As a campaign of nonviolent protests mount in Okinawa over construction of a new off-shore US military heliport at Henoko, an e-mail alert from the local anti-militarism group “Project Disagree” informs us that the the Japanese government has dispatched the… Read moreJapan dispatches warship to Okinawa as anti-base protests mount
John Holmes, the United Nations (UN) emergency humanitarian co-ordinator, has said that the UN will investigate accusations that human rights were violated during recent fighting in Mogadishu. Somalia has agreed to the inquiry. [AlJazeera, May 14] Aid workers are said… Read moreUN to investigate Somali rights abuses
The European Union (EU) has lifted a visa ban on several top Uzbek officials, despite a failure to make substantive advances on human rights in the country [according to international monitors]. [The four formerly on the list who are now… Read moreEU relaxes Uzbekistan restrictions; rights groups protest
Israeli troops fired shots amid clashes between Hamas and Fatah forces at the Karni crossing on the Gaza-Israel border [May 15]. [BBC, May 15] At least seven Presidential Guard personnel are thought to have been killed during the Hamas attack…. Read moreIsrael intervenes in Gaza factional fray
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer threw his support behind a proposal to curtail the president’s recently expanded powers to take charge of the National Guard in domestic crises. “Given the Guard’s growing importance in local emergencies, we are concerned about… Read moreSpitzer: No to National Guard “federalization”
The “Islamic State of Iraq,” having claimed responsibility for an ambush on a US patrol south of Baghdad May 12, has warned the US military to stop searching for three soldiers missing after the incident, if they want them to… Read moreIraq: civil war in the insurgency
A US and Pakistani soldier are purported to have been killed [May 14] after meeting Pakistani troops near the Afghan border. NATO announced that two of its soldiers, as well as two civilian employees, were injured in the incident. [BBC,… Read moreAfghanistan: US solider killed in Pakistan border clash
Excerpts from an April 22 editorial in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: A community debate over religious freedom surfaced in Western Pennsylvania last week when Dutch feminist author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has lived under the threat of death… Read moreAyaan Hirsi Ali faces death threats —in Pennsylvania
Global South and Anti-Corporate Activists Clinch Major Victory at Cancun WTO Summit by Soren Ambrose The fifth World Trade Organization ministerial conference has ended in Cancun, Mexico, and the measure of the organization’s worth can again be seen by the… Read moreCANCUN: GLOBOPHOBES KICK CORPORATE ASS!
Continue ReadingCANCUN: GLOBOPHOBES KICK CORPORATE ASS!by Bill Weinberg On July 21, leaders of indigenous, campesino and grassroots organizations from throughout the Central American nations and Mexico gathered in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, for the Mesoamerican Forum, fourth in a series of meetings aimed at defending… Read moreINDIGENOUS OPPOSITION TO PUEBLA-PANAMA PLAN FACES REPRESSION
Continue ReadingINDIGENOUS OPPOSITION TO PUEBLA-PANAMA PLAN FACES REPRESSIONby Bill Weinberg “Osama bin Laden will be caught anytime–today or tomorrow.” So said J. Cofer Black, US State Department coordinator for counter-terrorism, after meeting with officials in Bangladesh Sept. 5. Black boasted to reporters that 75 percent of al-Qaeda… Read moreU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Continue ReadingU.S.-INDIA TERROR SUMMIT: WHO IS THE ENEMY?BOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES from Weekly News Update on the Americas At 4 AM on Aug. 16, some 300 campesinos from El Chore in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department seized control of a British Petroleum (BP) oil production facility in the… Read moreBOLIVIA: GAS WAR RESUMES
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