by Al Huebner, Toward Freedom In his column of July 19th in the New York Daily News, Juan Gonzalez reported that the polluted air at Ground Zero seems to have claimed two more victims. The story adds to his chronicle… Read moreNYC: HEALTH HAZARDS RISE FROM DUST OF GROUND ZERO
Continue ReadingNYC: HEALTH HAZARDS RISE FROM DUST OF GROUND ZEROAs Reports Reveal Free Trade’s Empty Promise from Weekly News Update on the Americas Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa and US President George W. Bush met Aug. 20-21 in Montebello, in the west of the… Read moreQUEBEC: PROTESTS ROCK NAFTA SECURITY SUMMIT
Continue ReadingQUEBEC: PROTESTS ROCK NAFTA SECURITY SUMMITby Sandra Cuffe, Rights Action “Why are we gathered here tonight?” asked community elder Roberto Caal, looking around at the dozens of women, men and children gathering under the palm-thatched roof of the open-air community hall in Barrio Revolución, in… Read moreGUATEMALA: MAYA RECLAIM LAND FROM MINERAL CARTEL
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MAYA RECLAIM LAND FROM MINERAL CARTELFears of “Civil War” as Constituent Assembly Deadlocks by Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly Having come out of an intense period of political confrontation, including the biggest mobilization in Bolivia’s history, this landlocked country situated in the heart of rebellious… Read moreBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: END OF THE NEW SOCIAL PACT?from IRIN The Mauritanian government must take additional measures to ensure a new law criminalizing slavery has an effect, human rights activists say. “The new law is a very positive first step. It is only a first step though,” said… Read moreMAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW BE ENOUGH?
Continue ReadingMAURITANIA: WILL NEW ANTI-SLAVERY LAW BE ENOUGH?Washington’s New Terror War Flashpoint? by Mohamed Al-Azaki MARIB, Yemen – “After the Spaniards, who will be next to die in this vibrant, ‘living museum,’ as Yemenis call their country?” So asked one member of a group of Italian tourists… Read moreYEMEN: THE NEXT QUAGMIRE
Continue ReadingYEMEN: THE NEXT QUAGMIREThe Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis Deconstructed by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy is this month to be released as a book—for which authors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt are said to have received a $750,000 advance… Read moreTHE ISRAEL LOBBY & AND GLOBAL HEGEMONY: REVISITED
from Weekly News Update on the Americas The latest headlines from Colombia focus on the ups and downs of the “peace process” with the ultra-right paramilitary network. Talks with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) have—on paper, at least—led… Read moreCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTS
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTSFar-Right Militias Survive “Peace Process” and “Para-Politics” Scandal by Memo Montevino, WW4 REPORT On July 24, Colombia’s imprisoned paramilitary warlords announced they were cutting off cooperation with prosecutors investigating massacres and other atrocities—throwing into question the country’s peace process. The… Read moreCOLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOX
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOXAs you read this, I am flying to Japan at the invitation of the National Assembly for Peace & Democracy (Zenko) to attend a second conference in solidarity with Iraq’s civil resistance, and especially the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC). Our… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:“Verging on Genocide” in the Czech Republic? by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT PRAGUE — For almost two decades now it has been possible for just about anyone from the outside world, including people from the formerly taboo democracies of the… Read moreROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATION
Continue ReadingROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATIONby Reza Fiyouzat, Dissident Voice Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran have either been absent from the Western left’s discourse—or have been getting the short end of the stick from some in the US left…. Read moreIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
Continue ReadingIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
