LE QUOTIDIEN DU PCN PCN-NCP�S DAILY NEWS EL DIARIO DEL PCN N� 7 � 4/1/2002 ========================================== Les nouvelles qui sont donn�es dans ce bulletin le sont � titre d'information. Elle n'impliquent pas n�cessairement l'adh�sion du PCN, en particulier quant aux informations provenant des media occidentaux. The news contained in this newsletter are given only for information. PCN-NCP don't approve necessarly these news, particularly when information come from western media. ========================================== In this number 7/Dans ce num�ro 7 : - LA BUSHERIE CONTINUE INLASSABLEMENT : 32 CIVILS TU�S LORS D'UN BOMBARDEMENT AM�RICAIN - BEN LADEN VIDEOTAPE COULD SERVE AS PRETEXT FOR US ATTACK - DES OGM DANS UN TIERS DES ALIMENTS ANALYS�S PAR UN MENSUEL FRAN�AIS - TOTAL SOLIDARITY FROM PCN-NCP : PUBLIC CAMPAIGN TO ADOPT A WORLD TREATY BANNING SPACE-BASED WEAPON - TOTAL SOLIDARITY FROM PCN-NCP : VIEQUES POLITICAL PRISONERS - REVUE DE PRESSE : UNE GUERRE CONTRE LES PALESTINIENS - CUBA : NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY 2002 - LA SANTE A CUBA ET L'AIDE MEDICALE A D'AUTRES PAYS - NORTH KOREA ENDS 2001 WITH ANTI-U.S. DIATRIBE - NEW YEARS MESSAGE FARC-EP - STEALING AFGANISTAN'S OIL WEALTH AND CONTINUING THE OPIUM =========================================== LA BUSHERIE CONTINUE INLASSABLEMENT : 32 CIVILS TU�S LORS D'UN BOMBARDEMENT AM�RICAIN
32 civils ont �t� tu�s lors d'un bombardement am�ricain entrepris ce jeudi 3 d�cembre dans l'est de l'Afghanistan. L'agence, bas�e au Pakistan, cite des t�moins selon lesquels des anciens et des dirigeants tribaux de la r�gion se sont rendus � Khost (capitale de la province du m�me nom dans l'est de l'Afghanistan) pour demander l'arr�t de ces bombardements qui visent des poches de r�sistance de combattants d'Al-Qa�da, le r�seau d'Oussama ben Laden. "Le bombardement est tr�s intense et tr�s lourd. De nombreuses personnes sont mortes. Les Etats-Unis doivent cesser ces bombardements, il n'y a que des civils dans le secteur", a d�clar� un ancien de la tribu tani, Ghazi Nawaz Tani, dont les propos sont rapport�s par l'agence AIP. Des responsables am�ricains ont d�clar� que leurs avions avaient lanc� des raids jeudi sur une installation d'Al-Qa�da et un camp d'entra�nement dans la province de Paktia. BEN LADEN VIDEOTAPE COULD SERVE AS PRETEXT FOR US ATTACK The latest videotape of Osama Ben Laden in which the terror suspect links the Sept. 11 strikes to anti Arab US policies could be used by the United States as a pretext to attack Iraq or other countries, anewspaper here said Saturday. The tape, aired by Qatar's Al Jazeera television Thursday, "will be an additional factor used by the US administration to achieve its hostile objectives" against Iraq, wrote the Babel newspaper, which is run by President Saddam Hussein's elder son Uday. "America practices terrorism in its ugliest form in Palestine and Iraq, and Bush the father, this damned man, was behind the killing of more than a million children in Iraq," Ben Laden said in the tape. "These blessed and successful strikes (in New York and Washington) were in response to what is happening on our land in Palestine, Iraq and elsewhere," he said. US President "George Bush the son, who began his term by launching heavy air raids on Iraq, is sticking to the US policy of injustice and aggression, confirming that Muslim blood has no value (for the Americans)," Ben Laden added. "It is not unlikely that this tape was forged by the US Central Intelligence Agency," said Babel, which published a transcript of Ben Laden's remarks as carried by news agencies. "Whatever the objective behind this tape, the reckless US administration will not abandon its terrorism and aggressiveness and it may well be that Somalia will be its next target before too long," the paper said. But Babel said Iraq was not intimidated by the United States. "Iraq is not Afghanistan or Somalia, nor is it one of those countries which the United States sees as easy prey," the paper said. (News from INA, BANEKL, AP) DES OGM DANS UN TIERS DES ALIMENTS ANALYS�S PAR UN MENSUEL FRAN�AIS Sur 103 aliments tr�s courants contenant du ma�s et du soja, 36 contiennent des organismes g�n�tiquement modifi�s (OGM), � hauteur de