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Un general brasileño amenazó hace semanas con asaltar la represa de Itaipú, y nuevos incidentes fronterizos se producen dejando en ridículo al Paraguay, todo por obra y gracia de la ineptitud diplomática del gobierno del obispo Fernando Lugo.
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Kevin Martin, executive director of the group Peace Action, said. . . . "There's so much Obama hero worship, we're having to walk this line where we can't directly criticize him" . . . . Tom Andrews, national director of Win Without War, said that although he finds Sen. Clinton's views "very troubling," Obama should be given the benefit of the doubt.
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El presidente colombiano Alvaro Uribe parece gozar de mayor popularidad que el venezolano Hugo Chávez, entre la mayoría de los seguidores del obispo Fernando Lugo.
After hearing that the media was referring to the weekend gathering of the G-20 as "Bretton Woods II," the White House immediately began a coordinated attack on expectations. The economic summit that was to fix the deepening economic crisis was raising hopes too high (Bretton Woods was the 1944 conference that re-organized the world capitalist system after WWII).
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Glitzy eco-conferences like the Global Climate Summit hosted by Gov. Schwarzenegger this week in Beverly Hills - punctuated by a video talk
by President-Elect Obama - are a welcome sign attitudes about climate change are changing, but they often don't translate to real change, said Wes Rolley, a Green Party environmental expert, on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the same "Green Governor" who is grandstanding about green energy continues his war on fish and the environment.
While Central Valley chinook salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bass populations collapse because of
water exports and declining water qualilty, Schwarzenegger is pushing for new dams and a peripheral canal that would exacerabate the already deplorable condition of imperiled fish species.
At the same time, the Governor refuses to fund the Department of Fish and Game sufficiently to do its job conducting research on salmon and other fish, apprehending poachers and working to restore collapsing fish populations.
"Gov. Schwarzenegger is once again raising our expectations for a better future, something he is good at selling," said Wes Rolley in reference to
the Beverly Hills confab. "We can only hope that this future is not like the past, filled with press conferences followed by little action.
19 year-old soldier Tony Anderson was sentenced to 14 months of confinement and given a dishonorable discharge for refusing to deploy to Iraq.
ISLAMABAD - American, Pakistani and Afghan troops are conducting a coordinated operation to hunt down Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants along the Afghan border.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 :We speak with Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest. He took part in a ceremony this summer to ordain a member of the group called Roman Catholic Womenpriests. For the past two decades, he has organized the annual protest against the US Army's School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 :As speculations abound over who President-elect Barack Obama will name to key cabinet positions, we look at some of the central figures advising Obama, many of whom are leading candidates for posts in the next administration. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, author of the new piece "This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House," and David Corn, author of "The Agents of Change on Obama's Transition Team."
Thursday, November 20, 2008 :A Texas judge has set an arraignment date for Friday for Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They were indicted this week by a Texas grand jury on state charges accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a privately run federal jail. We speak with Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra.
AIPAC which functions as a organizing front for Israel with the support of all US Democrats and Republicans including Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and most other bay area Congress people will be coming to San Francisco to push for it's policies of repression of Palestinians, for war against Iran and Syria and for more US funding to the Zionist war machine. People in SF will be giving AIPAC the welcome they deserve
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 :The contradiction between the aspirations and hopes of millions of Americans who voted to repudiate the Bush administration's policies of war and social reaction and the class character of the incoming Obama administration has become increasingly clear over the two weeks since Election Day.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 :The cabinet of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accepted the final draft of a bilateral security agreement with the United States on Sunday. The pact, which has been under negotiation for the best part of a year, was read to the Iraqi parliament the following day and will be put to the vote next Monday.