The Fight for Inclusion by Gumisai Mutume, Africa Renewal The San, the indigenous people of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, won a major victory in December 2006, at the end of the longest and most expensive court proceeding in that… Read moreAFRICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Continue ReadingAFRICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLESIslamist Violence and State Legitimacy by Kanishk Tharoor, Madrid11.net In recent months, the specter of Islamist violence has grown across North Africa. After enduring a brutal decade-long civil war, Algeria has seen Salafist radicals regrouping under the ominous banner of… Read moreALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?
Continue ReadingALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?Czech Dissidents Stand Up Again—This Time to the Pentagon! by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT In violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the and commitments made in the year 2000 at the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty… Read moreRESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILES
Continue ReadingRESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILESThe 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-PANAMANicaragua 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 DEBATEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: Costa Rican president Oscar Arias announced on April 13 that his government will hold a referendum on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a trade accord between the US and Costa… Read moreCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNED
Continue ReadingCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNEDby Mandeep Dhillon, Upside Down World The history of mining in Mexico is a long one. The riches of the Mexican sub-soil were a major motivation for Spanish colonizers and the mining industry is often accorded an important place in… Read moreMINING IN MEXICO: VIOLENCE MADE IN CANADA
Continue ReadingMINING IN MEXICO: VIOLENCE MADE IN CANADAby Marc Becker, Upside Down World Thousands of Indigenous peoples from 24 countries gathered in Guatemala on March 26 for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. After U.S. President George W. Bush visited the… Read moreCONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALA
Continue ReadingCONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALAWhatever Happened to the AIDS Conspiracy? by Mark Sanborne, WW4 REPORT “Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone.” In the last installment in this series we discussed Biopreparat, the Soviet Union’s massive yet surprisingly covert biological warfare… Read moreBIONOIA, Part 6
Continue ReadingBIONOIA, Part 6from Weekly News Update on the Americas: Guatemala: Three Salvadoran Reps Murdered; Accused Killers Follow Them to Grave Three Salvadoran legislative deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) were murdered along with their driver on the afternoon of Feb. 19… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOS
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOS
