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?
Accused Oslo bomber Anders Behring Breivik in his manifesto demonizes the Muslims of ex-Yugoslavia as a jihadist menace—as do professional conspiranoids like Wayne Madsen who accuse him of being a Mossad agent.
Gee, that didn’t take long. Conspiranoid cranks claim (on no evidence) that Mossad was behind the Oslo terror attacks, providing an opportunity for the right-wing Israeli press to tar “anti-Zionists” as conspiranoid cranks.
Europe’s right-wing media voices all jumped to the al-Qaeda thesis in the Oslo terror attack—but it now emerges the perpetrator is a lone right-wing extremist who evidences the predictable Islamophobic rhetoric in his Internet footprint.
A memo leaked by the hacker group LulzSec from the Tucson police on a supposed emerging collaboration between Hezbollah and the Mexican drug cartels sparked hearings on Capitol Hill. But the memo itself was mostly empty speculation.
One year after the announced “easing” of the Gaza siege, the IDF releases a report boasting of improved conditions in the Strip. But the Israeli rights group Gisha crunches the numbers to reveal that the “easing” is more illusory than real.
Peru’s populist president-elect Ollanta Humala takes office in just one week, and ominous signs are mounting that he will continue his predecessor’s trajectory towards breakneck resource extraction—and attendant bloody social conflicts.
The “Free Tibet” crowd is not disturbed as the Dalai Lama celebrates his 76th birthday with John Boehner—while the Dalai-demonization set continues to portray the Tibetan struggle as a CIA astroturf creation.
Libyan and Syrian opposition leaders met with NATO and EU diplomats in Istanbul, winning support for their efforts to oust their respective dictators—while Yemeni protest leaders elected a transitional council under siege in violence-torn Sanaa.
