Oil crisis: uprisings from Nigeria to Peru

In the past few days, the wars over the world’s natural resources have been rekindled from the Amazon to the Niger Delta.

Venezuela, Honduras, Peru, Ecuador: Media Lies and “Oversights”

It may be useful to assess the dangers of the systematically hostile attitude of the overwhelming majority of major European and North American media companies in relation to the current events taking place in Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela. This hostility is only matched by an embarrassed, complicit silence with regard to those involved in the putsch in Honduras or the repression enacted by the Peruvian army against the indigenous populations of the Amazon.

MSM: Peru Indian tribes join forces to fight off Amazon sale to oil companies

(Times) – They emerged from the thick, green jungle clenching their spears: a long file of barefoot chiefs and elders, their faces painted with their tribal markings and crowns of red, blue and yellow parrot feathers.

MSM: Outcry in South America over US military base pact

Deal to increase access to Colombia bases angers neighbours and damages Obama’s attempts to mend relations with region

MSM: Bolivia leader says Obama ‘lied’ about cooperation

(Forbes) – President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America’s historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in annual trade benefits for Bolivia.

Water for Sale; Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America

Water has been characterized as the oil of the 21st century. Blue gold. It is essential to life, and yet humanity faces a growing water crisis as a result of severe mismanagement in water and sanitation, which will be exponentially exacerbated in the coming decades by population growth combined with declining resources.

MSM: Images reveal full horror of ‘Amazon’s Tiananmen’

(Independent) – First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given an extended beating by eight policemen in black body-armour and helmets.

Indigenous ‘genocide’ in battle for oilfields

It has been called the world’s second “oil war” but the only similarity between Iraq and events in the jungles of northern Peru over the past few weeks has been the mismatch of force. On one side have been police armed with automatic weapons, tear gas, helicopter gunships and armoured cars. On the other are several thousand Awajun and Wambis Indians, many of them in war paint and armed with bows and arrows, and spears.

MSM: Peru declares curfew after bloody clashes in Amazon jungle

(Guardian) – Peru has declared a curfew in its Amazon jungle after dozens died and hundreds were injured in bloody clashes between security forces and indigenous tribes protesting against oil and mining projects.

Year of the hungry: 1,000,000,000 afflicted

Despite the West’s pledge to halve world hunger, the number of people who are short of food will soon reach a shocking landmark

Diplomacy, Militarism and Imagery

President Obama’s greatest foreign policy successes are found in the reports of the mass media. His greatest failures go unreported, but are of great consequence. A survey of the major foreign policy priorities of the White House reveals a continuous series of major setbacks, which call into question the principal objectives and methods pursued by the Obama regime.