from Weekly News Update on the Americas On May 21, residents of the northern Ecuadoran provinces of Sucumbios and Orellana began an open-ended civic strike to demand improvements to roads, schools, housing and health care in the region, which borders… Read moreECUADOR: STRIKERS SEIZE OIL WELLS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: STRIKERS SEIZE OIL WELLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas HUALLAGA VALLEY: COCALEROS CLASH WITH COPS 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… Read morePERU: COCALEROS, PEASANT ECOLOGISTS STAGE STRIKES
Continue ReadingPERU: COCALEROS, PEASANT ECOLOGISTS STAGE STRIKESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas PREZ FAILS TO EASE PROTESTS Some 15,000 campesinos, students and other protesters filled the Plaza Murillo in La Paz on May 30 to demand nationalization of Bolivia’s natural gas resources and the seating… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS BILL PASSES, PROTESTS EXPLODE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: GAS BILL PASSES, PROTESTS EXPLODEBankruptcy, “Anti-Terror” Laws Make Americans Captive Wards of Credit Industry by Chesley Hicks “Bankruptcy should always be a last resort in our legal system. If someone does not pay his or her debts, the rest of society ends up paying… Read morePLASTIC TOTALITARIANISM
Continue ReadingPLASTIC TOTALITARIANISMPentagon Exploits Humanitarian Mission to Rebuild Military Ties by John M. Miller In the immediate aftermath of the massive tsunami that swept through the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, George W. Bush, safe on his Texas ranch, offered a paltry… Read moreINDONESIA: THE TSUNAMI’S DEADLY FALLOUT
Continue ReadingINDONESIA: THE TSUNAMI’S DEADLY FALLOUTUribe’s “Counter-Guerilla” Campaign Targets Indigenous Models for Demilitarization by Bill Weinberg The carnage in Iraq has pushed several other US military commitments from the headlines. Afghanistan, with 18,000 US troops, jumps to mind. But nearly forgotten is Colombia, where the… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PEACE INITIATIVES UNDER ATTACK
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PEACE INITIATIVES UNDER ATTACKEcologists Warn of Disaster as U.S. Sprays Glyphosate in Threatened National Parks by Daniel Leal and combined sources In the past few months, the people of Quibdo, capital city of the Colombian Pacific coast department of Choco, have observed daily… Read moreCOLOMBIA: CHEMICAL WARFARE EXPANDS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: CHEMICAL WARFARE EXPANDSA Father Waits for Justice as Deadly Accident Reveals Air-Interception Exercises A tragic air accident on Peru’s northern coastline in August of 2001 cost the lives of two exemplary pilots, one Peruvian and one American. It received little notice at… Read morePLAN COLOMBIA’S SECRET AIR FORCE PROGRAM IN PERU
Continue ReadingPLAN COLOMBIA’S SECRET AIR FORCE PROGRAM IN PERUMoral Imperative or “Regime Change” Strategy? by Wynde Priddy After two years of violence in western Sudan, in late April the African Union (AU) moved to triple its peacekeeping troops in Darfur to 7,700–and asked NATO for logistical support. NATO… Read moreDARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTION
Continue ReadingDARFUR: NATO PREPARES INTERVENTIONGlobal Activists Gather in New York to Revive Nuclear Disarmament Call by Sarah Ferguson Sometimes peace needs a good enemy. It was President Reagan who really jump-started the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s with his roughhouse talk about… Read moreBOMBS AWAY
Continue ReadingBOMBS AWAYIs the CIA Behind the Iraqi “Insurgents”—and Global Terrorism? by Frank Morales The requirement of an ever-escalating level of social violence to meet the political and economic needs of the insatiable “anti-terrorist complex” is the essence of the new US… Read moreTHE PROVOCATEUR STATE
Continue ReadingTHE PROVOCATEUR STATE(And Can the U.S. Anti-War Movement Help?) by Bill Weinberg The anti-war movement in the U.S. is at its lowest ebb since the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Two broad, mutually hostile tendencies have emerged: one increasingly supportive of the… Read moreCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
Continue ReadingCAN IRAQ AVOID CIVIL WAR?
