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Monthly Archives: June 2005

Chavez to raise spending on education, health care, housing and pensions to 40 percent of all government expenditure

Monday, June 20, 2005

Venezuela’s Chavez Runs Up Debt Shunting Oil Wealth to the Poor
16 June 2005 | Bloomberg
Venezuelan housewife Sabrina Munoz saves as much as a third on the price of flour, meat and beans by shopping at Mercal, a government-owned supermarket near her Caracas home overlooked by hillside shanties.
She thanks President Hugo Chávez.
“Mercal is an example of [...]

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Stolen Childhoods: Nightline might actually be worth watching tonight

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

June 15, 2005 | Nightline
Tonight’s broadcast will change the way you think about the coffee you drink and the vegetables you eat.
Why? Because the production of such goods may have involved the labor of one of the estimated 246 million children worldwide for whom life is nothing but work.

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New Memos Detail Early Plans for Invading Iraq: British officials believed the U.S. favored military force a year before the war, documents show.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

[ Many Bush supporters seem not to grasp the significance of these and other recent revelations. They seem instead to prefer to grasp the nettle of absurdity (ignoring the reports, rejecting all unfriendly facts as "liberal lies"). Grasping this nettle demonstrates not the toughness of their skin, but the thickness of their skulls, their insulation [...]

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More Babies, Young Kids Going Hungry in US

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

June 12, 2005 | Agence France Presse
Increasing numbers of young American children are showing signs of serious malnourishment, fueled by a greater prevalence of hunger in the United States, while, paradoxically, two-thirds of the US population is either overweight or obese.
In 2003, 11.2 percent of families in the United States experienced hunger, compared with 10.1 [...]

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China, Venezuela and the U.S.A — trouble brewing

Monday, June 6, 2005

[ Thanks to Popi and Tom Natsoulas for passing this insightful piece along. --BL ]
26 May – June 01 | Progresso Weekly
by Saul Landau
“So what did you think of China’s recent economic foray into Latin America,” I asked a university student.
“Huh”? she replied.
“I read something about it,” said another, “but I don’t remember any details.”
“Why [...]

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