The African Liberation Forces of Mauritania Speakon Slavery and Genocide in the Sahel by Bill Weinberg At opposite ends of Africa’s Sahel, Sudan and Mauritania hold the distinction of being two nations where the practice of slavery remains intact at… Read moreFROM DARFUR TO MAURITANIA
Continue ReadingFROM DARFUR TO MAURITANIAFrom BBC, Sept. 29: UN ‘must drop’ Darfur peace force Top UN officials say the world body must abandon efforts to pressure Sudan to accept UN peacekeepers in Darfur. UN Sudan envoy Jan Pronk says the existing African Union force… Read moreUN officials: drop Darfur peacekeepers plan
From Ynet, Sept. 27: Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over ‘war crimes’ Belgian hi-tech company specializing in development consulting notifies manager of Israeli company seeking cooperation that ‘your country has conducted war crimes and is an apartheid regime’ Following the recent… Read moreBelgian firm boycotts Israel over war crimes
From the Israeli Committee on Housing Demolitions (ICHAD), Sept. 13: Israelis and Hezbollah Haven’t Always Been Enemies When Hezbollah operative and diamond trader Samih Ossailly was arrested in Belgium in April of 2002, one of the items found in a… Read moreIsraeli diamond merchants worked with Hezbollah, al-Qaeda?
From Palestine News Network (PNN), Sept. 10: Israeli settlers break into mosque and perform religious ceremonies under guard of Israeli soldiers By Sa’ed Al Shouhki (Hebron) Israeli settlers stormed the southern West Bank’s Halhoul Village Mosque at dawn Sunday. Under… Read moreIsraeli settlers bust into Hebron mosque and pray
Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog 9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBOR Aw Shut Up Already, Will Ya? by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT BIONOIA Pt. 5 Lethal Legacy of the Soviet Bio-Industrial Complex by Mark Sanborne, WW4 REPORT LEBANON: THE 33-DAY… Read moreIssue #. 125. September 2006
from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: GARIFUNA WOMAN MURDERED On the evening of Aug. 6, a group of masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles forced 19-year-old Mirna Isabel Santos Thomas from her home in the Honduran Garifuna… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDERED
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDEREDBiopreparat: Biowar on Steroids, Soviet-Style by Mark Sanborne Earlier installments in this series focused primarily on the US role in secretly researching, developing, and disseminating biological warfare agents through both tests and accidental releases, as well as deliberate attacks on… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 5
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 5from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 16, members of the Shipiba indigenous community of Canaan de Cashiyacu seized nine oil wells operated by the Maple Gas Corporation in Maquia district, Ucayali province, in the Peruvian Amazon region… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITY
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On July 29, thousands of Venezuelan campesinos and supporters marched in the city of San Felipe, capital of Yaracuy state, to demand land reform and protest attacks on campesino leaders. The March for… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LANDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: NASA TAKE BACK THE LAND On Aug. 4, a group of more than 500 organized indigenous Colombians from the municipalities of Jambalo, Caloto, Toribio and Caldono in Cauca department began occupying the… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATES
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas During the week of Aug. 14, some 500 indigenous Guarani people began an occupation at the Parapeti station of the Yacuiba-Rio Grande gas pipeline (GASYRG) near Charagua, in the eastern Bolivian department of… Read moreBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINE
