Cuba calls the shots; and Venezuela pays the bills. That is the major premise underlying the Report made public last Monday by the U.S. State Department concerning Cuba. Its findings are as much about the Bush Administration's plans for regime change in Cuba, as they are about the alleged threat that Venezuela poses to U.S. national security interests.

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Another analysis of the recent congress of Venezuela's National Union of Workers and the debates in its recent national congress.

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Venezuela's government is using a 1936 Chaplin film to educate workers about their rights. Employers are not applauding. We reproduce this article from the Los Angeles Times.

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U2's Bono, well-recognized for his campaigns to reduce poverty and treat AIDS in Africa is backing a videogame which promotes the invasion and destruction of Venezuela in order to check "a power hungry tyrant" who has "seized control of Venezuela and her oil supply."  Bono has failed to respond to concerns raised by the Venezuelan Solidarity Network about his funding of this project.

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Here is an extract from Greg Palast's new book Armed Madhouse, to be published in Britain on July 1 2006. Get Armed Madhouse at www.GregPalast.com 

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The British media is moving up a gear in support of Washington and London's agenda of demonising the next potential victims of western power, whether in Iran or Latin America. We publish here an interesting analysis by Media Lens and urge our readers to write to the journalists of the Independent.

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Here we publish the speech by Jose Antonio Hernandez, the Venezuelan activist from Caracas who was in Scotland for a speaking tour. Jose Antonio looks at the roots of the Bolivarian Revolution and its development, illustrated by his personal account of the revolutionary events.

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As reported earlier, National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear gave a debriefing to solidarity activists, on Wednesday June 14 2006 at the union's headquarters in London, of the first official TUC delegation to Venezuela. Apart from a transcipt of his speech, now we have a video of the event available too.

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