Despite expressing “reservations” in a signing statement, President Obama approved the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, with controversial provisions that codify into law the indefinite detention of terror suspects.
Deadly ethnic clashes in Nigeria and a state of emergency in response to Boko Haram attacks come amid a massive oil spill in the Delta region—and government plans to drop fuel subsidies, leading to calls for a general strike.
Shortly before the ball dropped in Times Square, hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters swarmed over police barricades at downtown Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, retaking the plaza before being evicted in a police charge.
Mexican authorities announced the arrest this month of two more leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel—but the notorious top kingpin Joaquin Guzmán AKA “El Chapo” remains at large, fueling speculation that he is protected by the government and DEA.
Even as the Israeli government turns more East Jerusalem land over to hardline Jewish settlers, ultra-orthodox Jews clashed with police at Beit Shemesh suburb over a crackdown on their attempts to enforce gender segregation.
Bill Weinberg interviews Andrew Kliman of the Marxist-Humanist Initiative, author of The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession.
From now through the first week of January, World War 4 Report will be on semi-hiatus, with a low level of activity, while editor and chief blogger Bill Weinberg takes a well-earned stay-at-home vacation and sees to some personal matters.
Online accounts say three were killed as security forces used batons and tear gas to clear a blockade of an expressway in Shantou prefecture by hundreds of protesters opposing construction of a coal-buring power plant.
Local environmentalists and Philippine opposition lawmakers charge that unbridled logging and mining activities in Northern Mindanao are behind the devastating floods that have left nearly 1,000 dead and hundreds missing.
Peru’s President Ollanta Humala called off the state of emergency in Cajamarca region after local leaders agreed to suspend their civil strike against Newmont Mining Corp.’s Conga gold project pending talks with the government.
Unknown gunmen opened fire on a helicopter carrying Freeport-McMoRan mining company workers in Indonesia’s restive West Papua, injuring one passenger. The attacks comes as thousands of workers settled a months-long strike.
Kazakh interior ministry troops fired on striking oil workers in the Caspian Basin city Zhanaozen, leaving at least 10 dead. The violence came in a move to oust hundreds of workers from a square they had been occupying for six months.