moins de 1 pc, selon les analyses pratiqu�s par le mensuel fran�ais 60 Millions de consommateurs publi�es dans son num�ro de janvier. Sur ces 103 aliments, des traces d'OGM ont �t� d�tect�es dans 14 biscuits ap�ritifs (sur 18 test�s), 3 sauces (sur 17), 4 biscuits sucr�s (sur 15), 2 polentas (sur 2), 1 steack de soja, 2 c�r�ales pour petit-d�jeuner (sur 14), 9 aliments pour animaux domestiques (sur 9) et 1 plat cuisin� (sur 22). Les fabricants des produits analys�s ne sont toutefois pas en infraction avec la r�glementation europ�enne sur l'�tiquetage, rendant obligatoire de mentionner la pr�sence d'OGM pour les seuls aliments en contenant plus de 1 pc, souligne le mensuel de l'Institut national fran�ais de la Consommation, qui s'interroge sur la tra�abilit� et les moyens d'installer une fili�re sans OGM. (AFP, BELGA) TOTAL SOLIDARITY FROM PCN-NCP : PUBLIC CAMPAIGN TO ADOPT A WORLD TREATY BANNING SPACE-BASED WEAPON IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - ICIS: http://www.peaceinspace.com ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space launches public campaign to adopt a World Treaty Banning Space-Based Weapons. Dr. Rosin, who is spearheading the campaign for the World Treaty ought to know: she was formerly head of aerospace research and development at Fairchild Industries, a leading defense contractor. Now she works for peace in space. Dr. Rosin states succinctly the choice facing Earth now: "We can build space battle stations and weapons pointed towards earth and into space, or we can build space habitats, hospitals, schools, farms, labs, industries, hotels and resorts, elevators and craft, and free ourselves to explore the universe." To contact ICIS or Dr. Rosin about how you can help : Institute for Cooperation in Space P.O. Box 25040 - Ventura, California 93001 , USA (805) 641-1999 Fax: (805) 641-9669 URL: http://www.peaceinspace.com E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOTAL SOLIDARITY FROM PCN-NCP : VIEQUES POLITICAL PRISONERS The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, in solidarity with the struggle to remove the U.S. Navy out of Vieques, is forwarding this message about the current Vieques Political Prisoners so that people write to them and the institutions they are in demanding their freedom. Now more than ever, solidarity is needed!! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!! The proLibertad Freedom Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ProLibertad.org MDC Guaynabo PO BOX 2147 - San Juan, PR 00922-2147 REVUE DE PRESSE : UNE GUERRE CONTRE LES PALESTINIENS (Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris, 19 d�cembre 2001 : http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cahier/proche-orient/) � C'est d�sormais de mani�re ouverte que M. Ariel Sharon r�cuse M. Yasser Arafat - pr�sident �lu par les Palestiniens - comme partenaire. Sur le terrain, l'arm�e isra�lienne utilise tous les moyens de r�pression - blind�s, h�licopt�res et m�me F-16 - ainsi qu'un blocus s�v�re pour �craser les Palestiniens. L'�limination de l'Autorit� palestinienne semble �tre le but strat�gique du premier ministre isra�lien, qui proclame avec force que les accords d'Oslo sont la plus grande catastrophe qui soit arriv�e � Isra�l. Le gouvernement isra�lien b�n�ficie, pour mettre en oeuvre cette politique, de la complaisance persistante de l'administration Bush, du silence de l'Europe, mais aussi de la passivit� des r�gimes arabes. La seconde Intifada, qui dure depuis septembre 2000, exprimait pourtant une revendication simple : mettre fin � l'occupation isra�lienne de la Cisjordanie, de Gaza et de J�rusalem-Est. Les Palestiniens demandent, comme M. Yasser Arafat l'a r�p�t� dans son discours du 16 d�cembre, la cr�ation d'un Etat ind�pendant, dans les fronti�res d'avant juin 1967, avec J�rusalem-Est comme capitale, aux c�t�s de l'Etat d'Isra�l. Il est vrai que les dossiers en suspens (statut final et fronti�res, colonies, J�rusalem et statut des Lieux saints, droit au retour des 3,6 millions de r�fugi�s palestiniens, eau), sont complexes, comme l'ont montr� l'�chec des n�gociations entre le gouvernement de M. Ehoud Barak et l'Autorit� palestinienne en 1999-2000. De profondes divergences s�paraient les deux