Successor Factions to the Islamic Courts Union by Osman Yusuf, WW4 REPORT The downfall of the Islamic militants who had control over most of south and central Somalia until late last year has created a power vacuum that the transitional… Read moreSOMALIA: THE NEW RESISTANCE
Continue ReadingSOMALIA: THE NEW RESISTANCEShi’ite Insurgency in Washington’s Strategic Red Sea Ally by Mohamed Al-Azaki, WW4 REPORT He heard the military helicopters coming, Dr. Ali al-Wadiee told reporters in Al-Ruzamat, a small village situated amid the volcanic mountains of Yemen’s remote north, near the… Read moreYEMEN: ON THE BRINK OF SECTARIAN WAR
Continue ReadingYEMEN: ON THE BRINK OF SECTARIAN WARfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Jan. 29 residents of Camiri, a city in the southwest of Bolivia’s eastern Santa Cruz department, began a civic strike and blockaded a main highway connecting the country with Argentina and Paraguay…. Read moreBOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATION
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: STREET HEAT FOR NATIONALIZATIONIndigenous North Africa Between Jihad and Imperialism by Toufik Amayas Mostefaou My heart Has become capable Of taking all sorts of forms, It is Pastures For gazelles And Monastery for the monk, Temple of idols And Kaaba for the pilgrim…. Read moreSUFISM: THE MIDWAY BETWEEN EXTREMISMS
Continue ReadingSUFISM: THE MIDWAY BETWEEN EXTREMISMSJustice Department Scores One Against the FARC by Paul Wolf, WW4 REPORT February 20, a federal jury in Washington DC found Anayibe Rojas Valderama (Sonia), Antonio Celis and Juan Diego Giraldo guilty of conspiracy to import cocaine into the US,… Read moreAUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERA
Continue ReadingAUTOPSY OF A NARCO-GUERRILLERAThe Fractious Struggle for South America’s Resources by April Howard, Upside Down World Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was arguably elected on the platform of nationalization. A country-wide protest deposed president Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada in 2003, and then kicked former… Read moreNATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA, ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELA
Continue ReadingNATIONALIZATION BLUES IN BOLIVIA, ROCK’N’ROLL IN VENEZUELAAn Interview with Bina Darabzand of Salam Democrat Against Bush, Against Ahmadinejad, For Oaxaca by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT On December 12, 2006, as the Holocaust revisionism conference called by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened in Tehran, small but angry groups… Read moreIRAN: THE LEFT OPPOSITION SPEAKS
Continue ReadingIRAN: THE LEFT OPPOSITION SPEAKSThe Shi’ite “Cult” Militia and Iraq’s Apocalypse by Sarkis Pogossian, WW4 REPORT What the Bush administration is calling a victory over a strange new insurgent militia in Iraq is actually a sign of the terrifying fragmentation of the war into… Read moreBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”
Continue ReadingBEHIND THE “SOLDIERS OF HEAVEN”Security Forces Burn Peasant Settlements for Canadian Nickel Firm by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today On January 8, some 200 Guatemalan army troops and twice as many national police occupied two Qeq’chi (Kekchi) Maya indigenous communities at El Estor, a… Read moreGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYA
Continue ReadingGUATEMALA: MINERAL CARTEL EVICTS KEKCHI MAYAThe Chechnya War and the Right Not to Kill from War Resisters International On October 7, 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, a well-known journalist who regularly exposed Russian human rights violations in Chechnya, was murdered in her flat in Moscow. Six days… Read moreCONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIA
Continue ReadingCONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION IN RUSSIAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias started his third term—his second full six-year term—on Jan. 10 in a ceremony before the 167-deputy National Assembly. No foreign dignitaries attended the Jan. 10 inauguration. According to… Read moreVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: TOWARDS “21st CENTURY SOCIALISM”from Weekly News Update on the Americas Promising to end “the long night of neoliberalism,” economist Rafael Correa started a four-year term as president of Ecuador in a ceremony in Quito on Jan. 15. Only about 25 of the 100… Read moreECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”
Continue ReadingECUADOR: END TO “LONG NIGHT OF NEOLIBERALISM”
