Not for the first time. From AFP, Sept. 24: UNITED NATIONS — Iranian pro-democracy activists strongly oppose any military attack on their country but want the world to condemn Tehran’s human rights violations, Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji said in… Read moreIranian dissidents oppose US aggression
Although the group says it disavows violence, more than one criminal case related to the San Diego Minutemen is now pending in the California courts. In one case now coming to trial, John Monti of Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb,… Read moreAnti-immigrant violence in San Diego
From the New York Times, Sept. 19: Settlements Do Not Deter 9/11 Plaintiffs Seeking Trials Families of 14 of the people killed in the planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, have settled their lawsuits, but relatives of other victims said… Read more9-11 survivors play into hands of police state?
Like the similar claims being made about Iran arming its Sunni-extremist deadly enemies in Iraq, this strikes us as utterly improbable. Recall that before 9-11, Iran was on the brink of war with Afghanistan, over the Taliban’s ethnic cleansing of… Read moreIran arming Taliban?
From the front page of the New York Times, Sept. 22: At State Deptartment, Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate WASHINGTON — Walid Jawad was tired of all the chatter on Middle Eastern blogs and Internet forums in praise of gory… Read moreState Department goes bloggo
Female genital mutilation—or “circumcision,” as its apologists call it—has been banned even in Eritrea, as it faces US accusations of harboring Islamist terrorists. We recently noted the irony that the US has launched criminal prosecutions over the practice, even as… Read moreEgypt: controversy over genital mutilation
No comment. From Reuters, Sept. 17: DUVANNY YAR, Russia — Sergei Zimov bends down, picks up a handful of treacly mud and holds it up to his nose. It smells like a cow pat, but he knows better. “It smells… Read moreMammoth dung may speed global warming
We have predicted again and again that Washington will goad Israel into throwing the first punch at Iran—thereby allowing US elites to shill the blame for the adventure off on the Jews as they jump in with massive air power… Read moreWurmser spills the beans: Israel to bomb Iran first
James Freedman writes for the Fayetteville Free Weekly, via Jewish Journal, Sept. 14: A shul grows in Dixie—Insha’Allah With Wal-Mart attracting a huge number of minority religious groups to Arkansas, it is not surprising that Fayetteville is becoming increasingly diverse…. Read moreJewish-Muslim co-existence —in Arkansas
Spanish high court judge Baltasar GarzĂłn ordered preventive detainment Sept. 11 for Juan Mari Olano, leader of the Askatasuna prisoner support organization who was arrested during an illegal demonstration at San Sebastián in the Basque country two days earlier. Olano… Read moreBasque march for amnesty attacked by police
Colombian authorities have decided to hold a top drug lord and a former paramilitary boss, both wanted by the US, in prisons fashioned on navy warships. But authorities were embarrassed Sept. 14 when they picked up the wrong prisoner in… Read moreColombia holds drug lords on floating prisons —but can’t keep ’em straight
A US court in Washington DC Sept. 17 ordered Chiquita Brands International to pay a $25 million fine to settle charges that it underwrote a terrorist organization in Colombia. Chiquita had agreed to the fine when it pleaded guilty in… Read moreChiquita fined $25 million in Colombia terror case
