“We believe the threat we face in the near term is less than that currently confronting our European allies,” Charles Allen, assistant homeland security secretary for intelligence and analysis, told Congress March 14. “But we are concerned that radicalization will… Read moreHomeland Security sees homegrown threat
Five civilians were killed when gunmen opened fire targeting on Sunni worshippers coming out of Huthaifa mosque after noon prayers in al-Risala neighborhood of Baghdad March 13. Four civilians were also killed and four others wounded when a Katyusha rocket… Read moreIraq: mosque shot up; Sadr City mayor hurt in ambush
Three bombs, two of them carried by suicide attackers, exploded in southern Afghanistan March 13, killing four people and wounding at least 10. The two suicide bombers struck in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province. The third explosion was… Read moreAfghanistan: terror attacks as US official visits
The United Nations observer mission in Georgia has opened an investigation into missile attacks in three remote villages near the Russian border March 11, claiming initial evidence suggested that Russian helicopter gunships were involved. The military action damaged several buildings… Read moreRussia accused in Georgia missile attacks
Authorities announced the arrest of four men in Beirut who they described as members of Fatah al-Islam, a radical Palestinian faction, in connection with the bombing of two minibuses in the city last month that killed three people and wounded… Read moreLebanon: Palestinians arrested in terror attacks
As we have argued, Washington has its own overriding imperatives for a war drive against Iran, which have to do with the global struggle for control of oil and maintaining US global hegemony. But, once again, the indefagitable if myopic… Read moreCongress caves on Iran war provision; AIPAC takes hit
Given all the reactionary prattle we have seen in the New York Times lead op-ed slot of late, it was quite a breath of fresh air to read something downright progressive and courageously iconoclastic: “Whose Oil is It, Anyway?” by… Read moreNYT op-ed: no to Iraqi oil “denationalization”
What does this mean? No extradition from Dubai? From the BBC, March 9: Halliburton, the oil services company formerly headed by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, is moving its headquarters from Texas to Dubai. The company said it hoped the move… Read moreHalliburton plans move to Dubai
Hey, fuck the polar bears. If they don’t have what it takes to survive in an unregulated free-market economy, why does the world owe them a living?* From the San Francisco Chronicle, March 9: U.S. accused of silencing experts on… Read moreWhite House censors scientists —again
A monument to the 191 victims of the March 11, 2004 terror attack has just been unveiled in Madrid. (AP) But that is not what’s dominating the headlines from Spain. Did the huge protest over the release of an ETA… Read moreSpain: ETA “overshadows” 3-11 remembrance
From the New York Post, March 12: Car Kills Woman on Birthday A Queens woman was struck and killed by a car on her 71st birthday yesterday as she crossed an Upper East Side street on her way to celebrate… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The UN Human Rights Council High Level Mission to Sudan has delivered a critical report, accusing the Sudanese government of orchestrating “gross and systematic” human rights abuses in Darfur, and decrying that the international response has been “inadequate and ineffective.”… Read moreUN report: war crimes in Darfur
