On the evening of June 26, hundreds of people vigiled in Lima, Peru, to protest the efforts of the ruling Aprista party majority in Congress to push through the “addenda” of a free trade treaty between the US and Peruvian… Read morePeru: trade pact approved amid protests
On June 27, hundreds of police agents used tear gas in an effort to break up a blockade of Peru’s central highway by miners carrying out a regional strike. The miners struck back with rocks, and one police agent was… Read morePeru: deadly violence at miners’ protest
On June 26, nearly 1,200 people camped out on the BR 428 highway between Cabrobo and Oroco municipalities in Brazil’s Pernambuco state to block national army engineering battalions from proceeding with the construction of a canal project on the Sao… Read moreBrazil: protests block canal project
The Agrarian and Popular Movement (MAP) of Paraguay reported in a June 26 statement that base-level MAP leader Perfecto Irala was abducted and disappeared by police on June 25 from Pariri, in Vaqueria district, Caaguazu department. Since last Feb. 26,… Read moreParaguay: campesinos disappeared, killed
On June 25, some 5,000 campesinos set out from 11 different areas of Argentina on a “national march for rural development.” The mobilization culminated with a rally in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires on June 28, where the… Read moreArgentina: campesinos march
On June 24, several thousand demonstrators, many carrying US flags, marched through Hollywood, California, to demand full rights for immigrants. Police estimated the crowd at 1,100. Organizer Raul Murillo said the marchers want lawmakers in Washington to know immigration reform… Read moreLos Angeles: protesters defend immigrant rights
On June 28, the US Senate defeated a measure that would have limited debate on immigration reform and cleared the way for final passage of a proposed “compromise” bill. The measure to end debate and move forward with the bill… Read moreImmigration bill fails
In a surprise development, the US Supreme Court agreed June 29 to hear an appeal they had refused to hear in April, asking whether “foreign citizens imprisoned indefinitely” by the US military can go to federal court and whether their… Read moreSupreme Court to hear Gitmo cases
Our June issue featured the story “Resisting the New Euro-Missiles: Czech Dissidents Stand Up Again—This Time to the Pentagon!” by WW4 REPORT contributor Gwendolyn Albert, noting the emergence of popular opposition to US plans to build a radar base for… Read moreGeopolitics of the “missile shield”: our readers write
Sudan, Iraq and Somalia top an independent ranking of the world’s leading failed states by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace. The annual “Failed States Index” ranks 177 countries according to 12 social, economic, political and military indicators…. Read moreSudan, Iraq, Somalia top “failed states index”
Speaking on the eve of an African Union summit in Accra June 30, Libyan leader Moammar Qadaffi called on the continent to unite under a single government. Declaring himself a “soldier for Africa,” Qaddafi said AU leaders had not yet… Read moreQaddafi calls for United States of Africa
Mauritania’s independent news agency Al-Akhbar reported June 26 that security forces had arrested four men supposedly linked to “al-Qaeda in the Maghreb” in raids on some Internet cafes in the the capital, Nouakchott. The detainees are said to be four… Read moreMauritania arrests al-Qaeda suspects?
