Day: February 6, 2007

Anti-war activists occupy Congressional offices

Mike Ferner writes for Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Feb. 6: From Alaska to Washington, D.C. yesterday, peace activists escalated their tactics and occupied Congressional offices, demanding elected officials vote against George Bush’s request of $93,000,000,000 to extend the war. The… Read moreAnti-war activists occupy Congressional offices

#. 130. February 2007

Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog BEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN” The Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT GUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg,… Read more#. 130. February 2007

Dear WW4 REPORT Readers:

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:

THE LONG ARC OF REGIME CHANGE

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

BEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”

The Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT What the Bush administration is calling a victory over a strange new insurgent militia in Iraq is actually a sign of the terrifying fragmentation of the war into… Read moreBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”

GUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA

Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today On January 8, some 200 Guatemalan army troops and twice as many national police occupied two Qeq’chi (Kekchi) Maya indigenous communities at El Estor, a… Read moreGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIA

The Chechnya War and the Right Not to Kill from War Resisters International On October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known journalist who regularly exposed Russian human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in her flat in Moscow. Six days… Read moreCONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIA

VENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias started his third term—his second full six-year term—on Jan. 10 in a ceremony before the 167-deputy National Assembly. No foreign dignitaries attended the Jan. 10 inauguration. According to… Read moreVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”

ECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Promising to end “the long night of neoliberalism,” economist Rafael Correa started a four-year term as president of Ecuador in a ceremony in Quito on Jan. 15. Only about 25 of the 100… Read moreECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”

ARGENTINA: “DIRTY WAR” DEATH SQUADS BACK?

from Weekly News Update on the Americas Argentine bricklayer Luis Gerez, a survivor of torture who testified against a former police official, disappeared the evening of Dec. 27 in his town of Belen de Escobar, 60 kilometers north of the… Read moreARGENTINA: “DIRTY WAR” DEATH SQUADS BACK?

CENTRAL AMERICA: ECOLOGISTS ASSASSINATED IN HONDURAS; LAND CLASH, ASSASSINATIONS IN GUATEMALA

from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS MURDERED On Dec. 20, environmental activists Heraldo Zuniga and Roger Ivan Cartagena were shot and killed in the central plaza outside the mayor’s office in Guarizama municipality, in the large eastern… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ECOLOGISTS ASSASSINATED IN HONDURAS; LAND CLASH, ASSASSINATIONS IN GUATEMALA

PRESIDENTS IN THE DOCK

An End to Africa’s Reign of Impunity? by Michael Fleshman, Africa Renewal The world took a giant step towards eliminating impunity for human rights abuses on November 9 when the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its first-ever hearing in a… Read morePRESIDENTS IN THE DOCK