Israeli historian Dr. Ilan Pappe of Haifa University takes issue with Noam Chomsky’s reaction to the Mearsheimer and Walt article on the Israel lobby: So what do we learn from the Chomsky reaction?: We can find out what Noam has… Read morePappe refutes Chomsky on Israel Lobby
Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog HOUZAN MAHMOUD INTERVIEW: The Iraqi Freedom Congress and the Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg BLAMING “THE LOBBY” AIPAC Takes the Hit for US Imperialism by Joseph Massad NAGORNO-KARABAKH: Stalin’s Shadow Looms Over Trans-Caucasus Pipeline by… Read moreIssue #. 120. April 2006
The Wachowski Brothers Commodify Your Dissent—Again! by Shlomo Svesnik “Guerilla war struggle is the new entertainment.” —”5.45,” the Gang of Four, 1979 “They got Burton suits—ha! They think it’s funny; turning rebellion into money” —”White Man in Hammersmith Palais,” The… Read moreC FOR COOPTATION
Continue ReadingC FOR COOPTATIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas RIO GRANDE DO SUL: MST SEIZES ESTATE On Feb. 28, more than 2,000 members of Brazil’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) from 14 encampments in the state of Rio Grande do Sul… Read moreBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS
Continue ReadingBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Feb. 27 Colombia and the US concluded a trade pact after two years of negotiations. Peru signed a similar accord in December, and the US is seeking an agreement with Ecuador. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas OIL STRIKE IN AMAZON The Ecuadoran government decreed a state of emergency in the Amazon provinces of Napo, Orellana and Sucumbios on March 8, two days into a strike that shut down oil… Read moreECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
Continue ReadingECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRYAIPAC Takes the Hit for US Imperialism by Joseph Massad In the last 25 years, many Palestinians and other Arabs, in the United States and in the Arab world, have been so awed by the power of the US pro-Israel… Read moreBLAMING “THE LOBBY”
Continue ReadingBLAMING “THE LOBBY”No Business as Usual as CAFTA Takes Effect by Paul Pollack SAN SALVADOR, March 1 — There was little fanfare and much protest today as the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) went into effect in El Salvador. The country… Read moreEL SALVADOR:
Continue ReadingEL SALVADOR:Stalin’s Shadow Looms Over Trans-Caucasus Pipeline by Rene Wadlow The president of Azerbaijan, Ilhan Aliyev (son of the long-time president Heydar Aliyev), and Robert Kocharian, president of Armenia, met outside Paris, in Rambouillet Feb. 10-11, to discuss the stalemated conflict… Read moreNAGORNO-KARABAKH:
Continue ReadingNAGORNO-KARABAKH:The final results of Israel’s Knesset election are as follows: Kadima, the party created by Sharon and now led by Ehud Olmert has 29 seats, a disappointment considering polls had projected up to 43 seats at one point. Labor, led… Read moreIsraeli election roundup
From the New Jersey Herald News, March 24: For activist’s supporters, the show does go on NEW YORK — Rachel Corrie’s legacy just might prove that the pen is mightier than the sword. Despite the cancellation of a theater production… Read moreNYC: 1,200 hear Rachel Corrie’s words
Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog FROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO Japanese Anti-War Movement Hosts Iraqi Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg “OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA” Coca Eradication Brings War to Threatened National Parks by Memo Montevino THE NEW BOLIVIAN EXPERIENCE Grassroots Activists Take… Read moreIssue #. 119. March 2006
