“Twenty years ago this summer,” the vile Otto Reich writes for the July 18 National Review, “Washington’s hottest debate centered on the Contras’ war against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua — and how to keep the nations of Central America from… Read moreNicaraguan president plugs CAFTA, faces impeachment
We recently noted the new rapprochement between India and Burma, traditional rivals, which has worked to the detriment of indigenous groups in the remote rainforest straddling the border, heretofore able to play the two powers off against each other to… Read morePipeline politics behind India-Burma rapprochement
This analysis from Lebanon’s Daily Star, July 12, online at Kurdish Media, makes clear the dilemma of the Syrian Kurds. The fact that they are disenfranchised by the Damascus regime makes them a convenient football for White House hawks. And… Read moreSyria’s Kurds: pawns or actors?
It’s starting to look like the truce is off following yesterday’s suicide blast in Israel. From DPA, July 14: Israel recaptured Tulkarm early Wednesday, after a suicide bomber from that West Bank town killed four Israelis and injured dozens when… Read moreTulkarm re-occupied
From the UK Guardian, July 14: At least 27 people, most of them children, were killed and up to 25 wounded when a car packed with explosives targeted a convoy of US soldiers on a community relations mission in a… Read moreIraq: slaughter of the innocents
From the Chicago Sun-Times, July 14: Military investigators said they proposed disciplining the prison commander at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of abusive and degrading treatment of a suspected terrorist that included forcing him to wear a bra, dance with another… Read moreRitual humiliation at Gitmo
Lebanon’s deputy prime minister and defense minister Elias Murr survived a car bombing July 12 which left a bodyguard dead and several injured. The bomb was placed in car parked along the route of his motorcade in a Beirut suburb…. Read moreConspiracy behind latest Lebanon blast?
The conspiranoid site Prison Planet has picked up on a BBC Radio 5 report from the evening of July 7, the same day as the London attacks, in which Pete Power, a former Scotland Yard counter-terrorism official and now managing… Read more7-7 anomalies emerge
Bad news for Nuristan, the remote and isolated region of Afghanistan’s central mountains, known until just over a century ago as Kafiristan (land of the infidels) because of the survival of the ancient Indo-European nature religion there. The region straddles… Read moreOsama bin Laden in Kafiristan?
We get around 35,000 hits per month, and have around 2,000 e-mail subscribers. Since we announced our summer fund drive we have received exactly six donations. As we have explained, we seek no foundation support because we believe in reader… Read moreWW4 REPORT fund drive failing miserably
The new peace deal in Sudan, ending a 22-year civil war in which two million people lost their lives, took effect July 9, when Col. John Garang of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) was sworn in as Sudan’s first… Read moreSudan peace deal signals regional re-alignment
What a strange twist of fate. It seems the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are apparently using Pakistan, key regional US ally, as a staging ground. This from Pakistan’s Daily Times, July 12: Six more Pakistani fighters arrested in Afghanistan *… Read morePakistan staging ground for Afghan insurgency
