Day: November 14, 2004

Both George Bush and John Kerry made "energy independence" a key issue on the campaign trail. Kerry promised to "make this nation independent of Middle East oil in ten years." Bush said in his State of the Union address last… Read moreGLOBAL OIL SQUEEZE: DECONSTRUCTING THE PROPAGANDA

BOLIVIA: THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAS LAW

by Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 18, thousands of Bolivian campesinos, miners and indigenous people from Cochabamba, Potosi, Oruro and La Paz departments converged in the capital to press for a new Hydrocarbons Law which will return… Read moreBOLIVIA: THOUSANDS MARCH FOR GAS LAW

PERU: POLICE KILL 3 COCALEROS

by Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 18, some 2,500 campesino coca producers (cocaleros) from San Gaban in Carabaya province, Puno department, began blocking several points of a highway leading to the neighboring department of Madre de Dios…. Read morePERU: POLICE KILL 3 COCALEROS

ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN CHIAPAS, OAXACA

State elections in Mexico Oct. 3 saw more violence in the conflicted southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, with several reported dead. Both states–the poorest and most heavily indigenous in Mexico–have seen the emergence of guerilla movements and anti-guerilla paramilitary… Read moreELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN CHIAPAS, OAXACA

AFGHAN ELECTIONS MARRED BY WAR, FRAUD AND TERROR

The Oct. 10 presidential elections in Afghanistan provided George Bush with potent campaign trail propaganda. He repeatedly invoked the 10 million newly registered voters there, and the icing on the cake was the apparent victory by the US favorite, incumbent… Read moreAFGHAN ELECTIONS MARRED BY WAR, FRAUD AND TERROR

BUSH AND OSAMA: FEARFUL SYMMETRY

Progressives all over the United States are licking their wounds in the wake of the Nov. 2 electoral debacle. Not only was George Bush returned to office, but four more Republicans were elected to the Senate, and three to the… Read moreBUSH AND OSAMA: FEARFUL SYMMETRY

U.S. TO DOUBLE TROOP PRESENCE IN COLOMBIA; GENERAL STRIKE SAYS NO TO MORE WAR

by Bill Weinberg Colombia makes few headlines in the United States these days. But Washington’s involvement in the western hemisphere’s longest, bloodiest war is rapidly escalating, as the world’s attention is elsewhere. And the latest signal of increased US embroilment… Read moreU.S. TO DOUBLE TROOP PRESENCE IN COLOMBIA; GENERAL STRIKE SAYS NO TO MORE WAR

IRAQ: EDEN AGAIN?

Restoring the Marshes of Mesopotamia by Azzam Alwash with Suzanne Alwash I discovered the Mesopotamian marshes as a boy when my father, an irrigation engineer for Iraq, took me on a motorboat that puttered between reeds towering tall overhead. The… Read moreIRAQ: EDEN AGAIN?

DARFUR: POWER POLITICS TRUMP GENOCIDE CONVENTION

by Wynde Priddy It appears that the emotional “Never Again” of the United Nations on the ongoing specter of genocide in Sudan’s western Darfur region has been trumped by the oil interests and military contracts represented among the Security Council… Read moreDARFUR: POWER POLITICS TRUMP GENOCIDE CONVENTION

ETHNIC CLEANSING IN ETHIOPIA: TIP OF THE “GOLDEN SPEAR”?

State Terror Against Anuak People Invisible to Outside World–as US Military Involvement, Oil Operations Escalate by keith harmon snow GAMBELLA, ETHIOPIA – Talk privately to any Anuak people in the Ethiopian state of Gambella and it won’t be long before… Read moreETHNIC CLEANSING IN ETHIOPIA: TIP OF THE “GOLDEN SPEAR”?

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