The New Corporate Agenda for Central America by Tom Ricker and Burke Stansbury What does tightening intellectual property laws have to do with “free” trade? That’s the question many people in Central American and the Dominican Republic are asking as… Read moreCAFTA’S ASSUALT ON DEMOCRACY
Continue ReadingCAFTA’S ASSUALT ON DEMOCRACYCoca Eradication Brings War to Endangered National Parks by Memo Montevino Last June, following months of political contest between the administration of President Alvaro Uribe and environmentalists, Colombia’s government announced that the aerial spraying of glyphosate to wipe out coca… Read more“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”
Continue Reading“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: ARMY KILLS CIVILIANS On Jan. 8, Colombian army troops from the No. 26 Cacique Piguanza Infantry Battalion, headed by Lt. Hoyos, shot to death 17-year-old Hortensia Neyid Tunja Cuchumbe and Manuel Antonio… Read moreCOLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRA
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRAJapanese Anti-War Movement Hosts Iraqi Civil Resistance by Bill Weinberg Japan is one of the minor members of Bush’s “coalition of the willing” in terms of troop commitment, but the Asian superpower’s anti-war movement has made more progress than any… Read moreFROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO
Continue ReadingFROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYOThe Dalai Lama just visited Israel, where no Israeli official would meet with him. According to the following account, a Palestinian NGO also agreed to cancel his visit to the occupied Palestinian territories at China’s request. From the Middle East… Read more“Separatist” Dalai Lama snubbed by Palestinians
This Tues. Feb. 14 at the Brecht Forum in NYC
Continue ReadingBill Weinberg to Speak on Iraqi Civil ResistanceThe Palestinian press is raising the possibility that Israel may be trying to provoke a response with a recent large spate of “targeted killings.” From the International Middle East Media Center, Feb. 10: Ongoing Israeli Assassinations by Missile said to… Read moreIsrael assassinates 13 in one week
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In a big boost to the sclerotic campaign to divest from companies that do business with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, which includes East Jerusalem, the Church of England reversed earlier expectations, voting to divest from the Caterpillar corporation:… Read moreChurch of England votes to divest from Caterpillar
After a month-long volley of op-eds in neo-con pubs, misquotes in Jewish papers, capped with an attack by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the powers-that-be are now comparing Chavez to Hitler. How predictable. From the New York Times: February 3, 2006… Read moreRummy: Chavez Hitler
