MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The hostile declarations from various Washington representatives during the past few weeks, accusing Venezuela of failure to combat narcotics operations, violating human rights, “not contributing to democracy and regional stability”, and of being the “regional anti-US leader”, form part of a coordinated campaign that seeks to justify a direct aggression against Venezuela

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The Orinoco Belt, situated squarely underneath the South American nation, may hold some 513 billion barrels of crude oil, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Worldwide, industrial mono-culture farming has displaced traditional food production and farmers, wreaking havoc on food prices and food sovereignty. This is particularly true for the global south, where land has been concentrated for crops destined for biodiesel and animal feed. In response, peasants and small farmers organized actions in more than 53 countries on October 15 for International Food Day as an initiative of Via Campesina, one of the largest independent social movement organizations, representing nearly 150 million people globally.

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar. Bolivian President Evo Morales, who hosted leaders of the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA), said that the “document is approved.”

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The lesson of the lost sheep applies today in Honduras, where the pro-coup media is abuzz with gloating obsession over two acts of property destruction yesterday that happened near an otherwise peaceful protest march in the capital city of Tegucigalpa

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3. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 3″ – by Al Giordano

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

What many consider the most compelling case for nonviolent discipline in a movement is that it more effectively peels away the layers of support for a regime

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 2″ – by Al Giordano
2. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 1″ – by Al Giordano
3. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 4″ – by Al Giordano

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

WHO oversaw massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG)

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Chiquita (formerly United Fruit) and Dole Food severely criticized Zelaya for advocating an increase of 60% in Honduras’s minimum wage. Joined by textile manufacturers and exporters, relying on cheap labor to work in their sweatshops.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 2″ – by Al Giordano
2. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 1″ – by Al Giordano
3. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 3″ – by Al Giordano

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 1″ – by Al Giordano
2. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 3″ – by Al Giordano
3. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 4″ – by Al Giordano

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

After their highway blockades that had paralyzed the country on three successive Thursdays and Fridays in July began to have diminishing returns when the National Police and the Armed Forces attacked and dispersed them violently

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 2″ – by Al Giordano
2. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 3″ – by Al Giordano
3. Honduras: “Toppling a coup – Part 4″ – by Al Giordano

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

U.S. Human Rights Foundation (HRF) provided the bulk of the funds for the terrorist gang foiled in Santa Cruz while plotting to assassinate President Evo Morales. The HRF is a New York-based nongovernmental organization known for its activities of interference and CIA links

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

In early June, Peruvian President Alan García, an ally of US President Barack Obama, ordered armored personnel carriers, helicopter gun-ships and hundreds of heavily armed troops to assault and disperse a peaceful, legal protest organized by members of Peru’s Amazonian indigenous communities protesting the entry of foreign multinational mining companies on their traditional homelands

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

There is a lack of understanding within the revolution about the importance and about the impact of subversion and the interference of foreign agencies in the country. USAID and NED are the worst

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

“We are going to create a proposal for a monetary zone of solidarity-based commercial exchange,” said Chávez. “The hegemony of the dollar must end.”

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