From the Mexican news agency APRO, June 30, via Chiapas95 (our translation): In an unexpected event in the lead-up to the elections this Sunday, the arrest of ex-president Luis Echeverria Alvarez was announced, for the crime of genocide. His lawyer,… Read moreMexico: ex-president arrested on genocide charges
The local Fray Bartoleme de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) issued a statement in the prelude to Mexico’s July 2 presidential election protesting that they are being held in the state of Chiapas under a “state of exception.” The… Read moreChiapas: elections under “state of exception”
The results of the July 2 presidential elections in Mexico are still considered too close to call, but both candidatesāformer Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the populist-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and former energy minister Felipe Calderon… Read moreElectoral crisis in Mexico
Dear WW4 REPORT Readers: The upcoming anniversary of the September 11 attacks will mark five years that WORLD WAR 4 REPORT has been publishing. We don’t know about you, but we think we are needed more than ever. This will… Read moreSummer fund drive
Continue ReadingSummer fund driveElectronic Journal & Daily Weblog SUFISM AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN ISLAM Paradoxical Legacies of the Militant Mystics by Khaleb Khazari-El “BIONOIA” Part 4 Dengue in Cuba, West Nile in New York: When Mosquitoes Come Home to Roost by Mark Sanborne… Read moreIssue #. 123. July 2006
Paradoxical Legacies of the Militant Mystics by Khaleb Khazari-El One of the many ways in which the planetary struggle has gone through the proverbial looking glass since the 9-11 attacks is the seeming reversal in the juxtaposition of Western imperialism… Read moreSUFISM AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN ISLAM
Continue ReadingSUFISM AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN ISLAMSouth American “Infrastructure Integration” for Free Trade by Raul Zibechi The project for Integration of South American Regional Infrastructure (IIRSA, by its initials in Spanish), is swiftly but silently moving forward. IIRSA is the most ambitious and encompassing plan to… Read moreIIRSA: THE FTAA’S HANDMAIDEN
Continue ReadingIIRSA: THE FTAA’S HANDMAIDENNorth Korea & Cuba Face the Post-Petrol Future by Dale Jiajun Wen That peak oil is coming is no longer a question. It’s only a matter of when. The global food system we are familiar with depends crucially on cheap… Read morePEAK OIL PREVIEW:
Continue ReadingPEAK OIL PREVIEW:BOOK REVIEW: INSURGENT IRAQ: AL ZARQAWI AND THE NEW GENERATION by Loretta Napoloeoni Seven Stories Press, New York, 2005 by Chesley Hicks Published before Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s death, Insurgent Iraq, by Italian scholar-author Loretta Napoleoni, is an information-heavy treatise that… Read moreABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI: THE MAKING OF THE MYTH
Continue ReadingABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI: THE MAKING OF THE MYTHfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 8, Peruvian campesinos held a day of protest against the Andean Free Trade Agreement (known in the region as the Free Trade Treaty, or TLC) which Peru’s government signed with the… Read morePERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADE
Continue ReadingPERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADEfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Some 200 Ecuadoran campesinos occupied the roads leading to the Coca-Payamino installation of the French oil company Perenco on the morning of June 19 to protest the company’s “indifference” to the environmental damage… Read moreECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLS
Continue ReadingECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On June 1, Colombian chief federal prosecutor Mario Iguaran announced that an army platoon had deliberately killed 10 agents from a US-trained anti-narcotics unit of the Judicial Police Department (DIJIN) on May 22… Read moreCOLOMBIA: SOLDIERS CHARGED IN MASSACRE
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