By Eva Golinger – Correo del Orinoco International | Venezuela Analysis | Latin America has suffered constant aggressions executed by Washington during the past two hundred years. Strategies and tactics of covert and overt warfare have been applied against different nations in the region,… weiter…

Von Juliana Rincón Parra | Global Voices | – As the day comes to a close, more videos crop up of the devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Chile at 3:30 am. The earthquake, which not only affected the mainland through the ground movements, also generated tsunami waves that set out an alarm throughout the Pacific as different nations prepared for the waves to hit their shores weiter…

By Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) | – The face of Honduras’ president may have changed, but the impunity and repressive policies of the old coup government continue. Porfirio Lobo took office on January 27 after winning a deeply flawed election in which over one half the county’s eligible voters failed to cast their ballots. weiter…

By Alexey Sidorenko | Global Voices | – Until recently, the Russian blogosphere didn’t have its own citizen media source in Haiti. There were no direct witnesses of the devastating earthquake among Russian bloggers. But the bloggers suddenly discovered the blog of Yuri Firsov [RUS], an Interpol officer in Haiti. weiter…

By Les Blough – Axis of Logic | – "Yang Chien, the founding emperor of the Sui dynasty, came to power in 581 and though the dynasty itself lasted less than forty years, it’s accomplishments, as Arthur Wright has written were ‘prodigious and its effects on the later history of China were far reaching.’ weiter…

By Fabienne Flessel | Global Voices | – For more than two weeks, the governance of Haiti after the earthquake has been seriously questioned by Haitian bloggers. They are now discussing the reactions in the neighboring countries and islands of the Caribbean. Here is a review of the French-speaking posts dealing with this question. weiter…

By Dady Chery – Axis of Logic | – Friday, January 1. It is Haitian Independence Day, and I am in a mood to celebrate year two-hundred and six. The stereo blasts a wild, up-tempo, tune. Haitian drums burn! As I dance, I explain to my befuddled husband that this exhuberant song is about a woman who survived a storm. She is stuck up a tree and singing that her day to die has not yet come. weiter…

By Kiraz Janicke and Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com | – Caracas, January 26, 2010 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the appointment of a new Vice-President, Defence Minister, and Environment Minister shortly after three ministers resigned on Monday. weiter…

What’s being touted as the largest single investigation and prosecution against individuals in the history of the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act occurred Monday in Las Vegas. Since the election of Obama the main question for gun owners has been, “when will Obama come after the guns”? [ ---> PrisonPlanet ]

By Nancy Lopez – Mission Local | venezuelanalysis.com | – If mainstream media coverage of Venezuela invokes the singular figure of president Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías as the sole decision-maker of a socialist-bound country, Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots reveals a politically active populace who says that “with or without Chávez” they will continue spearheading the revolution from below, like they always have. weiter…

By Shahid R. Siddiqi. – Axis of Logic – Saturday, Jan 16, 2010 | – The US must address Pakistan’s security concerns to leave behind a stable AfPak region - Despite some ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ related to US withdrawal expressed by some US officials following President Obama’s speech laying out his new policy on Afghanistan, there is absolutely no doubt that President Obama will begin to wind down the US involvement in Afghanistan by 2011, taking at best a year or so to complete it. “…after eight years… it is my intention to finish the job” he said. weiter…

By James Suggett – Venezuelanalysis.com | – Mérida, January 15^th 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – On Tuesday, the Honduran Congress voted to withdraw from the Venezuela-led trade bloc called the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), and on Wednesday, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes announced that his government will not align with the bloc.

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Jonathan Cook | The National – NAZARETH, Israel // Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women’s groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of black babies. weiter…

By Luis Britto – Manuela Sisa- Basil de Fato | Venezuelanalysis.com | – Unlike past years of polarization and launching of social plans and projects, 2009 in Venezuela was not one of the most remarkable. weiter…

By HONDURAS OYE! | – Tegucigalpa, Dec 30.- Honduras’ constitutional President Manuel Zelaya called upon Central American nations to act united and firmly to overthrow the dictatorship in his country, and avoid the return of coups in the region. weiter…

By Paul Richard Harris – Axis of Logic | – We aim to replace the present capitalist system, with its inherent injustice and inhumanity, by a social order from which the domination and exploitation of one class by another will be eliminated, in which economic planning will supersede unregulated private enterprise and competition, and in which genuine democratic self government, based on economic equality, will be possible. weiter…

By Jane Guskin | HONDURAS OYE! | – In Colombia there is an expression: la paz del cementerio — the peace of the graveyard.  This is the kind of peace that powerful forces enjoy when everyone who resists them is dead and buried. weiter…