Dear Readers: Last September, we asked you if you thought World War 4 Report should continue its monthly magazine-style E-Journal when we switch to our new format. Although the redesign has taken longer than we anticipated, it should happen this… Read moreOur Readers Have Spoken!
Continue ReadingOur Readers Have Spoken!Lessons for Libya? by David L. Wilson, World War 4 Report On the night of September 29, 1991, Haitian army officers launched a coup d’état against the country’s elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. By the next afternoon, soldiers had arrested Aristide… Read moreHAITI 1994: THE FORGOTTEN INTERVENTION
Continue ReadingHAITI 1994: THE FORGOTTEN INTERVENTIONActivists preparing the new aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip charge that Israel sabotaged one of their boats at the Greek port of Piraeus—and denied Israeli reports that they intend to kill soldiers, using chemical weapons.
The Mexican military has taken responsibility for 44 cases of human rights violations since December 2006, when President Calderón ordered soldiers into the fight against drug trafficking.
The distribution of international aid after the devastating January 2010 earthquake in southern Haiti has been slow and in some ways counterproductive, according to a UN report.
Thousands of Haitian peasants marched to demand food sovereignty, the restoration of the environment and the development of agriculture “adapted to the reality of our country.”
China’s Growing Presence in Latin America by Carmelo Ruiz Marrero, Americas Program For four centuries before the 1898 Spanish-American war, Europe was practically the only destination of Latin America’s much-coveted raw materials, from gold and silver to sugar cane and… Read moreCHINA SYNDROME:
Continue ReadingCHINA SYNDROME:by Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived June 10 to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juárez, the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls… Read moreLOVE, STRUGGLE AND MEMORY IN CIUDAD JUAREZ
Continue ReadingLOVE, STRUGGLE AND MEMORY IN CIUDAD JUAREZUS Solidarity with Iran by Raha Iranian Feminist Collective, WIN Magazine As members of a feminist collective founded in part to support the massive post-election protests in Iran in 2009 while opposing all forms of US intervention, we take this… Read moreCONCRETE AND FROM BELOW
Continue ReadingCONCRETE AND FROM BELOWBook Review: I SHALL NOT HATE by Izzeldin Abuelaish Walker & Company, New York, 2011 by Randy Rosenthal, The Brooklyn Rail Aiming to “reveal the secrets of Gaza,” Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate is a supremely moving memoir of… Read moreTHE SECRETS OF GAZA
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With the inauspicious opening of the Glasgow climate conference, activists around the world are increasingly looking to local action as an alternative to the moribund United Nations process on addressing what has been called a "Code Red for humanity." In Episode 94 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg explores the ideas of Social Ecology and radical municipalism, developed by the late Vermont anarchist thinker Murray Bookchin, and how they provide a theoretical framework for localities struggling to lead from below on the climate question. Examples discussed include the Zapatistas in Chiapas, the Rojava Kurds in Syria, and the community gardens and ongoing struggles for reclaimed urban space on New York’s Lower East Side. Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. (Photo: East River Park Action)
