Days after a Russian general unsubtly threatened to nuke Poland and the Czech Republic following the announcement that they would host US anti-missile bases, comes the disturbing news that US radar stations related to the missile defense program are slated… Read moreUS plans anti-missile radar bases for Caucasus
The latest entry in the global wave of anti-Semitism which the left is always trying to tell us is “illusory.” This sort of thing seems to be especially popular in Russia of late. From JTA, March 2: Vandals scrawled swastikas… Read moreVladivostok synagogue vandalized —again
“Zionists are the true incarnation of Satan,” Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced in a lecture to Sudanese officials and intellectuals during his visit to Khartoum March 1. “The Zionist regime is the symbol of hedonism and the incarnation of the… Read moreAhmadinejad does Sudan, bashes “incarnation of Satan”
The Bosnian Serb Republic issued a formal apology Feb. 28 for crimes committed in Bosnia’s 1992-5 civil war, and especially the Srebrenica massacre. But the statement stopped short of using the word “genocide.” (Jurnalo, Germany, Feb. 28) Meanwhile, Sarajevo Univeristy… Read moreBosnia: “genocide creation” apologizes for genocide —almost
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s new security plan for Baghdad grants military commanders sweeping powers to arrest people and restrict their basic freedoms of speech and association, Human Rights Watch says in a March 2 statement. On Feb. 13, al-Maliki… Read moreIraq: rights observers protest martial law
On March 2, residents from Um Salamoneh and nearby villages outside Bethlehem joined with international and Israeli supporters in a nonviolent protest against the seizure of Palestinian farmland for construction of Israel’s illegal “separation wall.” The protesters conducted Friday prayers… Read moreWest Bank villagers protest “apartheid wall” land-grab
At least six explosions rocked the Somali capital, Mogadishu, March 2, a day after 35 Ugandan troops flew in as the advance guard of a 8,000-strong African Union “peacekeeping” force. Witnesses said the explosions came from mortar shells, and wounded… Read moreBlasts rock Mogadishu
Some recent gaffes or revelations (depending on your point of view) by Big Names in the media are providing more fodder for the always-eager conspiracy set. First is Seymour Hersh‘s latest in the March 5 New Yorker, “The Redirection: Is… Read moreSy Hersh, Zbiggy Brzezinski embrace conspiracy theory?
As the Darfur genocide enters its fifth year, and nearly two years after UN Security Council Resolution 1593 of March 2005 referred violations of international law in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC), on Feb. 27 ICC prosecutors formally… Read moreUN issues pseudo-indictments in Darfur genocide
Israeli forces re-occupied Nablus Feb. 28 less than a day after withdrawing from the West Bank city. From the afternoon of Feb. 25 to the morning of Feb. 27, Israeli forces imposed a curfew, destroyed ancient structures in the Old… Read moreIsrael re-occupies Nablus, re-imposes siege, curfew
The US and Italian ambassadors to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake and Pio Mariani, were slightly injured in an artillery attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on an air force base at Batticaloa, in the island’s east Feb…. Read moreUS ambassador wounded in Sri Lanka; near miss for Cheney in Afghanistan
Thousands of Serbs protested in front of the US embassy in Belgrade Feb. 27 against independence for Kosova, which has been under United Nations control since 1999. The protest, organised by the Serb National Council of Kosovo (SNV), drew some… Read moreSerbs protest Kosova independence; Bosniaks protest Serbia genocide acquittal
