Paula Palmer writes for Global Response Action Alerts: In late January at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuelan indigenous leaders asked Global Response to support them in their struggle to stop construction of open-pit coal mines in their territories…. Read moreAction alert: Venezuelan indigenous oppose coal project
From the New York Times, March 16: The U.S. military has sent about 800 troops from Kuwait to Iraq for extra security to coincide with an expected surge of pilgrims to Muslim shrines in coming days, officials said in Baghdad… Read moreIraq: 800 US troops sent in ahead of Arabeen celebrations
From the New York Times, March 15: Ice Retreats in Arctic for 2nd Year; Some Fear Most of It Will Vanish For the second year in a row, the cloak of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean failed to grow… Read moreArctic ice disappearing fast
Just in case you thought it was still the 20th century. From the technology news site The Inquirer, March 15: Robots break Asimov’s first law And so it begins By Nick Farrell THE US Army is deploying armed robots in… Read moreKiller robots fight in Iraq
A March 3 press release from the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee: Attorney Lynne Stewart now faces another battle for her life: the battle against breast cancer. Ms. Stewart’s sentencing is pending following her conviction last year on charges of aiding… Read moreLynne Stewart battles cancer
From IndyBay.org, March 7: Pyeongtaek, South Korea – On March 6th, 2006, South Korean military riot police began an attack on the autonomous village of Daechuri. For over four years, Daechuri and the nearby community of Doduri have defiantly resisted… Read moreSouth Korea: army sieges “autonomous village”
From Human Rights Watch, March 9: Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch… Read moreIran: police attack Women’s Day march; crackdown on Sufis
From the UK Telegraph, March 12: An SAS soldier has refused to fight in Iraq and has left the Army over the “illegal” tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces. After three months in Baghdad, Ben… Read moreSAS soldier quits over “illegal” US tactics in Iraq
WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg will be speaking on Friday March 10 in Barre, MA, at a double-feature screening of films on the Zapatista movement in Mexico and the civil resistance in Iraq. The latest installment in the Barre Winter… Read moreBill Weinberg to speak on Iraq, Chiapas in Mass.
Feb. 16 marked a full decade since the signing of the San Andres Accords, negotiated by rebel Zapatista commanders and Mexican federal legislators in the restive southern state of Chiapas. The Accords called for changes to the Mexican constitution as… Read moreZapatista tour advances 10 years after stalled peace accord
All press stories on this controversy note that the oil will be exported to China. But, as we have noted, Russia is racing with China to provide a Pacific outlet for Central Asian oil, and we suspect this is the… Read moreRussian pipeline plan threatens Lake Baikal
From AP, March 7, links added: VARANASI – Explosions rocked a packed railway station and crowded Hindu temple Tuesday in Hinduism’s holiest city, and at least 12 people were killed and dozens injured, officials said. Authorities were scrambling to determine… Read moreIndia: explosions rock Hindu holy city
