Discard the name brings to our attention the recent "General Red Alert" that the Zapatista's put out yesterday. I can only find one news story in the popular press, here at ABC news, but it doesn't give much more information. I can't seem to find any reason for this in the popular press and I can't read Spanish, but it is worrying that the EZLN has made moves that would allow for people to distance themselves from the organization. This suggests that they are trying to protect their citizens in the event that the Mexican government moves into the region.

Update: I just read the Zizek article linked to by Amish Lovelock where Žižek says:

To put it bluntly, do we want to live in a world in which the only choice is between the American civilization and the emerging Chinese authoritarian-capitalist one? If the answer is no, then the only alternative is Europe. The Third World cannot generate a strong enough resistance to the ideology of the American Dream. In the present constellation, only Europe can do so. The true opposition today is not the one between the United States and the Third World, but the one between the whole of the American global Empire (and its Third World colonies) and Europe.

I think Žižek is completely wrong about this and while I don't want to attribute it to some kind of racist euro-centrism I do wonder why he continues to even talk about a "Third World". France and Germany, while certainly being loci of power, are not working to undermine American interests or, more importantly, capitalist interests. The truly inspiring movements of power, and not hope, are happening in South America. Stretching back hundreds of years, but now in our own time with Chavez and the Bolivian Revolution, there has been a movement towards a united South America. That, in my mind, is the potential power I would like to see realized. If Europe wants to stand up to American hegemony and the more important capitalist empire that Žižek always subsumes under America, then Europe should do all it can to destroy the Monroe doctrine and foster the trade of goods and ideas that already exist in the South.