Against “Leftist” Revisionism on the Srebrenica Massacre by Bill Weinberg With all of the current horrors in the headlines, the world has paid little note to the tenth anniversary of the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 at the eastern Bosnian… Read moreWHY DOES Z MAGAZINE SUPPORT GENOCIDE?
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In Episode 89 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes heart at the national uprising in El Salvador against the imposition of Bitcoin as legal tender, and draws the connection to his own incessant struggles against corporate cyber-overlords Verizon—as well as the to the automated drone terror in Afghanistan. As we are distracted (or, at any rate, should be distracted) by the more obviously pressing issues such as police brutality and climate destabilization, the digitization of every sphere of human activity lurches forward at a terrifying pace—with zero resistance. Until now. The heroic protesters in El Salvador have launched the long overdue revolution of everyday life. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. (Photo via Twitter)
UN Troops Chase Down Child Soldiers in Congo’s Forgotten War; Hutu Militias as Pawn in Great Game for Central Africa’s Mineral Wealth by keith harmon snow NINDJA, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) — For some hill-tribe peasants in the remote… Read moreOPERATION IRON FIST
Continue ReadingOPERATION IRON FISTWorkers Defend “Recovered Factories” by Yeidy Rosa When Luis Zanon decided to abandon the ceramic factory in Argentina’s southern province of Neuquen, over which his family had held legal ownership since 1984, the factory’s debt was more than $170 million…. Read moreTHE NEW RESISTANCE IN ARGENTINA
Continue ReadingTHE NEW RESISTANCE IN ARGENTINAAn Algerian Immigrant’s Kafkaesque Journey in Post-9-11 America by Bill Weinberg Still Moments A Story About Faded Dreams & Forbidden Pictures Zighen Aym ZAWP, POB 411, Mossville, IL 61552-411 Of all the nightmares which have befallen immigrants from the Islamic… Read morePARANOIA ON ROUTE 66
Continue ReadingPARANOIA ON ROUTE 66from Weekly News Update on the Americas DR-CAFTA SHOWDOWN NEARS On June 30 the US Senate voted 54-45 to approve the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a pact largely eliminating tariffs on about $32 billion in annual trade… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ENDGAME LOOMS
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: CAFTA ENDGAME LOOMSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 29 in Tocache province, in the Huallaga valley of San Martin in north central Peru, at least 3,500 campesino coca growers (cocaleros) armed with sticks surrounded a group of 230 police… Read morePERU: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPS
Continue ReadingPERU: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas PROTESTS TOPPLE PREZ–AGAIN Indigenous and campesino protests that had shaken Bolivia since May 16 continued on June 6 around demands for the nationalization of natural gas resources and the seating of a constitutional… Read moreBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT OUSTED AGAIN
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT OUSTED AGAINYeah, Bush Lied–So What Do We Do About It? by Bill Weinberg Two years and counting after the invasion, a year after the official transfer to Iraqi “sovereignty,” and two months after the formation of an elected government, Iraq remains… Read moreIRAQ: MEMOGATE AND THE COMFORTS OF VINDICATION
Continue ReadingIRAQ: MEMOGATE AND THE COMFORTS OF VINDICATIONMichel Aoun and the Sectarian Shadow by Bilal El-Amine The last round of the staggered parliamentary elections ended with a bang June 26 in the north of Lebanon. Most of the final results were predictable: the Harriri-Jumblatt alliance will control… Read moreLEBANON’S POST-ELECTORAL CROSSROADS
Continue ReadingLEBANON’S POST-ELECTORAL CROSSROADSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas GUATEMALA: CAMPESINO LEADER KIDNAPPED An unidentified group of armed men intercepted and abducted Maria Antonieta Carrillo, a local leader of Guatemala’s Campesino Unity Committee (CUC), on May 28 in the village of La… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: TERROR TARGETS ANTI-CAFTA RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: TERROR TARGETS ANTI-CAFTA RESISTANCEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas AMNESTY LAW PASSES On June 20, the last day of ordinary sessions for the Colombian Congress, the Senate approved the “Justice and Peace” law, which paves the way for a “demobilization” and amnesty… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY AMNESTY PASSES, NEW AID PENDING
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