The US government has yet to respond to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s offer to send planeloads of aid, including 2,000 soldiers, firefighters, volunteers and other disaster specialists to Louisiana. Venezuela, the world’s fifth largest oil exporter, also pledged $1 million… Read moreChavez offers US disaster aid, warns of global energy disaster
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MAURITANIA: SLAVERY, ETHNIC CLEANSING, DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION
Voices of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM)
by Bill Weinberg
DARFUR: THE OVERKILL
The Janjaweed Spin Out of Control
by Rene Wadlow
OIL AND OCCUPATION IN WESTERN SAHARA
Kerr-McGee Lubricates Morocco’s Illegal Annexation Agenda
by Jacob Mundy
IRAQI UNIONS DEFY ASSASSINATION AND OCCUPATION
by David Bacon
“PEAK OIL” DECONSTRUCTED
Critique of the National Security Paradigm
by George Caffentzis
From Weekly News Update on the Americas:
ECUADOR: STRIKE HALTS AMAZON OIL PRODUCTION
BOLIVIA: REGIONAL STRIKE OVER OIL DEAL
ARGENTINA: PROTESTS HIT OIL SECTOR, CAMPESINOS ATTACKED
PERU: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY MINE CAMPS, CABINET RESIGNS
COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS MASSACRED
VENEZUELA: OLIGARCHY STRIKES BACK AT CAMPESINOS
CENTRAL AMERICA: BUSH SIGNS CAFTA; NAVAL MANEUVERS HELD
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A Feminist Dissident from the Bin Laden Dynasty — Almost!
by Chesley Hicks
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