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A year and a half ago, when Ecuador said it was going to evict the US military from the Manta, Ecuador, base, and the US ambassador to Colombia said that this US military facility would likely be re-located to Colombia, the New York Times ferreted out the probable location for this **U.S.** base: the Guajira peninsula! So, is this new Colombian military base overlooking Venezuela's oil harbors going to be a **U.S.** base? I was struck by how meticulous Colombia was to say that their new Guajira base was going to be a **Colombian** base "paid for by Colombian tax dollars." When fascist pigs are careful with their language, like that, it is wise to assume that the opposite of what they are saying is true. Also, the words "U.S. naval blockade" were emblazoned on the ceiling where Colombia made this announcement, but western journalists never look up. FYI: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x28323

Another on the spot classic interview with Hugo: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/21/venezuelan_president_hugo_chavez_on_how

Obama becoming the "biggest frustration in history" is an outstandingly apt description for his presidency.

I'm sure this guy will soon have lots of bookings for speeches and book sales in South Florida:

FARC is being demonized: scholar

Monday, 21 December 2009 07:13 | Bryon Wells | Colombia Reports

A controversial new book by a Canadian scholar who spent nearly ten years studying the FARC-EP says the rebel group has been “demonized” by domestic and foreign powers. His book is intended to dispel the myths surrounding their cause.

In an interview with Colombia Reports, James J. Brittain, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, said that the book, released three months ago in North America and Europe, had already had an intensely polarized reception in academic and political circles.

Brittain said his research, which includes interviews carried out in the field with guerrillas and peasants alike, gave him an understanding of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - Peoples’ Army (FARC-EP) different from that portrayed in the “mainstream media.”

Scholars, journalists, and governments alike have categorized the FARC-EP as a “movement void of ideological position seeking individualistic economic power through violent means,” he claims.

On the contrary, in his book, titled “Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia: The Origin and Direction of the FARC-EP,” Brittain argues that history has shown the rebel group to be “the most powerful and successful guerrilla army in the world.”

I'm sure he'll have an easy time passing through U.S. airports now.

The wire services are SOOOOOOO anti-semitic:

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Israel harvested organs in '90s without permission

(AP) – 1 day ago

JERUSALEM — Israel has admitted forensic specialists harvested organs from bodies, including Palestinians, without permission from their families during the 1990s.

The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's main forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss. An American academic conducted the interview in 2000, but decided to release it now because of a controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge.

In the interview, Hiss says corneas were taken from dead bodies without family consent.

Hiss was dismissed from the institute in 2004, and Israel's Channel 2 TV quoted the health ministry saying that the practice stopped a decade ago.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Who knows, maybe the Sea Org is the cultish naval arm of the CIA. I think they're trying to "claim" Evo just because he's in favor of religious freedom in Bolivia...for all those native folks whose native religions were suppressed under the Church for so long.

All they've got on Evo is that he sent somebody to collect their pamphlets (if even that is true). It's, like, he's the head of the country, right?, and countries do intelligence gathering and analysis, to see if there is anything to be worried about when foreigners set up really strange religions within their borders.

As for the Colombian police and "part of the Colombian navy," I think we should have more concern about CIA indoctrination than Scientology (although comparing the two would make an interesting study). (Do you have to be "clear" to murder union leaders and not be bothered about it for the rest of your life?) (Catholicism is better, in that respect--as it instills a lifelong sense of sin, which has produced some pretty interesting confessions by death squad members tied to the Colombian government.)

Who do the Colombian Armed Forces think they are, the bad guys in Avatar? Heck, early in the film, the big bad Marine Coronel even mentions Venezuela and Nigeria as his earlier campaigns. Which means... Resource Wars of the 21st and 22nd Centuries! Unfortunately, the US-Corporate conglomerate only finally gets its comeuppance on Pandora. But, having just seen the film, it was glorious!

It's the ultimate irony that Chavez has been called a dictator, when he has also been accused of being "soft" on crime (no fascist Mano Dura policies that other countries have employed in the region) and has stressed preventative measures and rehabilitation in the prisons. Getting this new community police force off the ground is a good sign, especially as much of Venezuela's existing police cannot be trusted (like many Latin American countries. Wait... heck like most of the world).

It'll be interesting experiment. Really wish it well.

BTW, there's a shot of Chavecito in a police cap here:

http://www.radiomundial.com.ve/yvke/noticia.php?39416

I think he may need a larger one.

WTF is the Global Viewpoint Network? And if it has so many readers, how come I've never heard of it till now?

At the bottom of Lula's column: "Originally published on the Global Viewpoint Network."

Read by more than 35 million people each week, the Global Viewpoint Network delivers commentary by and interviews with some of the world's most prominent political and intellectual leaders. Issues range from abstract philosophies, such as the power paradigm, to concrete ideas about the international arms control treaty. Contributors have included: the current U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Celso Amorim, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu, Xiao Qiang, Shimon Peres, Donald Rumsfeld and Elie Wiesel. Also available in Spanish.

Did Naiman have something to do with that Lula piece?