A team from the United States is expected to arrive in Bulgaria within days for talks on possible US military bases, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov told a news conference on May 17. Svinarov’s announcement on May 17 confirmed a statement… Read moreU.S. plans more military bases in ex-Soviet sphere
WW4 REPORT readers are aware that the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride in New York City has been facing a severe police crackdown for the past several months, with hundreds arrested, bicycles confiscated, and now a threatened injunction against the… Read moreFree speech rally for NYC Critical Mass
The US defended itself May 20 against charges from states without nuclear weapons that it is failing to fulfill its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). At a month-long conference reviewing the NPT, non-nuclear states dismissed U.S. diplomats’ recitation… Read moreNon-nuclear states challenge US on proliferation
During the Turkish National Day celebration in the eastern city of Siirt this week, helicopter gunships circled over the stadium and sharpshooters stood watch on rooftops–signs of the rising tension in southeast Turkey as Kurdish separatists rekindle an insurgency after… Read morePKK insurgency flares in Turkey
With the world still trying to get a grasp of the magnitude of the violence that has shaken Uzbekistan over the past week, the Uzbek government claims to have retaken (with no bloodshed) the small eastern border town of Korasuv,… Read moreUzbekistan back from the brink?
U.S. Navy conscientious objecotr Pablo Paredes was sentenced to three months hard labor May 13 for refusing deployment to the Persian Gulf. He was also demoted from petty officer third class to seaman recruit, the lowest rank in the Navy…. Read moreConscientious objector gets hard labor—but no jail time
Nepal’s royalist government May 18 freed nine opposition political leaders detained since King Gyanendra seized sweeping emergency powers over three months ago. Nepal’s Supreme Court one day earlier ruled the politicians had been held illegally, and ordered that the detainees,… Read moreNepal: “normalization” of royal dictatorship?
The ongoing protests in Uzbekistan’s eastern city of Andijan exploded into violence yesterday as demonstrators stormed a jail in an effort to free 23 men accused of membership in an Islamist organization and soldiers responded by opening fire on the… Read moreIt hits the fan in Uzbekistan
Navy Petty Officer Pablo Paredes, a Bronx native who refused to board the USS Bonhomme Richard as it was preparing to sail from San Diego in December, was convicted by a Navy judge on a charge of missing his deployment… Read moreConscientious objectors face court martial
BBC reports May 12 on an unprecedented wave of protests against the authoritarian regime of Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan. Every day for the past four months, protesters in the eastern town of Andijan have gathered outside a courthouse where 23… Read moreUnrest in Uzbekistan
Luis Posada Carriles couldn’t have been too happy to see his face on the front page of the New York Times yesterday (“Case of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist,” May 9). The anti-Castro extremist, who is… Read moreCuban terrorist seeks refuge in U.S.
CNN reports May 5: New York – Two “improvised explosive devices” made from “novelty-type grenades” have exploded in front of the building that houses the British Consulate in New York City, police and officials said. The early Thursday morning blasts… Read moreNYC: “improvised grenades” go off at UK consulate; activists face scrutiny
