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Rainer Hachfeld | Kerry, Maduro, Capriles / media.cagle.com

Fri, 04/19/2013 - 13:25 — Dave Culver

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Urgent Action: Call on the State Department to Respect Venezuela's Democracy and Sovereignty

Fri, 04/19/2013 - 13:12 — Dave Culver

  • Tell the United States government to respect Venezuela's sovereignty.
  • Nygaard Notes | Venezuala

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Following Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro's election win on Sunday, April 14, opposition candidate Henrique Capriles has asked for a recount of the votes. Despite Venezuela's electoral system being described as "the best in the world" by institutions like the Carter Center, the United States continues to stand alone in its failure to recognize the Venezuelan government and respect its democracy.

Tell the United States government to respect Venezuela's sovereignty.

Send a message to Secretary of State John Kerry through John McNamara, Director of the Venezuela Desk at the State Department, and Darnall Steuart, Deputy Director. <>

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Nygaard Notes | Venezuala, Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes

  • The reality of Venezuela complex, and if some of the complexity of the issues and struggles of a nation undergoing rapid social change had made it into the corporate media in this country, then there would be no need to spend so much energy giving the "other side" of the story, as I do here. But that's not how the corporate media works, so an issue like this is necessary.
  • Special Report | Hugo Chavez

 

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Nygaard Notes | Venezuala

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 10:20 — Dave Culver

  • The reality of Venezuela complex, and if some of the complexity of the issues and struggles of a nation undergoing rapid social change had made it into the corporate media in this country, then there would be no need to spend so much energy giving the "other side" of the story, as I do here. But that's not how the corporate media works, so an issue like this is necessary.
  • Special Report | Hugo Chavez

Jeff Nygaard, Nygaard Notes 

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March 19, 2013 | This issue (#527) of Nygaard Notes is entirely about Venezuela. It presents many positive facts about the changes initiated during the 14-year presidency of Hugo Chávez, who died on March 5th. I'm sure some people will think that I am painting too rosy a picture of the situation and, in a sense, I think I am. That's because this issue is the "other side" of the picture of Chávez's Venezuela that's been painted in the U.S. media, which has been a simple story of a totalitarian dungeon with a dictator in charge. As TIME Magazine put it, "It's tempting to remember [Chávez] as an erratic, messianic retro-revolutionary whose country's petro-wealth let him indulge his Marxist nostalgia."

 

My argument in this issue is that such a simplistic rendering of Hugo Chávez is not just "tempting" but, in the U.S. Propaganda system, essentially mandatory.

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Special Report | Hugo Chavez: Week of March 17, 2013, David Culver, Evergreene Digest

The simple fact remains: Chavez, who died of cancer at the age of 58, was the only president of Venezuela in modern memory who did anything for the poor people of that country who make up the vast majority of its nearly 30 million citizens.


 

 

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In Palestine, Dignity and Violence

Tue, 04/02/2013 - 17:43 — Dave Culver

Contempt for the worthless victims is no small part of the barrier to achieving a settlement with at least a modicum of justice and respect for human dignity and rights. It's not beyond imagination that the barrier can be overcome by dedicated work, as has been done elsewhere.

Noam Chomsky, Truthout

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Palestinian boys sit in rubble around a fire in a house destroyed during an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, Nov. 26, 2012. (Photo: Wissam Nassar / New York Times)

Tuesday, 02 April 2013 | The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he saw a young man walking toward him in ragged clothes.

"I noticed something that I will never forget for as long as I live," Mankell says. "I looked at his feet. He had no shoes. Instead he had painted shoes on his feet. He had used the colors in the ground and in the roots to replace his shoes. He had come up with a way to keep his dignity."

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Eric Allie | The key to mid-east peace / media.cagle.com

Mon, 03/25/2013 - 12:58 — Dave Culver

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Obama fails in the Mideast

Mon, 03/25/2013 - 12:44 — Dave Culver

  • The message to Israel was clear: there is no better ally to Israel than the U.S. He went on and on about how Israel will always be backed by the U.S., no matter what. Militarism won the day.
  • Obama's speech to the Israeli People...

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Sun, March 24, 2013 | As I watched President Barack Obama’s helicopter pass above my home, just before landing at the Palestinian Presidential Compound next to Ramallah, I just shook my head in disappointment, first as an American, then as a Palestinian. I thought: “Another U.S. president, on another high fanfare visit, carrying the same, failed political messages.”

It was difficult to follow Obama’s visit on TV. In normal practice when dignitaries come to town, Israel disrupts the satellite signals that feed our televisions. Nevertheless, I was able to tune in to a single Arabic channel, broadcast from Lebanon, that was unaffected by this.

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Obama's speech to the Israeli People..., Michael Lerner, Tikkun

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