Mexican federal police pushed through barricades on roads leading to Oaxaca’s state university Nov. 2, firing tear-gas canisters and water cannons at protesters, who fought back with rocks, slingshots and molotov cocktails. But the police stopped short of crossing onto… Read moreOaxaca: APPO defends university, feds send in spy plane
From LA’s NBC4-TV, Nov. 2: FORT HUACHACA, Ariz. — The federal government has unveiled a new multimillion-dollar gadget to patrol and protect the U.S.-Mexican border. It’s an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV. The high-tech plane, typically used in military combat,… Read moreDrones to patrol Mexican border
From India’s Daily News & Analysis (DNA), Nov. 2: LAHORE: The October 30 pre-dawn air strike on a religious seminary in the Bajaur Agency on the Pak-Afghan border was carried out by US predator drones to sabotage the signing of… Read morePakistan: did US drone attack kill tribal peace deal?
From Raw Story, Nov. 1, emphasis added: During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments… Read moreBush: It’s the oil, stupid!
From AP, Nov. 2: BAGHDAD – An Iraqi journalist who was kidnapped last month was found dead nearly two weeks after his abduction, a media advocacy group said Thursday. Khalil, who worked for several Iraqi daily newspapers, was abducted by… Read moreIraq: journalist found dead
From AP, Nov. 2: BAGHDAD – On a dangerous road north of Baghdad, Sunni militants took advantage of a traffic jam to carry off the latest in the series of sectarian crimes yesterday – abducting some 40 Shia based on… Read moreSectarian abductions in Iraq
Iran’s Holocaust cartoon contest was an atrocious and juvenile tit-for-tat for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten’s almost equally stupid and insensitive Mohammed cartoon contest. But the cartoon they finally chose as winner sounds like it was making a legitimate point. Israel… Read moreIran announces winner in Holocaust cartoon contest
From Turkey’s Zaman, Nov. 2: A 92-year-old retired Turkish archaeologist has been acquitted in a rights trial in which she was accused of “inciting hatred by insulting people based on their religion.” Muazzez Ilmiye Cig, an expert on the ancient… Read moreFree speech victory in Turkey
In his first public appearance upon his arrival in Chihuahua City on his tour of northern Mexico, Subcommander Marcos announced the Zapatista rebels’ total support for the people of Oaxaca “and their most diginifed representative, the Popular People’s Assembly of… Read moreZapatistas mobilize for Oaxaca
From Milenio, Nov. 1: The police in civilian dress implicated in the murder of US photojrounalist Brad Will continue to be fugitives from justice. Although Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz announced the detention of the presumed attackers of the journalist, in… Read moreOaxaca: where are Brad Will’s killers?
Our October issue featured the story “Save Darfur: Zionist Conspiracy?” by Ned Goldstein, exploring propaganda exploitation of the genocide in Sudan by Israel and US imperialism. A companion feature by WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg, “From Darfur to Mauritania,” noted… Read moreDarfur and Zionist propaganda: our readers write
Three days after President Vicente Fox sent in thousands of federal police troops, Oaxaca City remains divided. Supporters of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO), driven from the city center, still maintain barricades in many barrios, and pledge to… Read moreOaxaca City divided; Zapatistas call for national resistance
