Right-Wing Paranoia Misses the Real Threat of NAFTA’s Militarization by Laura Carlsen, IRC Americas Program It’s got millions of right-wing citizens calling Congress, sponsoring legislation, and writing manifestos in defense of US sovereignty. It comes up in presidential candidates’ public… Read moreTHE NORTH AMERICAN UNION FARCE
Continue ReadingTHE NORTH AMERICAN UNION FARCENarco Gangs Armed by Gringos—Despite Border Militarization by Bill Weinberg, NACLA Report on the Americas Shipping powders back and forth Black goes south and white comes north. —”Throwing Stones,” John Perry Barlow for the Grateful Dead, 1982 The violent struggle… Read moreTHE U.S. THREAT TO MEXICAN NATIONAL SECURITY
Continue ReadingTHE U.S. THREAT TO MEXICAN NATIONAL SECURITYIranian artillery March 23 shelled three border towns in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish militants are believed to be operating, Iraqi Kurdish authorities reported. The shelling of the towns of Marado, Razda and Dolakoka started at 7:00 AM and lasted… Read moreIran shells northern Iraq —again
The death toll of US soldiers in Iraq passed 4,000 March 23 as four troops died in a roadside bomb attack on a patrol in southern Baghdad. More than 29,000 US soldiers have been wounded in five years of conflict… Read moreIraq: US death toll hits 4,000
At least two people were killed and 12 wounded on March 22 in Peru’s northeastern Loreto department in clashes between police and mostly Achuar indigenous workers who had been occupying installations on the Pluspetrol Norte oil company’s lot 1AB since… Read morePeru: indigenous seize oil field
On March 5 US District Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami ordered retired Peruvian army major Telmo Ricardo Hurtado to pay $37 million to two survivors of a 1985 massacre in which soldiers under Hurtado’s direct command killed 69 indigenous campesinos,… Read morePeruvian ex-officer to pay in massacre case
