from Weekly News Update on the Americas DEADLY HURRICANE HITS More than a thousand people are feared dead in flooding and mudslides in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas as a result… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas PATAGONIA, EL CHACO: CAMPESINOS UNDER ATTACK On Sept. 15, police agents in the southern Argentine province of Chubut nearly beat to death campesino Simforoso Jaramillo, according to the Front of Mapuche and Campesino… Read moreARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WINfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 29, at least 5,000 Bolivian teachers staged a national strike and marched in La Paz to protest what they call a “virtual privatization” of education in Bolivia: the handing over of… Read moreBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAXfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 29, at least 5,000 Bolivian teachers staged a national strike and marched in La Paz to protest what they call a “virtual privatization” of education in Bolivia: the handing over of… Read moreBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAXfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas ZULIA: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATTACKED On Sept. 15, a group of 15 heavily armed men in olive green military uniforms arrived in two pickup trucks at the Yukpa and Wayuu indigenous campesino community of… Read moreVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas INDIGENOUS HOLD NATIONWIDE “MINGA,” TWO DIE On Oct. 10, tens of thousands of Colombian indigenous people began marching to various regional capitals in a coordinated Minga (community mobilization) to demand indigenous rights, protest… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERRORfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 30, residents of the districts of Atalaya, Sepahua and Tahuania in the Peruvian Amazon held a 24-hour strike protesting the contamination of the region’s rivers by the Camisea natural gas project…. Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO
Continue ReadingEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINOby Rene Wadlow On Sept. 29, 97% of those voting in the Algerian referendum on Peace and Reconciliation voted yes for peace and reconciliation. Was this a necessary act of popular catharsis after some 13 years of violence? Or was… Read moreALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?
Continue ReadingALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?U.S. State Terrorism in Puerto Rico by Yeidy Rosa While his annually recorded speech was being broadcast to radios throughout the island commemorating the 137th anniversary of Puerto Rico’s September 23 Grito de Lares revolt against Spanish colonial rule, Filiberto… Read moreFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION?
Continue ReadingFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION?From the Israeli settler news service, Arutz Sheva: Dichter: Military Action Might Be Necessary to Block Iran Nukes Sunday, October 30, 2005 / 27 Tishrei 5766 (IsraelNN.com) The former head of the Shin Bet security service told a Los Angeles… Read moreFormer Shin Bet head tells AIPAC: US might have to attack Iran
For years, apologists for Israeli policy in the occupied territories, such as CAMERA, have claimed the system of “Jewish-only” roads did not exist, since they are intermittently open to Palestinian traffic. The system has been de facto and not de… Read moreIsrael to make “apartheid” road system permanent in West Bank?
