By MARC WEISBROT - March 19-21, 2010

Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media...It involves many public officials, especially in the U.S. The goal will be to generate as much bad press as possible about Venezuela, to discredit the government, and to de-legitimize the September elections...

By TODD GORDON and JEFFERY R. WEBBER - March 19-21, 2010

[Canada’s Minister of State for the Americas Peter] Kent’s visit to Honduras...was...intended to strengthen the new government’s claim to legitimacy...Acting as if everything is once again well and good in Honduras also makes it easier for Canada to deepen its economic ties with the country. Canada is the largest mining investor in Honduras...and its interests will increase significantly should...the right get their way and pass a new mining law that increases the rights of foreign capital.

By DAVE LINDORFF - March 17, 2010

What we have been seeing in Afghanistan--and this goes way back to before the appointment of McChrystal, or even the election of President Barack Obama, and his subsequent escalation of the war--has been a vicious campaign of terror against the Afghan people.

The fossil fools ain’t no joke – but that doesn’t mean we can’t fight them with one! The Fossil Fuel Empire is real and it’s here. The stakes couldn’t be higher: destabilization of the global climate, communities from Alaska to Alberta to Appalachia being destroyed by dirty energy extraction and combustion, devastating super hurricanes, droughts, flooding, the list goes on…

By Rafeef Ziadah - Znet

As a Palestinian refugee, the city of Toronto has always been a place of exile to me...However, following the publication of a recent report by [a] prominent Israeli think-tank [which called Toronto a “hub of Israel delegitimization”]...I felt some pride for my adopted city...The report confirmed to those of us involved in the [Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions] movement that our work was not in vain.

Pierre Labossiere, a Haitian national, co-founder of the Haiti Action Committee, has been a long-time social-justice activist and advocate for the Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, currently exiled in South Africa. Pierre has also been active in the campaigns to free political prisoners in Haiti and the U.S.

Israeli ethnic cleansing to make Jerusalem exclusively Jewish.

Our guest will be the legendary human rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, who lived in Harlem for 40 years and worked with Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik el Shabazz). Although no official holiday honors Malcolm's birthday, May 19 has become a traditional day of celebration in the Black and progressive communities.

By Matthew Kalman - Daily Telegraph

[Israeli] Defence Minister Ehud Barak ordered the army to cut off the [West Bank] until midnight on Saturday, citing a heightened risk of attacks...Israel also limited access to Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Only worshippers with Israeli identity cards and aged over 50 were permitted.

All Israeli settlements are illegal under international law.

By Eva Golinger - February 15th 2010

In 1983, the strategy of overthrowing inconvenient governments and calling it "democracy promotion" was born...Through the creation of a series of quasi-private "foundations"...Washington began to filter funding and strategic aid to political parties and groups abroad that promoted the US agenda in nations with insubordinate governments.

By Joe Emersberger - March 11, 2010

History shows that the most dangerous people in Haiti are not the poor, but...Haitian businessmen who financed coups in 1991 and 2004 and who urge the UN and the police to be even more brutal; the UN troops and Haitian police who have terrorized places like Bel Air and Cite Soleil; and Canadian officials always ready with money, excuses and lies in support of criminal polices.

By Arun Gupta - March 03, 2010

Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. But what is the purpose of an occupation, the fourth in the past 100 years? The official response, from the Pentagon to the United Nations, was that more U.S. and UN troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring in aid. Leaving aside what is really meant by security and stability, the rapid military response was actually a major reason why aid was delayed.

Apartheid is the worst form of racism.

As a U.S. soldier in 1969, Mike Wong refused orders to Viet Nam and deserted to Canada. Mike is featured in the film Sir! No Sir! In today's wars, Eddie Falcon served as a U.S. Airman in Guantanamo Bay and various places in the Middle East including Iraq and Afghanistan. Mike Wong is a member of Veterans for Peace and Eddie Falcon is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War.