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Archive for the Month of August, 2005.
Viewing International Affairs NEWS articles 76 through 89 of 89.
- Israel has issued orders to seize Palestinian-owned land to link a main Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank to Jerusalem, officials say, a step that could isolate Palestinians from Jerusalem. - On July 14 in the western city of Maracaibo, Venezuelan government tax auditors and a prosecutor went to the offices of Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company. They seized boxes of records to build a case that San Ramon, California-based Chevron and 21 other energy companies owe Venezuela $3 billion in back taxes. The raid is part of President Hugo Chavez's push to squeeze more money out of foreign companies that want to pump oil from the world's fifth- largest petroleum exporter.
- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has signed a deal with Jamaica to supply it with oil at preferential rates. - The defeated 2002 coup attempt in Venezuela and Haiti's continuing agony show the US and its allies are as ready as ever to use covert dirty tricks and outright aggression to get what they want in Latin America. For the moment, the Bush regime seems content to co-opt countries benighted and foolish enough to fall for trade-in-your-sovereignty deals. - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says US President George W Bush will be to blame if anything happens to him. - Some of Colombia's elected politicians have used cocaine within Congress itself, the vice-president of the country's Senate has alleged. "There are important officials who distribute, and senators and representatives who consume." - How about a vial of poison, as ordered up for a proposed US assassination in 1960 of Congolese prime minister Patrice Lumumba. Or perhaps supply some weaponry to a local hit squad, as Washington did for those who bumped off Dominican leader Rafael Trujillo.
- Comments by U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins, to the effect that Canadians should "stop their emotional tirades, appears to have done just the opposite. Washington has chosen to ignore a NAFTA legal panel's ruling in regard to lumber in favor of Canada, arguing that it is not a legally binding decision. - A former Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated. - A Syrian-born Canadian has accused the Canadian government of orchestrating his detention and torture in Syria, says a news report. - The oldest son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been indicted on corruption charges in connection with fund-raising activities for one of his father's election campaigns. - With Great Britain fast becoming a police state, the caged population must see itself in animal terms. It must not insist on privacy, dignity, freedom and other "human" rights. - It was not clear if the plane was Iranian or foreign, although the influential Kayhan newspaper pointed out that "usually these sort of planes are used for spying on other countries".
- by Micheal Parenti - In Venezuela over 80 percent of the population lives below the poverty level. The neoliberal market "adjustments" of the 1980s and 1990s only made things worse, cutting social spending and eliminating subsidies in consumer goods. Far from ruining the country, here are some of the good things the Chavez government has accomplished...
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