by Sarkis Pogossian There have been signs over the past three years, as the debacle in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, that the so-called “neo-cons”—the Pentagon-connected policy wonks with traditional ties to the Israeli right and ultra-ambitious schemes… Read moreLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME
Continue ReadingLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAMEDear WW4 REPORT Readers: Thanks to an unexpected donation of $1,000 (as well as 20 more modest donations), we have exceeded our goal of $1,200 for our summer fundraiser. But we are continuing into a second month, hoping that we… Read moreFund Drive Extended
Continue ReadingFund Drive ExtendedElectronic Journal & Daily Weblog LEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT SHADOW PLAY IN SOMALIA Washington’s Warlords Lose Out by Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA Between Electoral Theater and Revolution by Ben… Read moreIssue #. 124. August 2006
Between Electoral Theater and Revolution by Ben Dangl, Upside Down World Before Evo Morales won a landslide victory in the Bolivian presidential election on December 18, 2005, one of his key campaign promises was to organize a constituent assembly to… Read moreCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:
Continue ReadingCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT There have been signs over the past three years, as the debacle in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, that the so-called “neo-cons”—the Pentagon-connected policy wonks with traditional ties to the Israeli right and… Read moreLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME
Continue ReadingLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAMEby Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT It’s a neat little ironic juxtaposition of headlines that the July 5 passing of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay—while awaiting sentencing on securities fraud and a host of related charges—came just days before several neighborhoods… Read moreTHE QUEENS BLACKOUTS: KENNETH LAY’S REVENGE?
Continue ReadingTHE QUEENS BLACKOUTS: KENNETH LAY’S REVENGE?from Weekly News Update on the Americas According to a communique from the Ezequiel Zamora National Campesino Front (FNCEZ), on July 20 a soldier supposedly with the Venezuelan army murdered six adults and a child, members of a campesino family,… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MASSACRED
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MASSACREDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of civilians have been displaced and many more are trapped by fighting between Colombian government forces and leftist rebels in the southwestern department of Narino, bordering Ecuador, and in the northwestern Pacific… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 22,000 residents of the northeastern Ecuadoran province of Orellana began a “progressive strike” on June 28 to protest environmental damage by the French oil company Perenco and repression by the military. The… Read moreECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early morning of June 28 Peru’s Congress voted 79-14 with six abstentions to ratify the Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA, known locally as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC), a trade… Read morePERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST
Continue ReadingPERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTESTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of Paraguayan campesinos continued to occupy estates and block roads during the week of July 17 to demand that the government of President Nicanor Duarte Frutos address the problems they face. The… Read morePARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?
Continue ReadingPARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?from Weekly News Update on the Americas GUATEMALA: TRADE PROTESTERS SEIZE ESTATES The Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) went into effect in Guatemala on July 1 amid protests against the US-sponsored pact, which seeks to bring Costa Rica,… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS IN
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS IN
