The latest piece of overwrought effluent from Kurt Nimmo once again exemplifies the fundamental flaw with the Conspiracy Industry. Those sources from the mainstream media which support the Conspiracy Theory are taken as gospel truth; those which point the other… Read moreAlert CIA: Kurt Nimmo knows Osama’s fate
Indigenous people in Bolivia are marching cross-country from the lowland city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra to the judicial capital, Sucre, where the country’s Constituent Assembly is meeting. About 400 men, women and children from the tropical zone’s ethnicities,… Read moreBolivia: indigenous march on Constituent Assembly
Katha Pollitt writes for her blog in The Nation, July 13: 2,4,6,8! This Beheading is Really Great! Why is the anti-war movement so lacklustre when 70% of Americans want to bring the troops home by spring and George W. Bush… Read moreKatha Pollitt on Iraqi “resistance”: she almost gets it
Grupo Mexico SAB, the world’s seventh-largest copper producer, said 30% of employees at the San Martin copper and gold mine (Zacatecas state) didn’t report to work July 5 because of a national one-day protest. The strike also halted work at… Read moreMexico: national solidarity strike halts mines
Peru’s National Federation of Miners, Metalworkers and Steelworkers called a nation-wide strike for July 10 and 11, in solidarity with more than 1,500 workers at the Casapalca mine who walked out in May. The conflict has claimed five lives so… Read morePeru: national solidarity strike halts mines
President Evo Morales pledged to personally negotiate with strikers who have shut down Bolivia’s largest tin mine if the 4,800 employees return to work first. Miners at the state-operated Huanuni mine went on strike last week to demand greater administrative… Read moreBolivia: tin miners strike
The National Intelligence Estimate has reached such findings before. Yet more evidence of what an astonishing success the Global War on Terrorism has been. From McClatchy Newspapers, July 11: Calling al-Qaida the most potent terrorist threat to U.S. national security,… Read moreNational Intelligence Estimate: al-Qaeda stronger than ever since 9-11
In the wake of the third deadly suicide bombing to hit the country in four months, Algeria’s government has vowed to eradicate armed Islamist groups—but also warned of new attacks. Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni called for “greater vigilance” from the… Read moreAlgeria pledges to crush Salafists, open energy sector
After two decades of silence, architect Rosa María Alvarado Martínez come forward July 9 to say that at least three bodies—likely the remains of student protesters killed by the army at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968—are buried under a… Read moreMexico: bodies found from Tlatelolco massacre?
Honda, Nissan, Hershey’s, Kellogg, Grupo Modelo and other multinational companies temporarily shut their plants in western Mexico after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) guerrillas claimed responsibility for the explosions. The government ordered an… Read moreMexico: guerillas bomb pipelines
A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace filled with children in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province July 10, killing 13 elementary-school students and at least four other people. Eight Dutch soldiers and at least 35 Afghans were wounded. The… Read moreAfghanistan: the new Iraq?
July 11 marks the twelfth anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and little has changed for the survivors who continue to wait for a modicum of justice. Up to 30,000 survivors… Read moreSrebrenica: 12 years later, still no justice
