Islamist Violence and State Legitimacy by Kanishk Tharoor, Madrid11.net In recent months, the specter of Islamist violence has grown across North Africa. After enduring a brutal decade-long civil war, Algeria has seen Salafist radicals regrouping under the ominous banner of… Read moreALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?
Continue ReadingALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?Czech Dissidents Stand Up Again—This Time to the Pentagon! by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT In violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the and commitments made in the year 2000 at the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty… Read moreRESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILES
Continue ReadingRESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILESHuman Rights and the Naxalite Insurgency by Suhas Chakma, Madrid11.net With the March 15 slaughter of fifty-five policemen by Naxalites (or Maoists) in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, India’s Maoist insurgency once again entered the international limelight. The local… Read moreINDIA AT WAR
Continue ReadingINDIA AT WARby Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus It was unexpected. At the Seventh World Social Forum (WSF), held in Nairobi, Kenya, in late January, the most controversial topic was not HIV-AIDS, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, or neoliberalism. The topic… Read moreCHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW DEBATE
Continue ReadingCHINA IN AFRICA: THE NEW DEBATEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: Costa Rican president Oscar Arias announced on April 13 that his government will hold a referendum on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a trade accord between the US and Costa… Read moreCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNED
Continue ReadingCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNEDby Mandeep Dhillon, Upside Down World The history of mining in Mexico is a long one. The riches of the Mexican sub-soil were a major motivation for Spanish colonizers and the mining industry is often accorded an important place in… Read moreMINING IN MEXICO: VIOLENCE MADE IN CANADA
Continue ReadingMINING IN MEXICO: VIOLENCE MADE IN CANADAby Marc Becker, Upside Down World Thousands of Indigenous peoples from 24 countries gathered in Guatemala on March 26 for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. After U.S. President George W. Bush visited the… Read moreCONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALA
Continue ReadingCONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: Guatemala: Three Salvadoran Reps Murdered; Accused Killers Follow Them to Grave Three Salvadoran legislative deputies to the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) were murdered along with their driver on the afternoon of Feb. 19… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOS
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: DEATH SQUADS FREELANCE FOR NARCOSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On March 24, two separate but nearly simultaneous marches were held in Buenos Aires to mark the anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 coup and remember the 30,000 people who were disappeared by the military… Read moreARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR AND HISTORICAL MEMORYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On March 19 the Cincinnati-based banana company Chiquita Brands International formally admitted that its wholly owned Colombian subsidiary Banadex paid a total $1.7 million to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY SCANDAL AND CORPORATE POWER
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY SCANDAL AND CORPORATE POWERReal Change on Anti-Woman “Hudood” Laws? by Abira Ashfaq, Peacework In November 2006, women in Pakistan and around the world celebrated the passage of the Women’s Protection Bill, a rare instance of positive legislative reform offering some relief from Pakistan’s… Read moreRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTAN
Continue ReadingRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTANIsrael and its Allies Instrument Social Disaster by Jennifer Bing-Canar and Adam Horowitz, Peacework 2006 marked yet another difficult year for residents of the Gaza Strip. In the words of John Ging, the Gaza-based director of the United Nations Relief… Read moreGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGE
Continue ReadingGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGE
