The leader of the Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and Campesino Rights (OPDDIC), Pedro Chulin Jimenez, and at least 25 of his militants were arrested by state authorities in Chiapas, Mexico, March 8 following reports of attacks on three… Read moreChiapas: paramilitaries threaten journalists
One of 15 immigrants arrested in March 2002 in connection with a supposed plot to attack the US Embassy in Rome with chemical agents has been awarded $133,000 for wrongful detention. Tunisian-born Abdelmoname Ben Khalifa Mansour, initially charged with being… Read moreItaly pays in bogus terror bust
Iran’s representative to UNESCO, Mohammad-Reza Dehshiri, issued a protest in a letter to the UN cultural organizaiton’s director general against the Warner Brothers blockbuster 300, calling it an insult to Iranian culture. Dehshiri called on UNESCO to bring the issue… Read moreIran protests to UN over “300”
On March 17, Trokavec village in the Czech Republic voted its opposition to a US radar base slated to be built in a nearby military zone as part of Washington’s proposed “missile shield.” Seventy-two out of 90 eligible voters in… Read moreCzech villagers vote against US radar base
Three suicide bombers exploded trucks loaded with explosives and tanks of chlorine gas in Iraq’s Anbar province March 16, killing at least two Iraqi police and sickening more than 350 people. In the first attack, a pick-up truck carrying chlorine… Read moreIraq: who is behind chlorine attacks?
It is endless, and it comes (tellingly) from the both the right and the left. The latest entry is from Columbia University scholar Mahmood Mamdani, writing in the March 8 London Review of Books—who probably fancies himself on the left…. Read moreMore denial on Darfur —this time from the “left”
Talk about hideous historical ironies. Ammar Alwan writes for Reuters, March 16: TANAF, Iraq – Hameda Um Firas has lived most of her 70-odd years as a refugee — now she is stranded in a tent again at Iraq’s border… Read moreIraq’s Palestinian refugees face new exile
From AP, March 16: NORTHAMPTON – Maha Ghosananda, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated monk who rebuilt Buddhism in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, has died. Ghosananda, who lived in Leverett and Providence, R.I., was believed to be in… Read moreGhosananda, “Gandhi of Cambodia,” dies in Massachusetts
The Bush administration has announced a new $750 million aid package for development and security in Pakistan’s northwest, where the tribal areas are thought to be a staging ground for Islamist militant attacks both into Afghanistan and increasingly within Pakistan…. Read moreCongress gives Pakistan blank check
The Hungarians seem to be in something of a Cold War time-warp. It is good to see them protesting their corrupt, self-serving Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, but they seem to be so conditioned by two generations of Soviet domination that… Read moreRiots rock Hungary —again
More sinister propaganda on the New York Times op-ed page March 16, this time from Russell L. Schweickart, a former Apollo astronaut and chairman of the B612 Foundation, “which promotes efforts to alter the orbits of asteroids.” Entitled “The Sky… Read moreNYT op-ed: nuke the asteroids!
As we have argued before, the paradigmatic metaphor for the global struggle is jihad against the robots: equally anti-human, exterminationist forces battling for control of the Earth—one zealous to the point of insatiable bloodlust, the other sterile and devoid of… Read morePentagon plans cyber-insect army
