Czech Green Party MP Olga Zubová wrote an open letter to US President-elect Barack Obama, asking him to review the US commitment to the planned military radar base on Czech soil for the proposed “missile shield.” “For the Czech Republic… Read moreCzech Green Party MP asks Obama to reconsider missile shield
On Nov. 11, Poland’s Independence Day, the extreme right group National Radical Camp (Oboz Narodowo-Radykalny-ONR) marched in Warsaw, in its second public show of strength this year. ONR also marched in June to commemorate the 1936 anti-Jewish pogrom in Myslenic…. Read moreNeo-Nazis, anti-fas clash in Warsaw
On the morning of Nov. 11, some 150 French police—including elite anti-terrorist forces—raided a farm at Tarnac in the Millevaches plateau and arrested nine young people, who ran the local grocery store. Four days later, the nine were sent before… Read moreFrance: autonomist youth targeted in Tarnac Nine case
President Hamid Karzai openly called for a timeline for NATO to withdraw from Afghanistan. At a Nov. 26 news conference with NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Karzai rhetorically asked: “How long will this war go? Afghanistan can’t continue… Read moreAfghanistan: Karzai demands withdrawal timetable
President George Bush hailed the Iraqi parliament’s approval of a landmark accord for US troops to remain in the country in three years—but a popular referendum on the deal was included in the legislation. As part of political bargaining before… Read moreIraq: SOFA will have to pass referendum
The Indian navy seized two Pakistani merchant ships, asserting that they were used to drop off the Mumbai attackers in a series of small boats. According to Indian news agencies, intelligence sources pinpointed one particular cargo vessel that had stopped… Read morePakistani merchant ships seized in Mumbai attacks
A California Town Beats Back the Water Cartel by Rachel Aronowitz, Terrain, Berkeley, CA After a nearly six-year fight to acquire its water system from the German-owned corporate energy behemoth, RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Elektrizitätswerk AG), residents of Felton, Calif., prevailed in… Read moreFELTON FLOWS ON
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