propaganda press! freedom in Guyana

stolen from kaieteur news…

Dear Editor:
If I may I would like to kill two birds with one stone on two issues that are of interest to me.

First the recent UN Tribunal award that gave Guyana a favourable outcome. I would like to know what mechanisms are in place for the oil spills to come? We’ve proven our inefficiency in keeping the streets of our capital clean, am I to believe that we are ready to deal with oil spills when drilling and pumping starts? According to the contracts signed, what agency or body is responsible for damages and environmental clean up? Or is this not part of the public’s right to know? Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Editor,

Your correspondent, R. Deonarine (’Why such large exemptions?’ SN, 19.9.07) is clearly outraged at the financial subsidies from our government enjoyed by foreign companies offering to invest in a country as poor as Guyana. He, and all Guyanese, should ask the question as to why one of those beneficiaries, the Barama Company Limited, is still allowed exclusive access to over 1.6 million hectares of State Forests at a fraction of the annual area fees charged to Guyanese, when Barama is not in full compliance with even the extraordinarily generous terms of its foreign direct investment agreement. [propaganda note: only one reason, we have a pack of  money hungry, stool pigeons running this scuntry called Guyana]

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outgoing Chief of Staff, Brigadier Edward Collins still reeling from the succession parade president bar.rat jagdeo put in place by selecting four junior PPP officers had a word with bar.rat the other day. according to Collins in a telephone interview with propaganda press, he told president Jagdeo ‘take this job and shove it up your arse’ and he will not be attending/having a succession parade to hand over to the new PPP appointed commander in chief gary best

eddie ”two guns” says he will just ride off into the sunset, but we will be hearing from him at a time and place of his own choosing.

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In this essay, written for the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000, the publisher Walter Bgoya tells of his years fighting racial inequality in the U.S. in the 60s, and of mutual discovery between Tanzanians and some of the American activists involved in African liberation movements during the 60s and 70s.

Walter Bgoya is the managing director of Mkuki na Nyota, an independent scholarly publishing company in Dar es Salaam, and chairman of the international African Books Collective. From 1972 to 1990 he directed the Tanzania Publishing House, which played a major role in making Dar es Salaam a center for progressive intellectuals from around the world. Its publications included Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Agostinho Neto’s Sacred Hope, Samora Machel’s Establishing People’s Power to Serve the Masses, and Issa Shivji’s Class Struggle in Tanzania.

Notes: A talk by Prof Angela Davis, given Sept 18, 2007 at Cornell University. The US imprisons more people than any other nation, more than two million are behind bars now. According to report by the US dept of justice a few years ago, 1 in 37 Americans will find themselves behind bars.
The majority of those prisoners are people of color, especially African American men, even in states where they are a tiny minority of the population, and even though many studies have shown that white people break laws as often or more often than people of color. It is estimated that one in 3 black men will be incarcerated at some time in his life. Read the rest of this entry »

A STUDY OF CONTINUOUS OIL SPILLS IN THE NIGER DELTA
SHELL’S OIL SPILL DISASTER IN OGBUDU, NIGER DELTA
June-July, 2001
GANA, AN URHOBO COMMUNITY, IMPACTED BY SHELL’S OIL SPILL
January 2000
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION’S [NNPC's] OIL SPILL IN ADEJE, AN URHOBO COMMUNITY, IN THE NIGER DELTA
January 2000
ERA’S SECOND REPORT ON NNPC’S LEAKING PIPES AT ADEJE
SHELL’S OIL SPILLS FROM ABANDONED FACILITIES IN OGONI
1999
SHELL’S OIL SPILL IN BARRALE, OGONILAND, OF RIVERS STATE
October 2001 - January 2002
SHELL’S OIL SPILLS IN BILLE, IN NIGER DELTA’S RIVER STATE
November 1999
“Shell fails to clean spill, refuses to pay compensation”
FOR OIL SPILLS IN AMUSIA, RIVERS STATE OF NIGERIA’S NIGER DELTA
CHEVRON’S OIL SPILL IN ILAJE IN NIGERIA’S ONDO STATE
July 1998
ERA Reports
ANOTHER CHEVRON’S MAJOR OIL SPILL IN ILAJE, ONDO STATE
May, 2002

SHELL’S OIL SPILL IN BARAALE, OGONILAND, OF NIGERIA’S RIVERS STATE
October 2001 - January 2002

Source:
Subject:         ERA FIELD REPORT: SOUND of shell’s FIRE IN OGONI
Date:         Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:40:35 +0100
From:
“ERA/FoE N” <eraction@infoweb.abs.net>
To:         “ERA/FoEN” <eraction@infoweb.abs.net>

ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS ACTION (ERA)
214 Uselu-Lagos Road, P.O. Box 10577, Benin City, Nigeria
Tel/Fax + 234 52 600 165 E-mail: eraction@infoweb.abs.net Read the rest of this entry »

you’ve got to love the way this two.bit clown reporter, supposedly one of the best in jesusland, got disciplined for his stupidity and exposed by Ahmadinejad

(CBS) On Sept. 20, 2007, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley interviewed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran. In the interview, transcribed below, President Ahmadinejad spoke through his own translator.

SCOTT PELLEY: Do you have a greeting to the American people?

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD: In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful, I would like to greet the American people and the good nations around the world. Right now we are in the city of Tehran. It’s in the afternoon of an autumn day. We’re in the open air in a garden. And the air is pleasant. And fall, little by little, is settling in, mixing with the summer breeze, I guess. And I think that right now, you have different time zones obviously and different climates. We have early morning in the U.S. and other time zones perhaps approaching the noon. So once again, greetings to you. I very much hope that nations around the world start their days with peace, friendship, and happiness. Read the rest of this entry »

A certain man had disappeared. Or was he a lady?

On the first day of this month, one of the Peeping Tom’s columns was captioned, “Analysing Uncle Freddie.” That particular Peeping Tom wrote the following; “Over the next week, I will expose what drives this fanaticism that Uncle Freddie has with the Jagdeo presidency and the PPP and will prove beyond contradiction that it is because he cares deeply for the political party in which he was nurtured during his early days and it is out of a sub-conscious respect for the Jagdeo presidency that has caused the professor to be so vitriolic about the PPP and the Presidency. In short, I will prove that Uncle Freddie loves the PPP.” Read the rest of this entry »

In an excerpt from the book, No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000,  journalist Charles Cobb Jr. tells of a meeting with the Kenyan leader Oginga Odinga and of looking to Africa to find alternative ways of organizing.

Cobb was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi from 1962 to 1967. He moved to Tanzania in 1970. In this interview, he traces the beginnings of his involvement in the civil rights movement and his introduction to Africa.