On April 25, Mexican federal legislators of the three political parties that make up the Broad Progressive Front (FAP) ended their 16-day occupation of the congressional chambers after a deal was worked out with representatives of the ruling National Action… Read moreOccupation of Mexico’s Congress chambers ends —for now
A series of early-morning gun battles between presumed narco-gangsters in the busy streets of Tijuana—including one outside a hospital—left 15 dead and seven wounded April 26. Authorities are not releasing any of the names of the dead, but the local… Read moreMexican media speculate on Tijuana bloodbath
Electronic Journal & Daily Report BEHIND THE FOOD CRISIS Global Markets and Deregulation Strike Again by Gretchen Gordon, Food First THE NEW WALLS OF BAGHDAD How the US is Reproducing Israel’s Flawed Occupation Strategies in Iraq by Steve Niva, Foreign… Read moreIssue #145, May 2008
Middle Ground Between Mao and the Dalai Lama? by William Wharton, WW4 Report Book Review: A TIBETAN REVOLUTIONARY The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye by Melvyn C. Goldstein, William R. Siebenschuh and Dawei Sherap University of California,… Read moreMEMOIRS OF A TIBETAN MARXIST
Continue ReadingMEMOIRS OF A TIBETAN MARXISTColonization and Resistance on the Roof of the World by Carole Reckinger, Toward Freedom On March 10, a group of about 500 Buddhist monks marched from the Drepung monastery (one of the “great three” university monasteries in Tibet) to demand… Read moreTIBET: ROOTS OF THE UNREST
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