We recently reported that U.S. military forces have been approved to engage in drug enforcement operations in Afghanistan. Now comes this report of DEA agents in New York busting a major opium lord said to be linked to the Taliban… Read moreAfghan drug lord busted
Kudos to Pacific New Service for picking up our recent commentary on the coordinated propaganda blitz against Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. Readers of WW4 REPORT are aware that within a week of each other, Otto Reich called in a National Review… Read moreJINSA, National Review in anti-Chavez blitz
Even after the Justice Department has blinked in the case of whistle-blowing FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, declassifying her claims and allowing her suit to go ahead, the judiciary is now blocking public accesss to the proceedings… The Silencing of Sibel… Read moreCourts silence Sibel Edmonds
From a blogger working with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other groups comes this April 16 appeal on the case of two teenage Muslim girls detained on immigration charges following spurious claims they had been considering suicide-terror martyrdom:… Read moreNYC: Appeal for detained immigrant girls
Hours after polls closed in Saudi Arabia’s third and final round of quasi-democratic elections, presumed Islamic militants attacked a security checkpoint in the holy city of Mecca, sparking a gunbattle in which one police officer was killed and several wounded…. Read moreClashes in Mecca
Italy has finally blinked. Afer two generations of delay, the first of three pieces of a third-century Ethiopian obelisk plundered by the Italian fascist occupation in the 1930s has touched ground in the ancient city of Axum, where it was… Read moreItaly blinks in obelisk controversy
Unfortunately, the recent victory for indigenous land rights in Brazil may be followed by a rollback of recent gains for indigenous peoples in Botswana–where the world is paying even less attention. Reads an April 18 alert from Survival International: Botswana’s… Read moreBotswana: indigenous rights under attack
Hopes for a moderately progressive pontiff who could loosen up the Chuch line on the supposed evils of condoms in the age of AIDS–or even an African or Latin American one who could help Catholicism rally against the aggressive inroads… Read morePope Benedict XVI: The empire strikes back
Globophobe activists protested the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington DC this weekend, tho BBC reports that they numbered in the hundreds rather than the thousands–a testament to how dissent has been sidetracked and… Read moreWorld Bank/IMF protests in DC
From the Washington Post, April 14: A detainee at a U.S. military prison alleges that U.S. military guards jumped on his head until he had a stroke that paralyzed his face, nearly drowned him in a toilet and later broke… Read moreGitmo prisoner sues to get torture video
The business-continuity newsletter Continuity Central and the ecologist EarthTimes.org are among the few media outlets to take note that the long-awaited study of why the World Trade Center collapsed has been released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology…. Read moreNIST releases WTC collapse study
Italy has once again retreated from a repeated pledge to return to Ethiopia a third-century 75-foot obelisk from the ancient city of Axum which fascist dictator Benito Mussolini brought to Rome as a prize of conquest after his invasion and… Read moreItaly plays politics with Ethiopian obelisk
