From El Universal, March 31, via Chiapas95: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Chiapas. Thousands of campesinos in southern Mexico blocked roads and bridges Wednesday to protest the alleged failure of the central government to help them cope with the aftermath… Read moreChiapas: campesinos protest in hurricane’s wake
From The Dominion (“Canada’s Grassroots Newspaper”), March 25: Potable Politics Will water put the Zapatismo into Mexico’s big city politics? by Van Ferrier The 4th World Water Forum has drawn to a close in Mexico City, but the debate over… Read moreMexico: water struggles pose challenge to Zapatistas
This one isn’t a joke, tho we wish it was. Another entry in the fast-mounting signs of global ecological collapse. From AP, March 31: WASHINGTON – A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed… Read moreMeanwhile, the coral is dying…
We sure hope this is just a couple of lone wackos and not the beginning of a destabilization campaign against Evo Morales. An AP report indicates suspect Triston Jay Amero of California “has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals… Read moreBolivia: bombing kills two
File this under words-mean-whatever-we-say-they-mean. NYU “had not put any pressure on [the Objectivist Club’s] free speech”, but “said the panel discussion could not be open to the public if the cartoons were shown on stage.” Huh? It’s amazing how absolutely… Read moreObjectivists vs. Islamists at NYU
From the New York Times, March 29: Nanny Is Hit by Truck While Seeking Help to Save a Choking Baby An Upper East Side nanny trying to save a choking boy was struck by a truck yesterday after she wandered… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The latest shoot-out between US forces and the Sadr militia has prompted an alliance between Sadr and his longtime rival in the Shiite movement, the Iran-backed Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), which controls the equally formidable Badr… Read moreIraq: US mosque attack sparks Sadr-Badr unity
We especially love the lip service to “freedom of religion” in the Afghan constitution. Of course, WW4 REPORT warned of this contradiction all the way back to the Bonn Accords, the consolidation of the interim Afghan government, the Loya Jirga,… Read moreAfghanistan: hundreds protest clemency for Christian
From Israel’s Haaretz, March 24: WASHINGTON – Harvard University has decided to remove its logo from a study that denounces the pro-Israel lobby’s impact on American foreign policy, in order to distance itself from the study’s conclusions. The university also… Read moreHarvard disclaims study on Israel lobby
A militia led by fundamentalist clerics challenges the lawless rule of warlords who have been tearing the country apart for the past generation. The warlords, meanwhile, band together in an “anti-terrorist” alliance in an obvious bid for support from the… Read moreTaliban for Somalia?
From the London Times, March 27: US TROOPS were accused of killing up to 22 Iraqis yesterday after becoming embroiled in a fierce battle with a powerful Shia militia at a Baghdad mosque, The reported clash, the circumstances of which… Read moreIraq: US in bloody clash with Sadr militia
On March 21 Dominican vice president Rafael Albuquerque, US ambassador Hans Hertell and a number of Dominican and US officers officially launched the “New Horizons 2006” Dominican-US joint military operation in the southwestern Dominican city of Barahona. The operation’s stated… Read moreDominican Republic: protests against US troops continue
