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Today's
Stories
January
27 / 28, 2007
Ralph Nader
Democracy
in Crisis
January
26, 2007
Charlotte Laws
Are
You the Terrorist Next Door?: AETA and the New Green Scare
Mike Ely /
Linda Flores
The
Workers at Smithfield
Joe DeRaymond
Paying
for Health Care and Not Getting It
Phil Donahue
Get Sarah Olson!
Zia Mian
The Three US Armies in Iraq: Grunts, Contractors and Laborers
Jeb Sprague
Haiti Struggles to Defend Justice
Evelyn Pringle
Eli Lilly, the Habitual Offender
Missy Beattie
Inside the Criminal Mind of George Bush: He Thinks; Therefore,
It is So
Martha Rosenberg
Cloned Food: From Designer Hens to the Transgenic Omega-3 Pig
Website of
the Day
Save Grand Canyon from Glen Canyon Dam!
January 25, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
What's
Really Going on in Baghdad
John Ross
Mexico
Under Calderon: Fake Left, Rule Right
Jeremy Scahill
Our Mercenaries: Blackwater, Inc and the Privatization of Bush's
War Machine
Frida Berrigan
"Hearts Ruptured with Sadness:" Protesting Gitmo
Paul Craig Roberts
Bush's State of Deception
Jason Yossef
Ben-Meir
Iraq Reconstruction Failure
Christopher Brauchli
Why Bush is Arming Fatah: When in Doubt, Start Another Civil
War
Holger W. Henke
Cuba at the Crossroads?
Dave Lindorff
Falling Dominos and Failing Presidencies
Julia Landau
From Your Young Cousin
Website of the Day
The Mighty Edwards Sisters
January
24, 2007
Tao Ruspoli
CounterViews:
a Filmed Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry
Lt. Gen. William Odom
What Can be Done in Iraq?
Sharon Smith
Health Care Reform for the Insurance Industry
Brian M. Downing
Two Americas: the Grunts and the War Profiteers
Heather Gray
Surviving War
Ron Jacobs
SOTUS Quo
James Brooks
Out of Europe, Out of Time
Robert Day
Translating Snow
Website of
the Day
Defend Sarah Olsen
January 23, 2007
Trish Schuh
Lebanon
on the Brink of Civil War, Again
Robert Bryce
The
Politics of Cheap Oil
Stephen Soldz
Aliens in an Alien Land
John Blair
King Coal's Latest Con Job: Clean Coal is Not Clean
Gloria La Riva
Miami: a Place of Refuge for Anti-Castro Terrorists
Joshua Frank
Turning Silence into Gold: Hillary and Israel Lobby
Patrick Cockburn
In Iraq, All Foreigners are Targets
Ralph Nader
Questions for Bush on Iraq
Dave Lindorff
Pelosi and Iraq: Blunder or Treason?
Uri Avnery
Israel and Apartheid
Website of the Day
Down By the River
January
22, 2007
Manuel Garcia,
Jr.
China's
New Chip in Space War Poker
Jen Marlowe
Trapped
in Darfur: the Ordeal of Suleiman Jamous
George McGovern
War of the Belligerent Professors: Get Out of Iraq
Paul Craig
Roberts
Only Impeachment Can Save Us from More War
Norman Solomon
The Pentagon vs. Press Freedom
Amira Hass
Life Under Prohibition in Palestine
Mike Whitney
A Fool's Errand in Baghdad
Ramzy Baroud
The Things We Take for Granted
John Walsh
Support Jimmy Carter in Boston!
Website of
the Day
The Hagelian Dialectic
January
20/21 2007
Alexander Cockburn
First
Bomb Carter; Then Nuke Iran!