parties, mais des progr�s sensibles avaient �t� accomplis, notamment lors de la rencontre de Taba en janvier 2001. Ces avanc�es restent la seule base sur laquelle pourrait s'esquisser une solution politique. Sinon, la r�gion risque de sombrer dans un affrontement sans fin. Le peuple palestinien d'abord, mais aussi le peuple isra�lien paieront un prix terrible pour cette folie. L'impasse dans la solution du conflit isra�lo-palestinien - marqu�e aussi par le gel des n�gociations entre Isra�l et la Syrie - co�ncide avec l'accession au pouvoir en Jordanie, en Syrie, � Qatar, et demain en Arabie saoudite ou en Palestine, d'une nouvelle g�n�ration de dirigeants. Une page se tourne au Proche-Orient confront� � des d�fis �conomiques, politiques et sociaux sans pr�c�dent. Dans ce contexte, une nouvelle logique de guerre est-elle possible ? Assiste-t-on � un effondrement de ce que l'on a appel� � le processus de paix � ? Un conflit religieux va-t-il remplacer l'affrontement politique entre Arabes et Isra�liens ? CUBA : NATIONAL LIBERATION DAY 2002 1 January 2002. Cuba Promises to Fight for Return of Five Secret Agents as It Commemorates 1959 Revolution. HAVANA -- The Cuban government promised Tuesday to fight for the return of five agents sentenced in Miami on espionage charges as it celebrated the 43rd anniversary of the Cuban revolution. "Cuban men and women, we toast this heroic nation capable of so many great achievements, the revolution that illuminates our hopes, (and) the return of the heroes to the homeland," read the government's New Year's message, published on the front page of the Communist Party daily Granma. Jan. 1 is the most important day on communist Cuba's calendar, marking the day in 1959 that Fidel Castro and his bearded revolutionaries entered the eastern city of Santiago after dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country. Winning the return of the five agents has become a top priority for Castro. Last week, he called a special session of the National Assembly, which unanimously agreed to bestow the title of "Heroes of the Republic of Cuba" on the five men. The men were convicted in December and given sentences ranging life in prison to 10 years. Prosecutors said they were assigned by Havana to warn about signs of a U.S. invasion. Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life on charges of trying to infiltrate U.S. military bases and conspiring in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose private planes were shot down by Cuba in 1996. The others received lesser terms - two on charges of trying to penetrate U.S. military bases and two convicted of failing to register as foreign agents and conspiracy. Castro said the men were patriots protecting their country from possible terrorist attacks. During the special parliamentary session Saturday, Castro told the assembly that because of the men's importance, 2002 would be officially known as the "Year of the Heroic Prisoners of the Empire" - a reference to the United States. The Cuban government regularly chooses a slogan for each year, which then is used in official correspondence and in state media instead of the year's number. In its New Year message, the government also claimed 3 percent economic growth during 2001, despite a drop in tourism, sinking prices for Cuban exports and heavy damage from Hurricane Michelle in early November. (News from KOMINFORM, AP, GRANMA) LA SANTE A CUBA ET L'AIDE MEDICALE A D'AUTRES PAYS (GRANMA) La sant� s'est caract�ris�e, par la consolidation des services dans notre pays et � l'�tranger, par le succ�s du Programme global de coop�ration mis en place fin 98. En 2001, Cuba a r�ussi � faire passer le taux de mortalit� infantile en dessous de 7 pour mille et � maintenir l'esp�rance de vie au dessus de 76 ans. Le taux de mortalit� � cause de maladies infectieuses et contagieuses est tomb� � 0,8 pour mille. Ces chiffres ne sont similaires que dans les pays les plus industrialis�s. Le taux de morbidit� d'un grand nombre de maladies s'est �galement r�duit. Le SIDA qui avait connu une l�g�re augmentation ces cinq derni�res ann�es a diminu� de 10% par rapport � l'an 2000. Le pourcentage de s�ropositifs a �t� en 2001 de 0,05, le plus faible des Am�riques. 