Police in Edinburgh are asking for a ban on a major anti-war rally slated for the Scottish capital during the G8 summit meeting, alleging that its organizers have been linked with “violence and disruption.” The UK’s Stop the War Coalition… Read moreEdinburgh police: no anti-war march at G8 summit
On the morning of May 26, a car bomb exploded in Madrid, causing proprty destruction and leaving 50 with mostly minor injuries. Phone calls to media outlets immediately before the explosion warned that it was coming and claimed responsibility in… Read moreArrest after ETA attack “slams door on peace”
A week after calm started to return to Uzbekistan (see out last blog post), signs of simmering unrest continue, and the geopolitics of the conflict are starting to become clearer… Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline (RFE/RL) reported May 23 that… Read moreUzbekistan-China alignment
We applaud Human Rights Watch for continuing to document the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan even as it has fallen off the media radar screen. But we question their assumption that Karzai “needs more support from the US,” given that it… Read moreAfghanistan: Violence Surges
The same day Amnesty International released its annual report with unprecedented criticism for the US, comes this chilling release from Human Rights Watch: Pakistan: US Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally Human Rights Watch Tuesday 24 May 2005 FBI participated in interrogations… Read moreUS citizens tortured in Pakistan
Amnesty International’s 2005 annual report, released today, accuses the US government of damaging human rights worldwide with its attitude to torture and treatment of detainees, which granted “a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity.” The report criticizes the… Read moreAmnesty International annual report blasts US
Although it has recieved little coverage elsewhere, the Cuban daily Ahora reports today that on May 20, Bush received a Cuban-American delegation at the White House led by Luis Zúñiga Rey of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), presumably to… Read moreBush entertains terrorist at White House?
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
