Gee, just what Musharraf needs—the State Department weighing in for his repression, augmenting the (accurate) perception that he is Washington’s toady. Don’t they have enough sense to keep quiet? This brings Pakistan one step closer to an Islamist coup, which… Read morePakistan: US-approved state terror
This reminds us of an old R. Cobb cartoon. From the New York Times, July 9: New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring… Read moreNYC: “surveillance veil” for Lower Manhattan
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned July 9 against a quick withdrawal of US troops. Zebari said Iraqis “understand the huge pressure that will increase more and more in the United States” ahead of the progress report by the US… Read moreIraq: foreign minister warns of civil war
Boy does this sum up everything which is wrong with the USA. Apart from the charming touch of cops brutalizing a woman old enough to be their grandma, is the absurdity of mandatory water-profligance in the middle of a desert…. Read morePolice brutalize elderly woman for conserving water
Jorge Noguera, former chief of Colombia’s secret police, was arrested on charges of colluding with illegal paramilitaries July 7. Noguera, freed from prison three months ago because of procedural errors, was ordered detained again by Colombia’s chief prosecutor, Mario Iguaran… Read moreColombia: ex-secret police chief re-arrested
Millions marched in cities across Colombia July 5 to demand the release of all the estimated 300 captives in the hands of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and other armed groups, and that the remains be turned over of… Read moreColombia: millions march to demand captives’ release
A shipload of Israeli weapons is busted in Spain—bound for Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan government denies knowing anything about it. Could they have been bound for some kind of neo-contra force? Talk about nostalgia for the ’80s… From Prensa Latina, July… Read moreWho is behind Israeli arms shipment to Nicaragua?
Remember all the “not-about-Iraq” spewing after the July 2005 London bombings? Nobody’s saying that this time around. From the Washington Post, July 6: LONDON — Bilal Abdulla, one of the two doctors arrested after a blazing Jeep Cherokee rammed into… Read moreUK terror scare: no way around Iraq connection
Cindy Sheehan announced July 3 that she is asking people to join her in a 10-day walk from Atlanta to Washington DC, starting July 13 for a “people’s accountability movement.” On her blog, she said “the straw that broke my… Read moreCindy Sheehan back in the game
The Iraqi Journalists Union said in statement last month that 227 journalists and media staff have been killed since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, with an additional 15 missing. The Union demanded that the Iraqi government and US… Read moreIraq: 227 journalists killed under occupation
An urgent alert from the Iraq Freedom Congress informs us that at 3:00 AM Baghdad time on July 4, US and Iraqi government forces attacked the home of the head of IFC Safety Force, Abd-alhussein Saddam, causing serious injuries to… Read moreIraq: US attacks civil resistance
Ostensibly, its only a dispute about fishing rights, but it has far deeper implications. Mohamed Ahmed Iman, director-general of Somalia’s Ministry of Fisheries, has publcily dismissed as invalid ongoing talks between the governments of Yemen and Somalia’s autonomous enclave of… Read moreSomalia: transition government showdown with Puntland?
