One question that needs to be asked, is how much of the Iraqi bloodbath is due to the “Salvador option” strategem that Newsweek claimed Negroponte wanted to employ to quell the Sunni insurgency, using Shia militias. From AP, Dec. 1:… Read moreIntel supremo: Iraq worse than Nam
Dear WW4 REPORT Readers: This marks the end of a fifth year of bringing you cutting-edge reports from the global fronts in the War on Terrorism, as well as reviews, digests and analysis—providing news and perspectives available nowhere else. If… Read moreWinter Fund Drive
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Hundreds of residents in the southern Italian town of Riace took to the streets to express support for their mayor, Domenico (Miimmo) Lucano, after he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on charges related to his policy of providing safe harbor for immigrants. Following a probe dubbed "Xenia" (ironically, the ancient Greek word for hospitality), Lucano was charged with "aiding and abetting illegal immigration" among other crimes. Riace, on the Ionian coast of Calabria region, was facing population decline, like many small towns in Italy's South, and Lucano sought to arrest this trend by welcoming migrants and asylum-seekers to settle there. Under his proclaimed modello di accoglienza (model of welcoming), the municipal government helped hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers from Africa and the Middle East to establish themselves in Riace. Despite his conviction, Lucano remains a candidate for regional president in Calabria's upcoming elections. (Photo: Wikipedia)
“Green Energy” Panacea or Just the Latest Hype? by Brian Tokar, WW4 REPORT You can hardly open up a major newspaper or national magazine these days without encountering the latest hype about biofuels, and how they’re going to save oil,… Read moreTHE REAL SCOOP ON BIOFUELS
Continue ReadingTHE REAL SCOOP ON BIOFUELSRafael Correa and the Popular Movements by Yeidy Rosa, WW4 REPORT When Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador’s richest man, won enough votes during the October 15 first round of the presidential election to advance into the final runoff on November 26, rural… Read moreECUADOR’S CHAVEZ?
Continue ReadingECUADOR’S CHAVEZ?Mexican State Plays Ethnic Divide-and-Rule in the Chiapas Rainforest by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT When Mexico's President Vicente Fox was elected six years ago, he pledged he would end the long-simmering Chiapas revolt "in fifteen minutes." Now, as his successor… Read moreTHE STRUGGLE FOR THE LACANDON SELVA
Continue ReadingTHE STRUGGLE FOR THE LACANDON SELVAA Model for the Korean Peninsula? by Rene Wadlow, Toward Freedom With a political sky darkened by the nuclear weapon test of North Korea and the growing tensions over the nuclear program of Iran, a ray of sunlight comes from… Read moreNUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIA
Continue ReadingNUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIADissected Nations Oppose Wall and Militarization by Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program Indigenous peoples at the Border Summit of the Americas on Tohono O’odham tribal land opposed the construction of a border wall, which will dissect indigenous communities on ancestral… Read moreINDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMIT
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMITfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: The Bolivian government of President Evo Morales Ayma met on Nov. 25 with right-wing opposition forces to try to resolve a political crisis that came to a head when the rightwing Democratic and… Read moreBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACK
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On Oct. 23, after a weekend of intense negotiations, the Achuar indigenous nation reached an agreement with the Peruvian government and the Argentine oil company Pluspetrol, bringing an end to a nearly two-week… Read morePERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHT
Continue ReadingPERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 3, environmentalists in the cities of Gualeguaychu and Colon in the eastern Argentine province of Entre Rios blocked the border bridges leading to Uruguay to protest continuing efforts to build a… Read moreURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
Continue ReadingURUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMITInterventionist Legacy Behind Zulia Separatist Movement by Nikolas Kozloff, WW4 REPORT With the Venezuelan presidential election fast approaching on December 3, political tensions have reached a new high. Recently, the Venezuelan Attorney General initiated an investigation to determine whether a… Read moreVENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONE
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