One Woman’s Journey from Warlord Somalia to Neocon Washington by Chesley Hicks, WW4 REPORT Book Review: The Caged Virgin An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Free Press/Simon & Schuster 2006 (translated), originally published in Netherlands… Read moreAYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?
Continue ReadingAYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?Nicaragua Sticks It to Tio Sam —Again! by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY For the very first time ever, When they had a revolution in Nicaragua, There was no interference from America Human rights in America Well the… Read moreSANDINISTA REDUX
Continue ReadingSANDINISTA REDUXHow a Yippie conspiracist changed America, mainstreamed marijuana and was destroyed by his dream… Thomas K. Forçade was one of the most influential figures of the counterculture, and changed American culture as much as his confederates Abbie Hoffman and Larry… Read moreTOM FORÇADE: UNSUNG HERO OF THE COUNTER-CULTURE
Continue ReadingTOM FORÇADE: UNSUNG HERO OF THE COUNTER-CULTUREThe Vietnam GI Revolt & Iraq by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY The name Vietnam is back in our vocabulary, as we seem to be developing an interest in history—or at least in the history of wars that… Read moreWHO’LL STOP THE WAR?
Continue ReadingWHO’LL STOP THE WAR?For starters, a couple of apologies. Yes, our February issue is coming out five days late, and our daily weblog has been inactive for nearly a week. This is because your hard-working editor (yours truly) has been down with the… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Stephen Kinzer Traces a Century of Destabilization by Tom Cornell, The Catholic Worker OVERTHROW: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer Times Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York 2006 From the Introduction: “Why does… Read moreTHE LONG ARC OF REGIME CHANGE
Continue ReadingTHE LONG ARC OF REGIME CHANGEIn the Gaza Strip, reality parodies Monty Python. Avid surfers from several Gush Katif communities are threatening to take their boards out to sea on evacuation day and commit mass suicide by drowning. Settlement secretariats, psychologists and social workers have… Read morePopular Suicide Surfer Squad of Judea threatens strike
In the belly of the beast, the Business section of the NYT, appeared today an unbelievably nice article about the Venezuelan socialist revolution underway. The articles describes Chavez’ push to transform both public and private enterprises into worker-managed and worker-owned… Read moreThe Bolivarian revolution goes mainstream
France, now in the process of drawing down its military presence in West Africa's Sahel nations, criticized plans that could see Russian mercenaries brought to Mali, where jihadist groups tied to ISIS or al-Qaeda operate in large parts of the country. Reports suggest that Mali's transitional government is considering a deal with the Wagner Group, which has close links to Vladimir Putin and is also active in Central African Republic. The Coordinating Body of Azawad Movements (CMA), a coalition of Tuareg rebel groups that signed a peace deal with the Malian government in 2015, likewise expressed its "firm opposition" to any agreement to bring in the Wagner Group. (Photo: FIDES)
Against “Leftist” Revisionism on the Srebrenica Massacre by Bill Weinberg With all of the current horrors in the headlines, the world has paid little note to the tenth anniversary of the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 at the eastern Bosnian… Read moreWHY DOES Z MAGAZINE SUPPORT GENOCIDE?
Continue ReadingWHY DOES Z MAGAZINE SUPPORT GENOCIDE?
In Episode 89 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes heart at the national uprising in El Salvador against the imposition of Bitcoin as legal tender, and draws the connection to his own incessant struggles against corporate cyber-overlords Verizon—as well as the to the automated drone terror in Afghanistan. As we are distracted (or, at any rate, should be distracted) by the more obviously pressing issues such as police brutality and climate destabilization, the digitization of every sphere of human activity lurches forward at a terrifying pace—with zero resistance. Until now. The heroic protesters in El Salvador have launched the long overdue revolution of everyday life. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. (Photo via Twitter)
The New Haven (CT) Board of Alderman voted to ask the US to end its occupation of Iraq and bring the troops home. This was the culmination of a lot of hard work involving hundreds of peace activists which was… Read moreNew Haven to US: Out of Iraq!!
