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Why the World Social Forum Needs to Be Less Like Neoliberalism

January 16, 2006 Josh Lerner 0

January is a special month for the global left. Every year at this time, progressives and activists convene at the World Social Forum, usually in Porto Alegre, Brazil. In January 2005, I too was eagerly awaiting my first trip to the Forum, imagining a week of cross-cultural communication, strategic organizing, and inspiring celebrations. Although I didn’t know exactly what to expect, I did know one thing – the Forum would be an alternative to neoliberalism. So why did I walk away from Porto Alegre worried mostly about the similarities between the Forum and neoliberalism? And is there still reason to be worried, as the 2006 Forum approaches? […]

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Brazil’s Army Training Indians

January 11, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko 0

There are reports that Brazil’s army is training Amazon Indians in guerrilla warfare.  Leaked photos of training exercises were published in the Rio Newspaper Extra.  One of the pictures published yesterday shows a line of […]

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Panama official quits over free trade

January 11, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko 0

Panama’s agricultural minister resigned yesterday "to sound off an alarm" over the potential effects of agricultural policy changes the U.S. is pushing on his country.  Laurentino Cortizo said diminished regulations that are being negotiated could mean […]

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Bolivia’s Trial by Fire

January 10, 2006 Benjamin Dangl 0

After winning a landslide election victory on December 18th, Bolivian president-elect Evo Morales announced plans to nationalize the country’s gas reserves, rewrite the constitution in a popular assembly, redistribute land to poor farmers and change the rules of the U.S.-led war on drugs in Bolivia. If he follows through on such promises, he’ll face enormous pressure from the Bush administration, corporations and international lenders. If he chooses a more moderate path, Bolivia’s social movements are likely to organize the type of protests and strikes that have ousted two presidents in two years.

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Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro

January 10, 2006 Tom Phillips in Niteroi 0

Death is nothing new to the Morro do Estado, a mish-mash of redbrick favela housing that clings to the slopes high above central Niteroi, a city near Rio de Janeiro. But as locals crowded into the Bar do Raimundo for a game of snooker one Sunday night in December they had little idea just how close it was.

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Likely U.S. Plans for Regime Change in Venezuela, Pt. II

January 9, 2006 Stephen Lendman 0

Ever since the National Security Act of 1947 established the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA has engaged in activities far beyond information collection and analysis. It has been involved many times in covert efforts to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals, inlcuding regime change in nations whose leaders were not subservient to U.S. interests.

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CAFTA Misses Deadline

January 4, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko 0

The U.S. announced last week that the implementation of CAFTA would not meet its Jan. 1 target date because Central American countries have yet to legislate new laws to come into compliance with the agreement’s […]

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NED’s Journalist in Haiti

January 4, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko 0

Regine Alexandre, a freelance reporter working in Haiti who has written for the AP and New York Times, was recently outed as a consultant for the controversial National Endowment for Democracy. The AP terminated its […]

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No Justice in Peru

January 3, 2006 Cyril Mychalejko 0

Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo has come under fire for backing the creation of what many perceive as a kangaroo court to "prosecute" military officials accused of human rights violations. Toledo recently backed the creation of a judicial […]

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