Washington’s Counter-insurgency Laboratory—from Mexico to Afghanistan by Bill Weinberg, NACLA News The Merida Initiative, Washington’s new security program for Mexico and Central America, was immediately dubbed “Plan Mexico” by its critics—implying it is a new version of Plan Colombia. In… Read morePLAN COLOMBIA: EXPORTING THE MODEL
Continue ReadingPLAN COLOMBIA: EXPORTING THE MODELFederal Courts Dismiss Workers’ Case by Paul Wolf, World War 4 Report On August 11, 2009, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta affirmed the dismissal of a case against the Coca-Cola Company and its Colombian subsidiaries,… Read moreCOCA-COLA: OFF THE HOOK FOR COLOMBIA TERROR
Continue ReadingCOCA-COLA: OFF THE HOOK FOR COLOMBIA TERRORby Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur The following story, filed October 4 by the independent news service Frontera NorteSur, is a report on the US War on Drugs conference held in El Paso, Texas, on September 21 and 22 of this… Read moreDEINDUSTRIALIZATION, DRUGS AND RECOVERY
Continue ReadingDEINDUSTRIALIZATION, DRUGS AND RECOVERYCriminalization and Death for Indigenous Struggle by José Quintero Weir, El Libertario, Caracas The editorial collective of the Caracas anarchist journal El Libertario denounces the criminal attack that took place on Oct. 13, 2009 against the Yukpa people in the… Read moreVENEZUELA: DEMARCATION WITHOUT LAND
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: DEMARCATION WITHOUT LANDThe Bolivarian Government Against Union Autonomy by Rafael Uzcategui, Tierra y Libertad Orlando Chirino, a revolutionary Venezuelan labor leader, has recently denounced the Bolivarian government as “anti-worker and anti-union.” It would be difficult to accuse Chirino of being a “golpista”… Read moreVENEZUELAN LABOR BETWEEN CHAVEZ AND THE GOLPISTAS
Continue ReadingVENEZUELAN LABOR BETWEEN CHAVEZ AND THE GOLPISTASTheir Fight for Workers and Against Occupation from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio On October 5, “Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report,” hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash on New York’s non-commercial WBAI Radio, ran an interview with four… Read moreIRAQI LABOR LEADERS SPEAK
Continue ReadingIRAQI LABOR LEADERS SPEAKDear readers: This upcoming 9-11 anniversary will mark eight years that World War 4 Report has been publishing. We have only kept it going because nobody else is doing it, and we consider it vital: a daily digest of the… Read moreWHITHER WORLD WAR 4 REPORT?
Continue ReadingWHITHER WORLD WAR 4 REPORT?Landfilling old gas-guzzlers for new gas-guzzlers isn’t green—it’s a subsidy by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY Let’s be honest and get one simple fact straight. The Obama administration’s “Cash for Clunkers” program is a $1 billion subsidy to the… Read moreA BILLION BUCKS FOR CLUNKERS AIN’T GREEN
Continue ReadingA BILLION BUCKS FOR CLUNKERS AIN’T GREENClimate Bill Offers Pseudo-Solutions by Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom A palpable sense of triumph accompanied the passage last month of a first-of-its-kind global warming bill in the US House of Representatives. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of the bill’s… Read morePOLITICS-AS-USUAL WHILE THE PLANET BURNS
Continue ReadingPOLITICS-AS-USUAL WHILE THE PLANET BURNSMalthus, Biofuels and Free-Market Environmentalism by Carmelo Ruiz Marrero, World War 4 Report The Washington DC-based Worldwatch Institute is no ordinary environmental organization. Founded by environmental maverick Lester Brown, a man hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the… Read moreWORLDWATCH PLAYS ALONG
Continue ReadingWORLDWATCH PLAYS ALONGby Nikolas Kozloff, Señor Chichero When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana. Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company… Read moreHONDURAS: THE BANANA CONNECTION —AGAIN
Continue ReadingHONDURAS: THE BANANA CONNECTION —AGAINU.S. Right Mobilizes to Support Putsch by Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report It’s a sign of hope that no nation on earth has yet recognized the de facto regime that took power in Honduras June 28, when the military… Read moreOTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP?
Continue ReadingOTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP?
