From our correspondent Jennifer Fasulo: Chavez’s Shameful Embrace of Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Show Solidarity with the Women and People of Iran, not their Oppressors! Hugo Chavez, one of the key important figures in the left populist movements spreading throughout Latin… Read moreFeminist dissent from Chavez embrace of Ahmadinejad
The Sept. 22 Daily News carries the front-page headline: “BIG APPLE TO BIG MOUTH: ZIP IT!” It gleefully quotes various New York politicians bashing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling Bush a “devil,” including Sen. Chuck Schumer (“despicable and disgusting”),… Read moreUS politicians bash Chavez …but that doesn’t mean he isn’t really getting a little wacky
Our one-time contributor Keith Harmon Snow has won an award from Project Censored for his article, co-written with David Barouski, “Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo” (ZNet, March 2006). Project Censored dubs the story “High-Tech Genocide in Congo,”… Read moreProject Censored v. WW4 Report: war of perceptions on African genocide
From the Mexican news agency APRO, Sept. 20 via Chiapas95 (our translation): JALAPA – Protesting the failure of authorities to indemnify hundreds of families left homeless by a flood this past June, and to complete public works in the region,… Read moreVeracruz: indigenous occupy dam
This report contains the usual condescension of mainstream (English-language) media accounts on the Zapatista movement. For instance, the Zapatista-led protests around the Atenco crisis earlier this year were quite significant, and dominated the news in Mexico before they were overshadowed… Read moreSubcommander Marcos declares Lopez Obrador legitimate winner
As if things weren’t “interesting” enough in Somalia already, it looks like they are about to get much more so. The Taliban-style militia which has taken power in the capital, Mogadishu, seems to be waging a low-level war against the… Read moreSomalia militia pledges jihad
How many times a day do we have to say “A plague on both your houses”? First Saddam vows to “crush the heads” of Kurds testifying about his genocidal 1988 “Anfal” campaign. Then the judge in the case, Adullah al-Almiri,… Read moreHRW: “judicial independence” trampled in Saddam trial
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 17, via Chiapas95: Labor turmoil following disaster draws in USW Accused by government of $55 million theft, leader of Mexican mine union flees to Canada with help of Pittsburgh-based labor giant The horrific Pasta de… Read moreUnited Steelworkers embroiled in Mexican labor showdown
A textbook case in how Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is viewed differently by the Imperium and the global south. First this, from the Voice of America, Sept. 20, on day two of the annual UN General Assembly debate: Chavez brought his… Read moreChavez calls Bush “Devil”, proposes “Bank of the South”
We sure hope this is Jewish paranoia! From the Jerusalem Post, Sept. 19 (emphasis added): Venezuelan Jews fear Chavez-Iran ties On the day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived for a 30-hour visit, it seemed appropriate that Venezuela’s Jewish community… Read moreHezbollah training Venezuela’s Wayuu Indians?
From Newsday, Sept. 19 (emphasis added): BLOCK 7, AYACUCHO PETROLEUM FIELD, Venezuela — The Islamic world may be roiling over remarks by the pope, but in this remote patch of eastern Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez suggested yesterday that a little… Read moreChavez to Ahmadinejad: Islam is “revolutionary”
From Indian Country Today, Sept. 19: NEW YORK – Tribal leaders and the Aymaran president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, held a historic meeting September 18 before Morales’ speech at the United Nations, where they discussed the dangers facing the natural… Read moreEvo Morales meets with Native American leaders
