We still have quite a way to go to reach our summer fund drive goal, and we really do not want to extend the drive into the fall. Having spent two weeks in Japan at the Iraq solidarity conference hosted… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog THE ISRAEL LOBBY & AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY: REVISITED The Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis Deconstructed by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT YEMEN: THE NEXT QUAGMIRE Washington’s New Terror War Flashpoint? by Mohamed Al-Azaki, WW4 REPORT MAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY… Read moreissue #. 137. September 2007
by Michael Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY People living within five miles or so of any major American waterway can hear their psychotic roar on hot summer evenings. They’re “dick boats”—long, sleek, overpowered speedboats that can cut a sunset cruise into… Read moreAGAINST THE CARBON CULTURE
Continue ReadingAGAINST THE CARBON CULTUREby Al Huebner, Toward Freedom In his column of July 19th in the New York Daily News, Juan Gonzalez reported that the polluted air at Ground Zero seems to have claimed two more victims. The story adds to his chronicle… Read moreNYC: HEALTH HAZARDS RISE FROM DUST OF GROUND ZERO
Continue ReadingNYC: HEALTH HAZARDS RISE FROM DUST OF GROUND ZEROAs Reports Reveal Free Trade’s Empty Promise from Weekly News Update on the Americas Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and US President George W. Bush met Aug. 20-21 in Montebello, in the west of the… Read moreQUEBEC: PROTESTS ROCK NAFTA SECURITY SUMMIT
Continue ReadingQUEBEC: PROTESTS ROCK NAFTA SECURITY SUMMITby Sandra Cuffe, Rights Action “Why are we gathered here tonight?” asked community elder Roberto Caal, looking around at the dozens of women, men and children gathering under the palm-thatched roof of the open-air community hall in Barrio Revolución, in… Read moreGUATEMALA: MAYA RECLAIM LAND FROM MINERAL CARTEL
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MAYA RECLAIM LAND FROM MINERAL CARTELFears of “Civil War” as Constituent Assembly Deadlocks by Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly Having come out of an intense period of political confrontation, including the biggest mobilization in Bolivia’s history, this landlocked country situated in the heart of rebellious… Read moreBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?from IRIN The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. “The new law is a very positive first step. It is only a first step though,” said… Read moreMAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW BE ENOUGH?
Continue ReadingMAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW BE ENOUGH?Washington’s New Terror War Flashpoint? by Mohamed Al-Azaki MARIB, Yemen – “After the Spaniards, who will be next to die in this vibrant, ‘living museum,’ as Yemenis call their country?” So asked one member of a group of Italian tourists… Read moreYEMEN: THE NEXT QUAGMIRE
Continue ReadingYEMEN: THE NEXT QUAGMIREIt seems the US has been inadvertently arming the PKK these past four years since the Iraq invasion—the same quasi-Maoist Kurdish separatist group that is seeking to secede from NATO ally Turkey and is on the State Department “foreign terrorist… Read moreUS arms to Iraqi Kurds slipping through to PKK?
