Keeping the Record Straight on Venezuela December 9th 2007, by John Pilger - Comment is free The book of which I am most proud is Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs. It was a long-held ambition of mine to bring together the work of those I considered the greatest journalists of my lifetime: the "honourable exceptions" of my craft. In paying tribute to them, I wanted to demon...

There follows a list of quotes translated from the original Spanish from Venezuelan politicians and activists discussing the recent referendum.- Hat tip, Lenin's Tomb.In 2006, President Chávez won the presidential elections with 62 per cent of the vote, obtaining the support of 7,309,000 people. A year later, the president's Constitutional Reform only received 4,380,000 votes in favour, which allo...

On Friday, December 7th, Al Jazeera's programme The Listening Post analysed the world's media biased coverage of the constitutional reform referendum. Amongst those interviewed was Alan Woods, founder of Hands Off Venezuela. '; writethis(jsval);//-->...

Manifesto to the Bolivian People Summit of the social organisations of the indigenous, originario, campesino peoples and nations and the popular organisation of the cities of the Boliviahttp://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/manifesto-to-bolivian-people.html http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2007/09/manifesto-to-bolivian-people.html>The demand for a Constituent Assembly arose as a democratic and...

Gonzalo Meza Allende, the grandson of Salvador Allende, spoke in Caracas, Venezuela yesterday, during a commemorative ceremony on the 34th anniversary of Pinochet's coup d'etat, which overthrew and assassinated the democratically elected Chilean President, Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. I want to thank you for the invitation to commemorate this significant day in history, not just for Chil...