Two men on a motorcycle gunned down Honduran campesino activist Matías Valle Cárdenas as he was leaving his home in the Lower Aguán Valley, the site of often violent land disputes.
A Guatemalan judge ruled that there was sufficient evidence to try former military dictator Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide, but the current president denies there was genocide.
An opponent of a Canadian-owned silver mine in Oaxaca was killed when supporters of a pro-mining mayor reportedly fired on a demonstration about a local water pipelin.
Chile and Mexico are leaders among the 34 “developed” countries in the OECD group–leaders in income inequality, along with Israel, Turkey and the US.
In the sixth YouTube edition of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg calls out Ron Paul as a neo-Confederate crank and pseudo-libertarian reactionary. Share this with all Paul-suckers!
Brazil’s government is facing an outcry from rights groups and social movements following a violent Jan. 22 eviction of a favela (informal settlement) that the media have dubbed the “Massacre do Pinheirinho.” Some 2,000 troops from the Military Police of São Paulo… Read moreBrazil: outrage follows “Massacre of Pinheirinho”
Brazilian prosecutors plan to file criminal charges against Chevron officials for November’s 3,000-barrel oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. The spill has not yet been contained, with oil still seeping from the ocean floor.
There whereabouts of 29 Chinese road workers abducted by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in South Kordofan remain unknown. Rights groups charge the new road is being used to facilitate counter-insurgency.
From AP, Jan. 29: Florida highway pileup kills at least 10 people GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Amid a new round of Israeli air-strikes on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Donald Trump in Washington for the signing of a presidential proclamation officially recognizing the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory. At the joint press conference, Trump said, "We will confront the poison of anti-Semitism." We hope it is unnecessary to point out the perversity of Trump exploiting the threat of anti-Semitism to justify US recognition of an illegal Israeli annexation of Syrian territory. (Image: Ma'an)
The Supreior Court of Justice for Peru's rainforest region of Madre de Dios upheld a lower court ruling that nullified mining concessions as well as the titling of agricultural properties and granting of water rights to third parties on the territory of the indigenous community of Tres Islas, without prior consultation with that community. The regional government of Madre de Dios is ordered to comply with the ruling, as is the National Water Authority and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. The National Police are called upon to enforce the ruling if necessary. Peru's International Institute of Law and Society, which represented Tres Islas in the case, hailed the ruling as "historic." (Photo: La Mula)
The New York Police Department, under fire from New York City Muslims, has announced that is ending its program of NYPD-CIA collaboration launched after 9-11. But calls mount for Commissioner Ray Kelly to step down.
