(Tierramérica) – Brazil could give up its dubious rank as the world’s number one consumer of agrochemicals without decreasing the amount of food it produces for its own people, according to João Pedro Stédile, leader […]
Note: Wikileaks experienced a 15 day backlog recently, which they cleared with the release of a whole bunch of cables about a week ago. I haven’t gotten through the entire batch, but here’s a selection […]
Source: Transnational Institute Hugo Prieto: The Venezuelan process is caught between a fundamental contradiction: popular demands for democratic participation against tendencies towards hierarchical decison-making and concentration of power. Since the 18th December, there has been […]
Source: PULSE When I told my father recently about my morning jogs up Ancón Hill—located in Panama City’s Quarry Heights, former headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command—he emailed back to say that his own father, […]
Reporter finds oil sludge in “remediated” pit that’s part of Chevron’s fraud, plaintiffs say The Miami Herald has caught Chevron in a blatant lie about its sham “remediation” in Ecuador that the company uses to […]
(IPS) – Accompanied unexpectedly by Fidel Castro, his brother Raúl brought the sixth congress of Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC) to a close Tuesday with a call to “change everything that should be changed,” but without […]
March 2011 was marked by the worst repression seen against the people of Honduras since the June 2009 military coup. The repression came in response to massive protests against an all-out final push by the […]
Source: Al Jazeera In early March, while boisterous Carnival celebrations filled the streets of Rio de Janiero, bulldozers began clearing away Amazonian jungle for roads leading to the construction site of the Belo Monte hydroelectric […]
Three senior police and army officers have been charged in connection with the deaths of 33 Peruvians during clashes between Amazon Indians and police in June 2009. Violence erupted in the northern Amazonian town of […]
The Mexican Congress is moving quickly to consider regressive labor law changes that would further undermine rights for workers. The proposal is on a fast-track and could be voted on before the end of April. […]
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