In its Sept. 6 account based on its reading of a direct translation, Newsday portrays the Pakistani government’s new peace pact with tribal insurgents in Waziristan, in the autonomous Federally Administrated Tribal Areas along the Afghan border, as appeasement of… Read moreIslamabad’s Waziristan peace deal: appeasement of “Taliban”?
A Canadian soldier was killed and dozens wounded, five seriously, when two US fighter jets mistakenly strafed them Sept. 4 at a battlefront in Kandahar. (CanWest News Service, Sept. 5) If we were to engage in conspiracy theory, we could… Read moreAfghanistan: thousands displaced in Kandahar fighting
Well well, it seems Amnesty International’s conspiracy theories are decisively vindicated! Straight from the horse’s mouth! From the AP, Sept. 6 (Newspeak phrase in bold): Bush acknowledges secret CIA prisons WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged previously secret CIA… Read moreSecret CIA gulag: Bush admits it
From the New York Times, Sept. 5: LEWISTON, Me. — On a hot July night, a few dozen Somali men were kneeling shoulder to shoulder in prayer at a storefront mosque here when the door opened and the frozen head… Read moreMaine mosque desecrated; xenophobes make excuses
From DPA, Sept. 5: BERLIN – At 40 Berlin mosques, imams are to lead prayers this Friday for the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Guenter Piening, the state of Berlin’s commissioner for… Read moreBerlin mosques commemorate 9-11
More and more of such reports. From the UK Daily Mail, Sept. 5: Fury as academics claim 9/11 was ‘inside job’ The 9/11 terrorist attack on America which left almost 3,000 people dead was an “inside job”, according to a… Read more9-11 conspiranoiacs go mainstream
A White House press release, Sept. 5: Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency… Read moreBush extends 9-11 “national emergency”
WW4 REPORT is looking for writers, both to produce journalism and review books. We currently have several titles we need reviewed, including for our October issue. Experience is not necessary, but a willingness to learn and a sharing of our… Read moreWW4 REPORT needs writers
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On Friday, Sept. 8th, Alwan, the Arab Center for the Arts in New York City, will host an event in support of the indigenous people of Northern Argentina. Luisa Boggiano, an Argentinean activist, will present a documentary about the conflicts… Read moreNYC: Argentine activist to speak on indigenous struggles in “Triple Border” region
We just love all the crowing in the right-wing press about how Valerie Plame Wilson and the liberals who cheer her on are not going after Richard Armitage now that he has been revealed as the source of the leak… Read moreArmitage takes hit for Rove
On Aug. 22, the government of Chaco province in northeastern Argentina signed a broad accord with representatives of the Chaco Indigenous Institute (IdACH) on land and budget issues in an effort to end a nearly three-month-old indigenous protest. Since June… Read moreArgentina: Chaco indigenous win accord
