Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog COLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOX Far-Right Militias Survive “Peace Process” and “Para-Politics” Scandal by Memo Montevino, WW4 REPORT COLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTS from Weekly News Update on the Americas IRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER… Read moreIssue #. 136. August 2007
from Weekly News Update on the Americas The latest headlines from Colombia focus on the ups and downs of the “peace process” with the ultra-right paramilitary network. Talks with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) have—on paper, at least—led… Read moreCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTSFar-Right Militias Survive “Peace Process” and “Para-Politics” Scandal by Memo Montevino, WW4 REPORT On July 24, Colombia’s imprisoned paramilitary warlords announced they were cutting off cooperation with prosecutors investigating massacres and other atrocities—throwing into question the country’s peace process. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOX
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOXAs you read this, I am flying to Japan at the invitation of the National Assembly for Peace & Democracy (Zenko) to attend a second conference in solidarity with Iraq’s civil resistance, and especially the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC). Our… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Occupied Iraq’s Not-So-Distant Mirror by Bill Weinberg, Middle East Policy Book Review: The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism by Michael Provence University of Texas, Austin, 2005 The comparison is nowhere made explicitly, but the subtext for… Read moreINSURGENT SYRIA, 1925
Continue ReadingINSURGENT SYRIA, 1925“Verging on Genocide” in the Czech Republic? by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT PRAGUE — For almost two decades now it has been possible for just about anyone from the outside world, including people from the formerly taboo democracies of the… Read moreROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATION
Continue ReadingROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATIONby Reza Fiyouzat, Dissident Voice Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran have either been absent from the Western left’s discourse—or have been getting the short end of the stick from some in the US left…. Read moreIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
Continue ReadingIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWERby Assieh Amini, Stop Stoning Forever Campaign Despite official denials, the stoning to death of women and sometimes men for such offenses as adultery continues in Iran, with state sanction. Iran’s Stop Stoning Forever Campaign documents and protests such instances,… Read moreIRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMEN
Continue ReadingIRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMENOur July issue featured the stories “No Green Zone for Ethnic Minorities in Iraq” by Bill Weinberg, arguing that the ethnic and sectarian warfare is approaching a “genocidal threshold”; “Israel & Palestine: One State or Two?,” excerpts from the debate… Read moreGenocide in Iraq, Palestine’s future, free speech in Venezuela: one reader writes
