Three days after President Vicente Fox sent in thousands of federal police troops, Oaxaca City remains divided. Supporters of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO), driven from the city center, still maintain barricades in many barrios, and pledge to… Read moreOaxaca City divided; Zapatistas call for national resistance
Imagine! Venezuelan meddling in American politics! Where would they ever get an idea like that? From the New York Times via the Denver Post, Oct. 29: Voting machines’ Venezuela link probed The federal government is investigating the takeover last year… Read moreVenezuela to throw US elections?
From the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), Oct. 30: London — James Bond actor Daniel Craig voted against plans to have suicide bombers in the new movie “Casino Royale” because that would anger Muslims. According to contactmusic.com, Craig asked producers to… Read moreJames Bond wimps out
Which is more hilarious? The US warning regional powers against carrying out a “proxy war” in Somalia while Washington itself is openly backing the warlord alliance that opposes the Islamic Courts Union? Or Eritrea’s apparent backing of the Islamic Courts… Read moreSomalia: US warns of “proxy war”
A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of laborers lining up for work offers in a square in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Sadr City enclave Oct. 29, killing at least 25 people and wounding 60. It was the most recent of several… Read moreIraq: US-occupied Sadr City on edge after terror blast
On the order of President Vicente Fox, thousands of federal police backed up by army troops stormed past barricades in embattled Oaxaca City Oct. 29, seizing control of the city center from protesters who have held it for five months…. Read moreFederal police take Oaxaca City center; at least two more dead
From CTV, Oct. 28: NATO’s top commander apologized Saturday for civilians killed during battles between NATO-led forces and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan this week. The death of a civilian “is something that causes anybody in uniform to lose a… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO blames civilian deaths on “asymmetric warfare”
Brad Will (Bradley Roland Will), 36, a photojournalist for New York City’s Independent Media Center (IMC) was fatally shot Oct. 27 when gunmen opened fire on a protest barricade in the besieged capital of Oaxaca state in southern Mexico. According… Read moreNYC Indymedia reporter killed in Oaxaca; Fox sends in federal police
From Al-Jazeera, Oct. 27: Niger has suspended its plans to deport thousands of ethnic Arab nomads to Chad. The central African country’s cabinet decided against carrying out the deportations after neighbouring countries spoke out against the plan, the country’s communications… Read moreNiger plans ethnic cleansing of Arab nomads
Remember the two immigrant girls who got caught up in a bogus suicide-bomber scare in the New York metro area last year? An update on one in the Oct. 26 New York Times says a great deal about the general… Read moreCleared of terror plot, fighting deportation —and genital mutilation
We have recently been warning of the imminent emergence of a Taliban state in central Iraq. Today the New York Times op-ed page catches up with us. From “What Osama Wants” by Peter Bergen, a senior fellow of the New… Read moreNYT op-ed warns of Iraqi “Taliban” state
Historian Allen Barra provides some all-too-revealing historical perspective on the New York Times op-ed page, Oct. 26: One hundred twenty five years ago, three lawmen – Marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers Wyatt and Morgan – and their friend Doc… Read moreOK Corral shoot-out echoes 125 years later
