by Sarah Ferguson The March 19 demonstrations in New York to mark the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq were a good deal smaller than last year’s 100,000-strong march through Midtown, let alone the impassioned outpouring of dissent… Read moreTWO YEARS LATER: NYC Anti-War Protests Smaller—and Tilting to the Hard Left
Continue ReadingTWO YEARS LATER: NYC Anti-War Protests Smaller—and Tilting to the Hard LeftA children’s story some adults could stand to readby Padraic O’Neil THE LIBRARIAN OF BASRAA True Story from IraqWritten and illustrated by Jeanette WinterHarcourt Books, 2005 With bold, vibrant colors framing dramatic images, and in language direct and unadorned, Jeanette… Read moreSAVING BASRA’S BOOKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF WAR
Continue ReadingSAVING BASRA’S BOOKS FROM THE WRECKAGE OF WARby Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s March 24 stop in Guatemala on a tour of Latin America came just in time to announce a restoration of military aid to that country, citing a… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: GUATEMALA UNDER “NATIONAL EMERGENCY”
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: GUATEMALA UNDER “NATIONAL EMERGENCY”by Weekly News Update on the Americas DEPUTIES PASS GAS BILL On March 15, with virtually all of Bolivia’s cities shut down by road blockades on the first day of a 48-hour national strike, Bolivian president Carlos Mesa Gisbert announced… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS BILL ADVANCES, PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: GAS BILL ADVANCES, PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRYby Weekly News Update on the Americas SOLDIERS KILL MORE CIVILIANS On March 27, relatives found the bodies of Colombian campesinos Javier Alexander Cubillos, Wilder Cubillos and Heriberto Delgado at the morgue in Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca department. The army had apparently… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEASANT ACTIVISTS ASSASSINATED, U.S. TROOPS BUSTED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEASANT ACTIVISTS ASSASSINATED, U.S. TROOPS BUSTED"Redevelopment" at Ground Zero Hits New Yorkers With Double-Whammy by Wynde Priddy More than three years after the historic attacks that ushered in a new global conflict and changed the Manhattan skyline forever, local residents still say that concerns about… Read more9-11’s LINGERING TOXIC MENACE
Continue Reading9-11’s LINGERING TOXIC MENACEAssassination of the Rebel President Signals Escalation in North Caucasus by Raven Healing Aslan Maskhadov, the last legitimate president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, elected in independent Chechnya in 1997, was killed on March 8, 2005, in a village… Read moreCHECHNYA: AFTER ASLAN MASKHADOV
Continue ReadingCHECHNYA: AFTER ASLAN MASKHADOVby Bill Weinberg "Oilmen are like cats; you can never tell from the sound of them whether they are fighting or making love." –Calouste Gulbenkian The famous Armenian entrepreneur spoke these words when reflecting on the post-World War I carve-up… Read moreCOLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELA: Big Oil’s Secret War?
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELA: Big Oil’s Secret War?President Uribe Threatens San Jose de Apartado Following Massacre by Virginia McGlone After eight years of existence, the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado in Antioquia, Colombia, continues to stand strong in the midst of a war that they… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATION
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATIONBush Nominates Terrorist for National Intelligence Director by Frank Morales "He will be a key figure in US counter-terror operations." —BBC News, Feb. 17, 2005 "I think he could have stopped all these assassinations and torture… We’re against this nomination…. Read moreJOHN NEGROPONTE & THE DEATH-SQUAD CONNECTION
Continue ReadingJOHN NEGROPONTE & THE DEATH-SQUAD CONNECTIONJOHN NEGROPONTE & THE DEATH SQUAD CONNECTIONBush Nominates Terrorist for National Intelligence Directorby Frank Morales COLOMBIA: PEACE COMMUNITY UNDER OCCUPATIONUribe Threatens San Jose de Apartado Following Massacreby Virginia McGlone COLOMBIA VS. VENEZUELABig Oil’s Secret War?by Bill Weinberg CHECHNYA: AFTER ASLAN… Read moreIssue #. 108. April 2005
"Crouching Tiger, Swimming Dragon," an op-ed in the April 11 NY Times by Nayan Chanda, former editor of Far Eastern Economic Review, notes with alarm that Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao last week signed a deal in Islamabad for construction… Read moreSinophobia in the Indian Ocean—and NY Times
