Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, has announced his country’s withdrawal from both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, describing said institutions to no longer be of use to Venezuela. He has also proclaimed his intention to establish an… Read moreVenezuela out of IMF, World Bank
Twenty people have been injured after a bomb exploded in a busy night market in the southern Thai province of Pattani on [May 1]. Officials believe that Muslim fighters carried out the attack as a means of stirring up communal… Read moreBomb hits Thai night market
Morocco and the Polisario Front are to embark on UN-sponsored talks over the disputed territories of Western Sahara, while the Security Council unanimously resolved [May 1] to renew the 220-strong UN peacekeeping operation in the region. [The resolution also calls… Read moreUN brokers talks over Western Sahara
Turkish police have arrested hundreds of left-wing protestors in Istanbul, amid a May Day rally. People were marching toward Taksim Square, to mark the 30th anniversary of the ‘Bloody May Day’—when thirty-four people were killed in a stampede in 1977… Read moreTurkey: hundreds arrested at May Day protest
Several Bangladeshi railway stations have been targeted by a series of small bombs [May 1]. The devices were detonated in the capital, Dhaka, the southeastern port of Chittagong and the northern city of Sylhet, at around 7:30 AM local time…. Read moreAl-Qaeda in Bangladesh?
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is reported to have been killed in an “internal battle” between militants in northern Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry has disclosed. United States officials have long speculated about rising tensions between… Read moreIraq: Abu Ayyub al-Masri dead?
A US-led raid on a suspected militant cell in Bati Kot district, Nangarhar province, killed as many as six Afghans April 30, including a woman and a teenage girl, sparking protests by hundreds of angry Afghans chanting “Death to Bush!”… Read moreAfghanistan: US kills civilians —again
Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog THE RETURN OF PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMA The New Struggle for Central America by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT CONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALA by Marc Becker, Upside Down World MINING IN MEXICO: VIOLENCE MADE IN CANADA by… Read moreIssue #. 133. May 2007
Nicaragua Sticks It to Tio Sam —Again! by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY For the very first time ever, When they had a revolution in Nicaragua, There was no interference from America Human rights in America Well the… Read moreSANDINISTA REDUX
Continue ReadingSANDINISTA REDUXHuman Rights and the Naxalite Insurgency by Suhas Chakma, Madrid11.net With the March 15 slaughter of fifty-five policemen by Naxalites (or Maoists) in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, India’s Maoist insurgency once again entered the international limelight. The local… Read moreINDIA AT WAR
Continue ReadingINDIA AT WARby Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus It was unexpected. At the Seventh World Social Forum (WSF), held in Nairobi, Kenya, in late January, the most controversial topic was not HIV-AIDS, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or neoliberalism. The topic… Read moreCHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW DEBATE
Continue ReadingCHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW DEBATEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: Costa Rican president Oscar Arias announced on April 13 that his government will hold a referendum on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a trade accord between the US and Costa… Read moreCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNED
Continue ReadingCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNED
