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style="font-family:  Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:

bold;">by Rick Rozoff&nbsp;| 25 August

2009&nbsp;</span><span class="texte2"

style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,

sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #5C5C5C;

text-decoration: none;"><p>During the second half

of the 20th century, the United States allowed the

former colonial powers to safeguard their

interests in Africa.  The tables have turned. 

President Barack Obama of Kenyan descent has

chosen one of AFRICOM&#8217;s main architects as

his national security adviser: General James

Jones.  The new command is tasked with planifying

the Pentagon&#8217;s military interventions

throughout the African continent.</p></span>

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drone killings</b></a><br>

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style="font-family:  Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:

bold;">23 August 2009&nbsp;</span><span

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Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color:

#5C5C5C; text-decoration: none;"><p>According to a

recent report by the <i>New York Times</i>, the

Obama administration has retained the services of

the notorious Blackwater guards to carry out drone

attacks in Afghanistan, denoting no substantive

distinction from the Bush administration&#8217;s

use of Blackwater - now operating under the banner

of Xe Services LLC - to carry out &#8217;targeted

assassinations&#8217; in Iraq. With the number of

military contractors in Afghanistan far exceeding

the U.S. soldiers on the ground [*], what has so

far been revealed regarding Washington&#8217;s

arrangements with Blackwater and its more than a

dozen affiliate companies might be only the

beginning.</p></span>

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standard</span><br><a

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style="font-family:  Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:

bold;">by Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada&nbsp;| 21

August 2009&nbsp;</span><span class="texte2"

style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,

sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #5C5C5C;

text-decoration: none;"><p>Since September 1998,

five Cuban intelligence agents have been

incarcerated in the United States.  Without

breaching the law, they had infiltrated anti-Cuban

terrorist groups based in that country.  Thanks to

their information, the Cuban authorities were able

to pre-empt a significant number of planned

attacks.   On the one hand, Washington promotes

international co-operation to fight  terrorism

while, on the other hand, it surreptitiously

supports anti-Castrist terrorist groups.  As a

result, the five Cuban agents were accused of and

sentenced for complicity in the death of US

nationals, killed during a Cuban anti-terrorist

operation.  The President of the Cuban National

Assembly, Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, revisits

this affair.</p></span>

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#000000; text-align: left; text-decoration:

none"><b>Hugo Chávez and the private media

</b></a><br>

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style="font-family:  Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size: 10px; color: #B91111; font-weight:

bold;">by Salim Lamrani&nbsp;| 20 August

2009&nbsp;</span><span class="texte2"

style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,

sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #5C5C5C;

text-decoration: none;"><p>The Venezuelan National

Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) has set

out to retrieve the transmission frequencies

illegally held by certain media belonging to a

group of powerful families in order to

redistribute them.  The oligarchs promptly

denounced a “freedom of expression violation”,

receiving the active support of their western

counterparts through their own media. 

Unsurprisingly, Reporters Without Borders joined

the chorus in its consistent role as faithful

information watchdog on behalf of Washington’s

interests.</p></span>

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