Issue 105 – December 2004
…Colombia’s Top Terrorist and Drug Dealer in his Cartagena Photo-Op with Alvaro Uribe? by Bill Weinberg From Weekly News Update on the Americas: CHILE: RIOTS ROCK APEC SUMMIT, MAPUCHE ACTIVISTS…
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Darfur and Zionist propaganda: our readers write
…WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg, “From Darfur to Mauritania,” noted the survival of slavery and persecution of Black African peoples across the entire Sahel region—while also noting how the region’s…
Nicaragua: mystery illness strikes sugar mill workers
Bill Weinberg Litigation over sterilization From the LA Times, May 27: Chinandega, Nicaragua — THE people crammed into the stifling basketball gym. They filled the court, lined the walls and…
Iran post-election rights abuses worst in 20 years: Amnesty International
Bill Weinberg More protests in Tehran Some 200 were arrested in anti-government protests in Tehran Dec. 7, which marked Students Day in Iran. Students clashed with police and consciously broke…
China: activist accused of “inciting subversion” —for distributing leaflets
Bill Weinberg Questions about You Minglei Our usual questions. When You Minglei calls for “opposing communism,” is he using this term as it is understood in the West—i.e., opposing the…
Turkey: clashes between PKK, Islamists
Bill Weinberg Turkey: prison for thoughtcrime? We’ve already noted Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s unseemly edifice complex. Now his ugly regime takes another step towards open dictatorship. Reuters and BBC News reported Dec. 26 that Turkish…
Podcast: the anti-war left morphs into its opposite
…opposite: pro-war, pro-dictatorship, and even pro-genocide. Weinberg discusses his own political awakening in the Reagan cold war, and the American left’s descent to its current political and ideological nadir. Weinberg…
Podcast: the dialectics of cannabis liberation
In Episode 24 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg notes the historic strides toward liberation of the cannabis plant in 2018, from the fabled four corners of the Earth. Yet…
Mexico: crackdown on armed forces narco links?
…when we should be tearing it out by the roots.” — Manuel Clouthier, a congressman from Sinaloa state and a member of Calderon’s own political party. Bill Weinberg No cut-and-paste…
AMERICAN ‘LEFT’ ABETS GENOCIDE IN SYRIA
by Bill Weinberg, Fifth Estate In the 1930s, the American left could claim solidarity with those who stood up to the authors of the Guernica terror in Spain. Today, in…
Podcast: What will it take to stop Trump? II
In Episode 56 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg takes stock of the evident reality that Trump is getting ready to steal the November election—whether by undermining the Postal Service,…
Podcast: political geography of the Lower East Side
In Episode 141 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg defends the notion that he lives on New York’s Lower East Side, repudiating those who would insist that his neighborhood is…