World War 4 Report offers an annotated assessment of Obama’s moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the oppressive apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
The Obama administration may increase its use of controversial military commissions for Guantánamo Bay detainees, according to a New York Times report.
Vice President Joe Biden, reversing his recent position, said the US could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014—as Hamid Karzai signed a long-term pact with NATO in Lisbon.
Neo-Nazis have taken over the entire village of Jamel in northeastern Germany, and are running it as a “nationally liberated zone”—with no interference from authorities.
Is Tunisia’s “Jasmine Revolution” a creation of George Soros, the National Endowment for Democracy and Julian Assange? No, but that hasn’t stopped Moammar Qaddafi from mouthing off.
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, returning to the country from French exile, was charged with corruption, theft, misappropriation of funds and other unnamed crimes.
For the second year in a row, a federal court in Columbus, Georgia, has sentenced activists to six-month prison terms for trespassing on the US Army’s Fort Benning base.
Guyana’s Foreign Ministry announced that the country was recognizing Palestine as an independent nation. Guyana is the sixth South American country to do this in a little more than a month.
Thousands of Haitians turned out for religious ceremonies in Port-au-Prince to mark the one-year anniversary of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that leveled much of the capital and surrounding area.
Students at the University of Puerto Rico renewed militant protests around economic issues as the school reopened following winter holidays.
Honduran campesino leader Juan Ramón Chinchilla was safe and was staying in an undisclosed location on Jan. 11 after two days in captivity.
Honduras’ National Congress passed reforms the Constitution that would open the way to changing key elements of the document–including the ban on presidential reelection–by popular referendum.
