In the pitch for World War 4 Report‘s Winter Fund Drive last month, we wrote: “We hate to admit that we are at an existential crisis. We think that it is bad form to hold out our demise as a… Read moreOur readers write: whither World War 4 Report?
Japan deployed a Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile interceptor system at the Takeyama base in Yokosuka, just southwest of Tokyo Jan. 30, military sources told AP. Yokosuka is the site of Japan’s largest naval base and homeport of the US Seventh… Read moreJapan deploys missile interceptor system
Testimony in the trial of Peru’s ex-strongman Alberto Fujimori charges that his administration negotiated amnesty for an army death squad in exchange for keeping secret the government’s involvement in two massacres in which 25 were killed. The claim comes from… Read moreFujimori linked to cake-scarfing death squad
In an interview published in [Bogota’s] El Tiempo on December 22, [j]ournalist Yamid Amat asked: “What was it that the Attorney General’s office discovered and is investigating in the Chocó?” and [Colombian] Attorney General Mario Iguarán replied: “The tragedy of… Read moreColombia: paras linked to agbiz
Financial support is urgently needed for the satellite TV station that is broadcasting voices for the secular and democratic reconstruction of Iraq! Financial difficulties are hitting Sana TV, an Iraqi satellite TV station, which is covering the people’s struggles to… Read moreUrgent fund appeal for Iraqi civil resistance TV station
From Bush’s final State of the Union address, via the New York Times: Ladies and gentlemen, some may deny the surge is working, but among the terrorists there is no doubt. Al Qaeda is on the run in Iraq, and… Read moreBush asks for patience in Iraq —again
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Jan. 27 urged his allies to form an “anti-imperialist” military alliance to defend Latin America from potential attack by the United States. Speaking on his weekly TV program Aló Presidente, he called upon Bolivia, Cuba and… Read moreChávez calls for “anti-imperialist” military alliance
Tens of thousands of public school teachers in the Teachers’ Federation of Puerto Rico (FMPR), the country’s largest union, are set to go on strike sometime after Feb. 1 in defiance of the Puerto Rican government and parts of the… Read morePuerto Rico: teachers set to strike —in defiance of government
This year the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of business and political leaders in Davos, Switzerland in late January, was focused on a financial crisis that shook world stock markets Jan. 18-21—the worst in 60 years, according to… Read moreDavos weighs world financial crisis
As of Jan. 27 Chilean activist Patricia Troncoso Robles had rejected an Interior Ministry offer to ease her prison conditions if she would end the hunger strike she started 109 days earlier to demand the release of 20 indigenous Mapuche… Read moreChile: Mapuche activist continues fast
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice visited Colombia on Jan. 24 and 25, meeting with right-wing president Alvaro Uribe in Medellín at the end of the trip. The high-level delegation, including US legislators, was intended to show support for Uribe… Read moreColombia: Rice pushes “free trade” accord
There is real possibility for peace between the Colombian government and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to Antonio Navarro Wolf, a former rebel who is now governor of the southern department of Nariño and a leader… Read moreColombia: give peace a chance?
