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Bayer AG and the death of the birds

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 19 November 2010

Believed to be behind the decline in bee populations that has swept across many parts of the world, a new class of insecticides marketed by German chemicals giant Bayer AG is now suspected of causing the decimation of bird species. It is so effective at killing insects, that it has deprived (...)

“Ukraine’s gas settlement: the wrong solution”

by Yuliya Tymoshenko

2 February 2006

Europe’s sigh of relief when the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine was supposedly over could even be heard in Kiev. But this settlement, which leaves Ukraine’s energy requirements to the mercy of a nonexistent company linked to a gang of international criminals, brings about more problems (...)

“In the hands of a woman”

by Sergio Ramirez

31 January 2006

As seen in the photos, Michelle Bachelet looks like what she really is: a paediatrician with a confident and frank smile, to whom any mother would entrust the health of her children and to whom Chile has been entrusted today. The day of the coup d’état against Salvador Allende, on September (...)

“The Iranian danger”

by Rafael Nieto Loaiza

27 January 2006

In an open challenge to the international community, the regimen ruled by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad lifted the seals that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had on the Iranian nuclear facilities and resumed its nuclear programme. Iran has said this programme is only aimed at the (...)

“Changes in Latin America”

by Óscar Collazos

17 January 2006

What is happening in the continent is alarming Washington’s allies. The right-wing policy, shortsighted and color-blind, wants to see the changes in Latin America as a “triumph” of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. Some recommended even against this new “conspiracy” that methods of the 60’s and (...)

According to Fox News, hurricane Katrina was artificially caused by the enemies of “America”

by Arkadi Orlov

Moscow (Russia) | 3 October 2005

The Post-Register and Fox News stated that hurricane Katrina, which showed the weak points of the country, was caused artificially. Hurt in their self-esteem, the Americans thought of themselves as victims of a foreign attack, perpetrated by the Russians or Japanese, or an internal crime (...)

Popular rage overthrows Ecuadorian President

The rebellion of Quito

by Marcelo Larrea

8 May 2005

Lucio Gutierrez was overthrown by the volcanic though peaceful popular uprising of Quito. The suspension of the Supreme Court could not stop the massive demonstrations which defeated its brutal repression. Even when Vice President Palacios assumed the presidency, the people still demanded (...)

The Assassination of A Venezuelan Attorney

The CIA behind Danilo Anderson’s Murder?

by Marcelo Larrea

1 December 2004

The authors of the attack that took Danilo Anderson’s life operate under the secret war methods; from a political perspective that entwines the Venezuelan evolution with the region, the continent and the world together. The crime meets all the characteristics of a secret conspiracy directly (...)