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GMO Crop Catastrophe in USA a lesson for EU

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 22 August 2010

As the European Union moves closer to approving the cultivation of GMOs despite stiff widespread opposition, it ought to be paying urgent attention to the agricultural arms race unfolding in the United States. Roundup-resistant “superweeds” are plaguing Monsanto crops across southern US states, (…)

Evo Morales’ Speech to the G77 + China at the UN: Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth

by Evo Morales

7 May 2010

United Nations New York 7 May 2010
I have come here to share the conclusions of the First World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, held last April 20th to 22nd in Cochabamba, Bolivia. I convened this Conference because in Copenhagen the voice of the peoples (…)

Speech by President Chávez at the United Nations Climate Change Conference

by Hugo Chávez Frías

Copenhagen (Denmark) | 16 December 2009

Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends:
I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which was expressed by the delegations of Brazil, China, India, and (…)

20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie (see video)

by Greg Palast

25 March 2009

Tuesday marked the 20th Anniversary of the Exxon Valdez grounding and the smearing of 1,200 miles of Alaska’s coastline with its oil. It also marked the 20th Anniversary of a lie. Lots of lies!

“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 production (…)

“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 70’s (…)

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 their (…)

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 (…)