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THE ANNEXATION OF MEXICO: FROM THE FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU PLAN COLOMBIA, WELCOME TO PLAN MEXICO

cdfierro — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:52:29 -0700

by JOHN ROSS

MEXICO CITY (June 19th) - Plan Colombia, the $5,000,000,000 drug war boondoggle cooked up in 1999 by Bill Clinton and then-Colombian president Andres Pastrana and subsequently transmographied into a War on Terror adjunct by George Bush and Alvaro Uribe brought U.S. troops, fleets of helicopter gun ships, spray planes spewing poisons, and a vast array of human rights abuses to that troubled Latin American country. It also made Colombia the third largest recipient of Washington's foreign aid and the number one repository of U.S. military aid in the western hemisphere.

A Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy

cdfierro — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:27:57 -0700

By Ramzy Baroud

UN Labor Panel Finds U.S. in Violation, Calls for Repeal of NC Bargaining Ban

cdfierro — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:02:57 -0700

FROM: http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/

Geneva, Switzerland
APRIL 3, 2007

In a strongly-worded decision made public today, the International Labour Organization (ILO), an agency of the United Nations, issued an unprecedented call for the United States to “promote the establishment of a collective bargaining framework in the public sector in North Carolina,” and called specifically for the repeal of North Carolina General Statute § 95-98, the state law that prohibits public employee collective bargaining.