Posada Carriles – the 77-year-old former CIA asset and accused terrorist – was charged last week with illegal entry into the US and is being detained by the Homeland Security Department at Florida’s Homestead Air Force Base. US authorities have… Read moreChavez threatens to break US relations over Posada Carriles affair
Robots seem to be gaining reproductive rights even as women are losing theirs. Robots at Cornell University are making copies of themselves without human intervention. In principle, the machines will thus be able to repair and reproduce themselves autonomously in… Read moreSelf-replicating robots developed
WW4 REPORT readers are aware that the Nasa Indian community of Toribio in southern Colombia’s Cauca department have been under siege for the past several weeks as guerillas and army troops fight for control of their village. Army and guerillas… Read moreColombia indigenous leaders to speak in NYC
In February, eight civilians, including community leader Luis Eduardo Guerra and three children, were massacred in the Colombian Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. Witnesses identified the killers as members of the Colombian military, and peace community members saw… Read moreSOA linked to massacre at Colombia “Peace Community”
Pressure is growing on the U.S. to respond to allegations that its agents were involved in spiriting terrorist suspects out of three European countries and sending them to nations where they may have been tortured. In Italy, a judge said… Read more“Rendition” scandal in Europe
The retraction of Newsweek’s allegations of Koran-abuse at Guantanamo, which had sparked violent protests in Afghanistan, may not win the U.S. peace in that country for very long. A vivid report in the NY Times May 20 depicts horrendous details… Read moreEscalation in Afghanistan
The head of Iraq’s largest Christian community has denounced U.S. evangelical missionaries in his country for what he said were attempts to convert poor Muslims by flashing money and smart cars, al-Jazeera reported May 20. Patriarch Emmanuel Delly, head of… Read moreIraq: Chaldean bishop protests U.S. evangelicals
We have a new winner for the dubious honor of most cynical exploitation of 9-11: Newsday columnist Ellis Henican has it right when he writes that New York development mogul Donald Trump “towers in tackiness.” He used the final episode… Read moreTrump mouths off on Ground Zero debacle
As we noted yesterday, rulers in Uzbekistan and Belarus are worried that Bush is preparing a regime change offensive against them, encouraging dissidents to launch protest campaigns. Now it looks like the strategy is being applied in Cuba too. BBC… Read moreRegime change roulette: Cuba next?
The Pentagon is claiming to be very upset about the photos of a captive Saddam Hussein in his skivvies which grace the covers of today’s NY Post and UK Sun, both owned by right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch. The tabloids… Read moreDoes the world really need to see Saddam Hussein in his underwear?
The May 19 Jerusalem Post reports that the Palestinian Authority pulled a link to the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the notorious 19th-century anti-Semitic forgery, from one of its Web sites. The link reportedly appeared on the site of… Read moreThe “Protocols” and the Palestinians
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, who leads a Moscow-aligned Soviet-nostalgist authoritarian regime, has got to be concerned about the recent unrest in Uzbekistan–especially coming on the heels of regime change in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan over the past year-and-a-half. However… Read moreBelarus: the last domino?
