The struggle against the planned Conga gold mine in Peru’s northern region of Cajamarca continues to gain ground, with formation of a “Unitary Struggle Command for the Northern Macroregion and Oriente.”
A clash with National Police left 11 campesinos hurt and eight detained amid an indefinite paro (civil strike) in Espinar province of Peru’s Cuzco region, called to protest pollution caused by local mining operations.
A high alpine lake in the Chilean Andes suddenly disappeared as a natural glacier dam gave way due to rising temperatures—while unprecedented flooding devastates riverine Amazon communities in Peru and Brazil.
Indigenous Miskito residents of Ahuas village on the remote Caribbean coast of Honduras are demanding justice in the wake of a deadly helicopter raid by Honduran National Police and DEA agents—with details still emerging on the scope of the violence.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, just returned from Peru, speaks before New York's Anarchist Forum on the Quechua indigenous struggle against US-backed mining projects and in defense of land, water and autonomy in the Andes.
The Tuareg rebels of the MNLA announced that they are merging with the most significant of the jihadist factions operating in northern Mali, Ansar Dine, to form the Transitional Council of the Islamic State of Azawad.
Egypt’s secular progressives see a choice between “Islamic fascist” Mohammed Mursi and “military fascist” Ahmed Shafiq in next month’s run-off. Washington connived in isolation of the secularists, because this bloc includes socialists and Nasserists.
As the Assad regime is accused of a new horrific massacre, Damascus and Moscow charge that the US and NATO are backing the uprising. And as harsh repression continues in US-backed Bahrain, the monarchy makes identical charges against Iran.
Demonstrators marked Jordan’s 1949 independence from British rule by demanding reform and rejecting government plans to hike commodity prices and taxes to offset a $3 billion budget deficit.
A court in Bahrain sentenced Zainab al-Khawaja, the daughter of jailed pro-democracy activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja to one month in prison for trying to organize an anti-government protest.
With reprisals continuing against Tuaregs in Libya, similar reports are now emerging from regime-controlled Mali after the Tuareg uprising in the country’s north. But supposedly liberated “Azawad” provides no refuge, as Islamist factions vie for power.
John McCain’s demand that Pakistan pardon Dr. Shakeel Afridi, convicted of treason for helping the CIA locate Osama bin Laden, may not even be possible. Afridi was tried by a tribal court where Islamabad is constitutionally barred from interfering.
