Iowa Round Table, 9\30\08 - McCain, talking about energy policy, stresses the importance of "ensuring that America is secure, and not dependent on oil from people like Hugo Chavez or other parts of the Middle East which is, we know, could be destabilized under certain sets of circumstances."

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Venezuela joins Bolivia and expels U.S. ambassador

Thu Sep 11, 8:34 PM

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced that the U.S. ambassador has 72 hours to leave Venezuela and he's recalling his ambassador from Washington.

Chavez said he's asking U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy to leave as a means of showing solidarity with ( Read more... )

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Johann Hari

You have been told that the Venezuelan President supports the Farc thugs

Monday, 7 July 2008

Sometimes you hear a stray sentence on the news that makes you realise you have been lied to. Deliberately lied to; systematically lied to; lied to for a purpose. If you listened closely over the past few days, you could have heard ( Read more... )

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:16:36

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged South American leaders to withdraw their assets and move their international reserves from US.

Chavez, who is attending a regional heads-of-state meeting in Argentina, said in comments broadcasted by Venezuelan state television on Tuesday that keeping central banks' international ( Read more... )

A Disenchanted James Petras

by Efraín Chury Iribarne / June 13th, 2008

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ECI: There’s a subject that we need you to analyze. It’s called Barack Obama. What will the changes be, what might be the changes in the United States in respect to the influence of Zionism, in respect to the war first of all, and Latin America afterwards?

JP: Okay, here ( Read more... )

Monday, June 02, 2008


by Stephen Lendman

So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan - German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the Autonomous Metropolitan University in ( Read more... )

- German scholar thinks that US puts Chávez "in check mate"

The possibility of a US military incursion into Venezuela "is nearby," according to German political expert Heinz Dieterich.

"Washington is not prepared to lose Latin America in the competition with India, China and Europe," said Dieterich on Tuesday night during a debate in Montevideo, DPA ( Read more... )

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