Obama’s Southwest Challenge: “Tear It Down” by Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur As the Bush Administration enters its final weeks, pressure is building to halt construction of the Department of Homeland Security’s unfinished US-Mexico border wall. The controversial project, which was… Read moreWILL THE BORDER WALL STAND?
Continue ReadingWILL THE BORDER WALL STAND?US Military Training and Texas Guns Fuel Mexico’s Narco Wars by Peter Gorman, Fort Worth Weekly The sun is shining on the low rolling hills covered in Texas short grass and dotted with cattle along the southern end of I-35,… Read moreBORDER UNDER SIEGE
Continue ReadingBORDER UNDER SIEGENeo-Nazis Prepare Pogroms Ten Years After Revolution by Gwendolyn Albert, World War 4 Report January 2009 marks a handover of power not only in the United States, but also in the European Union. As part of the rotating presidency of… Read moreCZECH REPUBLIC FROM VELVET TO VIOLENT
Continue ReadingCZECH REPUBLIC FROM VELVET TO VIOLENTby Frank Morales, The Shadow While visiting New York City last spring, Pope Benedict surely visited the offices of his “personal prelature”—the Opus Dei organization. Most certainly, he marveled at their spanking new 17-story national headquarters, an imposing red brick… Read moreOPUS DEI: THE VATICAN-PENTAGON CONNECTION
Continue ReadingOPUS DEI: THE VATICAN-PENTAGON CONNECTION
The Darién Gap, a dangerous jungle route used by a growing number of migrants trying to reach the United States from South America, has become even deadlier, according to Panama's Forensic Sciences Institute. It reports over 50 migrant deaths to date in 2021, although the figure is believed to be far higher. Towns on the Colombian side of the border are swelling with migrants waiting to cross the Gap—mostly Haitians, Cubans and Venezuelans, but some from as far as Afghanistan and Burkina Faso. Colombian authorities say 67,000 migrants have passed through the border zone so far this year, more than 15 times the number in 2020. Former paramilitaries operating in the area are now preying on the migrants, who face rape, armed violence and extortion. (Photo: David González/TNH)
James Bond Saves Evo Morales from the CIA! by Juan Cole, Informed Comment The reviews of director Marc Forster’s Quantum of Solace have complained about the film’s hectic pace (reminiscent of Doug Liman’s and Paul Greengrass’s Bourne thrillers), about the… Read moreA QUANTUM OF ANTI-IMPERIALISM
Continue ReadingA QUANTUM OF ANTI-IMPERIALISMby William Wharton, CounterHegemonic Yes, “nationalize the banks!”—the thoughtless slogan advanced by any number of ultra-left groups engaged in gross public displays of political masturbation. Yet, like the old saying goes, even a broken clock is correct twice a day…. Read moreNATIONALIZE THE BANKS!
Continue ReadingNATIONALIZE THE BANKS!by Nikolas Kozloff, NACLA News For Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution, it’s both the best and worst of times. Ever since the firebrand politician came to power in 1998, Chávez has campaigned against US-style free trade economic policies… Read moreCHAVEZ FACING GEOPOLITICAL NADIR?
Continue ReadingCHAVEZ FACING GEOPOLITICAL NADIR?
Sudan is at the brink of a nationwide fuel shortage as Beja ethnic protesters in the country's east have for weeks blocked roads and oil arteries—including the critical pipeline that pumps crude from South Sudan to the Port Sudan terminal on the Red Sea, and a second that brings imported petroleum products from the terminal into the country. The High Council of Beja Nazirs & Independent Chieftains is demanding cancellation of the 2020 Juba Peace Agreement, asserting that the Beja people were excluded from the negotiations. Shortages of fuel have sparked large counter-protests against the blockades. (Photo via Dabanga)
A California Town Beats Back the Water Cartel by Rachel Aronowitz, Terrain, Berkeley, CA After a nearly six-year fight to acquire its water system from the German-owned corporate energy behemoth, RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG), residents of Felton, Calif., prevailed in… Read moreFELTON FLOWS ON
Continue ReadingFELTON FLOWS ONConverging Conflicts in Northeast India by Nava Thakuria, World War 4 Report Northeast India is no stranger to conflicts. Killing and explosions have almost become the order of the day for the 50 million people of the region, which is… Read moreWHO IS BEHIND THE ASSAM TERROR?
Continue ReadingWHO IS BEHIND THE ASSAM TERROR?Fort Worth Communities Confront Corporate Colonization by Peter Gorman, Fort Worth Weekly When a natural gas pipeline blew outside the little town of Stairtown, Tex., Aug. 28, 2008, fire officials more than 10 miles from the blast site says they… Read moreTHE NEW TEXAS GAS WAR
Continue ReadingTHE NEW TEXAS GAS WAR
