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UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment David Boyd issued an urgent call for accelerated action to combat climate change. The statement comes after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on the impacts of global warming of 2°C—the increase permitted under the Paris Accord. Boyd said that climate change is “one of the greatest threats to human rights” and will have devastating effects on the “rights to life, health, food, housing, and water, as well as the right to a healthy environment.” In order to meet human rights obligations, Boyd called on counties to exceed their Paris Agreement obligations. If the temperature increase is allowed to increase to 2.0°C, it would result in “human rights violations upon millions of people.” (Photo via Jurist)

Africa

Somalia: West to groom Sufis as proxies?

More voices are raised calling for the West to play a Sufi card against Islamist insurgents in Somalia, as well as Pakistan and elsewhere. But will this only destroy the Sufis’ credibility?

Iran

Internet conspiranoids betray Iran (left and right)

Conspiranoids and freedom-haters of the left and right alike are rushing to betray the Iranian protest movement. Bill Weinberg asks: Why is that?

Greater Middle East

Obama in Cairo: selective historical memory

President Obama’s historic speech to the Muslim world at Cairo’s al-Azhar University was a meaningful step forward nonetheless compromised by tactical equivocation…

East Asia

Megatons of hypocrisy over North Korean nuclear nuisance

North Korea’s second nuclear test has won global headlines—while calls by the US State Department earlier this month for Israel to abandon nuclear weapons went unnoticed by the world media.

New York City

Did Bronx terror plot originate with FBI?

The (disabled) Stinger missile in the supposed Bronx terror plot of course originated with the FBI infiltrator. We wonder how much more of the plot originated with the FBI infiltrator.

Watching the Shadows

Google is evil

Google appears to have eliminated the foreign country news page links from the bottom of the Google News page—which World War 4 Report depends on intimately for our work.

Afghanistan

SOMALI

The Caribbean

Latin leftists bash Obama at Caribbean confab

At the Trinidad summit, Evo Morales accused the US of a “policy of conspiracy” against Bolivia, while Nicaragua’s Danial Ortega reiterated more than a century of imperialist outrages.

Iraq

University of London figures reveal toll of Iraq’s sectarian war

The New England Journal of Medicine is releasing a new study by the University of London, finding that sectarian militias were responsible for a full third of killings in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

Africa

Will US intervention against pirates deepen Somalia’s crisis?

As the US prepares a new initiative to crack down on Somali pirates, going after the pirate bases in Puntland may provide the pretext for putting an end to the region’s hard-won autonomy.

Mexico

Mexican ambassador calls US to task on gun trade; Fox News, Gun Lobby return fire

Fox News, echoing the claims of the Gun Lobby, challenges the charge of Mexican ambassador Arturo Sarukhan that “90% of all weapons we are seizing in Mexico are coming from the United States.”