New Constitution Escalates Polarization by Ben Dangl, Upside Down World “Let’s go unblock the road, compañeros!” a man in an old baseball cap yells as he joins a group of people hauling rocks and tires from a central intersection in… Read moreFEAR AND LOATHING IN BOLIVIA
Continue ReadingFEAR AND LOATHING IN BOLIVIAMoribund National ID Act Revived by Spitzer-Chertoff Love Fest By A. Kronstadt, The Shadow Even here in sophisticated New York City where we are all supposed to know something and be savvy about politics, everyone thinks that there is a… Read moreORWELLIAN LIBERAL SPITZER SAYS “I DO” TO SURVEILLANCE STATE
Continue ReadingORWELLIAN LIBERAL SPITZER SAYS “I DO” TO SURVEILLANCE STATEToward a People’s Agenda for Climate Justice by Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom With all the fanfare that usually accompanies such gatherings, delegates to the recent UN climate talks on the Indonesian island of Bali returned to their home countries declaring… Read moreBETRAYAL AT BALI
Continue ReadingBETRAYAL AT BALIAn ominous Nov. 2 Jerusalem Post article on September’s apparent Israeli bombing raid on a Syrian nuclear facility uses ambiguous language (highlighted below): the planes “carried” nuclear weapons, and the site was “totally destroyed” by “one bomb”—but it is not… Read moreDid the US nuke Syria?
Sam Spade Meets Emiliano Zapata in Mexico’s Twilight Zone by Chesley Hicks, WW4 REPORT Book Review: The Uncomfortable Dead (What’s Missing is Missing): A Novel of Four Hands by Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Subcomandante Marcos Akashic Books, New York,… Read moreRADICAL NOIR
Continue ReadingRADICAL NOIRby Jason Wallach, Upside Down World After tens of thousands of Salvadorans marched against water privatization on Oct. 5th, the Legislative Assembly voted to advance a measure that would guarantee all Salvadorans the right to water access and ensure environmental… Read moreEL SALVADOR: MARCH FOR WATER RIGHTS DEMANDS “BLUE DEMOCRACY”
Continue ReadingEL SALVADOR: MARCH FOR WATER RIGHTS DEMANDS “BLUE DEMOCRACY”Global Capital Connives with African Genocide by Ba Karang, The Hobgoblin, UK Going by the most recent estimates, in Darfur more than 200,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million displaced as refugees. But, despite rhetorical pronouncements against… Read moreDARFUR: NOT A “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”
Continue ReadingDARFUR: NOT A “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS”by Antonia Juhasz, Oil Change International Antonia Juhasz, a fellow at Oil Change International, spoke at All Souls Church, a venerable Unitarian-Universalist institution on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, on June 6, 2007, upon the release of the paperback edition of… Read moreIRAQ: EXPOSING THE CORPORATE AGENDA
Continue ReadingIRAQ: EXPOSING THE CORPORATE AGENDAAmos Schocken, the publisher of Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz newspaper, has defended his paper’s applying the word “apartheid” to the Israeli- occupied West Bank, as well as the phrase “Jews-only roads.” According to journalist and blogger Phillip Weiss, who attended… Read moreIsraeli publisher defends paper’s use of terms “Jews-only,” “apartheid”
The recent controversy over the cancellation of two concerts sponsored by the group OneVoice, to have been held simultaneously on Oct. 18 in Israeli-occupied Jericho and Tel Aviv, has drawn wide recriminations from its New York-based leadership. OneVoice was founded… Read moreIsraeli “OneVoice” musician played settler Woodstock
From the Alternative Information Center, Oct 16. The general secretary of Peace Now, Yariv Oppenheimer, did his reserve military duty at a checkpoint in the Jordan Valley, deep in the occupied Palestinian territories, acting just like any other good Israeli… Read morePeace Now chief enforces Jordan Valley apartheid?
From the NYC civil service paper The Chief-Leader, Oct 19: Thompson and Israel To the Editor: The undersigned trade-union activists disagree with New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson and the Jewish Labor Committee, who have joined the witch-hunt against… Read moreVeteran NYC labor leaders: boycott Israel
