The last few days we have seen the entire right go on about Obama shaking hands with Hugo Chavez and Chavez giving a book to our President. Even today wingnut talking points author Matt Drudge is still pushing the story: And what has all this publicity done for the Venezuelan leader? One of the biggest […]
So the big talk from the right is this: Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday. “This is possible in Cuba,” General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air […]
Chavez: U.S. Detained Foreign Minister President Hugo Chavez said his foreign minister was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport Saturday for more than hour as he tried to return to the South American country. Chavez told Venezuela’s state TV broadcaster that U.S. officials alleged that Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro had links to […]
If we are tritely facing “world war 3”, then this should indicate the battle lines that are being drawn. All of this has occurred over the last week. 1. Putin plan to shut out US oil giants President Vladimir Putin is set to keep US oil companies out of a lucrative gas field in the […]
The White House has come out and attacked Pat Robertson over his comments yesterday on the stroke of Ariel Sharon: The White House sharply criticized Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson on Friday for suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s stroke was divine punishment for “dividing God’s land.” “Those comments are wholly inappropriate and offensive and […]
Sunday, on CNN’s Late Edition, they made the mistake of giving Pat Robertson a larger audience again. This time he used his time in the spotlight to further taunt Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. Robertson made two claims, which are being Venezuela’s vice-President as irrational. In the first claim, Robertson said that Chavez paid Osama Bin […]
From ABC News Australia Blame Bush if anything happens to me: Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says President George W Bush would be to blame if anything happened to him, after an American evangelist said the US should assassinate the democratically-elected, leftist leader. Mr Chavez, a former soldier who often accuses the United States of […]
From theBBC US evangelical seeks Chavez talks A senior representative of America’s evangelical Christians is to make an attempt to set up a meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The Rev Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, wants to distance American Christians from the remarks of a tele-evangelist. Pat Robertson earlier this […]
Good old Pat Robertson called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (see this ap article). Pretty chilling coming from someone who is considered a religious leader. True this same “leader” also was holding prayer vigils for the vacancies of Supreme Court Justices, which would either mean deteriorating health or death. Venezuela’s vice-President has […]
Via the BBC: Chavez makes US oil export threat BBC Oil exports to the US could stop amid growing tensions between the two countries, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said. He described recent US government actions as “aggressive” in a speech at a youth festival in Caracas. As a result, Venezuelan oil “instead of […]