Public-sector workers march in Baghdad

Colombia: Uribe linked to 1984 assassination of justice minister
Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, chief of the Colombian presidency's anti-corruption program, resigned Dec. 12—days after Miami's El Nuevo Herald reported documents revealing his father, Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, had warned before his 1984 assassination that relatives of current President Alvaro Uribe might try to kill him. The story concerns a Hughes-500 helicopter captured in a cocaine lab raid that was registered to a company partly owned by Alberto Uribe Sierra, the late father of the president. [more]
OAS Peace Mission official threatened in Colombia
On Dec. 13, an observer with the OAS mission that monitors Colombia's demobilization process received a death threat while visiting a poor neighborhood in Medellín. A man on a motorcycle drove up to the mission member's car and told her driver that his boss would be killed if she failed to abandon her work. [more]
A message from Judith Mahoney Pasternak
Dear Friends: From the perspective of three decades-plus in the progressive media, I'm writing to let you know what an incredibly important resource World War 4 Report is—and why we need to support it now if we want it to continue... [more]
More headlines...

read more