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
Some 1,700 indigenous people participated in a July 23-27 caravan to Bogota from Santander de Quilichao in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca to demand peace, to call for popular unity and to oppose a “free trade” agreement (TLC, from… Read moreColombia: indigenous protest in capital
Irene Khan, general secretary of the UK-based human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), is scheduled to visit Mexico July 30-Aug. 5 for what AI calls a “high-level working visit” to address its concerns about human rights violations in Mexico. The… Read moreMexico: human rights groups investigate
In the early morning of July 28 people thought to be members of the rebel Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR) assaulted a site in Chiapa de Corzo, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a federal prison is being built…. Read moreMexico: guerillas attack Chiapas prison
Early on July 15, a man waved down agents from the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector patrolling near Arizona highway 289 and told them his brother was sick and convulsing. Agents found the man nearby, unresponsive; they called paramedics, but the… Read moreMore border deaths in Arizona
From July 16 to 20, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 274 immigrants in the area of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Those arrested included 233 men, 28 women and 13 children, said ICE spokesperson Carl Rusnok. Of the 274, 99… Read moreHundreds arrested in Dallas area ICE raids
Our July issue featured the stories “No Green Zone for Ethnic Minorities in Iraq” by Bill Weinberg, arguing that the ethnic and sectarian warfare is approaching a “genocidal threshold”; “Israel & Palestine: One State or Two?,” excerpts from the debate… Read moreGenocide in Iraq, Palestine’s future, free speech in Venezuela: one reader writes
Media revealed this week that at a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted then-US Iraq envoy Zalmay Khalilzad with incriminating documents on Iraq’s prime minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki. One purported to be an early alert from al-Maliki… Read moreSaudis rewarded with high-tech arms for destabilizing Iraq
