Campesino Movement Meets the New Boss? by April Howard, Upside Down World A conflict between the Bolivian military and coca growers led to the death of two coca growers on the morning of September 29. The confrontation marks an unanticipated… Read moreBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUECentral America’s Last Stand Against CAFTA from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23 and 24, an estimated 75,000 Costa Ricans from all sectors of society took part in a mobilization against the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade… Read moreTRADE PROTESTS ROCK COSTA RICA
Continue ReadingTRADE PROTESTS ROCK COSTA RICANorth Africa’s Forgotten Occupied Territory by Bill Weinberg, Middle East Policy Book Review: Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa’s Last Colony? by Toby Shelley Zed Books, London, 2004 After a multi-generation guerilla struggle has become moribund, an… Read morePALESTINE IN THE SAHARA
Continue ReadingPALESTINE IN THE SAHARAImagine! Venezuelan meddling in American politics! Where would they ever get an idea like that? From the New York Times via the Denver Post, Oct. 29: Voting machines’ Venezuela link probed The federal government is investigating the takeover last year… Read moreVenezuela to throw US elections?
From the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), Oct. 30: London — James Bond actor Daniel Craig voted against plans to have suicide bombers in the new movie “Casino Royale” because that would anger Muslims. According to contactmusic.com, Craig asked producers to… Read moreJames Bond wimps out
From AP, Oct. 30: MARSEILLE — France’s interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille yesterday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman. French police braced for violence… Read moreMarseille: intifada redux
Which is more hilarious? The US warning regional powers against carrying out a “proxy war” in Somalia while Washington itself is openly backing the warlord alliance that opposes the Islamic Courts Union? Or Eritrea’s apparent backing of the Islamic Courts… Read moreSomalia: US warns of “proxy war”
A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of laborers lining up for work offers in a square in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Sadr City enclave Oct. 29, killing at least 25 people and wounding 60. It was the most recent of several… Read moreIraq: US-occupied Sadr City on edge after terror blast
Pakistan’s army admitted Oct. 31 it had killed up to 80 in an early-morning strike on a supposedly al-Qaeda-linked madrassa in a tribal area near the Afghan border. The military action sparked protests in the area, and in the neighbouring… Read morePakistan: protests as air strike wipes out madrassa in Tribal Areas
An Oct. 24 explosion at the University of Atlantico left four students dead and four wounded in the city of Barranquilla, capital of Atlantico department on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. (Some sources say three students were killed and five wounded.) The… Read moreColombia: explosion kills four students
On the night of Oct. 18, or the early hours of Oct. 19, suspected hired killers shot to death university student leader Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez in Mosquera park in the city of Popayan, capital of the southwestern Colombian department… Read moreColombia: another student leader killed
On the order of President Vicente Fox, thousands of federal police backed up by army troops stormed past barricades in embattled Oaxaca City Oct. 29, seizing control of the city center from protesters who have held it for five months…. Read moreFederal police take Oaxaca City center; at least two more dead
