The current violent unrest in Bangladesh is generally portrayed (when the global media bother to take note of it at all) as a contest between the secular, left-leaning Awami League which governed until July 2001 and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party… Read moreTaslima Nasrin: fundamentalism “destroying” Bangladesh
An international commission of human rights observers announced Jan. 21 that at least 23 people were killed and a number of cases of physical abuse and sexual assaults against women were recorded during the months-long conflict in the southern Mexican… Read moreOaxaca: government disputes rights report; police block religious gathering
From the Editor & Publisher, Jan. 22: Conrado de la Cruz Jiménez, the publisher of the most influential daily in the Mexican state of Chiapas, has died in Miami, where he fled to escape prosecution by the state government, the… Read moreExiled Chiapas newsman dies in Miami
This is what George Bernard Shaw called “the extreme form of censorship.” From the New York Times, Jan. 19: ISTANBUL — The editor of Turkey’s only Armenian-language newspaper was assassinated today on an Istanbul street. The editor, Hrant Dink, 53,… Read moreArmenian editor assassinated in Turkey
Another glimmer of hope—or is someone going to rain on our parade by demonstrating that these people are all domesticated neocons or State Department dupes? From the AP, Jan. 19: NEW YORK – In a statement to be published next… Read moreIranian activists condemn revisionist confab
From the New York Times, Jan. 18: BISBEE, Ariz. — A Mexican immigrant was shot and killed on Friday by a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, prompting an investigation by federal authorities and condemnation from President Felipe Calderón of Mexico…. Read moreMexico protests new shooting on border
Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop of the Chiapas Highlands, called upon Mexico’s federal government to urgently address the recent spike in tortilla prices, invoking the possibility of a new uprising in the restive state. “With all respect for the federal authorities,… Read moreMexico: Chiapas bishop warns of unrest; agbiz exploits “tortilla crisis”
Israeli historian Benny Morris, once seen as a post-Zionist dissident, produces a terrifying piece of war propaganda. Far be it from us to be optimistic, but this scenario strikes us as a long shot. Is Ahmedinejad likely to still be… Read moreBenny Morris predicts new Holocaust
Another step closer to global catastrophe. From Kuwait News Agency, Jan. 9 (emphasis added): TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday upgraded the Defense Agency to a full-fledged ministry for the first time since World War II, when the US stripped Japan… Read moreJapan gets Defense Ministry
Another reason for Iraqis to be grateful. From Human Rights Education Associates, Jan. 16: Nearly 6,400 Iraqi civilians were killed in the November-December period, slightly less than in the preceding two months, as rampant and indiscriminate killings, sectarian violence, extra-judicial… Read moreIraq: 34,000-plus dead in 2006
Startling claims from Focus on the Global South. But WW4 REPORT was warning of this four years ago. From AP, Jan. 15: MANILA — U.S. troops, in possible violation of the Philippines’ constitution, have taken part in combat operations against… Read moreUS troops fight in Philippines?
Negroponte‘s comments on Cuba recall Rumsfeld‘s on Iraq four years ago, don’t they? From AP, Jan. 17 (emphasis added): Cuban President Fidel Castro, ailing and out of sight, has been meeting with a trickle of international guests in recent months,… Read moreNegroponte salivates for Cuba instability
