Far-Right Militias Survive “Peace Process” and “Para-Politics” Scandal by Memo Montevino, WW4 REPORT On July 24, Colombia’s imprisoned paramilitary warlords announced they were cutting off cooperation with prosecutors investigating massacres and other atrocities—throwing into question the country’s peace process. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOX
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOXAs you read this, I am flying to Japan at the invitation of the National Assembly for Peace & Democracy (Zenko) to attend a second conference in solidarity with Iraq’s civil resistance, and especially the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC). Our… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Occupied Iraq’s Not-So-Distant Mirror by Bill Weinberg, Middle East Policy Book Review: The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism by Michael Provence University of Texas, Austin, 2005 The comparison is nowhere made explicitly, but the subtext for… Read moreINSURGENT SYRIA, 1925
Continue ReadingINSURGENT SYRIA, 1925“Verging on Genocide” in the Czech Republic? by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT PRAGUE — For almost two decades now it has been possible for just about anyone from the outside world, including people from the formerly taboo democracies of the… Read moreROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATION
Continue ReadingROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATIONby Reza Fiyouzat, Dissident Voice Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran have either been absent from the Western left’s discourse—or have been getting the short end of the stick from some in the US left…. Read moreIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
Continue ReadingIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWERFrom Israel Indymedia (via Kibush), June 25: Tonight we, a group of autonomous women activists, have protested against the Akerstein Company and its support for the Separation Wall. We have acted at the Akerstein sales center at Herzlia Pituach- we… Read moreIsrael: activists glue wall company shut
Summer’s here—and time is right for the twice-yearly fund drive that sustains our existence. We hope that WW4 REPORT represents a unique voice in a frankly over-saturated blogosphere. While too much of the media—including the “alternative” media—today condescendingly tell the… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog IRAQ: A NEW AGE OF GENOCIDE? by Bill Weinberg, New America Media VOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERS Oil & Utility Union Leaders on the Struggle Against Privatization from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio ISRAEL & PALESTINE:… Read moreIssue #. 135. July 2007
Oil & Utility Union Leaders on the Struggle Against Privatization from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio On June 18, “Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report,” hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on New York’s non-commercial WBAI Radio, ran an… Read moreVOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERS
Continue ReadingVOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERSby Bill Weinberg, New America Media Amid daily media body counts and analyses of whether the “surge” is “working,” there is an even more horrific reality in Iraq, almost universally overlooked. The latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights… Read moreNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQ
Continue ReadingNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQIs There a Model-T in Your Future? by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY I remember the future. I believe we were supposed to be wearing silver suits and zipping about in atomic-powered hovercrafts. The future of my childhood, however,… Read moreTHE GAS-GUZZLER LOBBY STOPS TIME
Continue ReadingTHE GAS-GUZZLER LOBBY STOPS TIMEThe ILEA in El Salvador from CISPES On June 22, the US House of Representatives voted to approve “foreign operations” funding for 2008, including the funds for International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEAs), the School of the Americas, and a number… Read moreEXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingEXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICA
