The Associated Press reports Jan. 24 the arrest of police officers in Basra by British troops. What is not reported is that move has prompted an official protest from the Basra Governate. First, from the AP: British troops launched a… Read moreBrits arrest Basra police; governate protests
Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog “BIONOIA” Part 2 The Nuts, Bolts and Crimes of Biological Warfare by Mark Sanborne SOUTH AMERICAN PIPELINE WARS Chavez Bloc Races with Oil Cartel to Grid the Continent by Bill Weinberg BOLIVIA: A COMING TRIAL… Read moreIssue #. 118. February 2006
from Weekly News Update on the Americas ENTRE RIOS: PAPER MILL PROTESTS CONTINUE On Dec. 30, hundreds of protesters blocked traffic along three bridges which span the Uruguay River, linking Argentina’s Entre Rios province with Uruguay, to protest the Uruguayan… Read moreARGENTINA: ECO-PROTESTERS BLOCK URUGUAY BORDER
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: ECO-PROTESTERS BLOCK URUGUAY BORDERThe trial of Saddam Hussein continues to get more problematic. From the London Times, Jan. 24: THE court trying Saddam Hussein has replaced its chief judge a day before the former dictator returns to the dock. The Iraqi Special Tribunal… Read moreSaddam’s new judge from Halabja
US, Israeli and Palestinian Artists Unite Across Borders by Robert Hirschfield Transposed upon the face of the famous Wall, in the photo-shop print by Suleiman Mansour, is Michaelangelo’s hand of God and hand of Adam reaching toward one another—only separated… Read moreTHREE CITIES AGAINST THE WALL
Continue ReadingTHREE CITIES AGAINST THE WALLA victory for historical memory—doubtless motivated by the Turkish state’s desire to gain EU entry. But as this Jan. 23 press release from Amnesty International makes clear, the greater victory will be when the law under which Orhan Pamuk was… Read moreTurkey: court drops case against writer
from Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. DELAYS CAFTA On Dec. 30 Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) spokesperson Stephen Norton announced that the US was postponing implementation of the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), which… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA DELAYED; REPRESSION CONTINUES
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA DELAYED; REPRESSION CONTINUESA glimmer of hope. But will the Supreme Court uphold it? From the Jan. 24 New York Times, via Mediachannel: A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to release the names and nationalities of hundreds of prisoners detained at Guantánamo… Read moreJudge orders US to release names of Gitmo detainees
from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Jan. 5, paramilitaries who identified themselves as members of the “Autodefensas del Llano” (Plains Self-Defense) group murdered four people in the community of Matabambu, in Puerto Lleras municipality, in the southern Colombian… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY ATTACKS IN META
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY ATTACKS IN METAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas In a Jan. 11 communique from “the sovereign mountains” of Ecuador, the Ecuadoran Guerrilla Coordination (CGE) announced that as of Jan. 1, 2006, the 1991 peace agreement signed between the “Alfaro Vive Carajo!”… Read moreECUADOR: GUERILLAS RE-EMERGE
Continue ReadingECUADOR: GUERILLAS RE-EMERGEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Dec. 20, a group of about 20 guerrillas from the Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) rebel group ambushed a police contingent and killed eight agents in Aucayacu, Leoncio Prado province, in the… Read morePERU: SENDERO RESURGENT?
Continue ReadingPERU: SENDERO RESURGENT?Palestine Activists Expose Truth in UK Direct Action Trial by Sarkis Pogossian On Jan. 26, seven Palestine solidarity protestors from London and Brighton were acquitted of “aggravated trespass” charges for their Nov. 11. 2004 arrests in a blockade outside the… Read moreBITTER FRUITS OF JORDAN VALLEY APARTHEID
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