by Tom Burghardt
With dizzying speed–and rank hypocrisy–the United States is escalating its war of words with Venezuela.
On Friday, a group of Republican lawmakers proposed a resolution that calls on the Bush regime to declare Venezuela “a state sponsor of terrorism.”
Hyped by Florida representatives Connie Mack and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a staunch apologist for Cuban neofascist thugs [...]
Dogs of War Gathering in the Andes — and in Washington
Bush versus Chavez
by Stephen Lendman Imagine the following – the nation Martin Luther King called “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today” may brand democratic Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism if extremist lawmakers on the Hill get their way. On March 12, George Bush accused Hugo Chavez of backing Colombian-based “terrorists” and using Venezuela’s oil [...]
Bush versus Chavez
by Stephen LendmanImagine the following – the nation Martin Luther King called “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World Today” may brand democratic Venezuela a state sponsor of terrorism if extremist lawmakers on the Hill get their way. On March 12, George Bush accused Hugo Chavez of backing Colombian-based “terrorists” and using Venezuela’s oil [...]
Latin America rejects Bush doctrine
Latin America rejects Bush doctrine
Reeling from the blow that it received in the aftermath of the Colombian military’s illegal incursion on March 1 into Ecuador — which resulted in the brutal massacre of a number of civilians and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), including its chief negotiator Raul Reyes — US [...]
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked
The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked
by Greg Palast
Global Research, March 14, 2008
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While New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was paying an “escort” $4,300 in a hotel room in Washington, just down the road, George Bush’s new Federal Reserve Board Chairman, [...]
War costs and costs and costs
by Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz With March 20 marking the fifth anniversary of the United States-led invasion of Iraq, it’s time to take stock of what has happened. In our new book The Three Trillion Dollar War, Harvard’s Linda Bilmes and I conservatively estimate the economic cost of the war to the US to be $3 [...]
Dogs of War Gathering in the Andes — and in Washington
by Tom Burghardt
With dizzying speed–and rank hypocrisy–the United States is escalating its war of words with Venezuela.
On Friday, a group of Republican lawmakers proposed a resolution that calls on the Bush regime to declare Venezuela “a state sponsor of terrorism.”
Hyped by Florida representatives Connie Mack and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a staunch apologist for Cuban neofascist thugs [...]
