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Colombian conscientious objector speaks
Mexico: open season on police commanders
Juan Antonio Román García, second highest-ranking police commander in Ciudad Juárez, was killed when his car was sprayed with bullets outside his home. Two days earlier, presumed Sinaloa Cartel gunmen murdered Edgar Eusebio Millán, a top commander of the Federal Preventive Police, at his home in Mexico City. Hours before Millán's funeral, senior Mexico City police detective Esteban Robles was gunned down in front of his apartment. Two other senior police officers were shot in Mexico City in recent days, and hitmen killed Saul Peña, a top police officer in Ciudad Juárez. [more]
No increase in oil-spill tax
The Senate failed to pass the new FAA reauthorization bill—because of "non-aviation provisions" that would have doubled the tax on oil spills from five to ten cents per gallon. [more]
Jamil Khader: West Bank farmer's land denuded
Egypt: from food crisis to censorship
Nader Gohar, owner of the Cairo News Company, faces criminal charges for the unlicensed broadcasting of food riots in Egypt last month. [more]
Iron Man lives again —in Iraq?
Canada's Defense Department is seeking proposals to develop high-tech body suits for Canadian soldiers. It is an open secret that Canada has several thousand troops in Iraq. [more]
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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