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
The Mexican senate has passed a package of reforms to Article 139 of the Federal Penal Code modeled on anti-terrorist legislation in the United States—above the objections of the left-opposition PRD, PT and Convergence, whose legislators assailed the changes as… Read moreMexican senate passes anti-terror package
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced details of an arms build-up which he says will include a sophisticated missile defense system. “We’re going to have a tremendous air-defense system, and with with missiles capable of reaching 200 kilometers,” Chavez said… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez pledges missile defense system
Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, on a tour of Latin America, stopped in Nicaragua April 23, where President Daniel Ortega expressed his support for Tehran’s nuclear program. “All countries should be allowed to access peaceful nuclear technology and this right… Read moreNicaragua: yes to Iran; no to IMF
Gov. Ulises Ruiz of Oaxaca has called upon Mexican military authorities to investigate a new guerilla group which has announced its existence the in conflicted southern state. In a message posted to the website of the Spain-based Documentation Center for… Read moreOaxaca: new guerilla group under investigation
