Japan: Forcing local residents to endure even more hardships...
The Japanese government is rushing to give shape to a plan for the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. forces in Japan to share SDF bases ...Contrary to the government argument justifying the co-use of SDF bases as a way to 'reduce burdens on Okinawa,' this plan will only spread Okinawans' burdens to all of Japan.
Venezuela calls for a more “political” Mercos
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez officially signed Friday in Montevideo, Uruguay, the incorporation of his country as a Mercosur “full member” and called for a more “political” block with a greater input of strategic planning.
It's Time to Dump Plan Colombia
The US policy of providing cash assistance to Colombia ostensibly for controlling the cocaine trade, a five-year program known as 'Plan Colombia,' is a failure. Despite Bush administration claims that Plan Colombia has significantly slowed cocaine traffic to the US, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report provides evidence to the contrary.
Venezuela: Technology and the Bolivarian Revolution
I was invited to travel and speak in Venezuela at the International Forum on Free Knowledge held in Maracaibo during Thanksgiving. I also had the chance to speak with directors in many of the organizations charged with carrying out Chavez's vision of a 'Bolivarian Revolution.'
Key address by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, CARICOM Summit,Barbados
'Presently, the feverish consumerism of the rich countries is leading to the alarming shortage of a vital source of non-renewable energy in the world, that is, hydrocarbons, whose proven and unproved reserves are depleted and whose market price, only within reach of the wealthy societies, is inaccessible to the overwhelming majority of peoples in the Third World.'
Homeless Veterans: An Ongoing National and Local Disgrace
According to many contemporaneous media sources, there are almost 300,000 homeless veterans in the United States who are living on the streets or in shelters. The Department of Veterans Affairs has estimated that “more than 299,000 veterans are homeless on any given night; more than 500,000 experience homelessness over the course of a year.”
Cubans Ready to Resist
The exercises incorporate the population in every territory, testing the capacity to move in case of an attack and the state and functioning of shelters...These military exercises aim to prevent invasion or occupation by the organized, practiced, and permanent resistance of the population.
Iraq: Wisdom Instead of Intimidation and Blood
Only few days separate us from the forthcoming election. As this date approaches, the political scene grows tenser, battles of slogans are raging, and political diatribe escalates. Frictions have become more pronounced, some of which are coupled with threats to shed blood, or has indeed been shed.
