How a Yippie conspiracist changed America, mainstreamed marijuana and was destroyed by his dream… Thomas K. Forçade was one of the most influential figures of the counterculture, and changed American culture as much as his confederates Abbie Hoffman and Larry… Read moreTOM FORÇADE: UNSUNG HERO OF THE COUNTER-CULTURE
Continue ReadingTOM FORÇADE: UNSUNG HERO OF THE COUNTER-CULTUREReal Change on Anti-Woman “Hudood” Laws? by Abira Ashfaq, Peacework In November 2006, women in Pakistan and around the world celebrated the passage of the Women’s Protection Bill, a rare instance of positive legislative reform offering some relief from Pakistan’s… Read moreRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTAN
Continue ReadingRAPE AND REFORM IN PAKISTANIsrael and its Allies Instrument Social Disaster by Jennifer Bing-Canar and Adam Horowitz, Peacework 2006 marked yet another difficult year for residents of the Gaza Strip. In the words of John Ging, the Gaza-based director of the United Nations Relief… Read moreGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGE
Continue ReadingGAZA STRIP: STILL UNDER SIEGESuccessor 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 VENEZUELAThe Vietnam GI Revolt & Iraq by Michael I. Niman, Art Voice, Buffalo, NY The name Vietnam is back in our vocabulary, as we seem to be developing an interest in history—or at least in the history of wars that… Read moreWHO’LL STOP THE WAR?
Continue ReadingWHO’LL STOP THE WAR?An 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 SPEAKSStephen Kinzer Traces a Century of Destabilization by Tom Cornell, The Catholic Worker OVERTHROW: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer Times Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York 2006 From the Introduction: “Why does… Read moreTHE LONG ARC OF REGIME CHANGE
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