2001 nous a apport� aussi la relance de toute une s�rie de programmes de sant� qui s'�taient ressentis de la crise d�clench�e par l'effondrement du camp socialiste en Europe de l'Est et le renforcement simultan� du blocus �tasunien. Les greffes d'organes ont repris ainsi que la chirurgie d'acc�s minimum et l'attention aux patients dans un �tat grave a �t� perfectionn�e. Cela parmi les programmes les plus importants qui ont �t� relanc�s cette ann�e. Sur le plan international, 3845 m�decins, infirmiers et infirmi�res et techniciens de sant� pr�tent leurs services actuellement dans 53 pays de tous les continents. 2450 d'entre eux sont affect�s au programme global de coop�ration qui comprend aussi la formation de futurs m�decins � l'�cole Latino-am�ricaine des Sciences M�dicales de La Havane et � la Facult� de M�decine de Santiago de Cuba. En ce moment, plus de 5000 jeunes issus de familles d�favoris�es font gratuitement leurs �tudes de m�decine � Cuba. Ils viennent pour la plupart de 24 pays d'Am�rique Latine et d'Afrique mais un petit groupe provient de familles pauvres des �tats-Unis. NORTH KOREA ENDS 2001 WITH ANTI-U.S. DIATRIBE A protester sticks a "unity flag" with the shape of the Korean peninsula on his mask during an anti-American protest in Seoul on December 31. North Korean media ended 2001 with a sharp blast at the U.S., accusing it of plotting a war in Korea. REUTERS/Lee Jae-won North Korea's state-controlled media ended 2001 on Monday with a sharp blast at the United States, accusing Washington of plotting a war in Korea to further its aims of dominating Asia. "The U.S. seeks to launch an aggression against the DPRK with South Korea as its military stronghold in a bid to swallow up the whole of Korea and, furthermore, dominate other Asian countries," said the ruling communist party newspaper Rodong Sinmun. DPRK is the acronym for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "The U.S., buoyed up by its self-claimed 'victories' in a series of wars in recent years, are running amuck to ignite a new war in Korea," said the commentary, published by the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA). The commentary did not mention specific American actions, but followed weeks of hostile rhetoric which analysts said signalled North Korean discomfiture at U.S. statements about the North's suspected weapons of mass destruction. In November, North Korea angrily rejected U.S. calls for inspections to hunt for suspected weapons of mass destruction, including biological and chemical arms. The state of U.S.-North Korea ties is significantly different from a year ago, when the Clinton administration had dramatically improved relations with Pyongyang. That budding rapprochement led to several high-level exchanges, including a trip to North Korea by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and talk of a visit by Bill Clinton. The Bush administration put North Korean relations on ice when it took office last January but in June offered talks without conditions. North Korea has not taken up the offer. North-South Korean ties spent nearly all of 2001 at a standstill, despite an unprecedented series of exchanges in 2000 which raised hopes of reconciliation. The two Koreas remain technically at war because they failed to sign a peace treaty at the end of the 1950-53 Korean conflict. The United States keeps 37,000 troops in the South to deter a repeat of the 1950 North Korean invasion which sparked the war. NEW YEARS MESSAGE FARC-EP THE REVOLUTIONARY ARMED FORCES OF COLOMBIA � PEOPLE�S ARMY FARC-EP SECRETARIAT OF THE CENTRAL GENERAL STAFF NEW YEARS MESSAGE We greet the Colombian people in the midst of the paralysis of the Dialogue and Negotiation Process caused by the conditions imposed by the President in his October 7th statement on the occasion of the extension of the demilitarized zone, two days after the signing of the San Francisco de la Sombra Accord. The results produced after three years of joint efforts are not what the immense majority of Colombian hoped for, fundamentally due to the regime�s lack of political will to undertake the structural changes Colombia requires for solution of the social and armed conflict. On the contrary, through the information media