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Buzz Words and Venezuela

by Saul Landau

Caracas (Venezuela) | 8 July 2004

"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; but when I asked why people are poor, they called me a communist."
Brazilian Bishop Don Helder Camara
President Hugo Chavez Frias’ enemies refer to him as a "terrorist" and a "communist." Indeed, Venezuela’s current conflict could (...)

Venezuela’s Political Situation Discussed at U.S. Senate Hearing

by Martin Sanchez , Eva Golinger , Gregory Wilpert

Caracas (Venezuela) | 2 July 2004

The State of Democracy in Venezuela was the subject of a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations held Thursday in Washington, DC. Venezuela has attracted interest from U.S. politicians as numerous allegations have been made against President Hugo Chavez and as a recall (...)

A Serious Threat to Democracy

Al Gore’s Georgetown Speech

1 July 2004

Here’s the speech made on june 24, 2004, by Albert Gore at the Georgetown Law University. The former vice-president of the United States presents an analysis of George Bush and Dick Cheney’s destruction of the Revolution’s ideals. He denounces cesarism, that is to say the confusion of position (...)

On the State of Democracy in Venezuela

by Alia2

Caracas (Venezuela) | 25 June 2004

Testimony of Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research ( www.cepr.net )On the State of Democracy in Venezuela Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Subcommitee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs
June 24, 2004

Opinion of two social scientist

Democracy and the recall referendum in Venezuela

by Luis E. Lander, Margarita López Maya

26 May 2004

The last few years have been turbulent for Venezuela. Our populist president, Hugo Chavez, has survived a military «coup d’etat» faced a management-led oil strike that crippled our economy, and is now facing a recall campaign from his political opponents. But perhaps the biggest threat to (...)

"Market Democracy"

Friedrich von Hayek, the father of neo-liberalism.

by Denis Boneau

Paris (France) | 4 March 2004

The Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek is stubbornly attempting to discredit economic regulation claiming that is too complex to try to organize it. His theory of the "minimum State" became a sort of religion for the Republican Party in America in opposition to both the "New Deal" of the (...)

Remodeling Public Opinion

False reasons to intervene in Iran

by Thierry Meyssan

12 February 2004

After having invaded Iraq, the hawks redouble their pressure on Iran and Syria. The Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans is setting up Iranian opposition groups in exile around the son of the defeated Shah and is orchestrating an international propaganda campaign. Anticipating a probable (...)

NED: National Endowment for Democracy

The networks of "democratic" interference

by Thierry Meyssan

22 January 2004

In his 2004 State of the Union speech, President Bush announced his intentions to double the budget for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). This organization was created by Ronald Reagan to extend the CIA’s secret activities by providing financial support and controlling trade unions, (...)

Regime Change in the United States

Requiem for the Constitution

27 November 2003

Albert Gore, former vice-president under William Clinton, made a virulent speech on November 9, 2003 against the methodical dismemberment of individual freedom in the United States since 9/11. He warns the Bush administration against dangerously drifting away from the principles of the (...)

Inter-American Democratic Charter

Lima (Peru) | 11 September 2001

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
CONSIDERING that the Charter of the Organization of American States recognizes that representative democracy is indispensable for the stability, peace, and development of the region, and that one of the purposes of the OAS is to promote and consolidate (...)

The Generals’ putsch: 21 april 1961

When the Stay-Behind wanted to replace de Gaulle

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 10 September 2001

Public opinion expects that de Gaulle’s first move will be
re-establishing peace in Algeria. “The” General is implicitly engaged
in splitting up other colonies to maintain the status of his French
department. He must quickly become disillusioned. Despite the sheer scale
of the military (...)

Ending Syria’s Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role

by Lebanon Study Group

1 May 2000

FOREWORD
The Syrian occupation of Lebanon began nearly a quarter-century ago; its implications continue adversely to affect what is the world’s only satellite state. At the same time, Lebanon policy has atrophied in Washington.
When Syria imposed itself on its western neighbor in 1975, (...)

Charter of the Organization of American States

Bogotá (Colombia) | 30 April 1948

In the name of their Peoples, the states represented at the ninth international conference of american states,
Convinced that the historic mission of America is to offer to man a land of liberty and a favorable environment for the development of his personality and the realization of his (...)

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