In a Google-sponsored “video chat,” Obama gave the first public acknowledgment of the use of US drones in Pakistan—and said that drone strikes “enhance” US respect for the sovereignty of the target countries. (Insert Orwell reference here.)
The BBC says it has seen a “secret NATO report” that finds the Taliban continue to be heavily backed by Pakistan, are confident they can win the Afghan war, and are gaining popular support at the expense of the Kabul government.
Could everybody just stop and think, please? Rand Paul won applause from basically freedom-loving folks when he was blocked from boarding a flight by the Transportation Security Administration last week in Nashville, after refusing to submit to a full body… Read moreWe’ll say it again: Ron Paul is a bogus “libertarian”!
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
