Last year we noted US plans for new military bases on the Black Sea coast of Romania and Bulgaria. Now a Jan. 28 report in Scotland’s Sunday Herald indicates these bases could be used to launch air-strikes on Iran: President… Read moreBalkans as US staging ground for Iran attack?
Francis Boyle has had some good stuff to say in recent years, but he now seems to be losing it. He is going way overboard here, but this is the stuff that the relentlessly annoying Alex Jones laps up. Yes,… Read moreFrancis Boyle: “Neo-Nazis have signed us onto WWIII”
Do we laugh or do we cry? From Inter-Press Service, Jan. 29: Resolving the conflicts in Somalia and Darfur will extend well beyond the two-day African Union (AU) summit, according to academics and civil society activists. But, they say, the… Read moreArchitect of Darfur genocide wants to lead African Union
Talk about a vicious cycle: the authorities raid madrassas to crack down on pissed-off Islamists, which inevitably results in—more pissed off Islamists. From Pakistan’s Daily Times, Jan. 29: ISLAMABAD — Police raided several seminaries in Rawalpindi and Islamabad early on… Read morePakistan: more madrassas raided
Canada caves in—the US remains intransigent. From This Week of Kamloops, BC, Jan. 28: Maher Arar is Kamloops’ newest millionaire, but in an impassioned speech Friday, his lawyer reminded potential detractors that no amount of money will help Arar and… Read moreCanada: compensation and apology for “rendition” victim
In the very first issue of WW4 REPORT, just two weeks after 9-11, we noted the terrifying plunder of post-Soviet nuclear materials by black-marketeers who could presumably sell them to the highest-bidding terrorist group. Just two weeks ago, the Bulletin… Read moreCaucasus nuclear smuggling case: Georgian “provocation”?
So who was behind this one? Takes place near Peshawar’s main Sunni mosque, but also near the city’s Shi’ite community center, and during the Shi’ite holy month of Moharram. Some people specualte these ongoing outrages are a CIA conspiracy. But… Read moreMore Pakistan terror: sectarian —or random?
And speaking of Dick Cheney… From McClatchy Newspapers, Jan. 25: WASHINGTON – Vice President Dick Cheney exerted “constant” pressure on the Republican former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration’s use of flawed… Read moreSen. Rockefeller: Cheney blocked Iraq probe
Of course everyone wants us to think its really about the Jews. From The Raw Story, Jan. 26: An analysis released by a Democratic senator found that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock options have risen 3,281 percent in the… Read moreCheney’s Halliburton stock options: still soaring
The Pentagon recently posed Colombia as a “good model” for the war on opium in Afghanistan. But Hamid Karzai, to his credit, is displaying greater concern for the health of his own land and people than top US Latin American… Read moreAfghanistan: Karzai just says no —to glyphosate
This sad story is all the more telling given that the “Salvador option” reveals El Salvador as a test war for Iraq—with the sinister John Negroponte a key architect of both. The failure of the Times to even mention this… Read moreDissent grows in El Salvador over Iraq role
A glimmer of hope is that the outcry following the slaying of Hrant Dink is coming from Turks as well as Armenians. Perhaps his death will not have been in vain—or will there be an inevitable backlash? From the UK-based… Read moreIstanbul: streets filled for slain editor’s funeral
