We’ve noted speculation that the paramilitary scandal in Colombia will do in Bogotá’s prospects for a free trade deal with Washington. When Uribe was in Washington yesterday to petition for the deal (and continued economic and military aid), he was… Read moreDemocrats dress down Colombia’s Uribe —sort of
First-time author Margaret Ajemian Ahnert’s May 1 appearance at a Barnes & Noble store on New York’s Upper East Side to promote her new memoir on survivng the Armenian genocide, The Knock at the Door, was disrupted by hecklers who… Read moreNYC: Barnes & Noble imbroglio over Armenian genocide
Tehran has expelled tens of thousands of Afghans from Iran since mid-April, with authorities saying they will repatriate 1 million unregistered Afghan refugees over the next years. The UNHCR says it is powerless to intervene as those being forcibly repatriated… Read moreIran expels Afghan refugees; protests in Kabul
A White House press release, April 30: Loyalty Day, 2007 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America America was founded by patriots who risked their lives to bring freedom to our Nation. Today, our citizens are… Read moreBush: May Day now “Loyalty Day”
Don’t apologize, Gov. Corzine. Americans are dying in Iraq for your right to be an anti-social speedfreak. From Newsday, May 1: Corzine apologizes upon hospital release CAMDEN, N.J. – An emotional Gov. Jon S. Corzine was discharged from a hospital… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
A US-led raid on a suspected militant cell in Bati Kot district, Nangarhar province, killed as many as six Afghans April 30, including a woman and a teenage girl, sparking protests by hundreds of angry Afghans chanting “Death to Bush!”… Read moreAfghanistan: US kills civilians —again
Abd al-Malik al-Houthi, the Shi’ite rebel leader in Yemen, speaking to reporters in the northern city of Saada, accused government forces of “genocide” in their campaign against the insurgents: “Cities and villages are being subjected nowadays to the most dreadful… Read moreYemen: Shi’ite rebels charge “genocide”
Syria has built a secret fortified complex buried deep underground to manufacture and store ballistic missiles capable of striking Israel, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot quoted “foreign experts” as saying April 30. The complex supposedly includes 30 reinforced concrete bunkers,… Read moreSyria: fortified missile city?
The April 28 suicide car blast in Karbala occurred at a checkpoint on an approach to the city’s golden-domed Al-Abbas shrine, amid crowded shops and restaurants near the Shi’ite holy site. “Once again the dark forces and terrorists have targeted… Read moreKarbala carnage escalates factional strife
We agree that there is something utterly perverse about the fact that the Darfur genocide is now entering its fifth year, as the world stands by and watches. And of course the vast majority of those participating in the Global… Read moreGlobal Day for Darfur —but not Palestine
So much for all the incessant Republican balther about how “We’re fighting them in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them here at home.” The terrorists love the GWOT. It is their biggest recuiting and propaganda tool, their very… Read moreState Department: global terrorism surges —again
The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), based in the Highlands of Mexico’s conflicted southern Chiapas state, has issued a new report charging that 13 years after an armed uprising in the state, the roots of the… Read moreFrayba: causes of Chiapas conflict still prevail
