from Weekly News Update on the Americas Ecuadoran secondary school student Jhonny Montesdeoca was killed on April 6 during demonstrations in Cuenca to oppose signing the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known as TLC in Spanish) with the US and to… Read moreECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. NAVY HOLDS CARIBBEAN WAR GAMES The US Navy’s George Washington aircraft carrier strike group entered the Caribbean the week of April 10 to lead large-scale joint military exercises that were scheduled to… Read moreVENEZUELA: PEASANTS MARCH, U.S. HOLDS WAR GAMES
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: PEASANTS MARCH, U.S. HOLDS WAR GAMESBolivia, Evo Morales and A Continent’s Left Turn by Benjamin Dangl & Mark Engler On January 21, on a hill outside of La Paz, a traditional ceremony marked both a major shift in Bolivian politics and a milestone for the… Read moreTHE PROGRESSIVE MANDATE IN LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingTHE PROGRESSIVE MANDATE IN LATIN AMERICAFARC Indictments Spell Escalation in Andean Oil War by Peter Gorman During the past several years, five apparently separate events have taken place involving Colombia that are actually quite interrelated. The first was that during the late 1990s, massive oil… Read moreCOLOMBIA QUAGMIRE DEEPENS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA QUAGMIRE DEEPENSThis Is What Democracy Looks Like! by Nirit Ben-Ari On February 7 and January 25, Haitians and Palestinians (respectively) went to the polls. Haiti is an independent republic since 1804, and one of the founding members of the United Nations…. Read moreELECTIONS IN PALESTINE & HAITI
Continue ReadingELECTIONS IN PALESTINE & HAITIby A. Kronstadt We must always be aware that when professional purveyors of information such as governments and corporations tell us something, it is for their own reasons. You are not going to get an objective assessment of the dangers… Read moreBIRD FLU: HYPE, HYPOTHESIS, AND HYPODERMIC
Continue ReadingBIRD FLU: HYPE, HYPOTHESIS, AND HYPODERMICThe Mystery of Plum Island: Nazis, Ticks and Weapons of Mass Infection by Mark Sanborne In Part 2 of this series, which ran in our February issue, journalist and researcher Mark Sanborne looked back at how the US, which now… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 3
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 3UPDATE: May 8 a reader in Buffalo sent us the following: No one in Buffalo knows about this. We thought Hand was dead. Last time he tried this thdere were three Nazis and over 5,000 counterprotestors. He fled town immediately… Read moreNeo-Nazis to rally against Israel in Buffalo?
Sweden and other Scandanavian countries are the harshest European critics of Israeli behavior. One of the largest regions in Norway, Trondheim, has banned the sale of Israeli goods as well. Haaretz, April 28: Israel summons Swedish envoy over NATO drill,… Read moreSweden nixes Italy air show over Israel
Via Kibush: Activists describe West Bank violence by Katherine Cox The Stanford Daily 18 April 2006 Two young human rights activists spoke last night in California about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank neighborhood that also… Read moreHebron: Israeli settlers torture Palestinian children
The following are some Palestinian reactions to the April 17 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, that killed 9 and injured dozens. It was the largest such attack in two years, and claimed by Islamic Jihad & the al-Aksa Martyr’s Brigades…. Read morePalestinian reactions to suicide bombing
Press release from the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace: Israeli Women’s Action in Tel Aviv to ‘Stop the Bombing of Gaza’ April 11 Today at 18:00 the Coalition of Women for Peace will be washing their hands in blood… Read moreIsraeli Women’s Action to ‘Stop the Bombing of Gaza’
