“Soldiers in Ecuador have rescued President Rafael Correa from a police hospital, appearing to end a day of violent unrest across the country. Mr Correa was rescued from after soldiers fired on dissident police.”

“Leaders throughout Latin America, reeling from the ouster of Manuel Zelaya in Honduras last summer, have put their support behind Correa. The Organization of American States (OAS) held a crisis meeting in Washington, and Secretary General José Miguel Insulza pledged the organization’s “full support” in a telephone conversation with Correa”

The roots of this destabilization will only be uncovered by identifying those people who the police are in service of.

“The striking police were angered by a law passed by Congress on Wednesday that would end the practice of giving members of Ecuador’s military and police medals and bonuses with each promotion. It would also extend from five to seven years the usual period required for a subsequent promotion.”

A state of emergency has been declared in Ecuador after President Rafael Correa accused the opposition and security forces of a coup attempt. | BBC

“Several leaders in the region expressed their support for Mr Correa, as did the Organisation of American States (OAS). Its Secretary-General Miguel Insulza called the situation ‘a coup d’etat in the making’.”

WE EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF ECUADOR!

On Sunday, Oct. 3, at 3 p.m., Galloway will address a public meeting at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor Street, in downtown Toronto. This event is sponsored by rabble.ca, and will be livestreamed on rabbleTV.

Forrest Hylton: Killing of guerrilla leader ‘Mono Jojoy’ could bring negotiated end to 45-year conflict | The Real News

Employees of the former St. Anne-Nackawic pulp and paper mill near Fredericton have lost their $4-million lawsuit against their union.

by John Schmitt | MR Zine | “Michael Norton (of Harvard Business School) and Dan Ariely (of Duke) have released results … from a series of experiments they did in 2005 on the subject of wealth inequality. They asked individuals in a nationally representative online panel to (1) estimate the current US distribution of wealth and (2) “build a better America” by describing what they thought would be the “ideal” wealth distribution.”

A Short Tour of Junk Economics | Michael Hudson | CounterPunch
“I realize that balance-of-payments accounting and international trade theory are arcane topics, but I promise that by the time you finish this article, you will understand more than 99 per cent of U.S. economists and diplomats striking this self-righteous pose.”

Don’t voters care? Not yet, apparently.

“I don’t think people have the connected dots yet between their visceral anger about the state of politics today and about feeling that the legislatures and Parliament aren’t accountable, aren’t really representative of our interests.” | The Globe and Mail

By James Clark | rabble.ca | The ruling sides overwhelmingly with the former British MP. The government has nothing to cheer about: their political interference has been exposed and condemned and Galloway can return to Canada.

–Support the workers. No to austerity.

“Chávez’s popularity has always gone up and down with the economy, reaching a low during the last recession of 2002-2003, despite the fact that it was caused by an opposition oil strike. His approval rating has fallen from 60 percent in early 2009 to 46 percent last month.”

–Interesting analysis comparing the results to 2000.

“The ferocious international campaign saying that Chavez has lost is a reflection, not of the real state of affairs, but of the desire of the bourgeois both in Venezuela and internationally to finish off the Venezuelan Revolution once and for all. But between desires and their fulfillment there is always a wide gap, as everyone knows. Whether the opposition’s counterrevolutionary aspirations are fulfilled or not does not depend on the results of an election but on the conduct of the Revolution and its leadership.”

Obama is a Presidential-order away from becoming a war criminal.

“As part of its covert war in the region, the C.I.A. has launched 20 attacks with armed drone aircraft thus far in September, the most ever during a single month, and more than twice the number in a typical month. … Beyond the C.I.A. drone strikes, the war in the region is escalating in other ways. In recent days, American [manned] military helicopters have launched three airstrikes into Pakistan … Special Operations commanders have also been updating plans for cross-border raids, which would require approval from President Obama. … The Obama administration has enthusiastically embraced the C.I.A.’s drone program, an ambitious and historically unusual war campaign by American spies. According to The Long War Journal, the spy agency in 2009 and 2010 has launched nearly four times as many attacks as it did during the final year of the Bush administration.”

“The 10 activists, from Israel, the United States, Britain and Germany, among them an Israeli 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, responded defiantly to the Israeli navy”

By George Monbiot | Source: The Guardian | Climate change enlightenment was fun while it lasted. But now it’s dead.
The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next?

Ed Miliband has said Labour “needs to change” after its election defeat, in his first big speech as party leader. | BBC

By Murray Dobbin | rabble.ca | Stephen Harper portrays his government as working to advance the values of the United Nations. A short trip through his four years as prime minister repudiates this.