U.S. Democrats won't budge on FTA with Peru

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# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
9 May, 2007 [ 19:47 ]

Peru could share in this US Plan for the Third World if the Garcia Gang were successful in their current attempt to get personally rich before they are thrown out by the Peruivan people and its armed forces:
 

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U.S. Embassy workers ordered to wear protection after spike in attacks

Updated: 1 hour, 18 minutes ago from AP

BAGHDAD - A sharp increase in mortar attacks on the Green Zone — the one-time oasis of security in Iraq’s turbulent capital — has prompted the U.S. Embassy to issue a strict new order telling all employees to wear flak vests and helmets while in unprotected buildings or whenever they are outside.

The order, obtained by The Associated Press, has created a siege mentality among U.S. staff inside the Green Zone following a recent suicide attack on parliament. It has also led to new fears about long-term safety in the place where the U.S. government is building a massive and expensive new embassy.

The situation marks a sharp turnaround for the heavily guarded Green Zone — long viewed as the safest corner of Baghdad with its shops, restaurants, American fast-food outlets and key Iraqi and American government offices.

The security deterioration also holds dire implications for the Iraqi government, which uses the Green Zone as a haven for key meetings crucial to its ability to govern. On Wednesday, for example, Vice President Dick Cheney held meetings in the Green Zone with Iraq’s prime minister.

Reporters covering the Cheney visit were hustled into a secure area when a large explosion rattled windows in the U.S. Embassy late in the afternoon. Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said the vice president’s meeting “was not disturbed and he was not moved.”

The increase in mortar attacks comes despite the presence of tens of thousands more American and Iraqi soldiers in the streets of Baghdad as part of the security crackdown ordered by President Bush in January.

# catherine sahley says :
10 May, 2007 [ 06:32 ]

  The newly elected Democratic majority in the U.S. congress is demanding that fair labor laws and environmental protection be respected before a Free Trade Pact is signed with Peru.  I don't think you have to look very far to see that child labor is not uncommon and it is well-known that illegal logging of the Amazon as well as inadequate public health/environmental measures are currently in place.  The Peruvian papers are reporting that INRENA is selling off forest areas to be illegaly logged.  Write to your congressman.  This is a trade pact that affects american citizens and their relationship to Peru.  Trade is a great thing; pillaging natural resources isn't.   Visit the Sierra club website for  a recently written document adressing these concerns.

Catherine Sahley, Ph.D.

www.conatura.org

# JuanBlake says :
10 May, 2007 [ 13:35 ]

Peru has had unprecedented growth in so many areas. The FTA would only strengthen this resolve. But to read comments from people who only wish to undermine this success, is no surprise. Jason Smith's history with the communist movement is nothing new at all. www.csrp.org/index.html tells us alot about him. Ms. Sahley Sierra Club is another fring group that receives the bulk of its operating capital from another pro communist group. Democracy Alliance. www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democracy_Alliance These people have nothing constructive to say about the Great Country of Peru. Their only desire is to undermine all that its good hard working people have acomplished thus far.

# Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. says :
10 May, 2007 [ 14:41 ]

I will take it as a complement that Mr. Blake thinks I am with the Committe for Support of the Revolution in Peru. I like to think of them as comrades and colleagues. However, I rather suspect that they view me as far to conservative for their cause. At least they did six years ago when I sent them a pre-publication copy of my book Shining Path: The Peruvian Revolution. (Now available in University libraries in the US and Canada - go to WorldCat for a list of libraries having my books including FOUNDATIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGY. However, that may be, I am, of course, a Communist with a big C, and am sometimes considered to be one of the leading theoreticians in the English-speaking world for our cause. See my book, for example, FUNDAMENTALS OF HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, BOLSHEVISM 2007, which appears in new form every year and is widely read here and in Canada by those interested in such matters, and available at no charge for downloading at http://www.idahosmith.com. (440 printed pages - 204 single spaced 8/12 by 11 pages)
Such a history has been financially rewarding for me in more recent years as many capitalists have seen the wisdom of working cooperatively with emerging socialist countries such as the Peoples Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba and of course with the rapidly developing America nations of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Boliva and Ecuador,and have required "consulting" expertise. One would hope that the weak and treasonous Garcia regime in Peru will soon be swept aside by the Peruvian armed forces as it was under Velasco, shortly before I arrived as described in the above cited book, and in so doing Peruvian and foreign "socialist" capital could work constructively together for our common cause rather than as Borg drones to the US Borg trillionaire bosses. (http://groups.msn.com/HabanaBankBond)
Our program for South America features the progressive and cooperative development of indigenous capital with honest and progressive foreign nations such as China and Cuba. We do not anticipate nor promote the end of private property in our time for such places nor even in this century, necessarily.
To understand what a correct Marxist-Leninist world view looks like at this time and our political program at home and to the degree we are asked abroad I again encourage Mr. Blake to read the 2007 version of my textbook.