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Flashpoints: US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti
Today on Flashpoints: The General Council for the government of Haiti in the United States speaks out against US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti; Robert Fisk discusses the ongoing violence in Iraq; and Larry Everest talks about Empire and the US Global Agenda...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 7:35pm PST
2/15 Haiti News
Serious internal divisions at an opposition demonstratiom in Port-au-Prince:
acts of vandalism are committed against members of the public...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 5:46pm PST
Se incian protestas en Ecuador
Protestas contra privataciones y ALCA antes la convocada de una huelga nacional el 3 de marzo....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 12:31pm PST
Halliburton Hires Bush Family Lawyer To Conduct Internal Probe Over Nigeria Bribes
alliburton hired James Doty of the law firm Baker Botts to conduct an internal investigation into allegedly corrupt payments the company made in Nigeria in the late 1990s when Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO. We speak with Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime reporter about how both the lawyer and the law firm have close ties to the Bush family and administration....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:54am PST
Rep. Maxine Waters Charges U.S. Is Encouraging A Coup in Haiti
Several thousand demonstrators clashed with supporters of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide this weekend as they marched through the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince. We speak with Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) about what role the U.S. is playing in the current events in the country....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 4:27pm PST
The Ruckus Society rethinks the U.S. anti-globalization movement
“Close your eyes,” directs a young workshop facilitator. In the sticky heat of a secluded Florida campground, under a large open-air tent, a group of activists closes their eyes. “Now I want you to picture an anti-corporate globalization activist.” The campers furrow their collective brows. “Okay,” says the facilitator, after a brief pause, “how many saw a white person?”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 2:36pm PST
El EZLN recuerda sus fallecidos
El EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL marca un día dedicado a sus compañeros fallecidos....
Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2004 10:39am PST
Haiti's militias claim to uphold the law - but now they have become the law
Gary Younge in St Marc finds both government and opposition enfeebled...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 8:02pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Update
At St. Nicolas Hospital, at least 10 gunshot victims have been treated during
the past four days, all of them young men except for an 82-year-old women
wounded while sitting inside her home, officials said....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 9:34am PST
Puebla is the new Cancún: Final Statement +Updates 3 & 4
Social pressure throughout the continent succeeded in preventing some governments from making the kinds of concessions that their people reject....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:10pm PST
Update on Puebla FTAA TNC meetings #1 and #2
Please find attached the latest news from the FTAA negotiations this
week in Puebla, Mexico. As you all may recall, many of the key decisions
about the structure and content of the FTAA were kicked up to this meeting
after the ministerial in Miami last November....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:08pm PST
Aristide Calls on Opposition to End Violence
President Aristide said, "I call on my people to continue to
embrace nonviolent ways. I call on my brothers in the opposition to stop the
violence and come to negotiate in a democratic and peaceful way to move ahead
towards elections."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 9:07pm PST
Haiti Foreign Press Liason Update 2/11
1. Congressman Gregory W. Meeks Calls on Powell for Haiti Solution 2. Crisis in Haiti, (Washington Post EDITORIAL), February 11, 2004 3. Haiti Erupts (New York Times EDITORIAL), , February 11, 2004 4. Haiti grapples with violence... (Miami Herald EDITORIAL) February 11, 2004...
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2004 10:55am PST
Report from Vieques Peace and Justice Camp
Following we share a note prepared and sent by the law firm of John Arthur Eaves, representing more than 6 thousand Viequenses in a legal case against the US Navy for health damages...
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 10:44am PST
Evidence of US Economic Ties to Anti-Chavez Forces in Venezuela
NEWLY UNCOVERED DOCUMENTS PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF US ECONOMIC TIES TO VENEZUELAN ANTI-CHAVEZ MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES...
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 10:42am PST
Haitian police back in control of St Marc
According to Michaele Lucius, the chief of staff for Police Headquarters of
Haiti's National Police in Port-au-Prince, the police are in control of St.
Marc....
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 6:16pm PST
2/8 Haiti News
Prime Minister Yvon Neptune calls on opposition political coalition to bring an end to the terrorist acts perpetrated in several regions of the country;A rmed members of the opposition set fire to the police station in Grand-Goâve and at least one school, and abduct two journalists...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:40am PST
2/6 Haiti News via AHP
The government announces measures to bring to an end the lethal terror
perpetrated in Gonaïves by members of the opposition...
Posted: Mon, Feb 9, 2004 12:37am PST