From El Universal Aug. 8 via Chiapas95: OAXACA- Police fired bullets into the air to clear more than 100 protesters outside Oaxaca state’s economy secretariat – the latest violence in a wave of confrontations that have scared many tourists out… Read moreOaxaca: police open fire at protest
Talk about your great moments in bad timing. Will we hit the much-feared $100 per barrel before the year is out? From Bloomberg, Aug. 8 (links and emphasis added): Oil traded near a three-week high in New York on concern… Read morePrudhoe Bay closure jacks up oil prices
It certainly is comforting to remember that global warming is just a myth. Not rational, mind you, but definitely comforting. From the Washington Post via Newsday, Aug. 7: WASHINGTON – Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the… Read moreSwiss study: global heat waves on the rise
A note of irony. From IMEC News, July 31: In an official report, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli soldiers took 600 Palestinian residents prisoners since the abduction of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from a military… Read more600 Palestinians taken prisoner in July
A glimmer of hope. From The Observer, Aug. 6 (emphasis added): Israeli pilots ‘deliberately miss’ targets Fliers admit aborting raids on civilian targets as concern grows over the reliability of intelligence At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed… Read moreLebanon: passive resistance emerges in IDF
The parade of denial goes on. US Central Command chief Gen. Abizaid makes headlines by speaking the obvious—his dramatic understatement treated like a splash of cold water, so deep is the degree of self-delusion: “I believe that the sectarian violence… Read moreIraq: propaganda and the “civil war” question
This Aug. 7 clip from the London-based Arabic daily al-Hayat was sent by our correspondent Gilbert Achcar, who writes: “There is little chance that you could find something like the news below reported in any language but Arabic. I couldn’t… Read moreIraqi parliament speaker condemns “blue djinn” of occupation
Shortly after 9:30pm on July 31, after more than two years of detention, Muslim community leader Abdel Jabbar Hamdan walked out of the Terminal Island federal detention center in San Pedro, California, and returned to his Buena Park home with… Read morePalestinian detainee Abdel Jabbar Hamdan freed at last
With all eyes elsewhere, it seems authorities in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, scene of the ongoing Zapatista rebellion, are taking the opportunity to repossess lands occupied the rebels. Recognition of the “agrarian reform” carried out by adherents of the… Read moreChiapas: police evict Zapatista village
Some 300 primary and secondary school students and their mothers occupied the municipal auditorium in the conflicted Mexican village of San Salvador Atenco Aug. 5, holding the municipal president Pascual Pineda Sanchez captive for eight hours. The protesters accuse Pineda… Read moreMexico: protesters detain Atenco mayor
On Aug. 5 the seven judges of Mexico’s Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) unanimously rejected a motion by center-left presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full recount of the 41 million ballots cast… Read moreMexico: Electoral Tribunal refuses full recount; protests escalate in DF, Oaxaca
From Canada Free Press, Aug. 7 (links, annotation and emphasis added by WW4 REPORT): With world attention trained on Israel and Hezbollah, the situation is tense in Bogota, Colombia, today as President Alvaro Uribe prepares for his inauguration for a… Read moreColombia braces for inauguration violence
