Occupied Iraq’s Not-So-Distant Mirror by Bill Weinberg, Middle East Policy Book Review: The Great Syrian Revolt and the Rise of Arab Nationalism by Michael Provence University of Texas, Austin, 2005 The comparison is nowhere made explicitly, but the subtext for… Read moreINSURGENT SYRIA, 1925
Continue ReadingINSURGENT SYRIA, 1925“Verging on Genocide” in the Czech Republic? by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT PRAGUE — For almost two decades now it has been possible for just about anyone from the outside world, including people from the formerly taboo democracies of the… Read moreROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATION
Continue ReadingROMA FACE COERCIVE STERILIZATIONby Reza Fiyouzat, Dissident Voice Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran have either been absent from the Western left’s discourse—or have been getting the short end of the stick from some in the US left…. Read moreIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
Continue ReadingIRAN: THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST CASE AGAINST NUCLEAR POWERby Assieh Amini, Stop Stoning Forever Campaign Despite official denials, the stoning to death of women and sometimes men for such offenses as adultery continues in Iran, with state sanction. Iran’s Stop Stoning Forever Campaign documents and protests such instances,… Read moreIRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMEN
Continue ReadingIRAN: STATE STILL STONES WOMENby Bill Weinberg, New America Media Amid daily media body counts and analyses of whether the “surge” is “working,” there is an even more horrific reality in Iraq, almost universally overlooked. The latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights… Read moreNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQ
Continue ReadingNO GREEN ZONE FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN IRAQTwenty-Two Years After the Philadelphia Massacre by Hans Bennett, The Defenestrator “Attention, MOVE: This Is America!” Philadelphia Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor declared through a loudspeaker, minutes before the May 13, 1985 police assault on the revolutionary MOVE organization’s home. This… Read more“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”
Continue Reading“ATTENTION MOVE! THIS IS AMERICA!”The ILEA in El Salvador from CISPES On June 22, the US House of Representatives voted to approve “foreign operations” funding for 2008, including the funds for International Law Enforcement Academies (ILEAs), the School of the Americas, and a number… Read moreEXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICA
Continue ReadingEXPORTING U.S. “CRIMINAL JUSTICE” TO LATIN AMERICAThe case of RCTV and the fictional democratization of communication from El Libertario, Caracas On May 27, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), a pillar of Venezuela’s media establishment, went off the air when its license expired, sparking a wave of angry… Read moreFREE SPEECH IN VENEZUELA
Continue ReadingFREE SPEECH IN VENEZUELAA Debate between Ilan Pappé and Uri Avnery from Gush-Shalom/Peacework Ilan Pappé is an Israeli historian who taught at Haifa University. He is the author, most recently, of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Uri Avnery is an Israeli activist, journalist,… Read moreISRAEL & PALESTINE: ONE STATE OR TWO?
Continue ReadingISRAEL & PALESTINE: ONE STATE OR TWO?One Woman’s Journey from Warlord Somalia to Neocon Washington by Chesley Hicks, WW4 REPORT Book Review: The Caged Virgin An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Free Press/Simon & Schuster 2006 (translated), originally published in Netherlands… Read moreAYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?
Continue ReadingAYAAN HIRSI ALI: INGENUE OR PROVOCATEUR?from Weekly News Update on the Americas Bolivian president Evo Morales, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and Cuban vice president Carlos Lage joined Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in Barquisimeto, in the Venezuelan state of Lara, on the weekend of April 28… Read moreLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKS
Continue ReadingLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas Bolivian president Evo Morales, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and Cuban vice president Carlos Lage joined Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in Barquisimeto, in the Venezuelan state of Lara, on the weekend of April 28… Read moreLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKS
Continue ReadingLATIN AMERICA: ALBA GROWS, WORLD BANK SHRINKS
