from Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of Paraguayan campesinos continued to occupy estates and block roads during the week of July 17 to demand that the government of President Nicanor Duarte Frutos address the problems they face. The… Read morePARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?
Continue ReadingPARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?from Weekly News Update on the Americas GUATEMALA: TRADE PROTESTERS SEIZE ESTATES The Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) went into effect in Guatemala on July 1 amid protests against the US-sponsored pact, which seeks to bring Costa Rica,… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS IN
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS INSouth American “Infrastructure Integration” for Free Trade by Raul Zibechi The project for Integration of South American Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA, by its initials in Spanish), is swiftly but silently moving forward. IIRSA is the most ambitious and encompassing plan to… Read moreIIRSA: THE FTAA’S HANDMAIDEN
Continue ReadingIIRSA: THE FTAA’S HANDMAIDENNorth Korea & Cuba Face the Post-Petrol Future by Dale Jiajun Wen That peak oil is coming is no longer a question. It’s only a matter of when. The global food system we are familiar with depends crucially on cheap… Read morePEAK OIL PREVIEW:
Continue ReadingPEAK OIL PREVIEW:BOOK REVIEW: INSURGENT IRAQ: AL ZARQAWI AND THE NEW GENERATION by Loretta Napoloeoni Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005 by Chesley Hicks Published before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death, Insurgent Iraq, by Italian scholar-author Loretta Napoleoni, is an information-heavy treatise that… Read moreABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI: THE MAKING OF THE MYTH
Continue ReadingABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI: THE MAKING OF THE MYTHfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 8, Peruvian campesinos held a day of protest against the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known in the region as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC) which Peru’s government signed with the… Read morePERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADE
Continue ReadingPERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 200 Ecuadoran campesinos occupied the roads leading to the Coca-Payamino installation of the French oil company Perenco on the morning of June 19 to protest the company’s “indifference” to the environmental damage… Read moreECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 1, Colombian chief federal prosecutor Mario Iguaran announced that an army platoon had deliberately killed 10 agents from a US-trained anti-narcotics unit of the Judicial Police Department (DIJIN) on May 22… Read moreCOLOMBIA: SOLDIERS CHARGED IN MASSACRE
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: SOLDIERS CHARGED IN MASSACREfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 3, Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma signed decrees instituting a large-scale national agrarian reform program. In a ceremony in the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, Morales handed out the first… Read moreBOLIVIA: LAND REFORM DECREED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: LAND REFORM DECREEDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Thousands of workers from Costa Rica’s Social Security Institute, Electricity Institute, National Insurance Institute and other companies marched in San Jose on June 7 to oppose the US-sponsored Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS PROTEST CAFTA
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS PROTEST CAFTADengue in Cuba, West Nile in New York: When Mosquitoes Come Home to Roost by Mark Sanborne In previous installments in this series, we discussed the wartime use of infected fleas and lice to spread plague (definitely by Japan in… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 4
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 4The Paradoxes of Mainstreaming Esotericism by Mark Sanborne Dizzy from all the Decoding? Tired of endless yammering about Tom Hank’s hair? Ready to move on from the “Greatest Coverup in Human History”? Well, welcome to the cult, er, club. The… Read moreTHE DA VINCI CODE: DECODING THE PHENOMENON
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