from Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 3, environmentalists in the cities of Gualeguaychu and Colon in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Rios blocked the border bridges leading to Uruguay to protest continuing efforts to build a… Read moreURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
Continue ReadingURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITInterventionist Legacy Behind Zulia Separatist Movement by Nikolas Kozloff, WW4 REPORT With the Venezuelan presidential election fast approaching on December 3, political tensions have reached a new high. Recently, the Venezuelan Attorney General initiated an investigation to determine whether a… Read moreVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONE
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 3, environmentalists in the cities of Gualeguaychu and Colon in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Rios blocked the border bridges leading to Uruguay to protest continuing efforts to build a… Read moreURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
Continue ReadingURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: Nicaragua: Ortega wins WIth 91.6% of the ballots counted from Nicaragua’s Nov. 5 elections, former president Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) won the presidency with 38.07%, compared to 29%… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: SANDINISTAS TAKE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENCY, GUATEMELAN GENERALS ORDERED ARRESTED
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: SANDINISTAS TAKE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENCY, GUATEMELAN GENERALS ORDERED ARRESTEDInternational Conscientious Objectors Meet in Bogota by Yeidy Rosa, War Resisters League From July 18-20, 2006, Colombia’s National Assembly of Conscientious Objectors, (Asamblea Nacional de Objetoras y Objetores de Conciencia de Colombia-ANOOC), held its International Meeting in Solidarity with Conscientious… Read moreDEMILITARIZING LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingDEMILITARIZING LATIN AMERICAStill Waiting for Public Control of Hydrocarbons by Gretchen Gordon, Upside Down World On May 1, the day the Bolivian government announced the “nationalization” of the country’s vast oil and gas reserves, I went out to witness the symbolic takeover… Read moreBOLIVIA: WHITHER NATIONALIZATION?
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: WHITHER NATIONALIZATION?Simón Trinidad Prosecution as Terror War Test Case by Paul Wolf, WW4 REPORT Ricardo Palmera, a Colombian guerrilla better known as Simón Trinidad, is on trial in Washington D.C. for hostage-taking and related charges of conspiracy, aiding and abetting, and… Read moreTHE FARC ON TRIAL
Continue ReadingTHE FARC ON TRIAL2007 Defense Authorization Act Guts Posse Comitatus by Frank Morales, WW4 REPORT In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), “will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial… Read moreBUSH MOVES TOWARD MARTIAL LAW
Continue ReadingBUSH MOVES TOWARD MARTIAL LAWThe Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis Deconstructed by William X, WW4 REPORT The lengthy essay entitled “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” first appeared in the London Review of Books in March 2006, against a backdrop of fast-escalating carnage in Iraq and… Read moreTHE ISRAEL LOBBY AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY
Continue ReadingTHE ISRAEL LOBBY AND GLOBAL HEGEMONYCampesino Movement Meets the New Boss? by April Howard, Upside Down World A conflict between the Bolivian military and coca growers led to the death of two coca growers on the morning of September 29. The confrontation marks an unanticipated… Read moreBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: COCA WARS CONTINUECentral America’s Last Stand Against CAFTA from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23 and 24, an estimated 75,000 Costa Ricans from all sectors of society took part in a mobilization against the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade… Read moreTRADE PROTESTS ROCK COSTA RICA
Continue ReadingTRADE PROTESTS ROCK COSTA RICAExploiting African Genocide for Propaganda by Ned Goldstein, WW4 REPORT The death toll in the Darfur region of western Sudan has reached between 200,000 and 400,000 as of Oct. 1, with 2.5 million displaced. The UN warns that the death… Read moreSAVE DARFUR: ZIONIST CONSPIRACY?
Continue ReadingSAVE DARFUR: ZIONIST CONSPIRACY?
