The 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”from Weekly News Update on the Americas Argentine bricklayer Luis Gerez, a survivor of torture who testified against a former police official, disappeared the evening of Dec. 27 in his town of Belen de Escobar, 60 kilometers north of the… Read moreARGENTINA: “DIRTY WAR” DEATH SQUADS BACK?
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: “DIRTY WAR” DEATH SQUADS BACK?from Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: ENVIRONMENTALISTS MURDERED On Dec. 20, environmental activists Heraldo Zuniga and Roger Ivan Cartagena were shot and killed in the central plaza outside the mayor’s office in Guarizama municipality, in the large eastern… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ECOLOGISTS ASSASSINATED IN HONDURAS; LAND CLASH, ASSASSINATIONS IN GUATEMALA
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ECOLOGISTS ASSASSINATED IN HONDURAS; LAND CLASH, ASSASSINATIONS IN GUATEMALAAn End to Africa’s Reign of Impunity? by Michael Fleshman, Africa Renewal The world took a giant step towards eliminating impunity for human rights abuses on November 9 when the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its first-ever hearing in a… Read morePRESIDENTS IN THE DOCK
Continue ReadingPRESIDENTS IN THE DOCKfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: El Salvador: Water “Reform” Protested About 50 Salvadoran union members, campesinos and environmental activists blocked the Juan Pablo II avenue near the Legislative Assembly in San Salvador for about two hours to protest… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND, WATER
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND, WATERfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: The Second Summit of the South American Community of Nations (CSN), held Dec. 8-9 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, concluded with a declaration that the meeting had laid the “cornerstone” for a regional union with… Read moreSOUTH AMERICA: SUMMIT PROCESS STALLS
Continue ReadingSOUTH AMERICA: SUMMIT PROCESS STALLSfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Dec. 13, some 5,000 people from across Argentina (or as many as 10,000, according to some press reports) took part in a colorful march in scorching weather to the Plaza de Mayo… Read moreARGENTINA: THOUSANDS MARCH FOR ENVIRONMENT
Continue ReadingARGENTINA: THOUSANDS MARCH FOR ENVIRONMENTfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas: On Nov. 28, a standoff in Bolivia’s Senate ended when the rightwing National Unity (UN) party’s only senator joined two senators from the rightwing Democratic and Social Power (Podemos) in returning to the… Read moreBOLIVIA: AGRARIAN REFORM LAW SIGNED
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: AGRARIAN REFORM LAW SIGNED
