An Interview with Bina Darabzand of Salam Democrat Against Bush, Against Ahmadinejad, For Oaxaca by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT On December 12, 2006, as the Holocaust revisionism conference called by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened in Tehran, small but angry groups… Read moreIRAN: THE LEFT OPPOSITION SPEAKS
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Electronic Journal & Daily Weblog BEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN” The Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT GUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg,… Read more#. 130. February 2007
Continue Reading#. 130. February 2007For starters, a couple of apologies. Yes, our February issue is coming out five days late, and our daily weblog has been inactive for nearly a week. This is because your hard-working editor (yours truly) has been down with the… Read moreDear WW4 REPORT Readers:
Continue ReadingDear WW4 REPORT Readers:The Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT What the Bush administration is calling a victory over a strange new insurgent militia in Iraq is actually a sign of the terrifying fragmentation of the war into… Read moreBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”
Continue ReadingBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today On January 8, some 200 Guatemalan army troops and twice as many national police occupied two Qeq’chi (Kekchi) Maya indigenous communities at El Estor, a… Read moreGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYAThe Chechnya War and the Right Not to Kill from War Resisters International On October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known journalist who regularly exposed Russian human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in her flat in Moscow. Six days… Read moreCONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIA
Continue ReadingCONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias started his third term—his second full six-year term—on Jan. 10 in a ceremony before the 167-deputy National Assembly. No foreign dignitaries attended the Jan. 10 inauguration. According to… Read moreVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”from Weekly News Update on the Americas Promising to end “the long night of neoliberalism,” economist Rafael Correa started a four-year term as president of Ecuador in a ceremony in Quito on Jan. 15. Only about 25 of the 100… Read moreECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”
Continue ReadingECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”from Weekly News Update on the Americas Argentine bricklayer Luis Gerez, a survivor of torture who testified against a former police official, disappeared the evening of Dec. 27 in his town of Belen de Escobar, 60 kilometers north of the… Read moreARGENTINA: “DIRTY WAR” DEATH SQUADS BACK?
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: “DIRTY WAR” DEATH SQUADS BACK?from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS MURDERED On Dec. 20, environmental activists Heraldo Zuniga and Roger Ivan Cartagena were shot and killed in the central plaza outside the mayor’s office in Guarizama municipality, in the large eastern… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ECOLOGISTS ASSASSINATED IN HONDURAS; LAND CLASH, ASSASSINATIONS IN GUATEMALA
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ECOLOGISTS ASSASSINATED IN HONDURAS; LAND CLASH, ASSASSINATIONS IN GUATEMALAAn End to Africa’s Reign of Impunity? by Michael Fleshman, Africa Renewal The world took a giant step towards eliminating impunity for human rights abuses on November 9 when the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its first-ever hearing in a… Read morePRESIDENTS IN THE DOCK
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For the first time since it stopped attempting to count Syria’s dead back in 2014, the UN has released a new casualty number. The UN Human Rights Office now says 350,209 people were killed in the war between March 2011 and March 2021—but cautions that because of the strict methodology used, this figure is "certainly an under-count of the actual number of killings." And it doesn't include those who died from causes that would likely have been more easily treatable were it not for the ongoing violence, such as hunger or COVID-19, which is now barrelling through northwest Syria, spreading quickly in displacement camps and overwhelming healthcare facilities. (Photo: Destruction of Aleppo, via 7ee6an)
