Ciudad Juárez Mayor José Reyes Ferriz announced that the city is calling on artists across Mexico to submit proposals for a monument to memorialize the city’s murdered women.
Gunmen burst into a party and killed 14 high school students in Juárez. The 24 hours before the massacre had been one of the most violent on record in the conflicted border city.
Moroccan authorities ordered closed the independent news magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire following what editors and press freedom advocates call a long campaign of harassment.
Electronic Journal & Daily Report HELPING HAITI: OUR DOLLARS AREN’T ENOUGH Active Solidarity is the Real Challenge by David L. Wilson, World War 4 Report HAITI AND THE JEWS: FORGOTTEN HISTORY by Nirit Ben-Ari, Ha’aretz MEXICO: DRUG WAR MILITARIZATION CONTINUES… Read moreIssue #164, February 2010
Book Review: VENEZUELA SPEAKS! Voices from the Grassroots, by Carlos Martínez, Michael Fox, and JoJo Farrell PM Press, Oakland, 2010 by Hans Bennett, Upside Down World There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian… Read moreVENEZUELA: VOICES OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: VOICES OF PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACYWhat Comes Next For the Anti-War Forces? by Bill Weinberg, Phase 2 In assessing how our position has changed one year into the Barack Obama administration, the anti-war forces must avoid twin errors: that of relaxing our vigilance and opposition… Read moreOBAMA’S FIRST YEAR:
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Saudi Arabia's attorney general confirmed that prominent journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi died in the country's Istanbul consulate. A statement said that Khashoggi was killed after a fight inside the consulate, and that 18 Saudis are detained pending an investigation. Turkish officials believe Saudi agents killed and dismembered Khashoggi. His body has not been found. "Now the same government that lied to the world, claiming for weeks that it had no knowledge of Khashoggi's fate, expects us to believe he died in a fight," said the Committee to Protect Journalists. "This ridiculous assertion is further evidence of a cover-up. We need an international investigation and relentless pressure on Saudi Arabia from the Trump administration, if we ever hope to get to the truth." (Photo: CPJ)
Saudi Arabia's attorney general confirmed that prominent journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi died in the country's Istanbul consulate. A statement said that Khashoggi was killed after a fight inside the consulate, and that 18 Saudis are detained pending an investigation. Turkish officials believe Saudi agents killed and dismembered Khashoggi. His body has not been found. "Now the same government that lied to the world, claiming for weeks that it had no knowledge of Khashoggi's fate, expects us to believe he died in a fight," said the Committee to Protect Journalists. "This ridiculous assertion is further evidence of a cover-up. We need an international investigation and relentless pressure on Saudi Arabia from the Trump administration, if we ever hope to get to the truth." (Photo: CPJ)
from Frontera NorteSur Whether active duty or retired, military men will continue playing a central role in Mexico’s drug war in 2010. In the northern border state of Coahuila, incoming mayors recently ratified the continuation of former military officers to… Read moreMEXICO: BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINUES IN 2010
Continue ReadingMEXICO: BORDER MILITARIZATION CONTINUES IN 2010by David L. Wilson, World War 4 Report On January 14, two days after the Port-au-Prince earthquake, I finally got a chance to look over my e-mail, courtesy of a small Haitian NGO in a quiet, relatively undamaged neighborhood in… Read moreHELPING HAITI: OUR DOLLARS AREN’T ENOUGH
Continue ReadingHELPING HAITI: OUR DOLLARS AREN’T ENOUGHby Nirit Ben-Ari, Ha’aretz A field hospital established by the Israeli mission to Haiti treats dozens of earthquake victims every day, and is the only hospital prepared to perform complex surgeries and treatments in field conditions. But this delegation, which… Read moreHAITI AND THE JEWS: FORGOTTEN HISTORY
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