Militant West Bank settlers have joined the Tel Aviv tent town protest, pitching a line that aggressive settlement of the Occupied Territory is the solution to the crisis. Will the protest movement take the bait?
Saif Qaddafi, the dictator’s son, announced an alliance with Libya’s Islamists to defeat the rebels—after the regime had for months portrayed the rebels as Islamist extremists. Hugo Chávez hailed Qaddafi in a speech: “Live and be victorious. We’re with you.”
US forces are accused of slaying a tribal sheikh and several other civilians near Tikrit—just as the Baghdad regime announced negotiations to keep US forces in Iraq past the Dec. 31 deadline established by the Status of Forces Agreement.
China says that new deadly attacks in Kashgar are the work of Uighur militants of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) who were trained at bases in Pakistan—an accusation that could upset Islamabad’s strategic alliance with Beijing.
Some 150,000 took to the streets in cities across Israel—the biggest protests the country has seen in decades, to demand action on rising rents and the high cost of living. But right-wing politicians seek to scapegoat African immigrants for the crisis.
Labor and indigenous leaders are wary as Ollanta Humala, elected as a populist, begins his term in office with a rightward tilt. But Bloomberg warns that Humala’s efforts at “moderation” have not quelled the fears of multinational investors.
The hacker group Anonymous has called a boycott of PayPal over its refusal to facilitate donations to WikiLeaks. While we demand answers on WikiLeaks’ apparent collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship, the boycott may still have merit. What do you think?
Caroline Glick, a writer cited in the Oslo bomber’s manifesto, rails in the Jerusalem Post that the struggle against “multiculturalism” (read: Islam) should not falter in the wake of the attacks—while more conspiranoids claim a Mossad “false flag” operation.
Egypt’s Gama’a Islamia has re-emerged with a threat to clear Cario’s Tahrir Square of “liberals and traitors” ahead of tomorrow’s planned Friday protest mobilization. The threat comes on the heels of violent clashes between protesters and regime elements.
Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication is contacting media outlets and Internet service providers to suppress “irresponsible rumors” about the disaster at Fukushima—where the reactors have still not been brought under control.
The Israeli troll-o-sphere is abuzz with ghastly cheerleading for the Oslo attacks, while the Jerusalem Post warns of the “the abject failure of multiculturalism.” But will the Judeophobes also call out similar verbiage from the Teabaggers and Pat Buchanan?
Was Dennis Kucinich misquoted when he said Bashir al-Assad “is highly loved and appreciated by the Syrians”? And is the dictator’s uncle Rifaat al-Assad being groomed by the West as Syria’s new boss?
