Palestine
Noam Chomsky barred from West Bank
Noam Chomsky, once demonized as a crypto-Zionist on this website, has been barred by Israeli authorities from entering the West Bank.
Author: Bill Weinberg
North America
Detroit area mosque vandalized —again
A Detroit area mosque was vandalized twice in a week, in a possible case of backlash following the attempted Times Square terror attack.
New York City
Mosque planned for (two blocks away from) Ground Zero, jingos aghast —again
New York’s kneejerk jingos, already aghast that the “Freedom Tower” name has been dropped from the skyscraper going up at Ground Zero, are now protesting the building of a nearby mosque.
Planet Watch
Deepwater Horizon: the petro-oligarchs strike back
The oil industry—through its media flacks and bought politicians—is mobilizing to assure that the Gulf of Mexico disaster will not result in an offshore drilling moratorium.
The Andes
Cochabamba: Evo offends global gays
Evo Morales has sparked international protests with his comments at the Cochabamba climate summit that eating hormone-laden chicken turns men gay.
Planet Watch
Cochabamba summit calls for ecological tribunal
The climate summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, closed with a call for creation of an International Tribunal on Environmental and Climate Justice.
The Andes
Cochabamba: Evo agrees to meet with Table 18
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has agreed to meet representatives of the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, and hear their demands.
The Andes
Cochabamba: dissidents push limits of free speech
Defying an official ban, Aymara activists convened the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, on social conflicts related to climate change.
Inner Asia
GGR
With China accused of detaining hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims without trial in its western province of Xinjiang, a BBC investigation analyzed satellite data to determine that the detention camp system in the region is rapidly expanding. Reviewing images from the European Space Agency's Sentinel satellite service, the BBC finds at least 40 such facilities across Xinjiang, half built within last two years—with a big thrust of construction just in the past six months. Among the largest is a "massive, highly secure compound" still being built at Dabancheng, about an hour's drive from the provincial capital, Urumqi. It is enclosed within a two kilometer-long exterior wall punctuated by 16 guard towers. (Photo via UNPO)
Iran
Ahmadinejad joins 9-11 conspiranoids
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad weighs in for 9-11 conspiranoia in the most vulgar terms. Will he be the next hero for the “Truthies”?
North America
Pentagon attacker was 9-11 conspiranoid
The man who shot two police officers at the Pentagon was apparently a devoted follower of the 9-11 “Truth” movement—who had proposed that the Pentagon fund his “research.”
Planet Watch
Obama plans “dramatic reductions” in n-arms —but not “no first use” pledge
The Obama administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review will call for “dramatic reductions” in the nuclear arsenal—but no pledge that the US will never launch a first strike.