Six are dead and over 40 injured following a car bomb attack in the southern Thai city of Sungai Kolok. The bomb went off in a hotel parking lot hours after newly-elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had completed a visit… Read moreTerror in Thailand
In the global outcry over the slaying of US nun Dorothy Stang, a local crusader for the Amazon rainforest and its threatened peasants and Indians, Brazil’s President Luis Inacio da Silva signed a decree Feb. 17 creating two vast protected… Read moreAmazon militarized in wake of assassination
Those truly naive enough to think Howard Dean’s ascendency to the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee shows a progressive agenda should look no further than the ex- Gov. of Vermont’s terrible record in denying the indigenous rights of fellow Vermonters… Read moreNew DNC head fought indigenous rights in Vermont
You read it here first, but now its official. Iran’s government has officially blamed US spy drones for a wave of UFO sightings, and warns that it will shoot the craft down. Information Minister Ali Yunessi threatened that if the… Read moreIran: US using spy planes
John Negroponte has been named by Bush to be the first Director of National Intelligence, a post created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act, recommended by the 9-11 Commission and signed into law in December. If confirmed by the… Read moreNegroponte fingered for intelligence czar
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has called for a "coordinated effort" to pass a federal shield law protecting journalists from revealing confidential sources in the wake of the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S…. Read moreJail for journalists in Plame case?
Two weeks ago, WW4 Report cited a little-noted UPI story that the US Air Force has already started flying misions over Iran, to "grid" the country’s military and industrial infrastructure for bombing raids. Today comes a report from Israel’s Haaretz… Read moreUS air strikes in Iran?
The US has called home its ambassador to Syria in protest of Damascus’ supposed links to the Hariri assassination before the facts are even in. In response, Syria and Iran—traditional rivals, but both fearing they could be next for US… Read moreHariri fallout: Iran-Syria “united front”
Former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri (and 11 others) were killed in a Beirut car bomb attack Feb. 14. Because he had been an outspoken opponent of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, suspicion immediately fell on Damascus and Damascus-backed… Read moreWho killed Rafik Hariri?
Here’s what’s really sad: the Kyoto treaty on global climate change which takes effect this week–minus the US, the world’s major producer of greenhouse gases by far–doesn’t even significantly address the problem, activists charge. In fact, some measures are downright… Read moreKyoto: What’s to celebrate?
Robert Jensen of the Univeristy of Texas at Austin has a piece on CommonDreams entitled "Ward Churchill Has Rights, and He’s Right," arguing that "The main thesis Churchill put forward in [his controversial essay] is an accurate account of the… Read moreA little matter of mass murder: Churchill fan doesn’t get it
Madrid’s landmark Windsor office tower was gutted by fire the night of Feb. 12, and much of downtown Madrid remains closed off by authorities. The fire (apparently caused by a short-circuit) resulted in only seven injuries, none serious–but several of… Read moreMadrid office tower inferno: lessons for 9-11
