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| How President Lula changed Brazil |
| 03.10.10 09:00 |
Americas on the move |
| I used to tell visitors to close their eyes as I drove them into Sao Paulo from the airport. That was seven years ago, when the first impression of South Americas biggest city was a pot-holed motorway running parallel to a stinking river, along whose banks economic migrants had made their homes in wooden shacks perfumed by belching exhaust fumes. |
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| US and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela |
| 26.07.10 13:41 |
Americas on the move |
| Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced this Saturday US plans to attack his country and overthrow his government. During a ceremony celebrating the 227th birthday of Independence hero Simon Bolivar, Chavez read from a secret memo he had been sent from an unnamed source inside the United States. |
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| Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America |
| 19.11.09 22:18 |
Americas on the move |
| There is no way of overestimating the challenge that the emergence of ALBA and the overall reawakening of Latin America pose to the role that the U.S. arrogates to itself as lord of the entire Western Hemisphere. The almost two-century-old Monroe Doctrine exemplifies Washington′s claim to exclusive influence over all of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Basin and its self-claimed right to subordinate them to its own interests. Never before the election victories of anti-neoliberal forces throughout Latin America over the past eleven years has the prospect of a truly democratic, multipolar New World existed as it does now. |
| Rick Rozoff |
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| Official US Air Force Document Reveals the True Intentions Behind the US-Colombia Military Agreement |
| 08.11.09 12:31 |
Americas on the move |
| An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department regarding the military agreement signed between the two nations this past October 30th. Both governments have publicly stated that the military agreement refers only to counternarcotics and counterterrorism operations within Colombian territory. President Uribe has reiterated numerous times that the military agreement with the US will not affect Colombia’s neighbors, despite constant concern in the region regarding the true objetives of the agreement. But the US Air Force document, dated May 2009, confirms that the concerns of South American nations have been right on target. The document exposes that the true intentions behind the agreement are to enable the US to engage in “full spectrum military operations in a critical sub-region of our hemisphere where security and stability is under constant threat from narcotics funded terrorist insurgencies…and anti-US governments…” |
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| Rumors of News |
| 03.03.09 14:59 |
Americas on the move |
| Americans are poorly informed about their world. They endured over a year of election coverage, yet most were unaware that more than two people were running for President until they looked at their ballot. Despite thousands of news stories about the two corporate approved candidates, certain topics were ignored by the national press. It was decided that Barack Obama’s smoking habit must be hidden, and no one dared mention that John McCain collects over $58,000 a year tax-free for 100% disability pay, in addition to his Senate pay, his military retirement pay, and his social security payments.[1] A bigger problem is the corporate media has abandoned traditional standards designed to ensure that only the truth is reported as news. |
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