On Oct. 10, federal judge Charles R. Breyer of US District Court in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from launching a planned crackdown on workers whose social security numbers don’t match the… Read moreSan Francisco federal judge halts crackdown on immigrant workers
In a two-week sweep that ended Oct. 2, ICE officers arrested 1,327 immigrants in five southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura. A total of 530 people were arrested in their communities on immigration violations; ICE… Read moreOver 1,300 arrested in California ICE sweeps
On Oct. 2, officials in Nassau County on New York’s Long Island called for a federal investigation into an “anti-gang” sweep carried out by ICE Sept. 24-30 during which 186 immigrants were arrested in Nassau and neighboring Suffolk county. Nassau… Read moreLong Island ICE raids challenged
You know, every time we start to develop a soft spot for a politician, he wastes no time in disabusing us of our comfortable illusions. The most recent case in point is New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. After taking flack… Read moreSpitzer capitulates on license plan
Amos Schocken, the publisher of Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz newspaper, has defended his paper’s applying the word “apartheid” to the Israeli- occupied West Bank, as well as the phrase “Jews-only roads.” According to journalist and blogger Phillip Weiss, who attended… Read moreIsraeli publisher defends paper’s use of terms “Jews-only,” “apartheid”
We have noted before that, contrary to contemporary assumptions, the first “terrorism” identified by that name was a state phenomenon: that of the Jacobins in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution—which, ironically given its radicalism, was the origin of… Read moreNYT op-ed: Bush est un terroriste
Already facing war crimes charges in Germany, Donald Rumsfeld—like Henry Kissinger before him—now runs into a spot of legal bother in France. From RINF Alternative News Media, Oct. 28: Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing arrest… Read moreRumsfeld flees France fearing arrest?
Our October issue featured the story “Israeli High Court Returns Palestinian Lands? Don’t Believe the Hype!” by WW4 REPORT co-editor David Bloom, finding: “A review of the decisions shows that even in the few cases where the High Court decided… Read moreSeparation walls and the new security state: our readers write
The recent controversy over the cancellation of two concerts sponsored by the group OneVoice, to have been held simultaneously on Oct. 18 in Israeli-occupied Jericho and Tel Aviv, has drawn wide recriminations from its New York-based leadership. OneVoice was founded… Read moreIsraeli “OneVoice” musician played settler Woodstock
From Shabelle Media Network via AllAfrica.com, Oct. 27: More than 15 people mainly civilians and seven Ethiopian soldiers have been killed and many more have been injured after insurgents and government-allied forces battled with different sorts of weapons like, machine… Read moreSomalia: Mogadishu explodes again
Libyan authorities expressed pessimism as key Darfur rebel factions failed to show up for the peace talks with the Sudanese government at the Mediterranean port of Sirte. On the eve of the AU/UN-mediated talks, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)… Read moreDarfur rebels boycott peace talks, target oil industry
It seems that since the capitulation of warlord Khun Sa 11 years ago, his Mong Tai Army has collapsed back into its constituent entities—and that his former militia, the Shan State Army, is back in rebellion against the Burmese regime…. Read moreBurma: Shan guerillas pledge continued resistance
