SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 15 September 2009

Hot Topics AA: Latin American strategy on drugs 09/10/09 AA: Militarizing Latin America 09/15/09 AR: Poor man’s cocaine ravages Argentine slums – Feature 09/13/09 AR: Argentine president intends to abolish crime of libel 09/12/09 BO: Bolivia president has satellite ambitions-UN agency 09/14/09 BO: US fears spread of Islam to … Bolivia 09/10/09 BR: Brazil Jet …

Journal: Chuck Spinney Flags Israel’s Use of Economic Strangulation (A Form of Genocide or Other Atrocity)

SANCTIMONEOUS HERESY: Right-wing Israelis demonstrate in Jabal Mukabber after hundreds ransacked the village in occupied East Jerusalem, destroying Palestinian property, March 2008. (Meged Gozani/Activestills) A third uprising? Gary M. Burge,The Electronic Intifada,3 August 2009 Gary M. Burge is professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Chicago. He is author of Whose Land? Whose Promise? …

The Contested Commons

Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …