IRAQ’S CIVIL RESISTANCE
The Secular Left Opposition Stands Up
by Bill Weinberg, WW4 Report

PICTURES FROM PALESTINE
by Ellen Davidson and Judith Mahoney Pasternak, War Resisters League

BETRAYAL AT BALI
Toward a People’s Agenda for Climate Justice
by Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom

FEAR AND LOATHING IN BOLIVIA
New Constitution Escalates Polarization
by Ben Dangl, Upside Down World

IMMIGRATION & THE SURVEILLANCE STATE
Moribund National ID Act Revived by Spitzer-Chertoff Love Fest
by A. Kronstadt, The Shadow

FINAL MESSAGE TO OUR READERS?

“I heard somebody say, ‘Now, where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
— George Bush, Sept. 20, 2007

“[George Bush is] a president who can’t think properly and wants to plunge the world into holocaust.”
— Nelson Mandela, Jan. 30, 2003

Exit Poll: Should World War 4 Report continue to publish?

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COLOMBIA’S PARAMILITARY PARADOX
Far-Right Militias Survive “Peace Process” and “Para-Politics” Scandal
by Memo Montevino, WW4 REPORT

COLOMBIA: “DEMOBILIZED” PARAS TERRORIZE PEASANTS
from Weekly News Update on the Americas

IRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
by Reza Fiyouzat, Dissident Voice

IRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMEN
by Assieh Amini, Stop Stoning Forever Campaign

ROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATION
“Verging on Genocide” in the Czech Republic?
by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT

Book Review:
INSURGENT SYRIA, 1925
Occupied Iraq’s Not-So-Distant Mirror
by Bill Weinberg, Middle East Policy

URGENT APPEAL TO OUR READERS

“They invaded Iraq knowing…that it was very likely to increase the threat of terror. That demonstrates what their priorities are. Furthermore, they’re thoroughly reasonable priorities. They don’t care about the threat of terror. What they care about is having military bases in a dependent client state right at the heart of the oil-producing region. That’s important. Not because the US wants the oil—its going to get the oil one way or another on the market. But it wants to control the oil. A totally different matter. These things are constantly obscured. Control of oil has been known since the 1940s as a major lever of world control against your enemies. And US enemies are Europe and Asia—those are the regions of the world that could move towards independence. One of the ways to prevent that is to keep your hand on the spigot.”

—Noam Chomsky, “War Crimes and Imperial Fantasies,” interview by David Barsamian, International Socialist Review, September-October 2004

Exit Poll: Is it incumbent on anti-imperialists in the West to support Iran’s right to develop nuclear power, as some on the left argue? Or is it possible to oppose imperialist designs on Iran while still maintaining a consistent position against nuclear development anywhere in the world?

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IRAQ: A NEW AGE OF GENOCIDE?
by Bill Weinberg, New America Media

VOICES OF IRAQI OIL WORKERS
Oil & Utility Union Leaders on the Struggle Against Privatization
from Building Bridges, WBAI Radio

ISRAEL & PALESTINE: ONE STATE OR TWO?
A Debate between Ilan Pappé and Uri Avnery
from Gush-Shalom/Peacework

FREE SPEECH IN VENEZUELA
Whither the RCTV Shut-Down?
from El Libertario, Caracas

EXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICA
The ILEA in El Salvador
from CISPES

“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”
Twenty-Two Years After the Philadelphia Massacre
by Hans Bennett, The Defenestrator

THE GAS-GUZZLER LOBBY STOPS TIME
Is There a Model-T in Your Future?
by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice

SPECIAL MESSAGE TO OUR READERS

“Freedom can and must be defended only by freedom: to advocate the restriction of freedom on the pretext that it is being defended is a dangerous delusion.”

— Mikhail Bakunin, The Revolutionary Catechism, 1866

“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”

— variously attributed to AJ Liebling and HL Mencken

Exit Poll: Is it genocide in Iraq yet? Who is responsible? What can help?

Extra Credit: Israel and Palestine: One state or two?

Extra Extra Credit: The RCTV shut-down in Venezuela: righteous blow against the empire or draconian crackdown on free speech?

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RESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILES
Czech Dissidents Stand Up Again—This Time to the Pentagon!
by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT

ALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?
Islamist Violence and State Legitimacy
by Kanishk Tharoor, Madrid11.net

AFRICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
The Fight for Inclusion
by Gumisai Mutume, Africa Renewal

HYDRO-COLONIALISM ADVANCES IN CANADA’S FAR NORTH
Cree Nation Divided Over James Bay Mega-Project
by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today

NEW ALERT AT LA PAROTA
Mexican Peasants Resist Land Grab for Hydro Dam
from SIPAZ

LATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKS
from Weekly News Update on the Americas

AYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?
One Woman’s Journey from Warlord Somalia to Neocon Washington
by Chesley Hicks, WW4 REPORT

“I think Mohammed was a terrorist. I read enough…by both Muslims and non-Muslims [to decide] he was a violent man, a man of war. In my opinion, Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses, and I think Mohammed set an opposite example.”

