The US “withdrawal” from Iraq comes as the Pentagon is set to augment its troop presence in the Persian Gulf region, Iran threatens to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, and the price of oil nears $100 a barrel.
It is a sad day indeed. The “leftist” website CounterPunch gushes enthusiasm for Ron Paul—while it is left to the New York Times to uphold anti-racist principles by calling him out on his hateful outbursts and support from neo-Nazis.
Even as the Israeli government turns more East Jerusalem land over to hardline Jewish settlers, ultra-orthodox Jews clashed with police at Beit Shemesh suburb over a crackdown on their attempts to enforce gender segregation.
The US has sent the Argentine human rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo a fully declassified 1982 memo on the abduction of prisoners’ babies under the 1976-1983 dictatorship.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has withdrawn a 2010 order for the Guatemalan government to suspend operations at Goldcorp Inc.’s controversial Marlin gold mine.
Mexican environmental activists Eva Alarcón and Marcial Bautista were reportedly still alive two weeks after their Dec. 7 kidnapping from a bus in the southwestern state of Guerrero.
After eight months of mobilizations, strikes and campus occupations, Chilean university and secondary students held their last protest of the 2011 school year.
Despite his lukewarm disavowals of “past” ugly racism, “progressives” continue to plug Ron Paul because of his supposed anti-war creds—oblivious to the fact that he even casts his anti-war message in ugly xenophobic terms.
Bill Weinberg interviews Andrew Kliman of the Marxist-Humanist Initiative, author of The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession.
From now through the first week of January, World War 4 Report will be on semi-hiatus, with a low level of activity, while editor and chief blogger Bill Weinberg takes a well-earned stay-at-home vacation and sees to some personal matters.
Three-year old Shakira, disfigured by a drone strike on her Pakistani village, has just arrived in Houston for surgery. Yet, unlike the woman whose nose was cut off by the Taliban, she will not be exploited for propaganda, at least.
Amid concern about stability on the Korean peninsula after the passing of Kim Jong Il, few recall that the DPRK saw a brief wave of protests over economic conditions back in February—just as the Arab Spring was gaining ground.
