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Colombian conscientious objector speaks
Nicaragua hosts emergency food summit
At an emergency food-security summit in Managua, 14 nations convened under the umbrella of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega called the food crisis an "epic problem" caused by the "tyranny of global capitalism." [more]
Ecuador accuses Colombia of extrajudicial executions
Colombia's military committed "crimes against humanity" when it shot three people in the back and killed a man with a blow to the head during the March 1 raid on a guerilla camp in Ecuador, Quito's Interior Minister Fernando Bustamante said, adding that the forensic evidence is "undeniable." [more]
Jamil Khader: West Bank farmer's land denuded
Colombia extradites paramilitary leader
Colombia for the first time extradited a paramilitary leader to the US to face drug-trafficking charges. Bogotá agreed to the extradition of Carlos Jiménez AKA "Macaco" because he was found to be continuing to run his criminal network from his prison cell—in violation of the terms of the Justice and Peace Law. [more]
El Paso passes resolution against border wall
In El Paso County, TX, commissioners voted 3-to-1 for a resolution demanding a halt to construction of the border wall, asserting it would interfere with the region's long-established way of life. [more]
Bill Weinberg speaks on Iraqi civil resistance at the Left Forum, NYC
Issue #145, May 2008
Electronic Journal & Daily Report
BEHIND THE FOOD CRISIS
Global Markets and Deregulation Strike Again
by Gretchen Gordon, Food First
THE NEW WALLS OF BAGHDAD
How the US is Reproducing Israel's Flawed Occupation Strategies in Iraq
by Steve Niva, Foreign Policy in Focus
ISRAELI SETTLERS' SILENT ASSAULT —ON OLIVE GROVES
West Bank Farmers Face Ruin After Trees Uprooted
from IRIN
TIBET: ROOTS OF THE UNREST
Colonization and Resistance on the Roof of the World
by Carole Reckinger, Toward Freedom
Book Reviews:
MAPPING THE COMPLICITY OF ISRAELI ARCHITECTURE
from NOT BORED!
MEMOIRS OF A TIBETAN MARXIST
Middle Ground Between Mao and the Dalai Lama?
by William Wharton, WW4 Report
"Some people profess to see a 'contradiction' in the fact that while point 4 of this resolution, which recognizes the right to self-determination and secession, seems to 'concede' the maximum to nationalism (in reality, the recognition of the right of all nations to self-determination implies the maximum of democracy and the minimum of nationalism), point 5 warns the workers against the nationalist slogans of the bourgeoisie of any nation and demands the unity and amalgamation of the workers of all nations in internationally united proletarian organizations. But this is a 'contradiction' only for extremely shallow minds, which, for instance, cannot grasp why the unity and class solidarity of the Swedish and the Norwegian proletariat gained when the Swedish workers upheld Norway's freedom to secede and form an independent state."
—V.I. Lenin on Clause 9 of the 1913 program of the Conference of Russian Marxists, in "The Right of Nations to Self-Determination," 1914
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