Gail Dines
I
Was Ambushed by Paula Zahn
Newton Garver
Evo
Morales' First Year
Gilad Atzmon
100
Years of Jewish Solitude
Seth Sandronksy
New
Push For Social Security "Reform"
Raphaelle Bail
Where
Nicaraguans Go to Work
Jim Goodman
Round
Up the Usual Experts: Make Them Live on a Dollar a Day
Larry Portis
Chouraki's
Oh Jerusalem
Website of
the Weekend
Press
Poodles Play it Safe
January
19, 2007
Jonathan Cook
Jimmy
Carter Doesn't Tell the Half of It
Glen Ford
Barack
Obama: The Mania and the Mirage
Dave Lindorff
Bush
Blinks on Illegal Spying - Don't let him off the hook
Larry Portis
Zionism
in the Cinema: Part Two
Website of
the Day
For
Whistleblowers
January
18, 2007
William Peace
Protest
From a Bad Cripple
Virginia Tilley
The
Steady March to War on Iran: What It Would Take to Stop It
Michael Donnelly
The
Real Reason I Can't Stand Obama
B.R. Gowani
Democracy:
Everywhere and Nowhere
Larry Portis
Zionism
in the Cinema: Part One
Jason Hribal
A
Horse is Worth More than Riches
Website of
the Day
Baghdad
Clampdown
January 17, 2007
Franklin Spinney
Why
Time is not on Bush's Side
John Ross
Oaxaca's
Rising: Vibrant as the Paint on the Walls
Susan George
Can
World Trade Ever Be Fair? Back to Keynes!
Paul Craig
Roberts
Attacking
Iran: What's In It For Bush
Joshua Frank
Obama
and the Middle East
David Lindorff
Towards
Oil at $200 a Barrel
January 16, 2007
Col. Sam Gardiner
Escalation
Against Iran
Marjorie Cohn
Stimson's
Outrageous Threat
Saul Landau
Gore
Vidal in Havana: Part 2
Ron Jacobs
Welcome
Back to 1965
Susan Block
From
Snowjob to Blowjob
Ken Couesbouck
Year
of the Pig
Website of
the Day
Amazon's
Hit on Jimmy Carter
January 15, 2007
Roger Morris
Another
War the Voters Hoped to End
Paul Craig
Roberts
Bush
Must Go
Kathy Kelly
Umm
Heyder's Story
William Blum
The
Anti-Empire Report
Ralph Nader
The
Class War's New Map
Saul Landau
Gore
Vidal In Havana
January 12
/ 14, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
"21,500
More Troops": Will America Ever Leave Iraq?
David Rosen
Bush's Domestic Sex Policy: the Teen Abstinence-Only Crusade
William S.
Lind
Less Than Zero
Laith al-Saud
The
Ironies of Bush and Iraq
Paul Craig
Roberts
Surge and Mirrors: What Bush Really Said
John Ross
Celebrating the "Sum of the World" in Chiapas
George Ciccariello-Maher
The Case of Venezuela's RCTV: Not About Free Speech
Christopher Brauchli
How to Avoid an IRS Audit: Become a Millionaire!
Robert Buzzanco
Rogue State, Redux
Evelyn Pringle
The Secrets in Eli Lilly's Cabinet
Peter Rost,
MD.
Promises, Promises: Playing Politics with Drug Reimportation
Mike Whitney
Baghdad Crackdown
Yifat Susskind
Beyond the Surge: Demanding an End to Bush's Wars
Saul Cohen
Latin America's Real Mr. Danger: Negroponte's Latest Gig
Missy Beattie
A Day of Action and Questions
Stephen Lendman
Holiday Hypocrisy
Website of
the Weekend
Bruegel on Bush War Plan
January 11,
2007
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The
Profits of Escalation
Paul Craig
Roberts
Carter's Inconvenient Truths
Kathy Kelly
Refugee Dreams
Dave Lindorff
Blood for Face
Jeff Leys
The War Widens
Richard W.
Behan
Barrels and Bodies
Col. Douglas MacGregor
Surging Right Into Al-Sadr's Hands
Website of
the Day
An Explanation from Google
Speech of the Day
Is There Even One Politician Alive Who Could Give This Speech?
January 10, 2007
Peter Linebaugh
A
Walk in Oaxaca
Robert Fantina
Punishing
Deserters: Prosecution or Persecution?
Patrick Cockburn
Why Troop Escalation Won't Bring Peace to Iraq
Paul Craig Roberts
Distracting Congress: Troop Escalation and Iran
Col. Dan Smith
Why U.S. Policy is Failing
Ben Tripp
The Politics of Bad Karma
Evelyn Pringle
How the FDA Protects Big Pharma
Ron Jacobs
Coalition of the Lunatics: Trying to Create the Next World War
Mike Ferner
If Not Now, When?
Dave Zirin
Judgment of the Juiced: Why McGwire Wasn't Elected to the Hall
of Fame
Website of
the Day
Revolting Students!
