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Wikileaks News Roundup 13-14 December, 2010
14 December, 2010 — creative-i.info 14 December, 2010 Assange Last Minute Bail Offer, But Remains in Jail While Money is Raised Breaking news: Assange released on bail…. Operation: LeakSpin — A Message from Anonymous Popular Elsewhere The War to Silence WikiLeaks TRNN Skewer: Rap News 5: WikiLeaks & The War on Journalism (ft. Julian Assange) Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 6 August, 2010: Uribe’s appointment to flotilla probe guarantees its failure
6 August, 2010 — VTJP News Ma’an News Red Cross urged to help farmers harmed by Gaza no-go zone 8/7/2010 – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A Popular Committee Against the Buffer Zone in Gaza met with the International Committee of the Red Cross Saturday to discuss means to assist farmers affected by Israel’s imposition of Continue reading
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Colombia and Venezuela Rattle Their Sabres By Jeffery R. Webber
Outgoing Colombian President, Álvaro Uribe, dropped a figurative bomb in the Andes on Thursday, July 22, just weeks before the scheduled inauguration of President-elect Juan Manuel Santos, Uribe’s former Defence Minister. At the behest of Bogotá, an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) was convened to hear Colombia’s… Continue reading
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Venezuela – Colombia Relations in Limbo: Will Chávez burn the bridge? – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
In response to Colombian charges that weapons found in a FARC arms cache were supplied by Venezuela, Hugo Chávez withdrew his ambassador from Bogotá and once again froze Venezuela – Colombia relations. According to reports by the Uribe Administration, three Swedish AT-4 rocket launchers which formed part of a shipment sold in the 1980s to… Continue reading
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Colombian Trade Unions: A Target for Intimidation and Assassination
For most of its modern existence, Colombia has struggled with internal violence, most recently in the form of human rights abuses and brutality against organized trade union groups carried out by paramilitary and insurgent armies. This group in particular has been subjected to a disproportionate amount of violence. In the past twenty years, over 2,000… Continue reading
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Majority Leader Hoyer Needs to Know that the Uribe Government of Colombia is Not Fit for an FTA
The most outspoken Democratic proponent of an ill-deserved Free Trade Agreement with Bogotá has not only reversed his own position on the deal, but has defended and legitimized a corrupt, venal government, heavily tied to political scandals and human rights violations, whose legislative backers are being indicted in droves. Only Colombia’s elite will be the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 