Posada Carriles – the 77-year-old former CIA asset and accused terrorist – was charged last week with illegal entry into the US and is being detained by the Homeland Security Department at Florida’s Homestead Air Force Base. US authorities have… Read moreChavez threatens to break US relations over Posada Carriles affair
Robots seem to be gaining reproductive rights even as women are losing theirs. Robots at Cornell University are making copies of themselves without human intervention. In principle, the machines will thus be able to repair and reproduce themselves autonomously in… Read moreSelf-replicating robots developed
A team from the United States is expected to arrive in Bulgaria within days for talks on possible US military bases, Defence Minister Nikolai Svinarov told a news conference on May 17. Svinarov’s announcement on May 17 confirmed a statement… Read moreU.S. plans more military bases in ex-Soviet sphere
WW4 REPORT readers are aware that the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride in New York City has been facing a severe police crackdown for the past several months, with hundreds arrested, bicycles confiscated, and now a threatened injunction against the… Read moreFree speech rally for NYC Critical Mass
WW4 REPORT readers are aware that the Nasa Indian community of Toribio in southern Colombia’s Cauca department have been under siege for the past several weeks as guerillas and army troops fight for control of their village. Army and guerillas… Read moreColombia indigenous leaders to speak in NYC
An article on Electronic Intifada alleges Israel is burying nuclear waste from its Dimona research reactor at a location on the occupied West Bank. The Dimona facility is at a remote location in the Negev desert, but evidence is emerging… Read moreIsrael burying nuclear waste near Hebron?
In February, eight civilians, including community leader Luis Eduardo Guerra and three children, were massacred in the Colombian Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. Witnesses identified the killers as members of the Colombian military, and peace community members saw… Read moreSOA linked to massacre at Colombia “Peace Community”
The US defended itself May 20 against charges from states without nuclear weapons that it is failing to fulfill its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). At a month-long conference reviewing the NPT, non-nuclear states dismissed U.S. diplomats’ recitation… Read moreNon-nuclear states challenge US on proliferation
Pressure is growing on the U.S. to respond to allegations that its agents were involved in spiriting terrorist suspects out of three European countries and sending them to nations where they may have been tortured. In Italy, a judge said… Read more“Rendition” scandal in Europe
The retraction of Newsweek’s allegations of Koran-abuse at Guantanamo, which had sparked violent protests in Afghanistan, may not win the U.S. peace in that country for very long. A vivid report in the NY Times May 20 depicts horrendous details… Read moreEscalation in Afghanistan
During the Turkish National Day celebration in the eastern city of Siirt this week, helicopter gunships circled over the stadium and sharpshooters stood watch on rooftops–signs of the rising tension in southeast Turkey as Kurdish separatists rekindle an insurgency after… Read morePKK insurgency flares in Turkey
The head of Iraq’s largest Christian community has denounced U.S. evangelical missionaries in his country for what he said were attempts to convert poor Muslims by flashing money and smart cars, al-Jazeera reported May 20. Patriarch Emmanuel Delly, head of… Read moreIraq: Chaldean bishop protests U.S. evangelicals