Bootleg of the Day
Bob
Dylan: Live at Scotia Bank Place
January 9, 2007
R. T. Naylor
The
Somalian Labyrinth
Jonathan Cook
Israel's
Purging of Palestinian Christians
Mike Ely and Linda Flores
The Smithfield Strikers: No Longer
Hidden, No Longer Hiding
Joshua Frank
The Democrats and Iran: More Bellicose Than Bush
Norman Solomon
The Headless Horseman of the Apocalypse
Sen. Russell
Feingold
An Open Letter to President Bush: So Now You Want to Snoop Through
Our Mail?
Joe Allen
Justice for the Omaha Two: Black Power, Racism and COINTELPRO
in the Heartland
James T. Phillips
"Lasciate Ogne Speranza, Voi Ch'Intrate": The Hell
That is Iraq
Brian Concannon
Resolutions for Haiti
Leonard Peltier
When the Truth Doesn't Matter: 30 Years of FBI Harassment and
Misconduct
Website of the Day
Kick Out the Jams, MFers!: Meet the New RRC
January 8,
2007
Werther
Why
We Fight
Jeff Leys
The Occupation Project: a Campaign of Civil Disobedience to End
Iraq War Funding
Paul Craig Roberts
Nuking Iran
Shulamit Aloni
Israeli Apartheid: Sorry, This Road is For Jews Only
Dave Lindorff
The Party of Invertebrates Reverts to Form
Sunsara Taylor
The Democrats' First Day: Same As It Ever Was
Seth Sandronsky
Syndicated Error: George Will and the Minimum Wage
Dr. Susan Block
Baghdad Cockfight Ends in Snuff Film
Website of the Day
Watch CounterPuncher Sunsara Taylor Take on Bill O'Reilly!
January 6 / 7, 2007
Alexander Cockburn
The
War and the NYT
Franklin C.
Spinney
Stalingrad
on the Tigris
Paul Craig
Roberts
The
Urge to Surge
Ralph Nader
Democrats in the Spotlight
Walden Bello
Globalization in Retreat?
Marleen Martin
The Needle and the Damage Done: Tortured in the Death Chamber
Brian Cloughley
We Do What We Like: Return Our Rapist or Else ...
Uri Avnery
The Kiss of Death
Saul Landau
Fidel Castro in the Fields
Ron Jacobs
From Cointelpro to the Patriot Act: a Legacy of Torture
Joseph Nevins
Crimes Against Humanity from Ford to Saddam
William S. Lind
A State Restored? Somalia and 4GW
Gary Leupp
Attention John Conyers: Impeach the President!
Elisa Salasin
Bringing Life to Numbers
George Ciccariello-Maher
Beyond
Chavistas and Anti-Chavistas: Deepening the Bolivarian Revolution
Stefan Wray
Confronting Recruiters: the Story of the Bush Street Raiders
Michael Leonardi
Toward an International Moratorium: Italy's Crusade Against the
Death Penalty
Richard Rhames
Reality TV: Triumph of the Thugs
Jeffrey St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Barbara LaMorticella
Two Poems
Website of the Weekend
FBI Witch Hunts
Song of the
Weekend
End Times: a Soundtrack
January 5, 2007
Jorge Mariscal
Growing
the Military: Who Will Serve?
John Walsh
Clash of the Elites: Beltway Insiders vs. Neo-Cons!
Christopher Brauchli
The Great Relaxer: Bush and Federal Regulations
Travis Sharpe
No More New Nukes, Please
Tom Barry
Hawk for Hire: Roger Noriega's New Gig
Linda Schade
/ Kevin Zeese
Americans Voted for Peace: Has the New Congress Already Let Them
Down?
Tiffany Ten Eyck
Workers' Centers and Unions: a New Alliance
Mahmoud El-Yousseph
A Challenge to Pelosi
Lucinda Marshall
3003 Funerals: "And They're Still Burying Ford!"
Website of
the Day
Van the Man: Warm Love
January 4, 2007
Patrick Cockburn
The
Martyrdom of Saddam Hussein
Winslow T.
Wheeler
A Guide to Earmarks: Will the Democrats' Reforms Do Anything
to Curb Pork Barrel Spending?
M. Shahid Alam
Has Regime Change Boomeranged?
