Lawyers for the US Department of Justice defended the six-year detention of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur Muslim, at Guantanamo Bay in oral arguments before the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit April 4. The US claims Parhat… Read moreUS defends detention of Uighurs at Gitmo; China defends detention of Uighurs in Xinjiang
Troops from the paramilitary People’s Armed Police (PAP) and Public Security Bureau (PSB) fired on hundreds of protesters led by Buddhist monks at Kardze in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Sichuan province April 3, leaving eight dead. The protest… Read moreTibet: deadly repression continues
Judges at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague April 3 found two former commanders of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA), Kosova’s ex-prime minister Ramush Haradinaj and Idriz Balaj, not guilty on all charges. A third ex-KLA defendant, Lahi… Read moreAccused KLA war criminal Ramush Haradinaj acquitted
Some 40 activists marched against the NATO summit in Bucharest April 3, beating on drums and chanting “Stop the war, stop NATO” and “NATO out of Bucharest.” In a pre-emptive strike before the march, Romanian security forces broke into a… Read moreProtesters attacked at Bucharest NATO summit
Tanks have been deployed in parts of southern Yemen after a fifth day of angry protests by thousands of mostly young people. Youth are blocking roads and burning tires, and up to 100 have been arrested. In al-Dalea, two police… Read moreRiots rock Yemen
From Naftana (“Our Oil” in Arabic), an independent UK-based committee supporting democratic trade unionism in Iraq, March 28: In a series of telephone calls from Basra over the past 48 hours, Iraqi trade union activists appeal for solidarity and describe… Read moreBasra assault threatens trade unionists
More than three years after a brutal massacre of two families in the Peace Community of San JosĂ© de ApartadĂł, Colombian prosecutors issued arrest warrants for 15 Army soldiers for participating in the killing and for terrorism. (FiscalĂa press release,… Read moreColombia: soldiers arrested in Peace Community massacre
Argentine farmer groups and the government of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner held six hours of talks on March 28 aimed at ending a 16-day-old producers’ strike that had restricted food supplies in major cities. Strike supporters lifted some of… Read moreArgentina: farmers strike continues
An ongoing occupation of threatened oak trees on the campus of UC Berkeley reached its 485th day March 30. Perversely, the grove of some 90 California oaks was planted in 1923 as a memorial to Californians who lost their lives… Read moreBerkeley tree-sit nears 500 days
Turkish jets and artillery fired missiles and shells on Kurdish guerilla camps in northern Iraq March 29, killing at least 15 PKK fighters, the General Staff said in a statement on its web site. The statement said guerillas had been… Read moreTurkey bombs Iraq —yet again!
Award-winning journalist and World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg will present a video and discussion at the Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library in Oakland, CA, on the Iraq Freedom Congress, a new alliance of trade unions, women’s organizations, neighborhood assemblies and… Read moreWorld War 4 Report’s Bill Weinberg to speak in Oakland on Iraq’s civil resistance
Our March issue featured the story “Phantom Republics: Kosovo’s Independence Reverberates Across Eurasia,” by Rene Wadlow, a reprint from Toward Freedom. Wrote Wadlow: “The self-proclamation of independence by Kosovo may be the last act in the division of former Yugoslavia,… Read moreOur readers write: whither Kosova?
