Pretty bad times to be part of an ethnic or religious minority in Iran, it seems. From the New York Times, June 1: Members of the Bahai religious minority in Iran said this week that the government had recently intensified… Read moreIran: Bahais under attack
From the Pakistan Tribune. June 2: KABUL: U.S. troops fired into a crowd of hundreds of stone-throwing rioters, killing at least three Afghans, as their convoy left the scene of an accident that triggered Monday’s anti-American riots, Kabul’s chief of… Read moreAfghanistan: US kills more civilians
From the Mumbai Mirror, June 2 (link added): Baghdad: A pregnant woman was shot dead at a US checkpoint in Iraq while on her way to give birth, officials said on Thursday, sparking further controversy amid a furor over an… Read moreIraq: US kills more civilians
The Paradoxes of Mainstreaming Esotericism by Mark Sanborne Dizzy from all the Decoding? Tired of endless yammering about Tom Hank’s hair? Ready to move on from the “Greatest Coverup in Human History”? Well, welcome to the cult, er, club. The… Read moreTHE DA VINCI CODE: DECODING THE PHENOMENON
Continue ReadingTHE DA VINCI CODE: DECODING THE PHENOMENONElectronic Journal & Daily Weblog SAMIR ADIL INTERVIEW: The Voice of Iraq’s Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg ANATOMY OF THE WEST BANK “REALIGNMENT” Strategic Pull-Back to Perpetuate Occupation by David Bloom 9-11’s HIDDEN VICTIMS New York’s Hero Rescue Workers Face… Read moreIssue #. 122. June 2006
from Weekly News Update on the Americas MAYDAY ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATION As they did last year, many Central American workers marked May 1 with demonstrations protesting the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a US-sponsored trade bloc composed of Costa… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATION
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas BARINAS: CAMPESINOS ARRESTED Early on May 25, Venezuelan army soldiers carried out a surprise raid against campesino activists in the town of Sabaneta, Barinas state. The raid was carried out with the participation… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS ARRESTED; ALBA ADVANCES
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS ARRESTED; ALBA ADVANCESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 5,000 people marched in Quito on May 9 to demand that the government cancel its contract with the US oil company Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) within 15 days, and end all negotiations on… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOT
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 1, in a ceremony at the San Alberto oilfield in Carapari, Tarija department, Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma signed supreme decree 28.701, ordering the nationalization of the country’s hydrocarbons resources. “The… Read moreBOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Right-wing Colombian president Alvaro Uribe Velez was re-elected in the country’s first round of elections on May 28, eliminating the need for a second round. With 80% of the vote counted, Uribe had… Read moreCOLOMBIA: URIBE RE-ELECTED, REPRESSION ESCALATES
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: URIBE RE-ELECTED, REPRESSION ESCALATESA “Secret Formula” Against Colombia’s Guerillas? by Paul Wolf The US State Department has developed the secret formula to dismantle the armed groups of Colombia’s war. Or so it believes. It is believed that the demobilization of 28,000 members of… Read moreTHE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENT
Continue ReadingTHE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENTBolivian Gas in State and Corporate Hands by Benjamin Dangl Years before the arrival of the Spanish, Bolivia’s indigenous people used “magic water” to cure wounds and keep fires going. With the invention of the automobile in the 1880s this… Read moreTHE WEALTH UNDERGROUND:
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