Verdict Charges Corporations With License to Kill by Dawn Paley, Upside Down World July 23 marked the end of a two-and-a-half year process carried out by the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (TPP) in Bogotá, Colombia. A panel of international judges, including… Read moreTHE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON COLOMBIA
Continue ReadingTHE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON COLOMBIAby Bill Weinberg, AlterNet A trial is about to open in New Orleans of housing activists Jamie “Bork” Laughner and Joy Kohler—who face charges of criminal trespass and possession of a “fake explosive device” following civil disobedience arrests at public… Read moreNEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HOUSING DEFENDERS FACE TERROR CHARGES
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS PUBLIC HOUSING DEFENDERS FACE TERROR CHARGESCatastrophe and Counterinsurgency in New Orleans by Frank Morales, The Shadow “For years, cities across the nation have been declaring old-style public housing complexes a social experiment gone awry, emptying the buildings and, with a good riddance press of the… Read moreBIG OIL AND THE BIG EASY
Continue ReadingBIG OIL AND THE BIG EASYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On July 8, thousands of Peruvians mobilized for the first day of a 48-hour national agricultural strike, called by the National Agrarian Confederation (CNA) and the Campesino Confederation of Peru to demand the… Read morePERU: CAMPESINOS, WORKERS IN GENERAL STRIKE
Continue ReadingPERU: CAMPESINOS, WORKERS IN GENERAL STRIKEby Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus While drafting the so-called Bali Roadmap during the UN conference on climate change last December, delegates faced a painful choice. They could specifically mention the necessity of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by… Read moreHOKKAIDO: THE ANTI-CLIMATE SUMMIT
Continue ReadingHOKKAIDO: THE ANTI-CLIMATE SUMMITDivided Nation Faces Historic Vote by Ben Dangl, Toward Freedom In early July in Sicaya, Cochabamba, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced that if he wins the August 10 recall vote on his presidency, “I’ll have two and half years left.”… Read moreTOTAL RECALL IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingTOTAL RECALL IN BOLIVIAby Nikolas Kozloff, NACLA News When you consider John McCain’s ties to Big Oil, the GOP candidate’s claim to be a political maverick taking on special interests is nothing short of absurd. According to Progressive Media USA, a Washington, DC-based… Read moreMcCAIN’S BIG OIL TIES —FROM IRAQ TO COLOMBIA
Continue ReadingMcCAIN’S BIG OIL TIES —FROM IRAQ TO COLOMBIAby Bill Weinberg, The Nation Colombian paramilitary commander Diego “Don Berna” Fernando Murillo—ex-boss of Medellín’s feared Cacique Nutibara Bloc—was arraigned in federal court in Manhattan last month on cocaine charges that could land him in prison for thirty years. He… Read moreCOLOMBIA’S HEART OF DARKNESS IN MANHATTAN —AND D.C.
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA’S HEART OF DARKNESS IN MANHATTAN —AND D.C.Eritrea Crisis Destabilizes Imperialism’s Horn of Africa Beachhead by Sarkis Pogossian, World War 4 Report Last month, with the world’s eyes elsewhere, the Horn of Africa nations of Eritrea and Djibouti briefly went to war. Fighting over the cape of… Read moreSHAKE DJIBOUTI
Continue ReadingSHAKE DJIBOUTIBook Review: DARK HOPE Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine by David Shulman University of Chicago, 2007 by Bill Griffin, Catholic Worker David Shulman is a professor in the department of comparative religion at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem… Read moreISRAEL & PALESTINE: DEMANDING CO-EXISTENCE
Continue ReadingISRAEL & PALESTINE: DEMANDING CO-EXISTENCEby Bill Weinberg, Israel e-News John McCain’s decision to reject the endorsement of Rev. John Hagee is a glimmer of hope, though it is disturbing that he sought his support in the first place. It is more disturbing still that… Read moreJOHN HAGEE AND MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD: FEARFUL SYMMETRY
Continue ReadingJOHN HAGEE AND MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD: FEARFUL SYMMETRYby Nikolas Kozloff, NACLA News For a candidate who talks the talk on human rights, Barack Obama has little to say about the infamous School of the Americas (SOA). Originally established in the Panama Canal Zone in 1946, the school… Read moreOBAMA AND THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS
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