Dear Readers: World War 4 Report’s autumn hiatus turned out be longer and deeper than we had anticipated, with your chief editor and trusty blogger under a state of force majeure for several weeks. But we are back. The Daily… Read moreComing Soon: World War 4 Report Reloaded
Continue ReadingComing Soon: World War 4 Report Reloadedby Rohan Jayasekera, Index on Censorship With maybe hundreds of human rights activists named in the WikiLeaks files, and frontman Julian Assange threatening to throw them open to the world if “forced” to do so, it’s time for fair assessment… Read moreFRESH EYES NEEDED ON WIKILEAKS’ TROVE OF SECRETS
Continue ReadingFRESH EYES NEEDED ON WIKILEAKS’ TROVE OF SECRETSWikiLeaks Cable Lays Bare Washington’s Stance Toward Bolivia by Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom A classified cable from the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia released by WikiLeaks lays bare an embassy that is biased against the Evo Morales government, underestimates… Read moreTHE AMBASSADOR HAS NO CLOTHES
Continue ReadingTHE AMBASSADOR HAS NO CLOTHESState Department Busted on Support of Coup by Robert Naiman, TruthOut By July 24, 2009, the US government was totally clear about the basic facts of what took place in Honduras on June 28, 2009. The US embassy in Tegucigalpa… Read moreWIKILEAKS HONDURAS
Continue ReadingWIKILEAKS HONDURASfrom Frontera NorteSur If anything could be said about 2010 in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, it might be stated that any semblance of human rights flew out the window. Ushered in with the January murder of Juarez… Read more2010: TURNING POINTS FOR CHIHUAHUA DRUG WAR
Continue Reading2010: TURNING POINTS FOR CHIHUAHUA DRUG WARClimate Change & Indigenous Struggle by Bill Weinberg, NACLA Report on the Americas The stark and arid Bolivian Altilpano is one of the regions of our planet most susceptible to the impacts of climate change—ominous portents can already be seen…. Read moreBOLIVIA’S NEW WATER WARS
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA’S NEW WATER WARSby Michelle Chen, ColorLines After days of agonizing negotiations, the climate conference in Cancún ended on a somewhat hopeful note, with a last-minute agreement that largely reflects the lowered expectations that permeated the atmosphere of the conference. The provisions are… Read moreCANCUN PACT: NO VICTORY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
Continue ReadingCANCUN PACT: NO VICTORY FOR CLIMATE JUSTICELatin American progressive governments still bet on “extractivismo” by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, Latin America Energy & Environment Monitor Surely no Bolivian head of state has ever been as famous an international celebrity as Evo Morales. His pronouncements on environmental protection and… Read moreBOLIVIA’S CLIMATE PARADOX
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA’S CLIMATE PARADOXWestern Leaders and the New “Barbarian Invasions” by Giulio D’Eramo, World War 4 Report The most remarkable event signaling the racist shift in Europe’s politics in 2010 was probably the mid-September crisis over a leaked French document showing the explicit… Read more2010: EUROPE’S “SUMMER OF INTOLERANCE”
Continue Reading2010: EUROPE’S “SUMMER OF INTOLERANCE”Our post “Enough with the Julian Assange hero worship” has accrued nearly 3,000 hits in three days (compared with a typical 300 or less in this period), as well as 59 comments—overwhelmingly negative. Ironically, some readers have urged us to… Read moreWikiLeaks and the Belarus affair
Continue ReadingWikiLeaks and the Belarus affairContinued from node 6211 Operation Defensive Shield The Sept. 11, 2001 devastating terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and New York’s World Trade Center would of course open a new era of US military adventures nearly throughout the Islamic world. In… Read moreTHE DISPOSSESSION OF THE PALESTINIANS, PT. III
Continue ReadingTHE DISPOSSESSION OF THE PALESTINIANS, PT. III
A suicide bomber killed himself and injured several others on a bus as it travelled to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. The blast, on the road from the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed a bomb attack in a Kampala café two days earlier that killed a worker and injured three others. The police described the devices as "crude." Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State in Central Africa, which is said to be operating in both Uganda and Congo through the former Uganda-based opposition group, the Allied Democratic Forces, although exact links are uncertain. (Photo: Travel Aficionado via Flickr)
