US to exploit Kyrgyz prison crackdown?
…base. Bill Weinberg I think the exploitation is pretty mutual You don’t think the US exploits the human rights issue to wrest concessions from Central Asian despots? You don’t think…
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Honduras: claims and counter-claims over Zelaya anti-Semitism
Bill Weinberg Life’s little ironies ADL fails to note that coup-installed President Roberto Micheletti has reportedly appointed as “special advisor” one Billy Joya Améndola—named as a principal leader of the…
Hong Kong: will protests spread to mainland?
Bill Weinberg Encouraging anarchist graffiti in Hong Kong A Facebook page entitled Radical Graffiti displays some very encouraging slogans spray-painted on to walls in Hong Kong in recent days, apparently…
The Republicans are the party of white supremacy: deal with it
Bill Weinberg Obama “chair lynchings” in Texas and Virginia From Salon, Sept. 20: Two people may have single-handedly set back civil liberties by nearly 100 years by hanging Obama effigies…
China and Japan can’t stop fighting World War II
Bill Weinberg Japanese rightists hail Hitler on birthday It seems to have received no coverage in English, but Korean news portal Chosun Online shows photos of Japanese ultra-rightists marching in Tokyo…
Did Osama bin Laden hit violate international law?
…most pressing challenges facing the American people. Holder also expressed concerns that Bin Laden’s death may prompt attempts at retaliation. (Jurist, May 4) Bill Weinberg Human Rights Watch issues non-statement…
World War 4 Report back from Peru… and needs your support!
Bill Weinberg Reader gets ball rolling on World War 4 Report fund-drive… Many thanks to an anonymous donor in the San Francisco Bay Area for coming through with the first…
Taiwan Strait in the Trump world order
Bill Weinberg Trump treats Taiwan as bargaining chip Trump just upped the ante in his cynical game with Beijing, explicitly posing the “one China” policy as a bargaining chip to…
Islamophobic propaganda: coming to a bus near you
Bill Weinberg Cordoba House to cave in? The Israeli daily Haaretz Aug. 16 cites anonymous “insiders” to the effect that the Cordoba Initiative “will soon back down, agreeing to move…
East China Sea edging towards war…
Bill Weinberg Japanese neo-militarists: give war a chance NPR on Dec. 14 quotes Satoru Mizushima, leader of the pro-remilitarization group Ganbare Nippon!—or Go For It, Japan!—which apparently organized the landing on…
Podcast: paradoxes of anarchism and nationalism
In Episode 32 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg reads from George Orwell’s 1945 essay “Notes on Nationalism,” and explains why despite his anarchist politics he is willing to march…
Hurricane Katrina as America’s Nakba: does anyone care?
…Defenders Face Terror Charges” by Bill Weinberg from AlterNet, on the use of “anti-terrorism” laws against activists engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience to protest the demolition of public housing projects….