More evidence that, whatever the hubristic schemes of the neocons three years ago, Washington is terrified of losing control of Iraq, having over-played the divide-and-conquer card. From the Irish Examiner, April 8: SUICIDE attackers wearing women’s robes blew themselves up… Read moreIraq: Khalilzad warns of regional destabilization
From AFP, April 6: TWO British grandmothers are facing up to a year in prison after being arrested under new anti-terrorism legislation that outlaws protests at military bases, The Independent newspaper said today. Helen John, 68, and Sylvia Boyes, 62,… Read moreUK: grandmas face prison in “anti-terrorism” case
LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) – Anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday. Detectives halted… Read moreFear of music
Police in Nepal opened fire to break up anti-King protestors. Separately an attack by Maoist rebels last night left 22 people dead. Opposition parties said authorities detained dozens of protest leaders in Kathmandu. The four-day protest was called against the… Read moreNepal: violence meets four-day strike against king
Yeah, y’all. From NY1, April 4: An angry mob of Hasidic Jews confronted police outside a Brooklyn station house Tuesday night after officers arrested an elderly Hasidic man. Hundreds of Borough Park residents rushed the 66th precinct station house chanting… Read moreBrooklyn: Hasids boogie for right to fight
Our contributor Mahmood Ketabchi writes: The cartoons of Muhammad created much discussion and debate within the progressive movement. I wrote two articles regarding the cartoon crisis and posted both of them on the NYC Indymedia. On March 1st, I posted… Read moreCensorship at NYC Indymedia?
A school textbook used in India’s western Rajasthan state compares housewives with donkeys and says the animals are more loyal and make better companions, The Times of India reported. The book was approved by the state’s governing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya… Read moreIndia school textbook: donkeys better than women
Seventy-six members of the Nukak-Makú, the last nomadic indigenous group in Colombia, including 27 children, arrived March 6 at the town of San José de Guaviare, on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. They arrived naked, exhausted and frightened, fleeing… Read moreEthnic cleansing in Colombian Amazon
Israeli historian Dr. Ilan Pappe of Haifa University takes issue with Noam Chomsky’s reaction to the Mearsheimer and Walt article on the Israel lobby: So what do we learn from the Chomsky reaction?: We can find out what Noam has… Read morePappe refutes Chomsky on Israel Lobby
WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg will be speaking Thursday, April 6 on New York’s Lower East Side, on “International Solidarity with Iraq’s Freedom Struggles.” The presentation will also include a screening of the new DVD Go Forward, Iraqi Freedom Congress!,… Read moreBill Weinberg to speak on Iraqi civil resistance
From DPA, April 3: ANKARA – Three people were killed and one badly injured when suspected Kurdish assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a bus in Istanbul Sunday night, the NTV television station reported. NTV reported that the suspected Kurdish assailants… Read moreTurkey: re-escalation in Kurdish conflict
From The Independent, April 3: WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has revealed that coalition forces are spending millions of dollars establishing at least six “enduring” bases in Iraq. Major Joseph Breasseale, a senior spokesman for the coalition forces’ headquarters in Iraq,… Read moreIraq: US prepares permanent bases
