Day: January 19, 2005

Exit Poll

Exit Poll: Is World War 4 Report still relevant ten years after its launch? If so, will you demonstrate this support with a small donation? Respond to: feedback (at) ww4report.com Responses to our last Exit Poll: /node/10056 Answer the exit… Read moreExit Poll

Issue 106 January-February 2005

WELCOME TO WORLD WAR 4by Bill WeinbergTHE TSUNAMI’S HIDDEN CASUALTIESIndigenous Cultures "Wiped Off the Map" as Governments Exploit the Disasterby Sarah RobbinsOIL, OLIGARCHS AND THE UKRAINE CRISISPipeline Politics Behind "Orange Revolution"by Raven Healing IRAQ AND COLOMBIA: HALLIBURTON MAKES THE CONNECTIONby… Read moreIssue 106 January-February 2005

WELCOME TO WORLD WAR 4

by Bill Weinberg When opposite ends of the political spectrum agree on an initially improbable proposition, there is often something to it. Since the end of World War II and concomitant dawn of the nuclear age in 1945, the planet… Read moreWELCOME TO WORLD WAR 4

FAREWELL, GARY WEBB

The "Dark Alliance" Imbroglio and the Dark End of an Embattled Journalist by Bill Weinberg On the morning of Dec. 10, 2004, a moving crew arrived at the Sacramento area home of Gary Webb—legendary and controversial journalist responsible for the… Read moreFAREWELL, GARY WEBB

THE TSUNAMI’S HIDDEN CASUALTIES

Indigenous Cultures "Wiped Off the Map" as Governments Exploit the Disasterby Sarah Robbins On December 26, 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked unimaginable havoc, leaving devastation in its wake and a still-climbing death toll that’s already topped 160,000. But world… Read moreTHE TSUNAMI’S HIDDEN CASUALTIES

PERU: MILITARY REVOLT IN ANDES; PIPELINE PROTESTS IN AMAZON

by Weekly News Update on the Americas RESERVISTS SEIZE POLICE POST Just after 4 AM on Jan. 1, Peruvian former army major Antauro Igor Humala Tasso and some 150 of his followers, mainly army reservists, seized a police station in… Read morePERU: MILITARY REVOLT IN ANDES; PIPELINE PROTESTS IN AMAZON

THE WAR’S TOLL AT HOME

With all eyes on the troops in Iraq, their families—a huge and growing segment of the population—are suffering largely in media silence by Peter Gorman Lynn Jeffries is a single mother from Lubbock, Texas, whose son Nathan was deployed to… Read moreTHE WAR’S TOLL AT HOME

OIL, OLIGARCHS AND THE UKRAINE CRISIS

Pipeline Politics Behind "Orange Revolution" by Raven Healing While blogs and alternative media in the US were still debating whether or not Bush had actually won the elections, representatives of the Bush administration were criticizing the accuracy of the presidential… Read moreOIL, OLIGARCHS AND THE UKRAINE CRISIS

COLOMBIA & IRAQ: HALLIBURTON MAKES THE CONNECTION

by Daniel Leal Diaz The Bogota daily El Tiempo recently reported that the US military contractor Halliburton has recruited 25 retired Colombian police and army officers to provide security for oil infrastructure in Iraq. One of the men, speaking on… Read moreCOLOMBIA & IRAQ: HALLIBURTON MAKES THE CONNECTION

COLOMBIA: REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED, MASSACRES MOUNT

by Weekly News Update on the Americas REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED TO U.S. On Dec. 31 a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Juvenal Ricardo Ovidio Palmera Pineda (alias Simon Trinidad), was taken from a maximum security Colombian… Read moreCOLOMBIA: REBEL LEADER EXTRADITED, MASSACRES MOUNT

CENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA PROTESTS, GANG TERROR

by Weekly News Update on the Americas EL SALVADOR: MORE ANTI-CAFTA PROTESTS On Dec. 22, thousands of Salvadorans blocked main highways in 10 of the country’s 14 departments to protest the Legislative Assembly’s Dec. 17 vote which ratified the Central… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA PROTESTS, GANG TERROR

BOLIVIA: NEW “WATER WAR,” VIOLENT LAND CONFLICTS

by Weekly News Update on the Americas EL ALTO: PROTESTS OUST WATER COMPANY On Jan. 10, members of more than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an open-ended peaceful civic strike to press a… Read moreBOLIVIA: NEW “WATER WAR,” VIOLENT LAND CONFLICTS