from Weekly News Update on the Americas: On March 24, two separate but nearly simultaneous marches were held in Buenos Aires to mark the anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 coup and remember the 30,000 people who were disappeared by the military… Read moreARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: DIRTY WAR AND HISTORICAL MEMORYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On March 19 the Cincinnati-based banana company Chiquita Brands International formally admitted that its wholly owned Colombian subsidiary Banadex paid a total $1.7 million to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a… Read moreCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY SCANDAL AND CORPORATE POWER
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: PARAMILITARY SCANDAL AND CORPORATE POWERReal Change on Anti-Woman “Hudood” Laws? by Abira Ashfaq, Peacework In November 2006, women in Pakistan and around the world celebrated the passage of the Women’s Protection Bill, a rare instance of positive legislative reform offering some relief from Pakistan’s… Read moreRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTAN
Continue ReadingRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTANIsrael and its Allies Instrument Social Disaster by Jennifer Bing-Canar and Adam Horowitz, Peacework 2006 marked yet another difficult year for residents of the Gaza Strip. In the words of John Ging, the Gaza-based director of the United Nations Relief… Read moreGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGE
Continue ReadingGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGESuccessor Factions to the Islamic Courts Union by Osman Yusuf, WW4 REPORT The downfall of the Islamic militants who had control over most of south and central Somalia until late last year has created a power vacuum that the transitional… Read moreSOMALIA: THE NEW RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingSOMALIA: THE NEW RESISTANCEShi’ite Insurgency in Washington’s Strategic Red Sea Ally by Mohamed Al-Azaki, WW4 REPORT He heard the military helicopters coming, Dr. Ali al-Wadiee told reporters in Al-Ruzamat, a small village situated amid the volcanic mountains of Yemen’s remote north, near the… Read moreYEMEN: ON THE BRINK OF SECTARIAN WAR
Continue ReadingYEMEN: ON THE BRINK OF SECTARIAN WARDear WW4 REPORT Readers: We hate to extend our winter fund drive into the first month of spring, but we really do have to at least make our first thousand before we call it off. We are $200 short. The… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:from Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Jan. 29 residents of Camiri, a city in the southwest of Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department, began a civic strike and blockaded a main highway connecting the country with Argentina and Paraguay…. Read moreBOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATION
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATIONIndigenous North Africa Between Jihad and Imperialism by Toufik Amayas Mostefaou My heart Has become capable Of taking all sorts of forms, It is Pastures For gazelles And Monastery for the monk, Temple of idols And Kaaba for the pilgrim…. Read moreSUFISM: THE MIDWAY BETWEEN EXTREMISMS
Continue ReadingSUFISM: THE MIDWAY BETWEEN EXTREMISMSJustice Department Scores One Against the FARC by Paul Wolf, WW4 REPORT February 20, a federal jury in Washington DC found Anayibe Rojas Valderama (Sonia), Antonio Celis and Juan Diego Giraldo guilty of conspiracy to import cocaine into the US,… Read moreAUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERA
Continue ReadingAUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERAThe Fractious Struggle for South America’s Resources by April Howard, Upside Down World Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was arguably elected on the platform of nationalization. A country-wide protest deposed president Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada in 2003, and then kicked former… Read moreNATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA, ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELA
Continue ReadingNATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA, ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELAThe Vietnam GI Revolt & Iraq by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY The name Vietnam is back in our vocabulary, as we seem to be developing an interest in history—or at least in the history of wars that… Read moreWHO’LL STOP THE WAR?
Continue ReadingWHO’LL STOP THE WAR?
