Autonomy Under Siege in the Zapatista Zones by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez, CIP Americas Program Autonomy Under Siege, a series of reports on the five Zapatista autonomous centers, or caracoles, by Gloria Muñoz Ramírez was first published in Spanish as a… Read moreCHIAPAS: PORTRAIT OF THE RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingCHIAPAS: PORTRAIT OF THE RESISTANCEfrom Frontera NorteSur Virtually forgotten amid the ongoing slaughter engulfing Ciudad Juárez, a long-running land battle involving members of one of Mexico’s most prominent families drags on with no immediate resolution. Located in a now-strategically important zone on the northwest… Read moreLOMAS DE POLEO: BORDER LAND BATTLE SIZZLES
Continue ReadingLOMAS DE POLEO: BORDER LAND BATTLE SIZZLESGeorge Obama, half-brother of President Barack Obama, was arrested for possession of one joint in Nairobi on Friday. He is denying the charge against him. Kenya has some of the world’s harshest marijuana laws.
In the inevitable Lincoln-Obama analogy, it is largely forgotten that Lincoln was only pushed to emancipation by the Civil War. Will Obama similarly be radicalized in office by historical circumstance?
New International Standards Needed to Resolve Dispute by William K. Barth, OpEdNews For where no law is, there is no transgression.—Romans 4.15 President Obama’s most immediate foreign policy challenge is to determine how to deal with the recent Israeli action… Read morePALESTINE: OBAMA’S FIRST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE
Continue ReadingPALESTINE: OBAMA’S FIRST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE“A Risk That is Unacceptable”? by Billy Wharton, CounterHegemonic Of course, Obama is no George W. Bush. He knows well how to pick off the low-hanging political fruit in order to forestall decisions which threaten to bring his administration into… Read moreOBAMA’S IRAQ WITHDRAWAL:
Continue ReadingOBAMA’S IRAQ WITHDRAWAL:Abdul Aziz Yaqubi works in the office of the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker-founded aid and advocacy group, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sam Diener, co-editor of the AFSC journal Peacework interviewed him via e-mail in November 2008. The interview was… Read moreAFGHANISTAN: BUILDING ON TRADITIONS OF PEACEMAKING
Continue ReadingAFGHANISTAN: BUILDING ON TRADITIONS OF PEACEMAKINGA group of 15 gunmen took over the oldest synagogue in Caracas Friday night, ransacking the sanctuary, desecrating Torahs and spray-painting walls with anti-Semitic slogans.
Tokyo is preparing to dispatch destroyers to protect Japanese vessels from pirates off Somalia. Meanwhile, the Shabab militia is taking over positions evacuated by departed Ethiopian troops.
Swiss police clashed with protesters against the World Economic Forum, firing tear gas and arresting 60 in Geneva after officers equipped with a water cannon blocked the planned route of the march.
