The Ecology of Pandemic and the Impending Bio-Police State by Michael I. Niman If there’s any good to come out of the Gulf Coast tragedy, it’s that Katrina is a harbinger warning of what the Bush junta has in store… Read moreAVIAN FASCISM
Continue ReadingAVIAN FASCISMIs the Real Enemy Islamic Terrorism, or Bolivia’s Indigenous Revolution? by Benjamin Dangl The recent shift to the left among Latin American governments has been a cause for concern in the Bush administration. The White House has tried in vain… Read morePARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEAD
Continue ReadingPARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEADDetainees Launch Non-Violent Resistance Behind Pentagon’s Iron Veil by Tanya Theriault The veil of secrecy at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when tugged at, continues to reveal the inhumane treatment of detainees held there. Since January 2002,… Read moreWAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMO
Continue ReadingWAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMOBOOK REVIEW Imperial Overstretch: George W Bush and the Hubris of Empire By Roger Burbach and Jim Tarbell Zed Books, London, 2004 by Daniel Leal Diaz In the optimistically-entitled Imperial Overstretch, Burbach and Tarbell credit the contemporary United States, “an… Read moreBUSH’S “OVERSTRETCH” PROBLEM—AND OURS
Continue ReadingBUSH’S “OVERSTRETCH” PROBLEM—AND OURSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas DEADLY HURRICANE HITS More than a thousand people are feared dead in flooding and mudslides in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas as a result… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCES
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: HURRICANE HITS; CAFTA ADVANCESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas PATAGONIA, EL CHACO: CAMPESINOS UNDER ATTACK On Sept. 15, police agents in the southern Argentine province of Chubut nearly beat to death campesino Simforoso Jaramillo, according to the Front of Mapuche and Campesino… Read moreARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WIN
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: CAMPESINOS ATTACKED, OIL WORKERS WINfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 29, at least 5,000 Bolivian teachers staged a national strike and marched in La Paz to protest what they call a “virtual privatization” of education in Bolivia: the handing over of… Read moreBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAXfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 29, at least 5,000 Bolivian teachers staged a national strike and marched in La Paz to protest what they call a “virtual privatization” of education in Bolivia: the handing over of… Read moreBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAX
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: MORE PROTESTS OVER GAS TAXfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas ZULIA: INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ATTACKED On Sept. 15, a group of 15 heavily armed men in olive green military uniforms arrived in two pickup trucks at the Yukpa and Wayuu indigenous campesino community of… Read moreVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: PARAMILITARIES ATTACK INDIGENOUSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas INDIGENOUS HOLD NATIONWIDE “MINGA,” TWO DIE On Oct. 10, tens of thousands of Colombian indigenous people began marching to various regional capitals in a coordinated Minga (community mobilization) to demand indigenous rights, protest… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERROR
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS MOBILIZE—DESPITE STATE TERRORfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 30, residents of the districts of Atalaya, Sepahua and Tahuania in the Peruvian Amazon held a 24-hour strike protesting the contamination of the region’s rivers by the Camisea natural gas project…. Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS BLOCK CAMISEA GAS PROJECT“Greater Kurdistan” Ambitions Could Spark Regional War by Sarkis Pogossian It is now the Sunni insurgency in central and western Iraq that is drawing blood and media attention in Iraq, but the situation in the northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan,… Read moreEASTERN ANATOLIA: IRAQ’S NEXT DOMINO
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