Dear Readers: We weren’t sure we were going to put out a March issue, but we received some very insightful material on Libya and the revolutions in the Arab world that we couldn’t resist helping to get out to a… Read moreLast Chance to Save World War 4 Report’s Monthly Edition!
Continue ReadingLast Chance to Save World War 4 Report’s Monthly Edition!by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY For the past three weeks our screens have been awash with images of indignant Egyptians defying their brutal government with a loud, unprecedented, unified call for democracy. Our radios hummed with an accented… Read moreREVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK
Continue ReadingREVOLUTION IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOKby Paul Rogers, OpenDemocracy The emerging pattern of resistance and repression in Libya following the outbreak of protest in the eastern city of Benghazi on February 15 is very different from that in other parts of the Arab world. In… Read moreLIBYA: THE WASHINGTON-LONDON DILEMMA
Continue ReadingLIBYA: THE WASHINGTON-LONDON DILEMMAby Rene Wadlow, Toward Freedom While the People’s Revolution in Tunisia and Egypt was largely non-violent, the revolution in Libya may turn still more violent as the last of the palace guard circle around Colonel Qaddafi, his family and a… Read moreTHE LAST CIRCLE IN LIBYA
Continue ReadingTHE LAST CIRCLE IN LIBYAby Pierre Beaudet, Viento Sur The right-wing press in Venezuela and throughout the world is raving against the government of Hugo Chávez for its expressed support for the regime of Qaddafi. The Venezuelan exterior minister, Nicolás Maduro, has declared that… Read moreINTERNATIONALISM, LIBYA AND THE ARAB REVOLTS
Continue ReadingINTERNATIONALISM, LIBYA AND THE ARAB REVOLTSWhat’s going on in Libya? by Santiago Alba Rico & Alma Allende, Rebelión We have the impression that a great worldwide liberation process may be aborted by the unappeasable ferocity of Qaddafi, US interventionism, and a lack of foresight in… Read moreFROM LATIN AMERICA TO THE ARAB WORLD
Continue ReadingFROM LATIN AMERICA TO THE ARAB WORLDDear Readers: World War 4 Report’s autumn hiatus turned out be longer and deeper than we had anticipated, with your chief editor and trusty blogger under a state of force majeure for several weeks. But we are back. The Daily… Read moreComing Soon: World War 4 Report Reloaded
Continue ReadingComing Soon: World War 4 Report Reloadedby Rohan Jayasekera, Index on Censorship With maybe hundreds of human rights activists named in the WikiLeaks files, and frontman Julian Assange threatening to throw them open to the world if “forced” to do so, it’s time for fair assessment… Read moreFRESH EYES NEEDED ON WIKILEAKS’ TROVE OF SECRETS
Continue ReadingFRESH EYES NEEDED ON WIKILEAKS’ TROVE OF SECRETSWikiLeaks Cable Lays Bare Washington’s Stance Toward Bolivia by Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom A classified cable from the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia released by WikiLeaks lays bare an embassy that is biased against the Evo Morales government, underestimates… Read moreTHE AMBASSADOR HAS NO CLOTHES
Continue ReadingTHE AMBASSADOR HAS NO CLOTHESState Department Busted on Support of Coup by Robert Naiman, TruthOut By July 24, 2009, the US government was totally clear about the basic facts of what took place in Honduras on June 28, 2009. The US embassy in Tegucigalpa… Read moreWIKILEAKS HONDURAS
Continue ReadingWIKILEAKS HONDURASfrom Frontera NorteSur If anything could be said about 2010 in Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua, it might be stated that any semblance of human rights flew out the window. Ushered in with the January murder of Juarez… Read more2010: TURNING POINTS FOR CHIHUAHUA DRUG WAR
Continue Reading2010: TURNING POINTS FOR CHIHUAHUA DRUG WARClimate Change & Indigenous Struggle by Bill Weinberg, NACLA Report on the Americas The stark and arid Bolivian Altilpano is one of the regions of our planet most susceptible to the impacts of climate change—ominous portents can already be seen…. Read moreBOLIVIA’S NEW WATER WARS
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA’S NEW WATER WARS
