Day: July 31, 2006

Issue #. 124. August 2006

Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog LEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT SHADOW PLAY IN SOMALIA Washington’s Warlords Lose Out by Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA Between Electoral Theater and Revolution by Ben… Read moreIssue #. 124. August 2006

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:

Between Electoral Theater and Revolution by Ben Dangl, Upside Down World Before Evo Morales won a landslide victory in the Bolivian presidential election on December 18, 2005, one of his key campaign promises was to organize a constituent assembly to… Read moreCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:

LEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME

by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT There have been signs over the past three years, as the debacle in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, that the so-called “neo-cons”—the Pentagon-connected policy wonks with traditional ties to the Israeli right and… Read moreLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME

SOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUT

by Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly On June 5, militia aligned with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) declared victory in their struggle to control Mogadishu, capital of the east African country of Somalia. The militia had routed the grossly misnamed… Read moreSOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUT

THE QUEENS BLACKOUTS: KENNETH LAY’S REVENGE?

by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT It’s a neat little ironic juxtaposition of headlines that the July 5 passing of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay—while awaiting sentencing on securities fraud and a host of related charges—came just days before several neighborhoods… Read moreTHE QUEENS BLACKOUTS: KENNETH LAY’S REVENGE?

THE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTION

A Class Analysis by George Caffentzis, Metamute And my coyote, Virgil, said to him when he refused to take me, a living man, over the Acheron to Hell, “Charon, do not be angry, but this undocumented passage has been decided… Read moreTHE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTION

VENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MASSACRED

from Weekly News Update on the Americas According to a communique from the Ezequiel Zamora National Campesino Front (FNCEZ), on July 20 a soldier supposedly with the Venezuelan army murdered six adults and a child, members of a campesino family,… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MASSACRED

COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLED

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of civilians have been displaced and many more are trapped by fighting between Colombian government forces and leftist rebels in the southwestern department of Narino, bordering Ecuador, and in the northwestern Pacific… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLED

ECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 22,000 residents of the northeastern Ecuadoran province of Orellana began a “progressive strike” on June 28 to protest environmental damage by the French oil company Perenco and repression by the military. The… Read moreECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE

PERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST

from Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early morning of June 28 Peru’s Congress voted 79-14 with six abstentions to ratify the Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA, known locally as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC), a trade… Read morePERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST

PARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of Paraguayan campesinos continued to occupy estates and block roads during the week of July 17 to demand that the government of President Nicanor Duarte Frutos address the problems they face. The… Read morePARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?

CENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS IN

from Weekly News Update on the Americas GUATEMALA: TRADE PROTESTERS SEIZE ESTATES The Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) went into effect in Guatemala on July 1 amid protests against the US-sponsored pact, which seeks to bring Costa Rica,… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS IN