Raed Jarrar
So This is Plan B? The US Attack on Saleh Al-Mutlaq's Headquarters
Bert Sacks
Can the US Legally Kill Iraqi Children?: a Challenge to the Supreme
Court
Kathy Rentenbach
Report from Oaxaca
Stephen Fleischman
The Rain of Riches: Bonuses, Then and Now
George Bisharat
Carter's Truths
Peter Rost, MD
Hail the Hangman, Jail the Cameraman!
Evelyn Pringle
Can Eli Lilly be Held Criminally Liable for Zyprexa?
Website of the Day
Courage to Resist
January 3,
2007
Kathy Kelly
Wrapped
Around a Bullet
Paul Craig
Roberts
His Last Hurrah: Bush Cuts and Runs from Reason
William Johnson
No Worker is Illegal: SEIU Members Push Their Union to Change
Its Policy on Immigration
Stan Cox
Under a Brown Cloud: Money vs. the Monsoon
Trita Parsi
A Lose-Lose Situation with Iran
Declan McKenna
Ireland's Slavish Hostility Toward Cuba
Joe Bageant
Dispatch from the Chinese Landfill
Nicola Nasser
Somalia: New Hotbed of Anti-Americanism
Missy Beattie
Dead Wrong
Website of
the Day
Pharmed Out
January 2, 2007
Michael Watts
Oil
Inferno
Amina Mire
Return of the Warlords: Death and Destruction for Somalis
James Brooks
Pushing the Wedge in Palestine
Alevtina Rea
The Tyrant is Dead! Long Live ... ?
Al Krebs
Global Food Security: a Call to Action
Peter Rost
Invitation to a Hanging: the Saddam Hussein Execution Video
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
A Deadly December
John Stanton
Appetites for Destruction
Website of the Day
Out Now: Petition
January 1,
2007
Patrick Cockburn
Iron
Man, Tin God: the Meaning of Saddam Hussein
Uri Avnery
What
Makes Sammy Run?
Joshua Frank
Eliot Spitzer's Constitutional Hang Up: Architect of New York's
Patriot Act
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Weekend
Edition
January 27 / 28, 2007
In 2006, 28 Journalists Were Killed in
8 Latin American Countries
Murdering
Journalists
By HERMÁN URIBE
Twenty-eight journalists were murdered,
while five others disappeared, last year in eight Latin American
countries, according to an overview of 2006 prepared by the Commission
to Investigate Attacks against Journalists (Comisión Investigadora
de Atentados a Periodistas , CIAP), affiliated with the Latin
American Federation of Journalists ( Federación Latinoamericana
de Periodistas , FELAP). With 10 deaths, Mexico continues to
boast the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous nation
for journalists to ply their trade.
Although figures on journalists
victimized by violence vary, the most credible numbers appear
to be those provided by the World Association of Newspapers,
which says that 105 journalists were killed worldwide last year.
Forty-eight of these deaths occurred in Iraq, a country racked
by a bloody war resulting from the United States' illegal armed
occupation.
In late December, the United Nations Security Council unanimously
approved a resolution that "condemns all attacks against
journalists in situations of conflict, and calls upon warring
factions to respect communicators and their role." In so
doing, however, the U.N. merely recalled that the Geneva Conventions
on war classify journalists as civilians whose lives must be
respected. In point of fact, journalists' lives are not being
respected, as evidenced by the frequent murders of journalists
in Iraq at the hands of rogue U.S. soldiers.
Moreover, the UN resolution
is completely oblivious to the situation in Latin America. In
this region-with or without military conflicts-journalists are
gunned down by drug-traffickers and by various mafias-invariably
for having witnessed crimes. Journalists were killed during the
civil-military dictatorships that gained the strength in the
1970s. However, this situation has continued up to this day,
despite the return to civilian rule. In August, the Organization
of American States' Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom
of Expression reported that in the last ten years 83 journalists
have been killed in Colombia and 24 in each of Brazil and Mexico.
The OAS said that journalists have also been killed in Guatemala,
Ecuador, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, among other countries.
In November, the widespread
insecurity faced by journalists was referred to by CIAP director
José Dos Santos, during the Fifth World Meeting of War
Correspondents in Havana: "In Latin America journalists
are killed, without internal wars or foreign military invasion,
other than the low-intensity armed conflict that has rocked Colombia
for a half century." Dos Santos also underscored that since
1976 some 800 journalists have been slain in the region.
