Strategic Pull-Back to Perpetuate Occupation by David Bloom The US government, with European urging, has requested that Israel give negotiation of a bilateral agreement with the Palestinian Authority one last shot. If by the end of the year the US… Read moreANATOMY OF THE WEST BANK “REALIGNMENT”
Continue ReadingANATOMY OF THE WEST BANK “REALIGNMENT”from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS, NICARAGUA IN CAFTA After a number of delays, the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) went into effect in Honduras and Nicaragua on April 1. Honduran president Manuel Zelaya held a… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA EXPANDS, DEATH SQUADS BACK
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA EXPANDS, DEATH SQUADS BACKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Ecuadoran secondary school student Jhonny Montesdeoca was killed on April 6 during demonstrations in Cuenca to oppose signing the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known as TLC in Spanish) with the US and to… Read moreECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STUDENT KILLED IN TRADE PROTESTSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas U.S. NAVY HOLDS CARIBBEAN WAR GAMES The US Navy’s George Washington aircraft carrier strike group entered the Caribbean the week of April 10 to lead large-scale joint military exercises that were scheduled to… Read moreVENEZUELA: PEASANTS MARCH, U.S. HOLDS WAR GAMES
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: PEASANTS MARCH, U.S. HOLDS WAR GAMESBolivia, Evo Morales and A Continent’s Left Turn by Benjamin Dangl & Mark Engler On January 21, on a hill outside of La Paz, a traditional ceremony marked both a major shift in Bolivian politics and a milestone for the… Read moreTHE PROGRESSIVE MANDATE IN LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingTHE PROGRESSIVE MANDATE IN LATIN AMERICAFARC Indictments Spell Escalation in Andean Oil War by Peter Gorman During the past several years, five apparently separate events have taken place involving Colombia that are actually quite interrelated. The first was that during the late 1990s, massive oil… Read moreCOLOMBIA QUAGMIRE DEEPENS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA QUAGMIRE DEEPENSThis Is What Democracy Looks Like! by Nirit Ben-Ari On February 7 and January 25, Haitians and Palestinians (respectively) went to the polls. Haiti is an independent republic since 1804, and one of the founding members of the United Nations…. Read moreELECTIONS IN PALESTINE & HAITI
Continue ReadingELECTIONS IN PALESTINE & HAITIby A. Kronstadt We must always be aware that when professional purveyors of information such as governments and corporations tell us something, it is for their own reasons. You are not going to get an objective assessment of the dangers… Read moreBIRD FLU: HYPE, HYPOTHESIS, AND HYPODERMIC
Continue ReadingBIRD FLU: HYPE, HYPOTHESIS, AND HYPODERMICThe Mystery of Plum Island: Nazis, Ticks and Weapons of Mass Infection by Mark Sanborne In Part 2 of this series, which ran in our February issue, journalist and researcher Mark Sanborne looked back at how the US, which now… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 3
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 3The Wachowski Brothers Commodify Your Dissent—Again! by Shlomo Svesnik “Guerilla war struggle is the new entertainment.” —”5.45,” the Gang of Four, 1979 “They got Burton suits—ha! They think it’s funny; turning rebellion into money” —”White Man in Hammersmith Palais,” The… Read moreC FOR COOPTATION
Continue ReadingC FOR COOPTATIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas RIO GRANDE DO SUL: MST SEIZES ESTATE On Feb. 28, more than 2,000 members of Brazil’s Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) from 14 encampments in the state of Rio Grande do Sul… Read moreBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS
Continue ReadingBRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Feb. 27 Colombia and the US concluded a trade pact after two years of negotiations. Peru signed a similar accord in December, and the US is seeking an agreement with Ecuador. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
