by Assieh Amini, Stop Stoning Forever Campaign Despite official denials, the stoning to death of women and sometimes men for such offenses as adultery continues in Iran, with state sanction. Iran’s Stop Stoning Forever Campaign documents and protests such instances,… Read moreIRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMEN
Continue ReadingIRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMENOil & Utility Union Leaders on the Struggle Against Privatization from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio On June 18, “Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report,” hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on New York’s non-commercial WBAI Radio, ran an… Read moreVOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERS
Continue ReadingVOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERSby Bill Weinberg, New America Media Amid daily media body counts and analyses of whether the “surge” is “working,” there is an even more horrific reality in Iraq, almost universally overlooked. The latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights… Read moreNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQ
Continue ReadingNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQTwenty-Two Years After the Philadelphia Massacre by Hans Bennett, The Defenestrator “Attention, MOVE: This Is America!” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor declared through a loudspeaker, minutes before the May 13, 1985 police assault on the revolutionary MOVE organization’s home. This… Read more“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”
Continue Reading“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”The ILEA in El Salvador from CISPES On June 22, the US House of Representatives voted to approve “foreign operations” funding for 2008, including the funds for International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEAs), the School of the Americas, and a number… Read moreEXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingEXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICAThe case of RCTV and the fictional democratization of communication from El Libertario, Caracas On May 27, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), a pillar of Venezuela’s media establishment, went off the air when its license expired, sparking a wave of angry… Read moreFREE SPEECH IN VENEZUELA
Continue ReadingFREE SPEECH IN VENEZUELAA Debate between Ilan Pappé and Uri Avnery from Gush-Shalom/Peacework Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian who taught at Haifa University. He is the author, most recently, of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Uri Avnery is an Israeli activist, journalist,… Read moreISRAEL & PALESTINE: ONE STATE OR TWO?
Continue ReadingISRAEL & PALESTINE: ONE STATE OR TWO?One Woman’s Journey from Warlord Somalia to Neocon Washington by Chesley Hicks, WW4 REPORT Book Review: The Caged Virgin An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Free Press/Simon & Schuster 2006 (translated), originally published in Netherlands… Read moreAYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?
Continue ReadingAYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?from Weekly News Update on the Americas Bolivian president Evo Morales, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and Cuban vice president Carlos Lage joined Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in Barquisimeto, in the Venezuelan state of Lara, on the weekend of April 28… Read moreLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKS
Continue ReadingLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Bolivian president Evo Morales, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and Cuban vice president Carlos Lage joined Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in Barquisimeto, in the Venezuelan state of Lara, on the weekend of April 28… Read moreLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKS
Continue ReadingLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKSMexican Peasants Resist Land Grab for Hydro Dam from SIPAZ Tension is growing in the conflicted southern Mexican state of Guerrero over the planned La Parota hydro-electric dam on the Rio Papagayo. The project would inundate thousands of hectares of… Read moreNEW ALERT AT LA PAROTA
Continue ReadingNEW ALERT AT LA PAROTACree Nation Divided Over James Bay Mega-Project by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today Hydro-Quebec, the provincial utility which is a major energy exporter to the Northeast US, has commenced construction on a new mega-project on Cree lands of the far… Read moreHYDRO-COLONIALISM ADVANCES IN CANADA’S FAR NORTH
Continue ReadingHYDRO-COLONIALISM ADVANCES IN CANADA’S FAR NORTH