Justice
Delayed
Another proverbial characteristic
of the crimes committed against journalists is the pervasive
impunity. According to a study by the U.S.-based Committee to
Protect Journalists, between 1992 and 2006, 580 journalists were
killed; in 85% of the cases, no one was held accountable. Latin
American history is littered with such impunity.
However, one important exception
has emerged. In Chile, at the very end of 2006, 20 years after
José Carrasco Tapia was assassinated, the perpetrators
of his murder received sentences of 13 years in prison and other
penalties. All of the perpetrators were members of dictator Augusto
Pinochet's military police, known as the DINA. Carrasco Tapia,
the head of the College of Journalists and the international
editor of Análisis magazine, was brutally murdered
with 13 gunshots on September 8, 1986. The 14 defendants had
killed three other persons-none of whom were journalists-in a
gangland-style revenge for a failed attempt on the tyrant's life
the day before Carrasco Tapia's murder. In addition, the government
was ordered to pay 2.125 million pesos to the victims' widows,
children, and other survivors.
Moreover, 2006 was also notable
for various types of attacks intended to limit freedom of expression
and intimidate journalists. The most recent of these was the
arrest in Bogota of Freddy Muñoz Altamiranda, correspondent
for Telesur, a television channel with a presence in several
countries. Following his November 20 arrest, Muñoz was
charged with "insurrection and terrorism." Muñoz
as well as Telesur and FELAP called the police action a violation
of freedom of speech and an attempt to intimidate the independent
journalism practiced by Telesur.
Translated for the IRC Americas
Program by Alan Hynds.
Hernán Uribe, a Chilean journalist, is president
of FELAP's Commission to
Investigate Attacks against Journalists (CIAP).
The Fallen
The following is the list,
by country, of fallen journalists of 2006:
ECUADOR: José Luis León, in Guayaquil,
reporter at "Radio Minutera," and Saúl Suárez,
reporter at "La Hora Durandeña." Both were shot.
EL SALVADOR: Douglas Henández of "La
Prensa Gráfica."
COLOMBIA: Gustavo Rojas Gabalo, radio journalist,
shot; Mariano Pérez Murga, and Francisco Bonilla Romero.
GUATEMALA: Edgardo Maas, radio correspondent,
received five bullets.
GUYANA: Ronaldo Waddell, TV correspondent,
shot; Richard Stewart, Chetram Pergaud, Elión Wegman,
Mark Mikoo and Shazim Mohamed. The last five were shot 8/8/06
inside the office of "Kaieteur News."
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Domingo Disla Florentino, lawyer and
journalist, Facundo Lavatta, of "Radio Comercial."
VENEZUELA: Jesús Flores Rojas, in the town
of El Tigre; Jorge Aguirre, of Cadena Carriles, and Pedro Bastardo,
killed in Cumaná.
MEXICO: José Valdés, in Sabinas
(Coahuila); Jaime Olvera Bravo, in La Piedad (Michoacán);
Ramiro Téllez Contreras, in Nuevo Laredo (Tamaulipas);
Enrique Perea Quintanilla; Rosendo Pardo Ozuna, in Tuxtla Gutiérrez;
Misael Tamayo Hernández, in Zihuatanejo (Guerrero); José
Manuel Nava, ex director of the daily paper "Excélsior",
in Mexico City; Roberto Marcos García, correspondent of
"Alarma" in Veracruz; Alfonso Sánchez Guzmán;
and Bradley Hill, American, in Santa Lucía del Camino
(Oaxaca).
For More Information
FELAP
Founded in 1976, the Latin
American Federation of Journalists (FELAP) is a nongovernmental
organization that has ties to UNESCO. It is composed of journalist
organizations, such as associations, federations, circles, schools,
and unions, in Latin America and the Caribbean. It has more than
80,000 members. FELAP also acts as an umbrella group for more
than 50 institutions that study and practice communication and
journalism: research centers, journalism schools, specialized
libraries, news agencies, publications, etc. CIAP was founded
in 1991 by FELAP and the International Organization of Journalists
to address regional issues.
http://www.ciap-felap.org
Federación Latinoamericana de Periodistas (FELAP)
Nuevo León # 144 interior 101 Colonia Hipódromo
Condesa
CP 06170 México D.F.
Telefax: (5255) 52866085 Telf: (5255) 52866055
e-mail: felap@laneta.apc.org
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