Teachers from the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) clashed with capital police and elite Federal Preventative Police at blockades of the federal Government Ministry and the central offices of the national TV network Televisa in Mexico City May 31…. Read moreMexico City: teachers clash with riot police
A prisoner has died in an apparent suicide at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US military announced May 30. A statement by the US Southern Command said the inmate, a Saudi Arabian national, was found… Read moreApparent suicide at Guantanamo Bay
Turkish authorities have announed the seizure of weapons hidden on a Syria-bound train from Iran after Kurdish PKK guerillas derailed it with a bomb near the town of Genc in Bingol province. News reports said the weapons included 300 rockets… Read moreTurkey recovers Iranian arms from Syria-bound train raided by Kurdish guerillas
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin, in a recent visit to Mogadishu, refused to give a date for Ethiopian troops to withdraw from Somalia, saying Somalia’s transition government and civil society leaders had asked Ethiopia not to abandon the Somali people…. Read moreEthiopia grooms Somalia for Eritrea intervention?
Fifteen residents were killed and 35 wounded as the Yemeni army bombarded the village of Souq al-Lail in the northern province of Saada on the night of May 30, setting a gasoline station ablaze. The region is the heart of… Read moreYemen: army bombards village
Mexican Peasants Resist Land Grab for Hydro Dam from SIPAZ Tension is growing in the conflicted southern Mexican state of Guerrero over the planned La Parota hydro-electric dam on the Rio Papagayo. The project would inundate thousands of hectares of… Read moreNEW ALERT AT LA PAROTA
Continue ReadingNEW ALERT AT LA PAROTACree Nation Divided Over James Bay Mega-Project by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today Hydro-Quebec, the provincial utility which is a major energy exporter to the Northeast US, has commenced construction on a new mega-project on Cree lands of the far… Read moreHYDRO-COLONIALISM ADVANCES IN CANADA’S FAR NORTH
Continue ReadingHYDRO-COLONIALISM ADVANCES IN CANADA’S FAR NORTHThe Fight for Inclusion by Gumisai Mutume, Africa Renewal The San, the indigenous people of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, won a major victory in December 2006, at the end of the longest and most expensive court proceeding in that… Read moreAFRICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Continue ReadingAFRICA’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLESIslamist Violence and State Legitimacy by Kanishk Tharoor, Madrid11.net In recent months, the specter of Islamist violence has grown across North Africa. After enduring a brutal decade-long civil war, Algeria has seen Salafist radicals regrouping under the ominous banner of… Read moreALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?
Continue ReadingALGERIA: DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING?Czech Dissidents Stand Up Again—This Time to the Pentagon! by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT In violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the and commitments made in the year 2000 at the UN Non-Proliferation Treaty… Read moreRESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILES
Continue ReadingRESISTING THE NEW EURO-MISSILESMexico’s National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur) has announced a new mega-complex to be built in the conflicted southern state of Chiapas. Centering around the Classic Maya ruins of Palenque, the complex will include an 8,000-room hotel, theme park and golf… Read moreChiapas: mega-tourism, narco-terror at Palenque
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) turned in its final report on last year’s unrest in Oaxaca May 24, blaming both authorities and protesters for “excesses,” and urging the government to investigate its finding that federal police tortured detainees. The… Read moreMexico: human rights commission hands in Oaxaca report
