Luis Posada Carriles couldn’t have been too happy to see his face on the front page of the New York Times yesterday (“Case of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist,” May 9). The anti-Castro extremist, who is… Read moreCuban terrorist seeks refuge in U.S.
The Spanish anarchist website A Las Barricadas reports that Nicolás Neira Alvarez, a 15-year-old student who was marching with an anarchist contingent May 1 in Bogota when it was attacked by the riot police, has died of injuries sustained that… Read moreDeath in Bogota Mayday violence
Positive developments are reported in the case of two Muslim immigrant girls in New York City detained following spurious suspicion of plotting suicide attacks. Reports the NY Times May 7: One girl, an immigrant from Guinea, was back in her… Read moreImmigrant girls released
DARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTION Moral Imperative or “Regime Change” Strategy? by Wynde Priddy BOMBS AWAY Global Activists Gather in New York to Revive Nuclear Disarmament Call by Sarah Ferguson THE PROVOCATEUR STATE Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi “Insurgents”? by… Read moreIssue #. 109. May 2005
DARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTION Moral Imperative or “Regime Change” Strategy? by Wynde Priddy BOMBS AWAY Global Activists Gather in New York to Revive Nuclear Disarmament Call by Sarah Ferguson THE PROVOCATEUR STATE Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi “Insurgents”? by… Read moreIssue #. 109. May 2005
Moral Imperative or “Regime Change” Strategy? by Wynde Priddy After two years of violence in western Sudan, in late April the African Union (AU) moved to triple its peacekeeping troops in Darfur to 7,700–and asked NATO for logistical support. NATO… Read moreDARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTION
Continue ReadingDARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTIONGlobal Activists Gather in New York to Revive Nuclear Disarmament Call by Sarah Ferguson Sometimes peace needs a good enemy. It was President Reagan who really jump-started the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s with his roughhouse talk about… Read moreBOMBS AWAY
Continue ReadingBOMBS AWAYIs the CIA Behind the Iraqi “Insurgents”—and Global Terrorism? by Frank Morales The requirement of an ever-escalating level of social violence to meet the political and economic needs of the insatiable “anti-terrorist complex” is the essence of the new US… Read moreTHE PROVOCATEUR STATE
Continue ReadingTHE PROVOCATEUR STATE(And Can the U.S. Anti-War Movement Help?) by Bill Weinberg The anti-war movement in the U.S. is at its lowest ebb since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Two broad, mutually hostile tendencies have emerged: one increasingly supportive of the… Read moreCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
Continue ReadingCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: FARC SEIZE INDIGENOUS TOWNS Around 5 AM on April 14, hundreds of rebels from the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) simultaneously attacked the neighboring municipalities of Jambalo and Toribio in… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TOWNS BESIEGED; DAM REPARATIONS WON
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS TOWNS BESIEGED; DAM REPARATIONS WONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas PUBLIC OUSTS PRESIDENT GUTIERREZ On April 19, some 50,000 Ecuadorans–including entire families with children–marched peacefully through the capital, Quito, from La Carolina park to Carondelet, the government palace. They carried Ecuadoran flags, sang… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTS OUST PRESIDENT; CONGRESS, JUDICIARY PURGED
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTS OUST PRESIDENT; CONGRESS, JUDICIARY PURGEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s brief Latin American visit covered five countries: Brazil on April 26, Colombia on April 27, Chile April 28-29 and El Salvador in the evening of April 29;… Read moreVENEZUELA: CHAVEZ OUSTS PENTAGON, OUTMANEUVERS RICE
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CHAVEZ OUSTS PENTAGON, OUTMANEUVERS RICE
