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
After 16 months in hiding, three leaders of the People’s Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT), Martha Pérez Pineda, David Pájaro Huertas and Ulises del Valle Ramírez, returned to the central Mexican village of San Salvador Atenco to lead… Read moreMexico: Atenco leaders come in from clandestinity
A striking schoolteacher named Wilfredo Lara was killed Aug. 27 while participating in a road blockade at Macuelizo, in Santa Bárbara department of western Honduras. An angered motorist, who apparently opened fire on the blockade with a handgun and hit… Read moreHonduras: teacher killed in protest
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions announced in Geneva that it will review the arrests of followers of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) in Mexico. On the eve of leaving for the Working Group’s session in Geneva,… Read moreUN to probe Oaxaca arrests
From CBS News, Sept. 15: Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190 protesters were arrested… [C]ounterprotest groups, including a contingent of… Read more190 arrested at DC anti-war protest
Talk about a vicious cycle. Global warming opens the long-sought Northwest Passage, which will mean easier access to the Arctic and its resources (including oil), thereby exacerbating…global warming. It should also exacerbate the geopolitical struggle over the far north. Russian… Read moreGlobal warming opens Northwest Passage
In a blow to the auto industry, US Judge William K. Sessions III ruled Sept. 12 that the state of Vermont can set limits on car emissions that contribute to global warming, rejecting arguments that only the federal government can… Read moreStates’ rights and global warming
First, the basic facts from the New York Times, Sept. 14: Sunni Sheik Who Backed U.S. in Iraq Is Killed BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 — A high-profile Sunni Arab sheik who collaborated with the American military in the fight against jihadist… Read moreAbu Risha: war criminal?
Some very insightful words from Paul Krugman in the Sept. 14 New York Times on the Kurdish Regional Government’s unilateral oil deals. Fortunately, Ed Strong’s Best That’s Left blog rescues the column from the Times’ elitist pay-per-view policy. Relevant passages:… Read moreOil struggle: Kurds bet on no Iraq
And now for some bad news. From the Italian news agency AGI, Sept. 12: A cholera epidemic has affected at least 7,000 people in the northern provinces of Iraq and may reach Baghdad in the next few weeks. The accomplices… Read moreCholera threatens Baghdad
Hundreds of Iraqis staged a protest against the building of a dividing wall being built by US forces between a Shi’ite and Sunni district of Baghdad Sept. 12. Residents of the Shula and Ghazaliya neighborhoods waved Iraqi flags and chanted… Read moreBaghdad residents protest separation wall
Part of a statement from al-Awda and other groups, online at NYC Indymedia, Sept. 13: We believe that it is critical, necessary and essential that the building of the antiwar movement in the United States take place in a manner… Read moreANSWER sells out Palestinians?
