“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO
Continue ReadingEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO
Continue ReadingEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINOby Rene Wadlow On Sept. 29, 97% of those voting in the Algerian referendum on Peace and Reconciliation voted yes for peace and reconciliation. Was this a necessary act of popular catharsis after some 13 years of violence? Or was… Read moreALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?
Continue ReadingALGERIA: WILL REFERENDUM WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN?Berber Boycott in Restive Region Signals Continued Struggle by Zighen Aym After more 200,000 people dead, 10,000 missing and over 100,000 displaced, the North African country of Algeria held a referendum vote on a reconciliation peace plan on Sept. 29,… Read moreALGERIA’S AMNESTY AND THE KABYLIA QUESTION
Continue ReadingALGERIA’S AMNESTY AND THE KABYLIA QUESTIONU.S. State Terrorism in Puerto Rico by Yeidy Rosa While his annually recorded speech was being broadcast to radios throughout the island commemorating the 137th anniversary of Puerto Rico’s September 23 Grito de Lares revolt against Spanish colonial rule, Filiberto… Read moreFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION?
Continue ReadingFILIBERTO OJEDA RIOS: TARGETED ASSASSINATION?Pollution, Apartheid and Protest in Occupied Palestine by Ethan Ganor From the Jordan River Valley and Dead Sea Basin, through the central highlands comprising the West Bank’s populated core to the fertile western hills bordering Israel, recent reports from occupied… Read moreHOLY LAND OR LIVING HELL?
Continue ReadingHOLY LAND OR LIVING HELL?from Weekly News Update on the Americas Shortly before flying to his Texas ranch for a month-long vacation, on Aug. 2 US President George W. Bush signed the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) into law, following a 19-month… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: BUSH SIGNS CAFTA; NAVAL MANEUVERS HELD
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: BUSH SIGNS CAFTA; NAVAL MANEUVERS HELDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas EMBERA INDIGENOUS MASSACRED On Aug. 17, hooded assailants armed with assault rifles arrived at the home of an indigenous Embera Chami family in the community of Ubarba, in the Nuestra Senora Candelaria de… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS MASSACRED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, CAMPESINOS MASSACREDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas HUANCABAMBA: TWO DEAD AT MINING CAMP In the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 1, some 3,000 to 6,000 residents of campesino communities in northern Peru seized control of the Henry Hills mining camp, owned… Read morePERU: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY MINE CAMPS, CABINET RESIGNS
Continue ReadingPERU: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY MINE CAMPS, CABINET RESIGNSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 22, members of Argentina’s Union of Unemployed Workers (UTD) led by “Pepino” Fernandez occupied a gas plant belonging to the companies Plus Petrol and Panamerican in General Mosconi, near the Bolivian… Read moreARGENTINA: PROTESTS HIT OIL SECTOR
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: PROTESTS HIT OIL SECTORfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 4, residents of the southern Bolivian city of Camiri, in Santa Cruz department, lifted their general strike after Hydrocarbons Minister Jaime Dunn signed an agreement promising to speed up the re-establishment… Read moreBOLIVIA: REGIONAL STRIKE OVER OIL DEAL
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: REGIONAL STRIKE OVER OIL DEALfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 15, residents of the Amazon provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana in northern Ecuador began an open-ended civic strike–backed by local elected officials–to demand higher wages, more jobs and the construction of… Read moreECUADOR: STRIKE HALTS AMAZON OIL PRODUCTION
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