The following was reported by Amit Cohen in the center-right Israeli paper Ma’ariv in Hebrew on Sept. 19: Abu Mazen instructed his general “Slaughter them” The clip [shown at the Ma’ariv link] apparently shows a meeting in Abu-Mazen’s [President Mahmoud… Read morePalestinian president: Slaughter Hamas
Donald Trump signed an executive order to continue operations at the Guantánamo detention center—not only allowing those currently detained to remain detained, but also permitting the US to bring new persons to the facility. The order comes the same day Trump pledged "to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay" in his State of the Union address—to applause from Republican lawmakers. It also comes nearly nine years to the day after Obama's executive order to begin the process of closing the facility. (Photo: Wikimedia)
We still have quite a way to go to reach our summer fund drive goal, and we really do not want to extend the drive into the fall. Having spent two weeks in Japan at the Iraq solidarity conference hosted… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog THE ISRAEL LOBBY & AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY: REVISITED The Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis Deconstructed by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT YEMEN: THE NEXT QUAGMIRE Washington’s New Terror War Flashpoint? by Mohamed Al-Azaki, WW4 REPORT MAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY… Read moreissue #. 137. September 2007
by Michael Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY People living within five miles or so of any major American waterway can hear their psychotic roar on hot summer evenings. They’re “dick boats”—long, sleek, overpowered speedboats that can cut a sunset cruise into… Read moreAGAINST THE CARBON CULTURE
Continue ReadingAGAINST THE CARBON CULTUREby Al Huebner, Toward Freedom In his column of July 19th in the New York Daily News, Juan Gonzalez reported that the polluted air at Ground Zero seems to have claimed two more victims. The story adds to his chronicle… Read moreNYC: HEALTH HAZARDS RISE FROM DUST OF GROUND ZERO
Continue ReadingNYC: HEALTH HAZARDS RISE FROM DUST OF GROUND ZEROAs Reports Reveal Free Trade’s Empty Promise from Weekly News Update on the Americas Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and US President George W. Bush met Aug. 20-21 in Montebello, in the west of the… Read moreQUEBEC: PROTESTS ROCK NAFTA SECURITY SUMMIT
Continue ReadingQUEBEC: PROTESTS ROCK NAFTA SECURITY SUMMITby Sandra Cuffe, Rights Action “Why are we gathered here tonight?” asked community elder Roberto Caal, looking around at the dozens of women, men and children gathering under the palm-thatched roof of the open-air community hall in Barrio Revolución, in… Read moreGUATEMALA: MAYA RECLAIM LAND FROM MINERAL CARTEL
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MAYA RECLAIM LAND FROM MINERAL CARTELFears of “Civil War” as Constituent Assembly Deadlocks by Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly Having come out of an intense period of political confrontation, including the biggest mobilization in Bolivia’s history, this landlocked country situated in the heart of rebellious… Read moreBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?from IRIN The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. “The new law is a very positive first step. It is only a first step though,” said… Read moreMAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW BE ENOUGH?
Continue ReadingMAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW BE ENOUGH?Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog COLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOX Far-Right Militias Survive “Peace Process” and “Para-Politics” Scandal by Memo Montevino, WW4 REPORT COLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTS from Weekly News Update on the Americas IRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER… Read moreIssue #. 136. August 2007
from Weekly News Update on the Americas The latest headlines from Colombia focus on the ups and downs of the “peace process” with the ultra-right paramilitary network. Talks with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) have—on paper, at least—led… Read moreCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTS
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