Daily Report

Iran threatens "harm and pain"; Cheney threatens "consequences"

It would almost be comical in its choreographed predictability, if the stakes for world peace weren't so high. From Knight-Ridder, March 8:

The war of words over Iran's nuclear program grew harsher Wednesday, as Iran threatened to inflict "harm and pain" on the United States in retaliation for any U.S.-led effort to force the Islamic republic to abandon its uranium enrichment work.

Bill Weinberg to speak on Iraq, Chiapas in Mass.

WW4 REPORT Editor Bill Weinberg will be speaking on Friday March 10 in Barre, MA, at a double-feature screening of films on the Zapatista movement in Mexico and the civil resistance in Iraq. The latest installment in the Barre Winter Film Series will present the 1998 documentary A Place Called Chiapas and the new DVD Go Forward, Iraqi Freedom Congress!, produced by Japanese peace activsts and documenting the activities of a new anti-occupation civilian coalition in Iraq. Weinberg, the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso Books, 2000), recently returned from a conference in Japan where he met with and interviewed leaders of the Iraqi Freedom Congress.

Al-Qaeda: target oil infrastructure

From AP, March 2:

Al-Qaida has encouraged its followers to attack oil pipelines and facilities in Muslim countries and tankers but not wells, according to a document posted on a Web site by the group that targeted the world's largest oil-processing complex in Saudi Arabia.

Sudan threatens "Darfur Jihad"

From Reuters, March 8:

KHARTOUM - Shouting "Down, Down USA," thousands of Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Wednesday against any deployment of U.N. troops to the western Darfur region.

Bolivia: Evo to free the land?

From Prensa Latina, March 8:

A call to return illegally owned lands was launched by Bolivia´s President Evo Morales, while warning his administration will put an end to unproductive large landed estates.

Bolivia: military tension with US —already

Just to get both sides of the story, first this account (in rather poor English) from Cuba's Prensa Latina:

La Paz, Mar 8 - Bolivia conditioned the return of weaponry and technology the US supplied to an elite military unit on submitting an official request through the Foreign Ministry.

Mexico: "dirty war" files reveal "genocide plan"

Ginger Thompson writes for the New York Times, Feb. 27:

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26 A secret report prepared by a special prosecutor's office says the Mexican military carried out a "genocide plan" of kidnapping, torturing and killing hundreds of suspected subversives in the southern state of Guerrero during the so-called dirty war, from the late 1960's to the early 1980's.

Zapatista tour advances 10 years after stalled peace accord

Feb. 16 marked a full decade since the signing of the San Andres Accords, negotiated by rebel Zapatista commanders and Mexican federal legislators in the restive southern state of Chiapas. The Accords called for changes to the Mexican constitution as a minimum peace demand for the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), but have languished for ten years as the federal bureaucracy has refused to implement them. As the anniversary passed, Zapatista leaders on a national tour dubbed "The Other Campaign" (a reference to the presidential campaigns now underway in Mexico) arrived in the city of Puebla. (La Jornada, Feb. 17)

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