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
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATESfrom 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
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINEThe “Big Wedding” and Its Sinister Offspring Book Review: The Big Wedding: 9-11, The Whistle Blowers and the Cover-Up by Sander Hicks VoxPop, New York, 2005 by A. Kronstadt, The Shadow In the months after the horrific events of September… Read moreJIHAD, INTELLIGENCE & 9-11
Continue ReadingJIHAD, INTELLIGENCE & 9-11Urban 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
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTIONby 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
Continue ReadingTHE NEW AGRARIAN REFORM IN BOLIVIAAw 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
Continue Reading9-11 AND THE NEW PEARL HARBORby 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
Continue ReadingSOMALIA: WASHINGTON’S WARLORDS LOSE OUTby Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT It’s a neat little ironic juxtaposition of headlines that the July 5 passing of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay—while awaiting sentencing on securities fraud and a host of related charges—came just days before several neighborhoods… Read moreTHE QUEENS BLACKOUTS: KENNETH LAY’S REVENGE?
Continue ReadingTHE QUEENS BLACKOUTS: KENNETH LAY’S REVENGE?A Class Analysis by George Caffentzis, Metamute And my coyote, Virgil, said to him when he refused to take me, a living man, over the Acheron to Hell, “Charon, do not be angry, but this undocumented passage has been decided… Read moreTHE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTION
Continue ReadingTHE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTIONfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of civilians have been displaced and many more are trapped by fighting between Colombian government forces and leftist rebels in the southwestern department of Narino, bordering Ecuador, and in the northwestern Pacific… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLED
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 22,000 residents of the northeastern Ecuadoran province of Orellana began a “progressive strike” on June 28 to protest environmental damage by the French oil company Perenco and repression by the military. The… Read moreECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early morning of June 28 Peru’s Congress voted 79-14 with six abstentions to ratify the Andean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA, known locally as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC), a trade… Read morePERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST
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