—Jerry Falwell, Oct 7, 2002

“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.'”

—Jerry Falwell, Sept. 14, 2001

Exit Poll: Is the “missile shield” actually intended to protect the US and the world from “rogue” nations like Iran and North Korea, or is the “real” enemy still Russia?

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IRAN: THE LEFT OPPOSITION SPEAKS
An Interview with Bina Darabzand of Salam Democrat
Against Bush, Against Ahmadinejad, For Oaxaca
by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT

SUFISM: THE MIDWAY BETWEEN EXTREMISMS
Indigenous North Africa Between Jihad and Imperialism
by Toufik Amayas Mostefaou

AUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERA
Justice Department Scores One Against the FARC
by Paul Wolf, WW4 REPORT

NATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA;
ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELA
The Fractious Struggle for South America’s Resources
by April Howard, Upside Down World

BOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATION
from Weekly News Update on the Americas

WHO’LL STOP THE WAR?
The Vietnam GI Revolt & Iraq
by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY

URGENT MESSAGE TO OUR READERS

“It will be our ruin, even if we win.”
— Javid Bey, Ottoman Finance Minister, upon stepping down in protest of Turkey’s entry into World War I, November 1914

Exit Poll: Will the US or Israel bomb Iran first? (Or is it all going to blow over?)

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LEBANON AND THE NEO-CON ENDGAME
by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT

SHADOW PLAY IN SOMALIA
Washington’s Warlords Lose Out
by Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly

CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN BOLIVIA
Between Electoral Theater and Revolution
by Ben Dangl, Upside Down World

THE QUEENS BLACKOUT: KEN LAY’S REVENGE?
by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT

From Weekly News Update on the Americas:

VENEZUELA : CAMPESINOS MASSACRED
COLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS DISPLACED, KILLED
ECUADOR: OIL PROTESTS CONTINUE
PERU: TRADE PACT PASSES, CAMPESINOS PROTEST
PARAGUAY: U.S. MARINES BACK PARAMILITARIES?
CENTRAL AMERICA: DEADLY REPRESSION AS CAFTA HITS IN

THE “SI SE PUEDE” INSURRECTION
A Class Analysis
by George Caffentzis, Metamute

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SUMMER FUND DRIVE

“Is there any man, is there any woman, let me say any child here, that does not know that the seed of war in the modern world is industrial and commercial rivalry?”

— Woodrow Wilson, 1919

“Why not go to war just for oil? We need oil. What do Hollywood celebrities imagine fuels their private jets? How do they think their cocaine is delivered to them?”

— Ann Coulter, 2003

Exit Poll: Is Kenneth Lay snorting coke with Slobodan Milosevic in Argentina?

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SUFISM AND THE STRUGGLE WITHIN ISLAM
Paradoxical Legacies of the Militant Mystics
by Khaleb Khazari-El

“BIONOIA” Part 4
Dengue in Cuba, West Nile in New York:
When Mosquitoes Come Home to Roost
by Mark Sanborne

IIRSA: THE FTAA’S HANDMAIDEN
South American “Infrastructure Integration” for Free Trade
by Raul Zibechi

PEAK OIL PREVIEW:
North Korea & Cuba Face the Post-Petrol Future
by Dale Jiajun Wen

From Weekly News Update on the Americas:

BOLIVIA: EVO DECREES LAND REFORM
PERU: CAMPESINOS PROTEST FREE TRADE
ECUADOR: CAMPESINOS OCCUPY OIL WELLS
COLOMBIA: SOLDIERS CHARGED IN MASSACRE
VENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS PROTEST PARAS
CENTRAL AMERICA: TICOS PROTEST CAFTA

Book Review:
AL-ZARQAWI: THE MAKING OF THE MYTH
by Chesley Hicks

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SUMMER FUND DRIVE

“The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. They have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete… We are today not far from disaster.

— TE Lawrence (“of Arabia”), unpublished letter to the London Times, August 1920

“It’s no secret that the stars are falling from the sky
The universe exploded ’cause of one man’s lie”

— U2, “The Fly,” 1993

Exit Poll: Will “peak oil” paralyze world commerce and industry before IIRSA can complete its gridding of the South American continent?

