LAST week saw the outcome of the inquests into the deaths of the victims of the Ballymurphy massacre.
The coroner found that all 10 of those shot dead between August 9 and
11 1971 — in the days following the introduction of internment without
trial — were “entirely innocent of any wrongdoing.”
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SHOCKING new evidence has emerged that the British government conspired with the Bank of England to deny Venezuela access to 31 tonnes of gold worth more than $1bn (over £800m) it had deposited with the bank.
The British government has always maintained that the Bank of England
makes its own independent decisions about Venezuela’s gold deposits.
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NINETEEN years ago in Venezuela a right-wing military coup briefly unseated its elected President Hugo Chavez before loyal armed forces units and a popular mobilisation of Caracas’s barrios turned the tables and restored Chavez to the presidency.
The coup was mounted by a combination of industrialists, businessmen,
media owners, the principal trade union movement’s leaders, Catholic
bishops and conservative military officers, working closely with the US
government.
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IN 2009, I was one of the co-founders of the Emergency Committee Against the Coup in Honduras and have tried to keep up to speed with developments and with the resistance movements there ever since. Despite the repression — including killings — the resistance has faced, it has continued.
Many of those opposing the coup regime may have felt vindicated when
it was recently reported that US prosecutors have alleged in a major
court case that the Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was a
co-conspirator in his brother’s cocaine trafficking ring.
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AN overwhelmingly damning report by UN special rapporteur on human rights Alena Douhan has catalogued the massive harm inflicted on the Venezuelan people by the illegal sanctions imposed primarily by the US but also by Britain, the EU and Canada.
Yet less than a month after its publication in February, President
Joe Biden has chosen to renew by executive order what the Obama
administration in 2015 termed “a national emergency with respect to the
situation in Venezuela,” on the absurd grounds that the country
continues “to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
security and foreign policy of the United States.”
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I HAVE written in my Morning Star column before how the homelessness
levels in our country are a national scandal, and news this week
confirmed the human costs of the Tories’ inaction in this area, as well
as being a devastating indictment of 10 years of austerity cutting so
many essential public services to the bone.
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THE United States has an extensive sanctions programme affecting two dozen countries across the globe, and three of those states singled out for coercive measures are in Latin America: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The cost to those three nations of US sanctions imposed allegedly “to
counter threats to national security” are breathtakingly severe and
must be stopped.
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RECENT figures showing unemployment rising to 5 per cent in the three months to November 2020 were further evidence of the growing jobs crisis facing Britain.
Not a week passes by without more announcements of job cuts from
household name companies, and many job losses of course do not even
reach the headlines.
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DESPITE enormous costs to its economy and its people imposed by illegal US sanctions, Venezuela has seen off President Donald Trump’s term in office and his clear goal of toppling the elected government of Nicolas Maduro.
From his earliest days in office, Trump had drastically ratcheted up
the sanctions first levied against Venezuela by the Obama
administration, increasingly meaning there is a full-on Cuba-style US
blockade of the country.
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NOW is the winter of our discontent — and the Tory government is entirely to blame.
More than nine months into Britain’s Covid-19 crisis, Boris Johnson and his ministers have failed utterly to protect public health and to drive down infections.
This is not just incompetence — although that has been in evidence — it is fundamentally a failure of policy.
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