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BUSH MOVES TOWARD MARTIAL LAW

2007 Defense Authorization Act Guts Posse Comitatus by Frank Morales, WW4 REPORT In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), “will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial… Read moreBUSH MOVES TOWARD MARTIAL LAW

THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY

The Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis Deconstructed by William X, WW4 REPORT The lengthy essay entitled “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” first appeared in the London Review of Books in March 2006, against a backdrop of fast-escalating carnage in Iraq and… Read moreTHE ISRAEL LOBBY AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY

BOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUE

Campesino Movement Meets the New Boss? by April Howard, Upside Down World A conflict between the Bolivian military and coca growers led to the death of two coca growers on the morning of September 29. The confrontation marks an unanticipated… Read moreBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUE

TRADE PROTESTS ROCK COSTA RICA

Central America’s Last Stand Against CAFTA from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23 and 24, an estimated 75,000 Costa Ricans from all sectors of society took part in a mobilization against the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade… Read moreTRADE PROTESTS ROCK COSTA RICA

SAVE DARFUR: ZIONIST CONSPIRACY?

Exploiting African Genocide for Propaganda by Ned Goldstein, WW4 REPORT The death toll in the Darfur region of western Sudan has reached between 200,000 and 400,000 as of Oct. 1, with 2.5 million displaced. The UN warns that the death… Read moreSAVE DARFUR: ZIONIST CONSPIRACY?

IRAQ FOR NITWITS

The Primer George Bush Should Have Read! Book Review: Understanding Iraq by William R. Polk Harper Perennial, 2005 by Vilosh Vinograd What are we to make of a book subtitled “The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, From Genghis Khan’s Mongols… Read moreIRAQ FOR NITWITS

ARGENTINA: RULING IN DIRTY WAR “GENOCIDE”

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On the evening of Sept. 19, in front of an overflow crowd of public spectators, the No. 1 Federal Oral Court in the Argentine city of La Plata, Buenos Aires province, sentenced former… Read moreARGENTINA: RULING IN DIRTY WAR “GENOCIDE”

PERU: POLICE ATTACK COCALEROS

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 11, Peruvian police agents entered the community of Sion, San Martin department, in the Alto Huallaga region, and physically attacked a group of campesino coca growers (cocaleros). The agents fired tear… Read morePERU: POLICE ATTACK COCALEROS

BOLIVIA: CHAOS IN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

from Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early hours of Sept. 1, a fight broke out in Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly in the Gran Mariscal theater in the city of Sucre. The Assembly was elected on July 2 and… Read moreBOLIVIA: CHAOS IN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

COLOMBIA: GOLD MINING LINKED TO STATE TERROR

from Weekly News Update on the Americas BOLIVAR: ARMY KILLS MINING UNION LEADER On Sept. 19 troops from the Colombian National Army’s Nueva Granada Anti-Aircraft Battalion murdered campesino leader and [independent, small-scale] mining union activist Alejandro Uribe in a rural… Read moreCOLOMBIA: GOLD MINING LINKED TO STATE TERROR

ECUADOR: CAMPESINO RESISTANCE TO ASCENDANT COPPER

Canadian Mining Project Tainted by Rights Abuses by Cyril Mychalejko, Upside Down World “Welcome to Ascendant Copper, a socially responsible corporate citizen,” states the Canadian mining company’s website. Ascendant also boasts of being a member of the UN Global Compact…. Read moreECUADOR: CAMPESINO RESISTANCE TO ASCENDANT COPPER

FOR THE “TOTAL TRANSFORMATION” OF ECUADOR

An Interview with Pachakutik Presidential Candidate Luis Maca by Rune Geertsen, Upside Down World The powerful Ecuadorian indigenous movement faces one of its biggest challenges yet in the October 15th presidential elections—for the first time they are presenting their own… Read moreFOR THE “TOTAL TRANSFORMATION” OF ECUADOR