Argentina
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“Washington’s Pope”? Who is Pope Francis I? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In 1973, he had been appointed “Provincial” of Argentina for the Society of Jesus. In this capacity, Bergoglio was the highest ranking Jesuit in Argentina during the military dictatorship led by General Jorge Videla (1976-1983). Continue reading
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“Washington’s Pope”? Who is Pope Francis I? Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In 1973, he had been appointed “Provincial” of Argentina for the Society of Jesus. In this capacity, Bergoglio was the highest ranking Jesuit in Argentina during the military dictatorship led by General Jorge Videla (1976-1983). Continue reading
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Media: The Pope and Politics By Peter Hart
15 March 2013 — FAIR Blog Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen as the new pope this week. But coverage often glossed over the most intense political controversies about him. On NBC Nightly News (3/13/13), the network’s Vatican analyst George Weigel told viewers that Pope Francis was “a man of God… a man who is Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 January 2013
27 January 2012 — VTJP News Ma’an News Family: Israel sentences Hamas MP to 30 months1/27/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Hamas lawmaker Hassan Yousef was sentenced to 30 months in Israeli jail after serving several administrative detention terms, his family said on Sunday. Israel’s Ofer military court handed down the sentence on Thursday. Yousef is appealing Continue reading
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GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans By F. William Engdahl
One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it… Continue reading
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Books: Understand the Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
In this expanded edition of Chossudovsky’s international best-seller, the author outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. The result as his detailed examples from all parts of the world… Continue reading
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ICH 10 November 2012: Dead Enough: The Reality of the “Lesser Evil”
10 November 2012 — — Information Clearing House Petraeus Caught With Pants Down?How Was Petraeus’ Affair Uncovered and Did he Really Have To Resign? By Daniel Politi “Petraeus took the samurai route and insisted that he had done a dishonorable thing and now had to try to balance it by doing the honorable thing and stepping Continue reading
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Iran vs the Empire: Fighting dollarization By Eric Walberg
The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions—including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations—is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Steve Hanke, Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per month and its national currency, the rial, plummeting in… Continue reading
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Coup in Paraguay: Lugo ousted – reports
Leading British figures with an interest in Latin America have joined the governments of Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic in condemning what has been widely termed a “political coup” in Paraguay, where the elected President Lugo has been removed from office by an illegitimate “impeachment” process. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: March 16, 2012: Argentina To Sue Over British Oil Exploration Near Falklands
16 March 2012 — Stop NATO NATO Arctic War Games: Norwegian Military Aircraft Goes Missing NATO Attack Kills Pakistani Civilian; Four Others Arrested NATO Enhances Interceptor Missile System From One End Of Europe To The Other Georgia: U.S. Marines Lead Two-Week War Games Afghanistan: Pentagon Chief Inspects Georgian Cohorts Georgian Fatalities In Afghan War: NATO Cannon Continue reading
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GR Weekend Review: Global Economic Crisis, World War and the Russia-China Veto, Drones over America, Occupy Wall Street
12 February 2012 — Global Research Latest News and Top Stories WAR PLAN IRAN: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf GR ONLINE NEWS READER – by Finian Cunningham, Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-02-16 GR ONLINE NEWS READER. The region is on a hair-trigger for a conflagration that would involve Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 10, 2012: NATO Air Strike Killed Eight Afghan Children: Karzai
10 February 2012 — Stop NATO news NATO Air Strike Killed Eight Afghan Children: Karzai Another U.S. Drone Strike Kills Three In Pakistan Pentagon Budget To Fund First NATO Global Hawk Drones Argentina Appeals To UN Over British Military Buildup In South Atlantic Leading U.S. Officials Flock To Bulgaria Amid Mideast War Threats Defense Ministry: Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: February 9, 2012: British MPs: NATO Death Toll In Libya ‘Cannot Be Counted’
9 February 2012 — Stop NATO British MPs: NATO Death Toll In Libya ‘Cannot Be Counted’ Video And Text: CIA Drone Carnage Targets Pakistani Civilians NATO Warplanes To Continue Baltic Patrols To 2018 Argentina To Appeal To UN Against British Military Buildup Deputy Prime Minister: Russia Needs Compact, Mobile, Armed-To-Teeth Military As Mideast Crisis Mounts, Continue reading
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Argentina: Why President Fernandez Wins and Obama Loses By James Petras
The most popular slogan of the multitudinous movements occupying the financial districts factories, public buildings and the streets was ‘Que se vayan todos’ (‘All politicians get out’). The entire political class, parties and leaders, Congress and presidents were rejected outright. But while the movements were vast, militant and united in what they rejected, they had… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 15-16 August 2011
16 August 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: US and Brazil Vie for Power in Peru Huffington Post That, at least, is the unmistakable impression that one is left with by reading US cables recently disclosed by whistle-blowing outfit WikiLeaks, and it’s a topic about which I have written widely in recent months. Yet, with President Hugo Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 December, 2010: Researcher says detainees used in medical experiments
6 December, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Turkey and Israel Set to Restore Relations IMEMC – 6 Dec 2010 – Monday December 06, 2010 – 17:32, Turkish and Israeli diplomats met in Geneva on Sunday, and discussed repairing relations between the two countries cooled since after Israeli military raid on the Continue reading
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NACLA Update 1 April, 2010 – Argentina: Fathers of the Disappeared / Mexico Merida Initiative
Most are in their 80s. They include an optician, a pilot, a teacher, a bank clerk, and a lawyer. Privately, they all suffered the loss of a son, daughter, or, in some cases, two or three children, during the repression of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983 and, Mexico’s Supreme Court… Continue reading
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NACLA Update 3/11/10 New NACLA Report – Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup
12 March, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America Available Now! Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup March/April 2010: Since the June 28 military coup in Honduras, the country’s de facto authorities have maintained a by now well-established track record of attempting to conceal their anti-democratic, violent disposition. This edition of the NACLA Report examines this Continue reading
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Argentina: Disappearing Farmers, Disappearing Food By Marie Trigona
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… Continue reading
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School of the Americas: A Thoroughly Un-American Institution
Opened in 1946 at Fort Gulick in the former U.S. Panama Canal Zone, the School of the Americas (SOA) has, over its lifetime, trained more than 64,000 Latin American and Caribbean members of the uniformed armed forces in an extensive program of military operations. Its graduates have included ten different Latin American military officers who… Continue reading
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