Mexico’s Internal “Surge” on the Rio Grande from Frontera NorteSur In an operation reminiscent of the US military surge in Iraq two years ago, thousands of Mexican soldiers and federal police are swarming the streets of Ciudad Juárez. On a… Read moreCIUDAD JUÁREZ MILITARIZED
Continue ReadingCIUDAD JUÁREZ MILITARIZEDDear World War 4 Report Readers: We’re more than half way to our necessary winter fund-drive goal of $2,000. Please help us meet this goal so we can continue our work. And please do it today, so we don’t have… Read morePLEASE HELP WORLD WAR 4 REPORT SURVIVE!
Continue ReadingPLEASE HELP WORLD WAR 4 REPORT SURVIVE!Low-Intensity War in Michoacán and Guerrero from Frontera NorteSur A glance at Mexico’s ongoing narco war reveals a low-intensity civil conflict that rises, subsides and then rears up again in various geographic locations. For example, the northern border city of… Read moreMEXICO’S SOUTHWESTERN FRONT
Continue ReadingMEXICO’S SOUTHWESTERN FRONTby Bill Weinberg, AlterNet A year-end report by the Pentagon’s Joint Forces Command names two countries as likely candidates for a “rapid and sudden collapse”: Pakistan and Mexico. The report, code-named JOE 2008 (for Joint Operating Environment), states: “In terms… Read moreOBAMA’S BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE: MEXICO?
Continue ReadingOBAMA’S BIGGEST FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE: MEXICO?The Struggle for Central Asia After the Bush Dynasty by Sarkis Pogossian, World War 4 Report In November 2001, as the US assembled a coalition to invade Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, the British Foreign Secretary Jack… Read moreOBAMA AND THE GREAT GAME
Continue ReadingOBAMA AND THE GREAT GAMEResource Wars on Venezuela’s Indigenous Frontier from El Mundo/Libertario, Caracas The information glut regarding the February referendum on Venezuela’s Constitutional amendment has hidden serious events happening in the state of Zulia, in particular the Sierra de Perijá along the Colombian… Read moreTERROR IN PERIJÁ
Continue ReadingTERROR IN PERIJÁHemispheric Militarization in “Free Trade” Guise by Laura Carlsen, CIP Americas Program When the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was negotiated and signed in the early 90s, few people were thinking about its security implications. Environmentalists objected, fearing a… Read moreNAFTA’S DANGEROUS SECURITY AGENDA
Continue ReadingNAFTA’S DANGEROUS SECURITY AGENDAThousands of “Enemy Combatants” Held in Global Gulag by Matt Vogel, Catholic Worker Jan. 11, 2009 began the eighth year of operation for the prisons at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In the past few months, Guantánamo… Read morePRISONS BEYOND GUANTANAMO
Continue ReadingPRISONS BEYOND GUANTANAMOby Ted Trainer, Synthesis/Regeneration An excerpt from the introduction to the book Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society (Springer 2007) In the last three decades considerable concern has emerged regarding limits to the future availability of energy in the… Read moreRENEWABLE ENERGY CANNOT SUSTAIN A CONSUMER SOCIETY
Continue ReadingRENEWABLE ENERGY CANNOT SUSTAIN A CONSUMER SOCIETYby Rachel Smolker and Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom In the coming weeks, the Obama administration is expected to release its plans to address the dual problems of global climate disruption and excessive dependence on foreign oil. Meanwhile, in the background,… Read moreBIOFUELS: PROMISE OR THREAT?
Continue ReadingBIOFUELS: PROMISE OR THREAT?Dear World War 4 Report Readers: We are now half way to our necessary winter fund-drive goal of $2,000. After Obama took office, the Washington Post announced in a headline: “Bush’s ‘War’ On Terror Comes to a Sudden End.” This… Read moreDEEP-WINTER MESSAGE TO OUR READERS
Continue ReadingDEEP-WINTER MESSAGE TO OUR READERSby Jennifer Blowdryer and Alvin Orloff, Zeek For years and years, hipsters and avant garde types (at least here in America) liked Jews…a lot. Jews were the chosen people of hip rebellion: antisemitism was the preserve of bigots in small… Read moreHIPSTER ANTI-SEMITISM
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