On Sept. 25 the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives voted to approve the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA, or TLC in Spanish), moving the agreement closer to approval by the full Congress. The bilateral trade… Read morePeru FTA moves forward in Washington —despite protests
Tens of thousands of people mobilized throughout Argentina on Sept. 20 to demand that human rights witness Jorge Julio Lopez, who disappeared on Sept. 18, 2006, be returned alive. More than 20,000 people marched in Buenos Aires from the Congress… Read moreArgentina: thousands protest disappearance
Our September issue featured the story “The Israel Lobby & Global Hegemony: Revisited” by WW4R editor Bill Weinberg, arguing that “Israel replicates the historical cycles of Jewish scapegoating by serving as imperialism’s proxy.” Refuting the thesis of John Mearsheimer and… Read moreThe Mearsheimer-Walt thesis: our readers write
A commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards died after an ambush on Sept. 20 by Ahwazi militants. Mehdi Bayat was killed near the Revolutionary Guards base in Hamidiyah, near Ahwaz City in western Khuzestan province, where Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority have… Read moreIran: Revolutionary Guard commander assassinated
Former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan famously spills the beans in his new memoir, The Age of Turbulence: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” (London… Read moreAlan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein: who has rights to Iraq’s oil?
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 24: On September 24, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a petition to the Supreme Court asking it to intervene in the case of Libyan Guantánamo client Abdul Ra’ouf Al Qassim… Read moreGitmo detainee fears “disappearance” to Libya
From the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25 (links added): WASHINGTON — A decision Monday night by a military court of review will pave the way for the Pentagon to restart its terrorism tribunals for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…. Read moreRuling paves way for Gitmo tribunals
On Sept. 14, dozens of immigrant workers from Haiti marched through several localities in the northwest of the Dominican Republic to demand their basic rights. The protesters, most of them undocumented agricultural workers, held signs showing newspaper articles about oppressive… Read moreHaitian workers march in Dominican Republic
On Sept. 21 the Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) urged President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa to start “the gradual withdrawal” of the military from a high-profile anti-crime campaign he launched at the beginning of the year. The CNDH based… Read moreMexico: report army drug war abuses
Employment and wages declined in Mexican maquiladoras (tax-exempt assembly plants producing for export) during the 2000-2006 administration of former president Vicente Fox Quesada, according to a report by Huberto Juarez Nunez, an economics analyst at the Distinguished Autonomous University of… Read moreMexico: maquilas declined under Fox
On Sept. 15, some 100 people rallied outside the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, a privately-run immigration prison, to protest the treatment of immigration detainees. The rally culminated a week-long 105-mile march through six counties, organized by the Prison… Read moreAnti-ICE protest at Georgia prison; nationwide raids continue
From the New York Times, Sept. 19: World’s Languages Dying Off RapidlyOf the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century. In fact, they… Read moreGlobal language die-back accelerates
