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02/16/2006:

"Colonialist powers seeking to block progress of independent countries"

Colonialist powers seeking to block progress of independent countries
“In the current situation, the colonialist countries have focused all their efforts on preventing the development of independent countries,” Iranian Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said in Caracas on Tuesday, underlining the fact that the West intends to trample upon Iran’s right to access peaceful nuclear technology.

Multinationals looting Africa's diversity
A newly-released report says that after illegally acquiring the resources from different countries, multinational firms have gone ahead to develop and patent products that generate for them hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

FAO Investigates Suspected Bird Flu Cases in Southern Nigeria
The Food and Agriculture Organization says it is investigating suspected cases of bird flu virus in three southern Nigerian states. If the cases are confirmed, they could have serious implications for Nigeria.

Video nasty exposes British troop violence
A VIDEO of British troops beating four defenceless Iraqi youths has caused shock and anger across the world.Video footage of more violence from Iraq hit TV screens across the globe yesterday, providing new evidence of abuses by British troops stationed in the Basra region.

Uncle Sam's Haiti Thugacracy
There can be no more heroic people on the globe than the citizens of Haiti, who have once again made known their choice for president. He is Rene Preval, the man who served as prime minister in Jean-Bertrand Aristide's first government in 1990, which was cut short by a U.S.-backed military coup, who went into exile with Aristide until 1994, and who served as a presidential surrogate for Aristide from 1996 to 2001. It is perfectly obvious that, for an absolute majority of Haitians, a vote for Rene Preval was a vote for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was kidnapped by the United States and sent into exile in 2004. The thugs installed by the U.S. then proceeded to murder as many as ten thousand Haitians in an effort to wipe out Aristide's grassroots organization. Canada and France acted as Uncle Sam's junior partners in the theft of Haiti's national sovereignty, and enlisted the shameful assistance of the United Nations in the profoundly anti-democratic project. Brazil became complicit in the subjugation of the Haitian people, its so-called peacekeepers acting as muscle for the assassins masquerading as a government.

Haiti: mass protests erupt over vote count
Nearly a week after Haitians went to the polls in the first election since the 2004 Washington-backed coup and subsequent US invasion, official results have yet to be announced, and the impoverished Caribbean country is spiraling into another intense political crisis.

Burned ballots inflame Haitian election tensions
Haiti's electoral council said on Tuesday it would launch an investigation after burned ballots, many cast a week ago for former president Rene Preval, were found still smoldering in a state dump.

Photos of STOLEN ballots found in garbage dump in Haiti

Préval declared winner in Haiti
Haiti's interim government and the electoral council have declared René Préval the winner of the presidential election, ending frantic negotiations to stop violent street demonstrations in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Africans vow to resist any US pressure on GMOs
The US may push Africa to accept gene-altered (GMO) food now that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled the EU broke rules by barring GMO foods and seeds, but Africans vowed yesterday to resist.

Africa-Brazil:Lula Includes Blacks On Foreign And Domestic Agendas
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva returned to Brasilia Monday after his fifth tour of Africa, while the controversy over quotas for black and indigenous students in Brazil's public universities continues to rage.

America's Masterplan is to Force GM Food on the World


Brazil's sugar crop fuels nation's cars

Hamas leader woos Sudan

Whistleblower says NSA violations bigger