THE NEW SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: The World Economic Forum, “Humanitarian Intervention” and the Secret Resource Wars by Wynde Priddy CHIAPAS: Who are the Real “Environmental Terrorists”? by Carmelo Ruiz WHICH WORLD WAR IS THIS? James Woolsey and Subcommander Marcos Say… Read moreWW3 Report # 90 July 2004
Exclusive Interview: MAURITANIA: SLAVERY, ETHNIC CLEANSING, DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION Voices of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM) by Bill Weinberg DARFUR: THE OVERKILL The Janjaweed Spin Out of Control by Rene Wadlow OIL AND OCCUPATION IN WESTERN SAHARA Kerr-McGee Lubricates… Read more#. 113. September 2005
Continue Reading#. 113. September 2005from Weekly News Update on the Americas Shortly before flying to his Texas ranch for a month-long vacation, on Aug. 2 US President George W. Bush signed the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) into law, following a 19-month… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: BUSH SIGNS CAFTA; NAVAL MANEUVERS HELD
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: BUSH SIGNS CAFTA; NAVAL MANEUVERS HELDPeasants are stepping up pressure on Venezuela’s government to enforce the land reform law, decreed by President Hugo Chavez in November 2001. Over a million hectares of public lands were redistributed in the first three years of the law under… Read moreVENEZUELA: OLIGARCHY STRIKES BACK AT CAMPESINOS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: OLIGARCHY STRIKES BACK AT CAMPESINOSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas EMBERA INDIGENOUS MASSACRED On Aug. 17, hooded assailants armed with assault rifles arrived at the home of an indigenous Embera Chami family in the community of Ubarba, in the Nuestra Senora Candelaria de… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS MASSACRED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS MASSACREDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas HUANCABAMBA: TWO DEAD AT MINING CAMP In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 1, some 3,000 to 6,000 residents of campesino communities in northern Peru seized control of the Henry Hills mining camp, owned… Read morePERU: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY MINE CAMPS, CABINET RESIGNS
Continue ReadingPERU: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY MINE CAMPS, CABINET RESIGNSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 22, members of Argentina’s Union of Unemployed Workers (UTD) led by “Pepino” Fernandez occupied a gas plant belonging to the companies Plus Petrol and Panamerican in General Mosconi, near the Bolivian… Read moreARGENTINA: PROTESTS HIT OIL SECTOR
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: PROTESTS HIT OIL SECTORfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 4, residents of the southern Bolivian city of Camiri, in Santa Cruz department, lifted their general strike after Hydrocarbons Minister Jaime Dunn signed an agreement promising to speed up the re-establishment… Read moreBOLIVIA: REGIONAL STRIKE OVER OIL DEAL
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: REGIONAL STRIKE OVER OIL DEALfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 15, residents of the Amazon provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana in northern Ecuador began an open-ended civic strike–backed by local elected officials–to demand higher wages, more jobs and the construction of… Read moreECUADOR: STRIKE HALTS AMAZON OIL PRODUCTION
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STRIKE HALTS AMAZON OIL PRODUCTIONA Critique of Energy Alternatives by George Caffentzis The discussion of energy politics in the US is now dominated by two competing paradigms. One is promoted by the Bush Administration and its corporate allies; the other by a wide assortment… Read morePEAK OIL AND NATIONAL SECURITY:
Continue ReadingPEAK OIL AND NATIONAL SECURITY:by David Bacon BASRA, Iraq – The cracking towers and gas flares of the Al-Daura oil refinery rise above the neighborhood on Baghdad’s outskirts that bears its name. On February 18, Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the… Read moreIRAQI UNIONS DEFY ASSASSINATION AND OCCUPATION
Continue ReadingIRAQI UNIONS DEFY ASSASSINATION AND OCCUPATIONby Jacob Mundy “We preferred that occupation,” Salim says, pointing to the Spanish news channel on his television, “to this one,” he says gesturing toward Moroccan settlers walking past his West Saharan shop window. Western Sahara is a disputed territory… Read moreMIXING OCCUPATION AND OIL IN WESTERN SAHARA
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