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VENEZUELAN LABOR BETWEEN CHAVEZ AND THE GOLPISTAS

The Bolivarian Government Against Union Autonomy by Rafael Uzcategui, Tierra y Libertad Orlando Chirino, a revolutionary Venezuelan labor leader, has recently denounced the Bolivarian government as “anti-worker and anti-union.” It would be difficult to accuse Chirino of being a “golpista”… Read moreVENEZUELAN LABOR BETWEEN CHAVEZ AND THE GOLPISTAS

IRAQI LABOR LEADERS SPEAK

Their Fight for Workers and Against Occupation from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio On October 5, “Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report,” hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on New York’s non-commercial WBAI Radio, ran an interview with four… Read moreIRAQI LABOR LEADERS SPEAK

WHITHER WORLD WAR 4 REPORT?

Dear readers: This upcoming 9-11 anniversary will mark eight years that World War 4 Report has been publishing. We have only kept it going because nobody else is doing it, and we consider it vital: a daily digest of the… Read moreWHITHER WORLD WAR 4 REPORT?

BEYOND ATTICA

The Untold Story of Women’s Resistance Behind Bars Book Review: RESISTANCE BEHIND BARS The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law PM Press, 2009 by Hans Bennett, AlterNet “When I was 15, my friends started going to jail,” says Victoria… Read moreBEYOND ATTICA

A BILLION BUCKS FOR CLUNKERS AIN’T GREEN

Landfilling old gas-guzzlers for new gas-guzzlers isn’t green—it’s a subsidy by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY Let’s be honest and get one simple fact straight. The Obama administration’s “Cash for Clunkers” program is a $1 billion subsidy to the… Read moreA BILLION BUCKS FOR CLUNKERS AIN’T GREEN

POLITICS-AS-USUAL WHILE THE PLANET BURNS

Climate Bill Offers Pseudo-Solutions by Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom A palpable sense of triumph accompanied the passage last month of a first-of-its-kind global warming bill in the US House of Representatives. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of the bill’s… Read morePOLITICS-AS-USUAL WHILE THE PLANET BURNS

WORLDWATCH PLAYS ALONG

Malthus, Biofuels and Free-Market Environmentalism by Carmelo Ruiz Marrero, World War 4 Report The Washington DC-based Worldwatch Institute is no ordinary environmental organization. Founded by environmental maverick Lester Brown, a man hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the… Read moreWORLDWATCH PLAYS ALONG

HONDURAS: THE BANANA CONNECTION —AGAIN

by Nikolas Kozloff, Señor Chichero When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana. Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company… Read moreHONDURAS: THE BANANA CONNECTION —AGAIN

OTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP?

U.S. Right Mobilizes to Support Putsch by Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report It’s a sign of hope that no nation on earth has yet recognized the de facto regime that took power in Honduras June 28, when the military… Read moreOTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP?

HONDURAS: IT’S NOT ABOUT ZELAYA

by David L. Wilson, MRZine Manuel “Mel” Zelaya is a rancher and business owner who wears large cowboy hats and, in November 2005, was elected president of Honduras, an impoverished Central American country with a population of 7.5 million. On… Read moreHONDURAS: IT’S NOT ABOUT ZELAYA

HONDURAS: THE RESISTANCE SO FAR

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Just two weeks after Iran exploded into protests over contested elections, scenes of angry demonstrators clashing with security forces were repeated in the Central American republic of Honduras. The National Congress accuses President… Read moreHONDURAS: THE RESISTANCE SO FAR

NEW BOOK SURVEYS OAXACA UPRISING TO TEACH REBELLION

Book Review: TEACHING REBELLION Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca by Diana Denham and the CASA Collective PM Press, 2009 by Hans Bennett “I am 77 years old. I have two children, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren… My children… Read moreNEW BOOK SURVEYS OAXACA UPRISING TO TEACH REBELLION