The “peak oil” theory, which remains the domain of the wacko fringe in the U.S., appears to be taken rather more seriously in the U.K., where several members of parliament have signed on to a petition circulated by an alternative-energy… Read moreUK petition on “peak oil”
It is looking more and more like Egypt is heading towards a reprise of the “dirty war” between Islamist insurgents and security forces that shook the country in the ’90s. From Haaretz: Last update – 22:34 30/04/2005 Two Israelis hurt… Read moreMore terror in Cairo
From the New York Times, April 30 (condensed): At Least 18 Arrests Made in Tense Night of a Monthly Cycling Protest Under tense circumstances, the monthly Critical Mass bicycle ride set out last night from multiple locations in Manhattan, in… Read moreNYC Critical Mass crackdown escalates
Here’s a textbook case in how the reigning anti-Semitic propaganda system works, with the paradoxical complicity of certain powerful (and deluded) Jews. This propaganda system is all the more effective for being nearly universally unrecognized. Turkey is one of the… Read more“Jewish lobby” denies Armenian genocide
As we here at WW4 REPORT know, Israel is a client state of the American empire. In the following article in the well-known anti-Semitic conspirazoid publication The Forward, Ori Nir claims that the recent sacking of two AIPAC officials resulting… Read moreAnti-Semitic conspiracy theory in The Forward!!
The following release from Gush Shalom describes how Israeli forces attacked a joint Palestinian-Israeli non-violent demonstration against the separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bi’lin. The demonstration is notable for its size, and the fact that Palestinian Israeli… Read moreBi’lin demo savagely attacked by Israeli forces
Jeffrey Blankfort, relentless critic of the Israel lobby and what he sees as the failure of the left to properly engage the question, has written a long-awaited critique of Noam Chomsky’s views. Blankfort writes: The 2005 edition of Left Curve… Read moreBlankfort takes on Chomsky
It is a looming nightmare for Washington, but Mexico may be the next to join the fast-growing loose alliance of left-populist governments in Latin America, if Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the left-opposition Party of the Democratic… Read moreMexico: Fox blinks in showdown over presidential race
This year’s North American winner of the Goldman Prize, awarded annually to the most courageous environmental activists on five contients, is Isidro Baldenegro of Chihuahua, Mexico, a Tarahumara Indian who has long defended the forests of the Sierra Tarahumara against… Read moreTarahumara forest-defender wins Goldman award
Taxi driver, pregnant passenger, pedestrian in critical condition April 26, 2005, 12:31 PM EDT NEW YORK — A taxi driver whose out-of-control cab set off a chain reaction of crashes at Times Square remained in critical condition on Tuesday, as… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah met with George Bush in his ranch in Crawford, TX, April 25, where unprecedentedly escalating oil prices obviously dominated the agenda. The reactionary NY Post ran a front-cover story “THE HIGH PRICE OF OIL,” with… Read morePrince Abdullah schmoozes at Bush ranch
A group of prominent businessmen in Turkey have issued a call for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movies to be banned from Turkish TV after the California governor endorsed a call by Armenian-Americans (a sizeable constituency in his state) for April 24 to… Read moreTurks protest Schwarzenegger for bad reason
