Despite Court Ruling and Peasant Protest by Andrew Epstein, WW3 REPORT Special Correspondent in Colombia According to the United Nations report, Global Illicit Drug Trends 2003, coca production in Colombia has been reduced by an impres sive 37%. However,… Read moreURIBE: “FUMIGATIONS WILL CONTINUE”
Continue ReadingURIBE: “FUMIGATIONS WILL CONTINUE”A Growing Anti-Militarist Movement Demands Right to "Active Neutrality" in Armed Conflict by Bill Weinberg Maria Brigida Gonzalez, with her long gray-streaked braids and nurturing smile, comes across as the kindly grandmother that she is, even if she is… Read moreNONVIOLENCE IN COLOMBIA
Continue ReadingNONVIOLENCE IN COLOMBIAby Bill Weinberg Leaving Barrancabermeja in a canoa — a small launch with an outboard motor — the perilous patchwork of armed groups that vie for control of Colombia’s Medio Magdalena region becomes immediately obvious. Navy gunboats painted in camo… Read moreBETWEEN DYNCORP AND THE A.U.C: Glyphosate and Paramilitary Terror in Colombia’s Cimitarra Valley
Continue ReadingBETWEEN DYNCORP AND THE A.U.C: Glyphosate and Paramilitary Terror in Colombia’s Cimitarra ValleyParamilitary Terror and the Struggle for Colombia’s Oil by Bill Weinberg For over two months now, Colombia’s most important oil refinery, at the tropical river port of Barrancabermeja, in central Santander department, has be en under occupation by the military…. Read moreBARRANCABERMEJA
Continue ReadingBARRANCABERMEJAIndigenous Peoples, Civil Society Under Attack in Colombia’s Oil Zone by Bill Weinberg "When there was no petroleum, there was no war," says Dario Tulivila, a traditional Guahibo Indian leader from Colombia’s bloodily conflicted department of Arauca. "When the oil… Read moreSTATE OF SIEGE IN ARAUCA
Continue ReadingSTATE OF SIEGE IN ARAUCAHaitian refugees a "security threat" held in detention for over 10 months. by Nirit Ben-Ari, Special to WORLD WAR 3 REPORT For years, Haitian refugees detained by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) have been reptriated upon landing at US… Read moreWAR ON TERROR USED TO JUSTIFY LONG-TIME RACIST POLICY AGAINST HAITIANS
Continue ReadingWAR ON TERROR USED TO JUSTIFY LONG-TIME RACIST POLICY AGAINST HAITIANSby Soren Ambrose The fifth World Trade Organization ministerial conference has ended in Cancun, Mexico, and the measure of the organization’s worth can again be seen by the fact that for the majority of its member countries (as well… Read moreGlobal South and Anti-Corporate Activists Clinch Major Victory at Cancun WTO Summit
Continue ReadingGlobal South and Anti-Corporate Activists Clinch Major Victory at Cancun WTO SummitIndian Leaders Helped Get President Lucio Gutierrez Elected—But Now Say the IMF and Big Oil Are Calling the Shots by Bill Weinberg On Aug. 21, Ecuador’s President Lucio Gutierrez was pictured in the Quito daily Hoy, smiling and clad in… Read moreINDIGENOUS ECUADOR MEETS THE NEW BOSS
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS ECUADOR MEETS THE NEW BOSSby Bill Weinberg WHY ORWELL MATTERS by Christopher Hitchens Basic Books, New York, 2002, 211 pp., $24 (Published in the UK as ORWELL'S VICTORY, Penguin, London, 2002) Here is a little exercise in historical ironies. Few seem to remember it… Read moreYES, ORWELL MATTERS—BUT DOES CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS?
Continue ReadingYES, ORWELL MATTERS—BUT DOES CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS?
