The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have posted a video claiming responsibility for the attempted Times Square car-bomb attack. Police say they dismiss the claim.
Our April Exit Poll was: “Is the new healthcare bill a small step for social justice, or big one towards corporate totalitarianism?” We received the following two rather diametrically opposed responses: From JG in New York City: A small step… Read moreThe healthcare bill and corporate rule: our readers write
Police clashed in Athens May 1 with thousands of protesters marching against new austerity measures the Greek government is to adopt. A general strike is called for May 5.
Conservationists fear the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will affect migratory bird populations from Alaska to South America.
Two are dead and at least five missing after a paramilitary ambush on a human rights caravan in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico.
As the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth opens in Cochabamba, Aymara indigenous leaders are demanding an “eighteenth table” on Bolivia’s social conflicts.
The conservative opposition government in Bolivia’s lowland department of Santa Cruz is refusing to recognize the election of two indigenous lawmakers to the local assembly
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg is in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to cover the alternative conference on climate change that President Evo Morales has called. The conference opens tomorrow, and we hope to be posting daily on-the-scene reports.
Residents of Islay, Peru, blocked the Panamerican Highway to protest a proposed copper project, which they charge places local water sources and agriculture at risk.
Bolivia’s Justice Ministry announced that the remains of a presumed “disappeared” follower of Che Guevara’s guerilla movement were exhumed in the General Cemetary of La Paz.
The government of Evo Morales charges that elite Masonic lodges helped organize and finance the “terrorist” conspiracy to launch a secessionist movement in Santa Cruz department.
One was killed as police evicted squatters in Santa Cruz, while campesinos ransacked the intallations of a Sumitomo-owned mining company in Potosi to protest water pollution.
