by Stefan Baskerville, Diplo Rusty buses lined the wide road, their roofs packed with men, sitting, crouching and lying down. Families sat and stood in the back of old pick-up trucks. The people arrived in droves, by truck, bus or… Read moreTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIAby Gilbert Achcar The resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on August 11, 2006 fully satisfies neither Israel nor Washington nor Hezbollah. This does not mean that it is “fair and balanced”: it only means that it is a… Read moreLEBANON: THE 33-DAY WAR AND UNSC RESOLUTION 1701
Continue ReadingLEBANON: THE 33-DAY WAR AND UNSC RESOLUTION 1701Aw Shut Up Already, Will Ya? by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT After the 1898 explosion of the battleship Maine, the 1933 Reichstag Fire, the 1939 bogus Polish “invasion” of Germany, and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, it is irresponsible… Read more9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBOR
Continue Reading9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBORby Sarkis Pogossian There have been signs over the past three years, as the debacle in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, that the so-called “neo-cons”—the Pentagon-connected policy wonks with traditional ties to the Israeli right and ultra-ambitious schemes… Read moreLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME
Continue ReadingLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAMEBetween Electoral Theater and Revolution by Ben Dangl, Upside Down World Before Evo Morales won a landslide victory in the Bolivian presidential election on December 18, 2005, one of his key campaign promises was to organize a constituent assembly to… Read moreCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:
Continue ReadingCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA:by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT There have been signs over the past three years, as the debacle in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, that the so-called “neo-cons”—the Pentagon-connected policy wonks with traditional ties to the Israeli right and… Read moreLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME
Continue ReadingLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAMEby Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly On June 5, militia aligned with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) declared victory in their struggle to control Mogadishu, capital of the east African country of Somalia. The militia had routed the grossly misnamed… Read moreSOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUT
Continue ReadingSOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUTA Class Analysis by George Caffentzis, Metamute And my coyote, Virgil, said to him when he refused to take me, a living man, over the Acheron to Hell, “Charon, do not be angry, but this undocumented passage has been decided… Read moreTHE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTION
Continue ReadingTHE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas According to a communique from the Ezequiel Zamora National Campesino Front (FNCEZ), on July 20 a soldier supposedly with the Venezuelan army murdered six adults and a child, members of a campesino family,… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MASSACRED
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MASSACREDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of civilians have been displaced and many more are trapped by fighting between Colombian government forces and leftist rebels in the southwestern department of Narino, bordering Ecuador, and in the northwestern Pacific… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 22,000 residents of the northeastern Ecuadoran province of Orellana began a “progressive strike” on June 28 to protest environmental damage by the French oil company Perenco and repression by the military. The… Read moreECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early morning of June 28 Peru’s Congress voted 79-14 with six abstentions to ratify the Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA, known locally as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC), a trade… Read morePERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST
Continue ReadingPERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST
