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April 14, 2002
David
Vest
A
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Ralph Nader
General Motors:
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M. Junaid
Alam
From
the Ashes: Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
Sam Bahour
Palestinians and Americans
April 13, 2002
Beth Daoud
Life
in the Ruins of Nablus
Patrick Cockburn
Bulldozing History:
The End Nears for Stalin's
Most Monstrous Hotel
Gregory
Wilpert
The
Coup in Venezuela:
an Eye-Witness Account
Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Thoughts on Our War
Against Terrorism
Anne Winkler-Morey
Why
I Didn't Organize
a Passover Seder This Year
April 12, 2002
Nancy Stohlman
Live from East Jerusalem:
International Nonviolence
Brian
J. Foley
Defeating
Evil
Olivier Audeoud
Did the US Break
the Laws of War?
Rep. Ron
Paul
The
Middle East Quagmire
Michael Colby
Republican Porn:
Oiling Up the Caribou
John Chuckman
Tom
Friedman's Fabrications
April 11, 2002
Patrick Cockburn
Battle of St. Petersburg Zoo
Jeff Halper
After
the Invasion:
Now What?
Falk / Krieger
Taming the Nuclear Monster
Steve
Perry
The
Good Life of
Nellie Stone Johnson
Nick Ring
Efficiency and Occupation:
Terrorism vs. Taylorism
Alexander
Cockburn
From
the West Bank to BBQ
to Old Sparky, And Beyond
April 10, 2002
M. Junaid Alam
Blaming the Victims:
Hating the Palestinians
George
Monbiot
World
Bank to West Bank
Fran Schor
US-Sponsored State Terror
David
Vest
Political
Color Schemes
Jack McCarthy
Florida State Radicals:
The Berkeley of the South
Rises Again
Doreen
Miller
A
Tale of Two Warring Tribes
Michael Neumann
Israelis and Indians
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Weiner
Colin
Powell's Table Talk
Matt Vidal
Thomas Friedman,
Another Wasted Pulitzer
Ron Jacobs
Buyer
Beware
Robert Jensen
I Helped Kill a Palestinian
Vijay
Prashad
Memories
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April 14, 2002
The CIA and the
Venezuela Coup
Hugo Chavez: A Servant
Not Knowing his Place
by William Blum
How do we know that the CIA was behind the coup
that overthrew Hugo Chavez?
Same way we know that the sun will rise
tomorrow morning. That's what it's always done and there's no
reason to think that tomorrow morning will be any different.
Consider Chavez's crimes:
Branding the US attacks on Afghanistan
as "fighting terrorism with terrorism", he demanded
an end to "the slaughter of innocents"; holding up
photographs of children killed in the American bombing attacks,
he said their deaths had "no justification, just as the
attacks in New York did not, either." In response, the Bush
administration temporarily withdrew its ambassador.
Being very friendly with Fidel Castro
and selling oil to Cuba at discount rates.
His defense minister asking the permanent
US military mission in Venezuela to vacate its offices in the
military headquarters in Caracas, saying its presence was an
anachronism from the cold war.
Not cooperating to Washington's satisfaction
with the US war against the Colombian guerrillas.
Denying Venezuelan airspace to US counter-drug
flights.
Refusing to provide US intelligence agencies
with information on Venezuela's large Arab community.
Questioning the sanctity of globalization.
Promoting a regional free-trade bloc
and united Latin American petroleum operations as a way to break
free from US economic dominance.
Visiting Sadaam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar
Gaddafy in Libya.
And more in the same vein which the Washington
aristocracy is unaccustomed to encountering from the servant
class.
The United States has endeavored to topple
numerous governments for a whole lot less.
The Washington Post reported from Venezuela
on April 13: "Members of the country's diverse opposition
had been visiting the U.S. Embassy here in recent weeks, hoping
to enlist U.S. help in toppling Chavez. The visitors included
active and retired members of the military, media leaders and
opposition politicians.
"The opposition has been coming
in with an assortment of 'what ifs'," said a U.S. official
familiar with the effort. "What if this happened? What if
that happened? What if you held it up and looked at it sideways?
To every scenario we say no. We know what a coup looks like,
and we won't support it."
Right. They won't support a coup. So
what happens when a coup occurs which they want to support? Simple.
They don't call it a coup. They call it a "change of government"
and say that Chavez was ousted "as a result of the message
of the Venezuelan people." Veritable grass-roots democracy
it was.
Opposition legislators were also brought
to Washington in recent months, including at least one delegation
sponsored by the International Republican Institute, an integral
part of the National Endowment for Democracy, long used by the
CIA for covert operations abroad.
Overthrowing a man such as Hugo Chavez,
guilty of such transgressions, was a duty so "natural"
for the CIA that the only reason it might not have been intimately
involved in the operation would be that the Agency had been secretly
disbanded.
William Blum
is the author of Killing
Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
and "Rogue
State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower" Blum
can be reached at: BBlum6@aol.com
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