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SAMIR ADIL INTERVIEW:
The Voice of Iraq’s Civil Resistance
by Bill Weinberg

ANATOMY OF THE WEST BANK “REALIGNMENT”
Strategic Pull-Back to Perpetuate Occupation
by David Bloom

9-11’s HIDDEN VICTIMS
New York’s Hero Rescue Workers Face Kafkaesque Nightmare
by Joe Flood

THE POLITICS OF THE FARC INDICTMENT
A “Secret Formula” Against Colombia’s Guerillas?
by Paul Wolf

EVO SEIZES THE GAS
Bolivia’s Nationalization by Decree
by Gretchen Gordon

THE WEALTH UNDERGROUND:
Bolivian Gas in State and Corporate Hands
by Benjamin Dangl

From Weekly News Update on the Americas:

COLOMBIA: URIBE RE-ELECTED, REPRESSION ESCALATES
BOLIVIA: OIL AND GAS NATIONALIZED
ECUADOR: PROTESTERS WIN; OXY GETS THE BOOT
VENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS ARRESTED; ALBA ADVANCES
CENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-CAFTA MOBILIZATION

THE DA VINCI CODE: DECODING THE HYPE
The Paradoxes of Mainstreaming Esoterica
by Mark Sanborne

“Week after week and month after month for a long time to come we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare… It is an extraordinary thing that the…civil administration should have succeeded in such a short time in alienating the whole country to such an extent that the Arabs have laid aside the blood feuds that they have nursed for centuries and that the Sun[n]i and Shiah tribes are working together.”

—Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill in letter to Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Aug. 31, 1920

Exit Poll: How long before the US invasion of Bolivia?

(Yes, that’s the same question we asked last month, but it is only more relevant now. Besides, we only got ONE reply last time. You slackers who don’t even send us money at least owe us a reply to the Exit Poll to show that you are thinking. C’mon, then.)

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HOUZAN MAHMOUD INTERVIEW:
The Iraqi Freedom Congress and the Civil Resistance
by Bill Weinberg

BLAMING “THE LOBBY”
AIPAC Takes the Hit for US Imperialism
by Joseph Massad

NAGORNO-KARABAKH:
Stalin’s Shadow Looms Over Trans-Caucasus Pipeline
by Rene Wadlow

EL SALVADOR:
No Business as Usual as CAFTA Takes Effect
by Paul Pollack

From Weekly News Update on the Americas:

ECUADOR: PROTESTS PARALYZE COUNTRY
COLOMBIA: TRADE PACT CONCLUDED, RIGHT SWEEPS ELECTIONS
BRAZIL: MASSIVE LAND OCCUPATIONS

C FOR COOPTATION
The Wachowski Brothers Commodify Your Dissent — Again!
by Shlomo Svesnik

“What a country calls its vital economic interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. Thus when war is waged it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one’s capacity to make war.”

—Simone Weil, “The Need for Roots,” posthumously published, 1949

Exit Poll: Is AIPAC taking the hit for US imperialism or vice versa?

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FROM BAGHDAD TO TOKYO
Japanese Anti-War Movement Hosts Iraqi Civil Resistance
by Bill Weinberg

“OPERATION GREEN COLOMBIA”
Coca Eradication Brings War to Threatened National Parks
by Memo Montevino

THE NEW BOLIVIAN EXPERIENCE
Grassroots Activists Take Reins of Government
by Gretchen Gordon

CAFTA’S ASSUALT ON DEMOCRACY
The New Corporate Agenda for Central America
by Tom Ricker and Burke Stansbury

WATER PRIVATIZATION FOR EL SALVADOR?
by Paul Pollack

From Weekly News Update on the Americas:

VENEZUELA: U.S. ATTACHE EXPELLED
COLOMBIA: MILITARY TERROR IN CAUCA, ARAUCA, LA GUAJIRA
ECUADOR: STATE OF EMERGENCY IN OIL ZONE
PERU: AMAZON INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL SITE
ARGENTINA: DEADLY VIOLENCE AT OIL WORKERS PROTEST
URUGUAY : CANE WORKERS OCCUPY LAND
CENTRAL AMERICA: “BLOC OF RESISTANCE” AGAINST CAFTA

BLOGGING IN FARSI
Love and Dissidence Through an Electronic Veil
by Melody Zagami

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“A death sentence is a rather harsh review.”
— Umberto Eco on the Salman Rushdie fatwa, New York Times, March 12 1989

“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.”
— George Bernard Shaw, “The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet,” 1911

Exit Poll: Is there something a little perverse about the fact that Muslims all over the world are protesting offensive cartoons rather than the destruction of Samarra’s Golden Mosque?

Just asking.

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