2010/03/06/chavez-to-sheehan-we-are-not-anti-american-we-are-anti-imperialism/
My request to interview President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela was finally granted March 2 while we were down in Montevideo, Uruguay with President Chavez for the inauguration of the new left-ish President and freedom fighter, Jose Mujica.The reasons I went down to Venezuela with my team of two cameramen were two-fold:First of all, I just got tired of all the misinformation that is spread in the US about President Chavez and the people's Bolivarian Revolution. In only one example, the National Endowment for Democracy (another Orwellian named agency that receives federal money to supplant democracy) spends millions of dollars every year in Venezuela trying to destabilize Chavez's democratically elected government.
About 98% of the organizers were women who spoke very articulately and passionately about how their lives have improved since Chavez arose to power from the people's revolution and how they would defend Chavez and the revolution with their very lives.Knowledge is power and perhaps that's why before the Revolution, only primary school was free and fees were charged for secondary education. Now in Venezuela, school is free all the way through doctoral studies. We see how the ruling class in our own country is gutting education and are tying to make it as difficult as possible to get a University education. A smart and thinking public is a dangerous public.
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