The Primer George Bush Should Have Read! Book Review: Understanding Iraq by William R. Polk Harper Perennial, 2005 by Vilosh Vinograd What are we to make of a book subtitled “The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, From Genghis Khan’s Mongols… Read moreIRAQ FOR NITWITS
Continue ReadingIRAQ FOR NITWITSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On the evening of Sept. 19, in front of an overflow crowd of public spectators, the No. 1 Federal Oral Court in the Argentine city of La Plata, Buenos Aires province, sentenced former… Read moreARGENTINA: RULING IN DIRTY WAR “GENOCIDE”
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: RULING IN DIRTY WAR “GENOCIDE”from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Sept. 11, Peruvian police agents entered the community of Sion, San Martin department, in the Alto Huallaga region, and physically attacked a group of campesino coca growers (cocaleros). The agents fired tear… Read morePERU: POLICE ATTACK COCALEROS
Continue ReadingPERU: POLICE ATTACK COCALEROSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas In the early hours of Sept. 1, a fight broke out in Bolivia’s Constituent Assembly in the Gran Mariscal theater in the city of Sucre. The Assembly was elected on July 2 and… Read moreBOLIVIA: CHAOS IN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: CHAOS IN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas BOLIVAR: ARMY KILLS MINING UNION LEADER On Sept. 19 troops from the Colombian National Army’s Nueva Granada Anti-Aircraft Battalion murdered campesino leader and [independent, small-scale] mining union activist Alejandro Uribe in a rural… Read moreCOLOMBIA: GOLD MINING LINKED TO STATE TERROR
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: GOLD MINING LINKED TO STATE TERRORCanadian Mining Project Tainted by Rights Abuses by Cyril Mychalejko, Upside Down World “Welcome to Ascendant Copper, a socially responsible corporate citizen,” states the Canadian mining company’s website. Ascendant also boasts of being a member of the UN Global Compact…. Read moreECUADOR: CAMPESINO RESISTANCE TO ASCENDANT COPPER
Continue ReadingECUADOR: CAMPESINO RESISTANCE TO ASCENDANT COPPERAn Interview with Pachakutik Presidential Candidate Luis Maca by Rune Geertsen, Upside Down World The powerful Ecuadorian indigenous movement faces one of its biggest challenges yet in the October 15th presidential elections—for the first time they are presenting their own… Read moreFOR THE “TOTAL TRANSFORMATION” OF ECUADOR
Continue ReadingFOR THE “TOTAL TRANSFORMATION” OF ECUADORRevolution or Populist Theater? by Dan La Botz, Mexican Labor News & Analysis Two months after Mexico’s contested July 2 presidential elections, the Federal Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés… Read moreMEXICO’S TWO PRESIDENTS
Continue ReadingMEXICO’S TWO PRESIDENTSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: GARIFUNA WOMAN MURDERED On the evening of Aug. 6, a group of masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles forced 19-year-old Mirna Isabel Santos Thomas from her home in the Honduran Garifuna… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDERED
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDEREDBiopreparat: Biowar on Steroids, Soviet-Style by Mark Sanborne Earlier installments in this series focused primarily on the US role in secretly researching, developing, and disseminating biological warfare agents through both tests and accidental releases, as well as deliberate attacks on… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 5
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 5from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 16, members of the Shipiba indigenous community of Canaan de Cashiyacu seized nine oil wells operated by the Maple Gas Corporation in Maquia district, Ucayali province, in the Peruvian Amazon region… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITY
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On July 29, thousands of Venezuelan campesinos and supporters marched in the city of San Felipe, capital of Yaracuy state, to demand land reform and protest attacks on campesino leaders. The March for… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND
