Peasant Pacifist Leader and Family Killed by Army at San Jose de Apartadoby Virginia McGlone Less than a month away from the eighth anniversary of the founding of thePeace Community of San Jose de Apartado, in Colombia’s violence-tornAntioquia department, a… Read moreCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITY
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITYCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITYPeasant Pacifist Leader and Family Killed by Army at San Jose de Apartadoby Virginia McGlone IS THERE A "THIRD ALTERNATIVE" IN IRAQ?by Bill Weinberg TRUTH, DEATH AND MEDIA IN IRAQWe Kill Journalists, Don’t We?by Michael I…. Read moreIssue 107 March 2005
A "Chilling Effect" for Legal Community by Bill Weinberg Newly appointed US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hailed the Feb. 10 conviction of activist attorney Lynne Stewart and her co-defendants, saying the verdicts “send a clear, unmistakable message that this department… Read moreLYNNE STEWART: CONVICTED
Continue ReadingLYNNE STEWART: CONVICTEDby Weekly News Update on the Americas CAFTA PASSES IN HONDURAS; STALLED IN GUATEMALA On March 3, 100 of the 128 deputies in Honduras’ National Congress voted after a long debate to ratify the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA),… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ADVANCES, HUMAN RIGHTS RETREAT
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ADVANCES, HUMAN RIGHTS RETREATby Weekly News Update on the Americas COCALEROS BLOCK ROADSOn Feb. 17, campesino coca growers (cocaleros) in the Peruvian district ofTocache, in the Huallaga valley in San Martin region, began an open-endedstrike to protest the recent aerial spraying of pesticides… Read morePERU: COCALEROS PROTEST SPRAYING, SHINING PATH ATTACKS
Continue ReadingPERU: COCALEROS PROTEST SPRAYING, SHINING PATH ATTACKSby Weekly News Update on the Americas EDITOR’S NOTE: As we go to press March 7, Bolivia’s President Carlos Mesa has handed in his resignation to the country’s congress, citing ongoing anti-government protests. Mesa was caught between leftist protesters demanding… Read moreBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID GROWING UNREST
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID GROWING UNRESTby Jessica Stein Kate Coleman’s much-awaited new biography of longtime environmentalactivist Judi Bari, The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight forthe Redwoods and the End of Earth First!, unfortunately contains far morefalsehood than fact, more slander… Read moreJUDI BARI: DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE!
Continue ReadingJUDI BARI: DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE!An Indonesian court March 3 sentenced militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to 30 months in prison for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings, but cleared him of more serious terror charges. The sentence was criticized as too light by the… Read moreUS protests Indonesian sentence in Bali bombing
by Eric Stoner "He may be a son of a bitch," a U.S. president is said to have commentedabout one brutal dictator or another, "but he’s our son of a bitch." Thefact that on the worldwide web the line is… Read moreISLAM KARIMOV: UZBEKISTAN DICTATOR, U.S. ALLY
Continue ReadingISLAM KARIMOV: UZBEKISTAN DICTATOR, U.S. ALLYDavid Passaro, a CIA contract interrogator, is on trial in Raleigh, NC, for beating an Afghan prisoner who died the next day. The case has revealed several horror stories from the prison just north of Kabul—an abandoned warehouse code-named the… Read moreCIA man in Afghan abuse case to cite Bush
Bush Charts New Generation of Warheads by Chesley Hicks Despite the Cold War’s conclusion 15 years ago, the United States’ beingparty to several anti-nuclear proliferation treaties, and President Bush’sstrident commands for the cessation of all nuclear weapons programs in theMiddle… Read moreNUCLEAR AGENDA 2005
Continue ReadingNUCLEAR AGENDA 2005Pakistani authorities say they will appeal the acquittal by the country’s Supreme Court of five men charged in an "honor rape" case that drew international condemnation. In 2002, the Meerwala village council allegedly ordered Mukhtar Mai to be raped by… Read morePakistan “honor rape” case to supreme court
