by Bill Weinberg On July 21, leaders of indigenous, campesino and grassroots organizations from throughout the Central American nations and Mexico gathered in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, for the Mesoamerican Forum, fourth in a series of meetings aimed at defending… Read moreINDIGENOUS OPPOSITION TO PUEBLA-PANAMA PLAN FACES REPRESSION
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS OPPOSITION TO PUEBLA-PANAMA PLAN FACES REPRESSIONby Bill Weinberg “Osama bin Laden will be caught anytime–today or tomorrow.” So said J. Cofer Black, US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, after meeting with officials in Bangladesh Sept. 5. Black boasted to reporters that 75 percent of al-Qaeda… Read moreU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Continue ReadingU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?BOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES from Weekly News Update on the Americas At 4 AM on Aug. 16, some 300 campesinos from El Chore in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department seized control of a British Petroleum (BP) oil production facility in the… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMESVenezuelan leader Hugo Chavez survived a vote to oust him Aug. 15, in a referendum the conservative opposition hoped would culminate their long campaign to overturn the left-populist president. “Now we can start the next phase of our revolution!” Chavez… Read moreVENEZUELA: WHOSE SIDE IS THE OIL CARTEL ON?
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: WHOSE SIDE IS THE OIL CARTEL ON?ATROCITIES HAVE DOUBLED UNDER U.S.-BACKED PRESIDENT The emergence of a 1991 report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) naming current Colombian President Alvaro Uribe as a high-level operative of the notorious Medellin Cartel has been an embarrassment for both… Read moreCOLOMBIA: URIBE FINGERED AS DRUG-TRAFFICKER
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: URIBE FINGERED AS DRUG-TRAFFICKERSettlers Pledge to Resist Evacuation, Even as IDF Grabs More Palestinian Lands by David Bloom As Ariel Sharon prepares–or at least goes through the motions–to put into effect his unilateral plan for “disengaging” from the Palestinians, Israel has announced a… Read moreIsrael: Civil War Looming?
Continue ReadingIsrael: Civil War Looming?MASSIVE CONVERGENCE IN NEW YORK CITY SAYS NO TO BUSH by Anne Petermann Global Justice Ecology Project EDITOR’S PREAMBLE: The Republican National Convention protests in New York City were preceded by a First Amendment show-down in the federal courts over whether… Read moreREPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROTESTS:
Continue ReadingREPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROTESTS:The New Struggle for the Isthmus by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT Mexico, Colombia and seven Central American nations held a 24-hour summit April 10 in Campeche, on the Yucatan’s Caribbean coast. They issued a nine-point plan for revitalizing the regional… Read moreTHE RETURN OF PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMA
Continue ReadingTHE RETURN OF PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMAElectronic Journal & Daily Weblog THE RETURN OF PLAN PUEBLA-PANAMA The New Struggle for Central America by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT CONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALA by Marc Becker, Upside Down World MINING IN MEXICO: VIOLENCE MADE IN CANADA by… Read moreIssue #. 133. May 2007
Nicaragua Sticks It to Tio Sam —Again! by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY For the very first time ever, When they had a revolution in Nicaragua, There was no interference from America Human rights in America Well the… Read moreSANDINISTA REDUX
Continue ReadingSANDINISTA REDUXHuman Rights and the Naxalite Insurgency by Suhas Chakma, Madrid11.net With the March 15 slaughter of fifty-five policemen by Naxalites (or Maoists) in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, India’s Maoist insurgency once again entered the international limelight. The local… Read moreINDIA AT WAR
Continue ReadingINDIA AT WARby Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus It was unexpected. At the Seventh World Social Forum (WSF), held in Nairobi, Kenya, in late January, the most controversial topic was not HIV-AIDS, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or neoliberalism. The topic… Read moreCHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW DEBATE
Continue ReadingCHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW DEBATE
