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Por Eric Toussaint.

Conviene tener en cuenta el peligro que constituye la actitud sistemáticamente hostil adoptada por la gran mayoría de los grandes medios periodísticos europeos y norteamericanos (así como la organización Reporteros sin Fronteras) respecto a las experiencias en curso en Ecuador, Bolivia y Venezuela. Esta hostilidad sólo es igual al silencio embarazoso y cómplice con respecto a los golpistas hondureños o a la represión ejercida por el ejército peruano contra los indios de la Amazonia. Para ilustrar esta afirmación, he aquí algunos hechos recientes:

Par Eric Toussaint collaborateur de l'IIRF.

By IIRE Fellow Eric Toussaint [1].

It may be useful to assess the dangers of the systematically hostile attitude of the overwhelming majority of major European and North American media companies in relation to the current events taking place in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. This hostility is only matched by an embarrassed, complicit silence with regard to those involved in the putsch in Honduras or the repression enacted by the Peruvian army against the indigenous populations of the Amazon. In order to demonstrate this statement, here are a few recent facts:

por James Cockcroft
5 de julio de 2009*

Par James Cockcroft*
5 juillet 2009

by IIRE Fellow James Cockcroft

The military coup currently underway in Honduras is a hard coup accompanied by various vain attempts to make it appear soft and "constitutionalist."  Behind the coup are diverse social, economic, and political forces, of which the most important is the administration of President Barack Obama. No important change can happen in Honduras without Washington's approval.  The Honduran oligarchy and transnational corporations (banana growers, pharmaceutical manufacturers) are defending their interests, as they always have, with a military coup.

By IIRE Fellow Eric Toussaint

As a result of the depression of the 1920s and 1930s, a new wave of critics tackled the neo-classical creed on a largely pragmatic basis. This new wave was international and involved political leaders and economists from differing belonging to various currents backgrounds: enlightened bourgeois thinkers, socialists and Marxists. In a context of mass unemployment and depression, proposals came forward for major public works, for anti-cyclical injections of public money, and even for bank expropriations.

by IIRE Fellow Claudio Katz

It is true that banks are less leveraged, but the outflow of capital is intensifying.  Internationalized industry is hit by global overproduction, and lower prices of raw materials depress growth.  Moreover, attempts at stimulation collide with reduced resources from the central economies.

Interview d’Eric Toussaint, par Pauline Imbach

On a parlé de rebond du mouvement altermondialiste à l’occasion du Forum Social Mondial à Belém, que faut-il en penser?

Après une situation difficile du Forum Social Mondial (FSM) en 2006, 2007, 2008, on peut parler véritablement de rebond car cette 9ème édition est un énorme succès à différents niveaux.

Interview with IIRE Fellow Gilbert Achcar (from Irish Left Review , 15 January 2009)

Daniel Finn: What do you think are the chief goals of Israeli strategy at present in their assault on the Gaza strip?