Indian Leaders Helped Get President Lucio Gutierrez Elected—But Now Say the IMF and Big Oil Are Calling the Shots by Bill Weinberg On Aug. 21, Ecuador’s President Lucio Gutierrez was pictured in the Quito daily Hoy, smiling and clad in… Read moreINDIGENOUS ECUADOR MEETS THE NEW BOSS
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS ECUADOR MEETS THE NEW BOSSJames Woolsey and Subcommander Marcos Say Yes by Bill Weinberg On September 13, 2001, the New York Times’ Tom Friedman wrote: “Does my country really understand that this is World War III? And if this attack was the Pearl Harbor… Read moreIS THIS THE FOURTH WORLD WAR?
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Continue ReadingContact UsSettlers Pledge to Resist Evacuation, Even as IDF Grabs More Palestinian Lands by David Bloom As Ariel Sharon prepares–or at least goes through the motions–to put into effect his unilateral plan for "disengaging" from the Palestinians, Israel has announced a… Read moreISRAEL: CIVIL WAR LOOMING?
by Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project EDITOR’S PREAMBLE: The Republican National Convention protests in New York City were preceded by a First Amendment show-down in the federal courts over whether the main march, organized by United for Peace &… Read moreREPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION PROTESTS: MASSIVE CONVERGENCE IN NEW YORK CITY SAYS NO TO BUSH
The emergence of a 1991 report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) naming current Colombian President Alvaro Uribe as a high-level operative of the notorious Medellin Cartel has been an embarrassment for both the US and its top South… Read moreURIBE FINGERED AS DRUG-TRAFFICKER; ATROCITIES HAVE DOUBLED UNDER U.S.-BACKED PRESIDENT
from Weekly News Update on the Americas At 4 AM on Aug. 16, some 300 campesinos from El Chore in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department seized control of a British Petroleum (BP) oil production facility in the Santa Rosa del Sara… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez survived a vote to oust him Aug. 15, in a referendum the conservative opposition hoped would culminate their long campaign to overturn the left-populist president. “Now we can start the next phase of our revolution!” Chavez… Read moreVENEZUELA: WHOSE SIDE IS THE OIL CARTEL ON?
by Bill Weinberg “Osama bin Laden will be caught anytime–today or tomorrow.” So said J. Cofer Black, US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, after meeting with officials in Bangladesh Sept. 5. Black boasted to reporters that 75 percent of al-Qaeda… Read moreU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?
by Bill Weinberg “Osama bin Laden will be caught anytime—today or tomorrow.” So said J. Cofer Black, US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, after meeting with officials in Bangladesh Sept. 5. Black boasted to reporters that 75 percent of al-Qaeda… Read moreU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Continue ReadingU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?Why CounterVortex? The planet is spiraling into a vortex of ecological collapse, permanent war, and totalitarianism—whether of the techno-security state or the religious and ethnic fundamentalisms that ostensibly oppose it. Through our resistance, we create a counter-vortex, generating movement toward sustainability, peace, and popular… Read moreMission Statement
Continue ReadingMission Statementfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas At 4 AM on Aug. 16, some 300 campesinos from El Chore in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department seized control of a British Petroleum (BP) oil production facility in the Santa Rosa del Sara… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES
