Day: April 1, 2006
El Salvador: protests as CAFTA starts
An estimated 4,000 Salvadoran street vendors, students and union members marched in San Salvador on Feb. 28 to protest the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR- CAFTA), one day before the accord took effect in the country. Violence broke… Read moreEl Salvador: protests as CAFTA starts
Continue ReadingEl Salvador: protests as CAFTA startsBolivia: bombing kills two
We sure hope this is just a couple of lone wackos and not the beginning of a destabilization campaign against Evo Morales. An AP report indicates suspect Triston Jay Amero of California “has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals… Read moreBolivia: bombing kills two
Australia-Indonesia cartoon wars
From Reuters, March 30: CANBERRA – An Indonesian cartoon depicting Australia’s prime minister and foreign minister as fornicating dingoes was “grotesque”, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Thursday as bilateral tension flared with Jakarta. Prime Minister John Howard acknowledged that… Read moreAustralia-Indonesia cartoon wars
Issue #. 120. April 2006
Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog HOUZAN MAHMOUD INTERVIEW: The Iraqi Freedom Congress and the Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg BLAMING “THE LOBBY” AIPAC Takes the Hit for US Imperialism by Joseph Massad NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Stalin’s Shadow Looms Over Trans-Caucasus Pipeline by… Read moreIssue #. 120. April 2006
C FOR COOPTATION
The Wachowski Brothers Commodify Your Dissent—Again! by Shlomo Svesnik “Guerilla war struggle is the new entertainment.” —”5.45,” the Gang of Four, 1979 “They got Burton suits—ha! They think it’s funny; turning rebellion into money” —”White Man in Hammersmith Palais,” The… Read moreC FOR COOPTATION
Continue ReadingC FOR COOPTATIONBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS
from Weekly News Update on the Americas RIO GRANDE DO SUL: MST SEIZES ESTATE On Feb. 28, more than 2,000 members of Brazil’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) from 14 encampments in the state of Rio Grande do Sul… Read moreBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS
Continue ReadingBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONSCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Feb. 27 Colombia and the US concluded a trade pact after two years of negotiations. Peru signed a similar accord in December, and the US is seeking an agreement with Ecuador. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONSGrand juries target eco-activists
From Earth First!, March 29: Environmental Activists Jailed as Grand Jury Indictments Increase San Francisco, CA—As attorneys argue in federal court in San Francisco on March 30 to quash a grand jury investigating a protest in San Francisco, activists point… Read moreGrand juries target eco-activists
ECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
from Weekly News Update on the Americas OIL STRIKE IN AMAZON The Ecuadoran government decreed a state of emergency in the Amazon provinces of Napo, Orellana and Sucumbios on March 8, two days into a strike that shut down oil… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRYBLAMING “THE LOBBY”
AIPAC Takes the Hit for US Imperialism by Joseph Massad In the last 25 years, many Palestinians and other Arabs, in the United States and in the Arab world, have been so awed by the power of the US pro-Israel… Read moreBLAMING “THE LOBBY”
Continue ReadingBLAMING “THE LOBBY”EL SALVADOR:
No Business as Usual as CAFTA Takes Effect by Paul Pollack SAN SALVADOR, March 1 — There was little fanfare and much protest today as the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) went into effect in El Salvador. The country… Read moreEL SALVADOR:
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