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“BIONOIA”

Did U.S. Use Germ Warfare Against DC Peace March? Or Are We Just Being Bionoid…? by Mark Sanborne “Bionoia… Catch It!” There’s something uniquely scary about germs. Along with making us sick, they’re the things that put the “B” in… Read more“BIONOIA”

AVIAN FASCISM

The Ecology of Pandemic and the Impending Bio-Police State by Michael I. Niman If there’s any good to come out of the Gulf Coast tragedy, it’s that Katrina is a harbinger warning of what the Bush junta has in store… Read moreAVIAN FASCISM

PARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEAD

Is the Real Enemy Islamic Terrorism, or Bolivia’s Indigenous Revolution? by Benjamin Dangl The recent shift to the left among Latin American governments has been a cause for concern in the Bush administration. The White House has tried in vain… Read morePARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEAD

WAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMO

Detainees Launch Non-Violent Resistance Behind Pentagon’s Iron Veil by Tanya Theriault The veil of secrecy at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when tugged at, continues to reveal the inhumane treatment of detainees held there. Since January 2002,… Read moreWAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMO

THE POLITICS OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

And the Intractable Dilemma of International ANSWER by Bill Weinberg The Sept. 24 anti-war protest in Washington DC was hailed as a revival of a movement which had become somewhat moribund even as the quagmire in Iraq deepens with horrifying… Read moreTHE POLITICS OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT

CENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES

from Weekly News Update on the Americas DEADLY HURRICANE HITS More than a thousand people are feared dead in flooding and mudslides in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas as a result… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES

ARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN

from Weekly News Update on the Americas PATAGONIA, EL CHACO: CAMPESINOS UNDER ATTACK On Sept. 15, police agents in the southern Argentine province of Chubut nearly beat to death campesino Simforoso Jaramillo, according to the Front of Mapuche and Campesino… Read moreARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN

BOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 29, at least 5,000 Bolivian teachers staged a national strike and marched in La Paz to protest what they call a “virtual privatization” of education in Bolivia: the handing over of… Read moreBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX

BOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX

VENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS

from Weekly News Update on the Americas ZULIA: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATTACKED On Sept. 15, a group of 15 heavily armed men in olive green military uniforms arrived in two pickup trucks at the Yukpa and Wayuu indigenous campesino community of… Read moreVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS

COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR

from Weekly News Update on the Americas INDIGENOUS HOLD NATIONWIDE “MINGA,” TWO DIE On Oct. 10, tens of thousands of Colombian indigenous people began marching to various regional capitals in a coordinated Minga (community mobilization) to demand indigenous rights, protest… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR

PERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 30, residents of the districts of Atalaya, Sepahua and Tahuania in the Peruvian Amazon held a 24-hour strike protesting the contamination of the region’s rivers by the Camisea natural gas project…. Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT