THE POLITICS OF THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT And the Intractable Dilemma of International ANSWER by Bill Weinberg WAR ON TRUTH AT GUANTANAMO Detainees Launch Non-Violent Resistance Behind Pentagon’s Iron Veil by Tanya Theriault PARAGUAY: THE PENTAGON’S NEW LATIN BEACHHEAD Is the… Read more#. 116. December 2005
Continue Reading#. 116. December 2005Dear WW4 REPORT Readers: This issue marks a fourth year of bringing you cutting-edge reports from the global fronts in the War on Terrorism, as well as reviews, digests and analysis—providing news and perspectives available nowhere else. Among the stories… Read moreSPECIAL MESSAGE TO OUR READERS
Continue ReadingSPECIAL MESSAGE TO OUR READERSReality, Perception and the Iranian Revolution BOOK REVIEW FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION Gender and the Seductions of Islamism by Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson University of Chicago, 2005 by Sandy McCroskey I. When Michel Foucault arrived in Iran… Read moreFOUCAULT’S PERSIAN GULF
Continue ReadingFOUCAULT’S PERSIAN GULFfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas COSTA RICA: MARCH AGAINST DR-CAFTA Some 25,000 Costa Ricans marched in San Jose on Nov. 17 in what organizers said would be the first of several mobilizations against the Central America-Dominican Republic Free… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS MARCH AGAINST CAFTA
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS MARCH AGAINST CAFTAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 10,000 indigenous people from throughout Ecuador gathered in the capital, Quito, Nov. 16-18 to demand that President Alfredo Palacio not sign a free trade treaty (TLC) with the US. The protesters are… Read moreECUADOR: TEN THOUSAND PROTEST TRADE PACT
Continue ReadingECUADOR: TEN THOUSAND PROTEST TRADE PACTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas OIL DEAL FOR U.S. POOR The Houston-based oil company CITGO, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), is set to supply 9 million gallons of… Read moreVENEZUELA: OIL FOR U.S. POOR; “HOLOCAUST” IN PRISONS?
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: OIL FOR U.S. POOR; “HOLOCAUST” IN PRISONS?from Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: ONE KILLED IN EVICTION On the morning of Nov. 9 some 500 Colombian police agents attempted the forcible removal of 400 members of Paez (Nasa) indigenous communities from the El Japio farm,… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, PEACE COMMUNITIES UNDER ATTACK
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS, PEACE COMMUNITIES UNDER ATTACK