the enemies of peace are mounting a morbid campaign, the aim of which is to disparage the FARC-EP making use of the drama of a sick child whose father would have returned home if the government had accepted our proposal of a humanitarian exchange for the guerrilla prisoner Ignacio Gonzalez Perdomo, who suffers from a painful illness. On the other hand they say nothing about the situation of state abandonment of 300,000 Colombian children suffering grave illnesses. Paramilitarism, the statement of state terrorism against the people continues dominating cities and areas of the countryside, leaving in its wake a toll of cadavers, hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and the economic ruin of the regions, in the midst of total impunity. Meanwhile, the intellectual, material and financial authors of this form of dirty war are in power and in the bases of the armed forces of the state. The economic crisis is sharpening due to the impositions of the International Monetary Fund, which are keeping the country in its most severe recession of recent decades. As a consequence of this, three and one half million Colombians do not have work; five and one half million more subsist on the informal economy and gleaning; we, the poor of Colombia, now number twenty five million. Of these, eight million live in absolute poverty. The circumstances in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil present a similar panorama, countries that do not have guerrilla movements to be blamed for every evil in order to hide the real causes of the crisis generated by the economic system. Argentina is the most recent example where the people have now risen up in rebellion against their rulers, causing the fall of President Fernando de la Rua. Due to the imposition of U.S. interests, the Colombian state is carrying on a chemical and biological war against the plantings of coca and opium poppies, ignoring the socio-economic problems of the campesino cultivators. A real agrarian reform that involves manual eradication together with social investment, in agreement with the communities and not via repression, is the path to the solution of the problem of the illegal crops, as was stated in the Accord of Los Pozos signed by President Pastrana and Commandant Marulanda. The so-called "Plan Colombia" is the military instrument of the imperialist economic annexation scheme known as the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). Our attention is drawn by the silence of the presidential candidates who, in the face of the large and profound economic, social and political problems affecting Colombians, present themselves bereft of proposals and programmes that go to the root causes of this grave situation. Likewise, the electoral campaign is proceeding without guarantees of rights for the democratic opposition and alternative movements. Before the Colombian people the FARC-EP affirm their will to continue contributing initiatives to free the Dialogues of obstacles. The proposed meeting next January 15 with the presidents of the three powers of state and other representatives of the establishment so they explain what it is they are ready to negotiate in favour of peace with social justice and sovereignty, is such an initiative. On the occasion of the New Year, we call upon the Colombian people to organize and fight in co-ordination to win decent conditions of life and work and achieve the objective of a Government of National Reconciliation and Reconstruction that would implement the Ten Point Programme of Government contained in the Political Platform of the FARC-EP. STEALING AFGANISTAN'S OIL WEALTH AND CONTINUING THE OPIUM All over the country, all over the world, people have accepted the facts of a deviant elite and of a wtc frame-up for the purpose of stealing Afganistan's oil wealth and continuing the opium growing that the Taliban had abolished. State-sponsored terrorism to corral the sheep into accepting the implementation of unprecedented international police-state controls on the populace along with dissolution of national sovereignty. ============================================= Cette lettre d'information quotidienne est gratuite. 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