Issue #155, March 2009

Electronic Journal & Daily Report

OBAMA, KYRGYZSTAN AND THE GREAT GAME
The Struggle for Central Asia After the Bush Dynasty
by Sarkis Pogossian, World War 4 Report

PRISONS BEYOND GUANTANAMO
Thousands of "Enemy Combatants" Held in Global Gulag
by Matt Vogel, Catholic Worker

OBAMA'S BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE: MEXICO?
by Bill Weinberg, AlterNet

MEXICO'S SOUTHWESTERN FRONT
Low-Intensity War in Michoacán and Guerrero
from Frontera NorteSur

NAFTA'S DANGEROUS SECURITY AGENDA
Hemispheric Militarization in "Free Trade" Guise
by Laura Carlsen, CIP Americas Program

TERROR IN PERIJÁ
Resource Wars on Venezuela's Indigenous Frontier
from El Mundo/Libertario, Caracas

BIOFUELS: PROMISE OR THREAT?
by Rachel Smolker and Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom

RENEWABLE ENERGY CANNOT SUSTAIN A CONSUMER SOCIETY
by Ted Trainer, Synthesis/Regeneration

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—Emiliano Zapata, upon refusing to sit in the presidential chair when his forces and those of Pancho Villa jointly occupied Mexico's presidential palace, December 1914

Exit Poll: Which will be Obama's biggest foreign policy challenge?

* Afghanistan in 2009 starts looking like Iraq in 2007 —or worse.
* Pakistan destabilized, Taliban get the nuke.
* Iraq in 2009 starts looking like Iraq in 2007 again —or worse.
* North Korea collapses, hundreds of thousands of refugees overrun DMZ.
* Mexico collapses, hundreds of thousands of refugees overrun border wall.
* Mumbai terror attack brings on Indo-Pakistani war (with nuclear-armed Taliban).
* Temple Mount terror attack brings on the End Times.
* All of the above.

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