REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROTESTS: MASSIVE CONVERGENCE IN NEW YORK CITY SAYS NO TO BUSH

by Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project EDITOR’S PREAMBLE: The Republican National Convention protests in New York City were preceded by a First Amendment show-down in the federal courts over whether the main march, organized by United for Peace &… Read moreREPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROTESTS: MASSIVE CONVERGENCE IN NEW YORK CITY SAYS NO TO BUSH

URIBE FINGERED AS DRUG-TRAFFICKER; ATROCITIES HAVE DOUBLED UNDER U.S.-BACKED PRESIDENT

The emergence of a 1991 report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) naming current Colombian President Alvaro Uribe as a high-level operative of the notorious Medellin Cartel has been an embarrassment for both the US and its top South… Read moreURIBE FINGERED AS DRUG-TRAFFICKER; ATROCITIES HAVE DOUBLED UNDER U.S.-BACKED PRESIDENT

BOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES

from Weekly News Update on the Americas At 4 AM on Aug. 16, some 300 campesinos from El Chore in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department seized control of a British Petroleum (BP) oil production facility in the Santa Rosa del Sara… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES

VENEZUELA: WHOSE SIDE IS THE OIL CARTEL ON?

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez survived a vote to oust him Aug. 15, in a referendum the conservative opposition hoped would culminate their long campaign to overturn the left-populist president. “Now we can start the next phase of our revolution!” Chavez… Read moreVENEZUELA: WHOSE SIDE IS THE OIL CARTEL ON?

U.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?

by Bill Weinberg “Osama bin Laden will be caught anytime–today or tomorrow.” So said J. Cofer Black, US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, after meeting with officials in Bangladesh Sept. 5. Black boasted to reporters that 75 percent of al-Qaeda… Read moreU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?