This Reuters story that ran in the Washington Post June 19 (online at Chiapas95) is typical of the hegemonic mainstream media line (north of the border, at least) that the Zapatistas have shot their wad and are forgotten. (Amazing that… Read moreReuters: Zapatista demands “forgotten”?
This online debate between John Ross and Al Giordano, two veteran alterno-journalists who have long covered the Zapatista movement in Mexico, is a bit incestuous (and certainly long-winded), as well as self-important and catty. But it does shed some interesting… Read moreGringo alterno-journalists debate Zapatista “Other Campaign”
Some 500 people, mostly students, marched in Asuncion, Paraguay, on June 17 to protest the presence of US troops in the country. The protesters marched along the Avenida Mariscal Lopez; they tried to reach the US embassy but were blocked… Read moreParaguay: march against US troops
Some 2,000 Wichi, Toba and Mocovi indigenous people from throughout the northern Argentine province of Chaco arrived on June 6 in the provincial capital, Resistencia, and began camping out in front of the provincial government building after an effort to… Read moreArgentina: Chaco indigenous mobilize
Our occasional contributor Michael I. Niman writes for his June 15 “Getting a Grip” column in ArtVoice, the alternative weekly in Buffalo, NY: Anti-Casino or Anti-Indian? Those of us in Western New York who oppose war need to start paying… Read moreHaudenosaunee land struggle crosses US-Canada border
Bush’s declaration of a national monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is being hailed by world environmentalists, and certainly impresses by its sheer size—1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide. “To put this area in context, this national monument is… Read moreNew Hawaiian national monument: Bush’s strategic sacrifice
From the New York Daily News, June 21: Schoolgirl killed by SUV A 5-year-old Brooklyn girl running to catch her school bus was rammed and killed by an SUV yesterday after darting out from behind two parked cars, police said…. Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The US, it seems, barely has control of its own proxy forces in Iraq. From AP, June 22: Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found. The… Read moreIraq: Yanks get fragged
Islamist guerillas are stepping up attacks in Algeria, apparently led by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which has rejected an amnesty offered by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to try to end more than a decade of violence. On… Read moreAlgeria: guerilla resurgence
The New York Sun (June 12) positively relishes in such reports, even as the federal judiciary contributes to the Muslim immigrant fears that fuel such a backlash. On May 27, days before these vandal attacks, the New York Times reported… Read moreNYC: Bay Ridge Intifada?
US troops carrying out an offensive against resurgent Taliban guerillas fought off an attack on their mountaintop camp in Helmand province’s remote Baghran Valley today. Later, US warplanes were called in to bomb a Taliban hideout. An A-10 Warthog bomber… Read moreTaliban escalates offensive; NATO to expand Afghan force
The worst environmental practices of the Saddam dictatorship (themselves a result of sanctions) are being revived under US occupation in Iraq’s oil industry. Thank goodness this report by James Glanz made the front page of the New York Times yesterday… Read moreNorthern Iraq oil waste dumping threatens Tigris River
