While campaigning last year, Hugo Chavez always mentioned George Bush, his nemesis. The Venezuelan president has decided to keep the heat on the US in South America. He hosts today a 12-nation regional conference on the Caribbean island of Margarita. Chavez wants it to focus on regional intergration as a way counter the US influence [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 13, 2007
$186,378= the 2006 Bushes’ tax bill – $186,378=les impôts payés par les Bush en 2006
As a president of the United States, George Bush earned around $400,000 last year. All in all, the Bushes reported an income of $765,801 and paid $186,378 in taxes, according to their tax return. The vice-president Dick Cheney earned about $200,000 for his function. But Dick Cheney and his wife have other assets and they [...]
April 13, 2007
The end for Wolfowitz? – La fin pour Wolfowitz?
One might call him a survivor. Paul Wolfowitz was once telling Americans (and the world) that US would be greeted in Iraq as liberators. That was more than four years ago. Wolfowitz, who served as deputy Secretery of Defense during the first Bush administration, was then named to take over from James Wolfensohn as president [...]
April 10, 2007
Exonerated in Dallas – Exonéré à Dallas
Those who have seen Razor Wire Rodeo, the feature documentary I co-authored with director Nicolas Pallay, know what I talking about. The US justice system has flaws. Yesterday, James Curtis Giles joined a growing list of men exonerated by DNA evidence in Dallas County. Giles spent 10 years in prison for a gang rape he [...]
April 9, 2007
Nebraska and Cuba – Nebraska et Cuba
The 45-year-old US embargo on Cuba is living on. But some US analysts expect a change in US-Cuba relations in the near future. Fidel Castro’s transfer of power to his brother and a new democrat majority in both chambers of the US Congress might lead to a sanding down of the US embargo on Cuba [...]
