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MEXICO’S TWO PRESIDENTS

Revolution or Populist Theater? by Dan La Botz, Mexican Labor News & Analysis Two months after Mexico’s contested July 2 presidential elections, the Federal Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés… Read moreMEXICO’S TWO PRESIDENTS

CENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDERED

from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: GARIFUNA WOMAN MURDERED On the evening of Aug. 6, a group of masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles forced 19-year-old Mirna Isabel Santos Thomas from her home in the Honduran Garifuna… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDERED

“BIONOIA” Part 5

Biopreparat: Biowar on Steroids, Soviet-Style by Mark Sanborne Earlier installments in this series focused primarily on the US role in secretly researching, developing, and disseminating biological warfare agents through both tests and accidental releases, as well as deliberate attacks on… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 5

PERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITY

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 16, members of the Shipiba indigenous community of Canaan de Cashiyacu seized nine oil wells operated by the Maple Gas Corporation in Maquia district, Ucayali province, in the Peruvian Amazon region… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITY

VENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND

from Weekly News Update on the Americas On July 29, thousands of Venezuelan campesinos and supporters marched in the city of San Felipe, capital of Yaracuy state, to demand land reform and protest attacks on campesino leaders. The March for… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND

COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATES

from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: NASA TAKE BACK THE LAND On Aug. 4, a group of more than 500 organized indigenous Colombians from the municipalities of Jambalo, Caloto, Toribio and Caldono in Cauca department began occupying the… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATES

BOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINE

from Weekly News Update on the Americas During the week of Aug. 14, some 500 indigenous Guarani people began an occupation at the Parapeti station of the Yacuiba-Rio Grande gas pipeline (GASYRG) near Charagua, in the eastern Bolivian department of… Read moreBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINE

VENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION

Urban Gardening and Self-Sufficiency in Caracas by April M. Howard, Toward Freedom In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Norali Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of… Read moreVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION

THE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIA

by Stefan Baskerville, Diplo Rusty buses lined the wide road, their roofs packed with men, sitting, crouching and lying down. Families sat and stood in the back of old pick-up trucks. The people arrived in droves, by truck, bus or… Read moreTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIA

9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBOR

Aw Shut Up Already, Will Ya? by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT After the 1898 explosion of the battleship Maine, the 1933 Reichstag Fire, the 1939 bogus Polish “invasion” of Germany, and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, it is irresponsible… Read more9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBOR

LEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME

by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT There have been signs over the past three years, as the debacle in Iraq has gone from bad to worse, that the so-called “neo-cons”—the Pentagon-connected policy wonks with traditional ties to the Israeli right and… Read moreLEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME

SOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUT

by Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly On June 5, militia aligned with the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) declared victory in their struggle to control Mogadishu, capital of the east African country of Somalia. The militia had routed the grossly misnamed… Read moreSOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUT