Received by e-mail from UK Pledge of Resistance: SUPPORT MALCOLM KENDALL SMITH Yesterday, Malcolm Kendall-Smith, a Flight Lieutenant with the RAF was jailed for 8 months for refusing to go to Iraq on the grounds that the war was illegal…. Read moreRAF conscientious objector imprisoned
Is forgotten Mongolia about to enter the global stage? Suddenly civil unrest breaks out in the capital, Ulan Bator, with a struggle over mineral resources in the background. Dare we hope that the anti-government protesters represent an indigenous ecological movement… Read moreProtests rock Mongolian capital
More than a year after Kyrgyzstan’s “Tulip Revolution,” the supposed democratic renewal isn’t looking too good, is it? President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, so recently a revolutionary leader, now warns against “lawlessness and anarchy” like a good despot. But is he Washington’s… Read moreKyrgyzstan: opposition leader survives attack
From UPI, April 3: HANIA, Greece — The director of the Mediterranean Architecture Center in Hania on the Greek island of Crete is incensed that all the center’s security cameras have been stolen. Aris Papadoyiannis told the Kathimerini news service… Read moreGreece: anarchists steal security cameras
Two US Black Hawk combat helicopters were observed flying over the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti on at least two occasions in March: 4:00-4:30 AM on March 23 and 10 PM-12:00 AM on March 24. The flights, reported… Read moreHaiti: Domincan authorities probe US flights over border zone
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 49 Mexicans and two Salvadorans on March 30 and 31 in Merced County in central California. ICE said all those arrested had prior deportation orders. In at least two cases, ICE seized… Read moreImmigration update: ICE pulls kids off school buses, Senate compromise falters
From the Wayne Madsen Report, via VHeadline.com, April 6: In a replay of US naval maneuvers held during the time the Bush administration tried to unseat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in an April 2002 abortive coup, the US Navy is… Read moreVenezuela: US Naval maneuvers encourage Zulia separatists?
From AFP, April 6: TWO British grandmothers are facing up to a year in prison after being arrested under new anti-terrorism legislation that outlaws protests at military bases, The Independent newspaper said today. Helen John, 68, and Sylvia Boyes, 62,… Read moreUK: grandmas face prison in “anti-terrorism” case
Police in Nepal opened fire to break up anti-King protestors. Separately an attack by Maoist rebels last night left 22 people dead. Opposition parties said authorities detained dozens of protest leaders in Kathmandu. The four-day protest was called against the… Read moreNepal: violence meets four-day strike against king
A school textbook used in India’s western Rajasthan state compares housewives with donkeys and says the animals are more loyal and make better companions, The Times of India reported. The book was approved by the state’s governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya… Read moreIndia school textbook: donkeys better than women
Seventy-six members of the Nukak-Makú, the last nomadic indigenous group in Colombia, including 27 children, arrived March 6 at the town of San José de Guaviare, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. They arrived naked, exhausted and frightened, fleeing… Read moreEthnic cleansing in Colombian Amazon
WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg will be speaking Thursday, April 6 on New York’s Lower East Side, on “International Solidarity with Iraq’s Freedom Struggles.” The presentation will also include a screening of the new DVD Go Forward, Iraqi Freedom Congress!,… Read moreBill Weinberg to speak on Iraqi civil resistance
