Latin America
C.I.A. Groundhog Day
The New York Times published an insightful piece on the state of the War in Afghanistan on today’s front page. In short: Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother to Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been made an honorary member of the world’s most coveted and notorious V.I.P. list: the C.I.A. payroll! While the announcement may come as a shock to some, the fact that Mr. Karzai has been in bed with the C.I.A. for the past eight years is the undeniable reality of the struggling and troubled American-Afghan alliance.
Two New BDS Victories
Can we have a some volunteers to establish and maintain a BDS victory list/time line? Email me… 1) TIAA-CREF, one of the US’s largest pension funds administering the pension plans for nearly 3.6 million educators at a value of $400 billion, just divested from Africa-Israel, the blood-diamond settlement funding company owned by Lev Leviev after [...]
A Semi-Stereotypical Defense of Mexico
Mexico is just about as popular as President Bush thanks to the swine flu. Flights are being canceled left and right. Thanks to this little bug going around, the entire Mexican nation is the world’s piñata right now. Conservatives are pointing fingers and immigrant-bashing; liberals are eating Thai instead and changing their vacation plans to [...]
Romance revealed between Carlos Slim and Queen of Jordan
According to Mexican daily El Universal, Queen Noor and Carlos Slim, currently the second richest man alive, are having an affair. KABOBfest translation below. The Spanish social magazine Semana, unveiled in its latest edition an alleged romance between the richest man in Mexico, Carlos Slim Helú, and Queen Noor al-Hussein of Jordan (whose birth name [...]
Hugo Chavez is “more Arab than some Arabs”
(Photo: Chavez and his keffiyeh at the 2005 World Social Forum) The AFP reported Wednesday that a Kuwaiti Islamist MP has called for moving Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. MP Waleed al-Tabtabai said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez “has proved that he was more Arab than some Arabs,” after [...]
If Canada Launched Rockets at the US…
Hoping to depart from analogies that steamroll all nuance… Wishing to kill the spirit of comparisons that ignore imbalances of power… If Mexicans settled the US en masse, and then established a state of their own on American soil, with the blessing of the Latin American Alliance, do you think Americans would just sit there [...]
John Berger reads Ghassan Kanafani
We are now spectators of the latest – and perhaps penultimate – chapter of the 60 year old conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. About the complexities of this tragic conflict billions of words have been pronounced, defending one side or the other. Today, in face of the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the essential [...]
Of sowing and harvests: Subcomandante Marcos’ speech on Gaza
The following is the full text of Marcos’ speech on Gaza, given at the World Festival of Dignified Rage on 4 January. Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians’ fault, due to their violent nature. The [...]
Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador
YESTERDAY: “The Holocaust, that is what is happening right now in Gaza,” Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in televized statements. “The president of Israel at this moment should be taken to the International Criminal Court together with the President of the United States.” TODAY: Venezuela expells its Israeli ambassador. The statement is below. From UnionRadio.net [...]
Our word: A murmur, a loud voice, and then a shout they hear in Gaza
The following is a partial translation of a story run in the Mexican daily “La Jornada” regarding Subcomandante Marcos’ statements yesterday, on the struggle in Gaza. Marcos: Israel’s attack against Gaza is a classic conquest warHermann Bellinghausen, La Jornada | Translation by KABOBfest San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. January 4 | For the Zapatistas, [...]
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