In the three days from Aug. 4 to Aug. 6, unknown assailants carried out three attacks against activists for the leftist Gathering for Guatemala (EG) party and two of its candidates in Sept. 9 national and local elections. The EG’s… Read moreGuatemala: activists killed as vote nears
El Salvador is sending its ninth contingent to join the US-sponsored occupation of Iraq on Aug. 7. The first Salvadoran troops joined the occupation in August 2003. The new contingent will have some 300 members, from the army’s elite Cuscatlan… Read moreEl Salvador sends more troops to Iraq
In a July report, Oxfam warns that while armed violence is the greatest threat facing Iraqis, the population is also experiencing another kind of crisis of an alarming scale and severity. Eight million people are in urgent need of emergency… Read moreOxfam: humanitarian crisis in Iraq
This piece is far too optimistic and soft on Bush, but perhaps the writer wants the president to listen, and is phrasing his critique thusly. We think that’s a lost cause, but the historical analogy is still worth considering. Richard… Read moreBush in Iraq; Napoleon in Egypt
Did you happen to see this one? From AP, July 31: NASHVILLE — A proud enclave of Kurds has lived in this city for decades, starting businesses and soccer leagues, holding down good jobs and blending into the immigrant neighborhoods… Read moreKurdish street gang rocks Nashville
At least 250 and perhaps up to 500 are dead in four coordinated truck-bomb attacks that devastated Tal al-Azizziyah and Sheikh Khadar, two northern villages outside the town of Qahataniya near the Syrian border in Iraq’s Nineveh province, Aug. 14…. Read moreIraq: Yazidis targeted again
Gee, it’s great to be home. From AP, Aug. 14: Explosion destroys gas station MINEOLA, N.Y. — A massive fire destroyed a gas station, an auto repair shop and a dozen customers’ cars on Tuesday. As the flames raged and… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The Japanese anti-war group Zenko, whose 37th annual conference just closed in Tokyo, is a critical voice of dissent to the controversial Yasukuni shrine, where “Class A” war criminals like Hideki Tojo, as well as many hundreds of common soldiers,… Read moreWW4 Report visits Yasukuni shrine
Hiroshima marked the 62nd anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb attack Aug. 6, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe scrambled to mend fences with survivors still outraged by comments from a cabinet member apologizing for the bombings of Hiroshima and… Read moreAbe covers for war crimes gaffe at Hiroshima Day
On Aug. 4, the National Assembly for Peace and Democracy opened at a conference hall in Kamata, a city within the Tokyo metropolitan area. Attended by some 500 activists from throughout Japan, as well as participants from South Korea, the… Read moreJapanese anti-war conference unites Okinawan, Iraqi struggles
On Aug. 3, some 100 activists from the Japanese anti-war group Zenko (National Assembly for Peace and Democracy) gathered near the US embassy in Tokyo’s central Shinbashi district to protest the July 4 slaying of Abdelhussein Saddam by US Special… Read moreProtest at US embassy in Tokyo over slaying of Iraq civil resistance leader
A message from WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg: As you read this, I am flying to Japan at the invitation of the National Assembly for Peace & Democracy (Zenko) to attend a second conference in solidarity with Iraq’s civil resistance,… Read moreWW4 REPORT goes to Japan
