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From Cover of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle

Gaza: No Checkpoints in Heaven

Ramzy Baroud April 7, 2008 Ramzy Baroud

I still vividly remember my father's face - wrinkled, apprehensive, warm - as he last wished me farewell fourteen years ago. He stood outside the rusty door of my family's home in a Gaza refugee camp wearing old yellow pyjamas and a seemingly ancient robe. As I hauled my one small suitcase into a taxi that would take me to an Israeli airport an hour away, my father stood still. I wished he would go back inside; it was cold and the soldiers could pop up at any moment.

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India: Major Protest Demands Coca-Cola Shut Down Plant

Nandlal Master, Lok Samiti, Amit Srivastava April 2, 2008 Nandlal Master, Lok Samiti, Amit Srivastava

Over 1,500 villagers marched to the Coca-Cola company's bottling plant in Mehdiganj in Varanasi in India yesterday demanding that the bottling plant shut down immediately. This march and rally against Coca-Cola is the latest in a series of protests against the company in India where communities have accused Coca-Cola bottling plants for exacerbating the water crises through heavy extraction of water from the groundwater resource and polluting the groundwater and soil.

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Patagonia’s Pascua River Threatened By Massive Dam Project

Benjamin Witte April 1, 2008 Benjamin Witte

Pascua River
There is a place in far southern Chile, in the remote region of Aysén, where the long road south - the famed Carreterra Austral - simply comes to an end. Via a joint entity called HidroAysén, two companies are looking to build five massive dams in Aysén that would together generate some 2,750 MW of electricity - roughly equivalent to 20 percent of Chile's current overall generating capacity. However, HidroAysén's plans have generated a formidable backlash.

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A Look at World War 3 Illustrated

Paul Buhle April 1, 2008 Paul Buhle

The pages of World War 3 Illustrated contain one of the best kept and mistakenly kept secrets of the fast-developing world of comic art here in the US. Launched in 1979 by a couple of youngsters moving from Cleveland  to New York's Lower East Side, the magazine first developed mainly as a forum for resistance to the gentrification of  the long-famous radical neighborhood.

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Thirty Two Years Later, Argentines Still Seeking Disappeared

Marie Trigona March 27, 2008 Marie Trigona

Argentina marked the 32nd anniversary of the nation's 1976 military coup on March 24. An estimated 30,000 were disappeared during the so called dirty war. Thirty two years later, the bodies of the disappeared still remain to be found and identified. Since 1984, a team of anthropologists, The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, has investigated human rights violations committed by bloody military junta.