by Weekly News Update on the Americas FREE TRADE PACT PROTESTED The seventh round of negotiations for a "free trade treaty" (TLC) between the US, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador began on Feb. 7 in the Colombian Caribbean port city of… Read moreCOLOMBIA: ANTI-FTAA PROTESTS, INDIGENOUS UNDER ATTACK
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: ANTI-FTAA PROTESTS, INDIGENOUS UNDER ATTACKWe Kill Journalists, Don’t We? by Michael I. Niman"There is not one of you who dare to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for… Read moreTRUTH, DEATH AND MEDIA IN IRAQ
Continue ReadingTRUTH, DEATH AND MEDIA IN IRAQPeasant Pacifist Leader and Family Killed by Army at San Jose de Apartadoby Virginia McGlone Less than a month away from the eighth anniversary of the founding of thePeace Community of San Jose de Apartado, in Colombia’s violence-tornAntioquia department, a… Read moreCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITY
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITYby Weekly News Update on the Americas COCALEROS BLOCK ROADSOn Feb. 17, campesino coca growers (cocaleros) in the Peruvian district ofTocache, in the Huallaga valley in San Martin region, began an open-endedstrike to protest the recent aerial spraying of pesticides… Read morePERU: COCALEROS PROTEST SPRAYING, SHINING PATH ATTACKS
Continue ReadingPERU: COCALEROS PROTEST SPRAYING, SHINING PATH ATTACKSby Weekly News Update on the Americas EDITOR’S NOTE: As we go to press March 7, Bolivia’s President Carlos Mesa has handed in his resignation to the country’s congress, citing ongoing anti-government protests. Mesa was caught between leftist protesters demanding… Read moreBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID GROWING UNREST
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID GROWING UNRESTby Eric Stoner "He may be a son of a bitch," a U.S. president is said to have commentedabout one brutal dictator or another, "but he’s our son of a bitch." Thefact that on the worldwide web the line is… Read moreISLAM KARIMOV: UZBEKISTAN DICTATOR, U.S. ALLY
Continue ReadingISLAM KARIMOV: UZBEKISTAN DICTATOR, U.S. ALLYBush Charts New Generation of Warheads by Chesley Hicks Despite the Cold War’s conclusion 15 years ago, the United States’ beingparty to several anti-nuclear proliferation treaties, and President Bush’sstrident commands for the cessation of all nuclear weapons programs in theMiddle… Read moreNUCLEAR AGENDA 2005
Continue ReadingNUCLEAR AGENDA 2005Peasant Pacifist Leader and Family Killed by Army at San Jose de Apartado by Virginia McGlone Less than a month away from the eighth anniversary of the founding of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, in Colombia’s violence-torn… Read moreCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITY
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: MASSACRE AT PEACE COMMUNITYby Bill Weinberg Iraq’s elections–held in defiance of threats from guerillas against votersand authorities alike–have predictably been hailed as a victory fordemocracy. "The people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world ishearing the voice of freedom from… Read moreIS THERE A “THIRD ALTERNATIVE” IN IRAQ?
Continue ReadingIS THERE A “THIRD ALTERNATIVE” IN IRAQ?Indigenous Cultures "Wiped Off the Map" as Governments Exploit the Disasterby Sarah Robbins On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked unimaginable havoc, leaving devastation in its wake and a still-climbing death toll that’s already topped 160,000. But world… Read moreTHE TSUNAMI’S HIDDEN CASUALTIES
Continue ReadingTHE TSUNAMI’S HIDDEN CASUALTIESWith all eyes on the troops in Iraq, their families—a huge and growing segment of the population—are suffering largely in media silence by Peter Gorman Lynn Jeffries is a single mother from Lubbock, Texas, whose son Nathan was deployed to… Read moreTHE WAR’S TOLL AT HOME
Continue ReadingTHE WAR’S TOLL AT HOMEPipeline Politics Behind "Orange Revolution" by Raven Healing While blogs and alternative media in the US were still debating whether or not Bush had actually won the elections, representatives of the Bush administration were criticizing the accuracy of the presidential… Read moreOIL, OLIGARCHS AND THE UKRAINE CRISIS
Continue ReadingOIL, OLIGARCHS AND THE UKRAINE CRISIS
