from Weekly News Update on the Americas: Costa Rican president Oscar Arias announced on April 13 that his government will hold a referendum on the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA), a trade accord between the US and Costa… Read moreCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNED
Continue ReadingCOSTA RICA: CAFTA REFERENDUM PLANNEDby Marc Becker, Upside Down World Thousands of Indigenous peoples from 24 countries gathered in Guatemala on March 26 for the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. After U.S. President George W. Bush visited the… Read moreCONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALA
Continue ReadingCONTINENTAL INDIGENOUS SUMMIT IN GUATEMALATucked away on the April 21 letters page of the UK Guardian, 130 British doctors are calling to boycott the Israeli Medical Association. Dr. Derek Summerfield, who wrote a scathing report on Israeli war crimes in the Oct 16, 2004… Read moreBritish doctors call for boycott of Israeli Medical Association
BBC Monitoring reports on a March 14 story on the website of the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, “Libya hints at [possibility of] expelling the Palestinians under the pretext of combating settlement in the diaspora”: The Palestinians have expressed surprise at… Read moreLibya to expel Palestinians?
Dear WW4 REPORT Readers: We hate to extend our winter fund drive into the first month of spring, but we really do have to at least make our first thousand before we call it off. We are $200 short. The… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog IRAN: THE LEFT OPPOSITION SPEAKS An Interview with Bina Darabzand of Salam Democrat Against Bush, Against Ahmadinejad, For Oaxaca by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT SUFISM: THE MIDWAY BETWEEN EXTREMISMS Indigenous North Africa Between Jihad and… Read moreIssue #. 131. March 2007
From the Palestine Solidarity Project (PSP), Feb.9: Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot 6 Children in Beit Ommar After prayer today at approximately 11:30, residents of Beit Ommar held a non-violent demonstration against the Israeli construction work that is threatening the structure… Read moreIsraeli troops shoot six children in Hebron district
J. Zel Lurie writes the following for the South Florida Jewish Journal (via Kibush), Feb. 15 edition: Military rule of West Bank surpasses South Africa’s apartheid Abe Foxman, the ADL chieftain should stop crying gevalt over Jimmy Carter’s best-seller Palestine:… Read moreFlorida Jewish weekly: Israel’s occupation worse than apartheid
For starters, a couple of apologies. Yes, our February issue is coming out five days late, and our daily weblog has been inactive for nearly a week. This is because your hard-working editor (yours truly) has been down with the… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:Stephen Kinzer Traces a Century of Destabilization by Tom Cornell, The Catholic Worker OVERTHROW: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer Times Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York 2006 From the Introduction: “Why does… Read moreTHE LONG ARC OF REGIME CHANGE
Continue ReadingTHE LONG ARC OF REGIME CHANGEThe Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT What the Bush administration is calling a victory over a strange new insurgent militia in Iraq is actually a sign of the terrifying fragmentation of the war into… Read moreBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”
Continue ReadingBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today On January 8, some 200 Guatemalan army troops and twice as many national police occupied two Qeq’chi (Kekchi) Maya indigenous communities at El Estor, a… Read moreGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA
