Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog 9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBOR Aw Shut Up Already, Will Ya? by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT BIONOIA Pt. 5 Lethal Legacy of the Soviet Bio-Industrial Complex by Mark Sanborne, WW4 REPORT LEBANON: THE 33-DAY… Read moreIssue #. 125. September 2006
from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: GARIFUNA WOMAN MURDERED On the evening of Aug. 6, a group of masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles forced 19-year-old Mirna Isabel Santos Thomas from her home in the Honduran Garifuna… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDERED
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDEREDBiopreparat: Biowar on Steroids, Soviet-Style by Mark Sanborne Earlier installments in this series focused primarily on the US role in secretly researching, developing, and disseminating biological warfare agents through both tests and accidental releases, as well as deliberate attacks on… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 5
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 5from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 16, members of the Shipiba indigenous community of Canaan de Cashiyacu seized nine oil wells operated by the Maple Gas Corporation in Maquia district, Ucayali province, in the Peruvian Amazon region… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITY
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On July 29, thousands of Venezuelan campesinos and supporters marched in the city of San Felipe, capital of Yaracuy state, to demand land reform and protest attacks on campesino leaders. The March for… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LANDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: NASA TAKE BACK THE LAND On Aug. 4, a group of more than 500 organized indigenous Colombians from the municipalities of Jambalo, Caloto, Toribio and Caldono in Cauca department began occupying the… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATES
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas During the week of Aug. 14, some 500 indigenous Guarani people began an occupation at the Parapeti station of the Yacuiba-Rio Grande gas pipeline (GASYRG) near Charagua, in the eastern Bolivian department of… Read moreBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINEThe “Big Wedding” and Its Sinister Offspring Book Review: The Big Wedding: 9-11, The Whistle Blowers and the Cover-Up by Sander Hicks VoxPop, New York, 2005 by A. Kronstadt, The Shadow In the months after the horrific events of September… Read moreJIHAD, INTELLIGENCE & 9-11
Continue ReadingJIHAD, INTELLIGENCE & 9-11The Labor Crisis Behind the Electoral Crisis by David Bacon, TruthOut NACOZARI, Sonora – Just days after conservative candidate Felipe Calderon declared himself the winner of Mexico’s July 2 presidential election, the Mexican federal labor board lowered the boom on… Read moreMEXICAN MINERS FACE LOCK-OUT
Continue ReadingMEXICAN MINERS FACE LOCK-OUTUrban Gardening and Self-Sufficiency in Caracas by April M. Howard, Toward Freedom In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Norali Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of… Read moreVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTIONby Stefan Baskerville, Diplo Rusty buses lined the wide road, their roofs packed with men, sitting, crouching and lying down. Families sat and stood in the back of old pick-up trucks. The people arrived in droves, by truck, bus or… Read moreTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIAby Gilbert Achcar The resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on August 11, 2006 fully satisfies neither Israel nor Washington nor Hezbollah. This does not mean that it is “fair and balanced”: it only means that it is a… Read moreLEBANON: THE 33-DAY WAR AND UNSC RESOLUTION 1701
Continue ReadingLEBANON: THE 33-DAY WAR AND UNSC RESOLUTION 1701
