Following an extended debate, a Mexican Senate committee voted 11-3 late Oct. 18 not to dissolve the Oaxaca state government, while demonstrators demanding a solution to the five-month crisis announced plans to escalate protests. In Oaxaca City, a teacher was… Read moreOaxaca: another teacher killed as Senate committee blocks solution
Even Bush appears to be facing the grim music from Iraq. Asked in an ABC News interview Oct. 18 whether he agreed with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s opinion that the violence in Iraq was “the jihadist equivalent of… Read moreIraq: “new caliphate” established?
Chiapas is now the third Mexican state to adopt a statewide alliance of popular organization with the aim of establishing parallel power on the model of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca, following Guerrero and Oaxaca itself. The… Read more“Popular Assembly of the People of Chiapas” proclaimed
An official investigation by Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has confirmed the participation of military troops in May’s deadly police operation at the village of San Salvador Atenco. The CNDH reports it has uncovered a document in which the… Read moreMilitary role in Atenco repression: Mexican rights commission
As odds for the legal removal of Gov. Ulises Ruiz seemed to narrow Oct. 16, Oaxaca activists camped out in Mexico City’s historic center began a hunger strike aimed at pressuring the federal government to find a solution to the… Read moreOaxaca activists on hunger strike as Senate mulls solution
Now that it has pretty much been confirmed that North Korea did explode a nuclear bomb, if a very small one, comes the news that it may be ready to repeat the feat on short order. Yes, this is deeply… Read moreMethod to North Korea’s nuclear madness?
From UPI, Oct. 17: Hit-and-run deaths at 10-year high WASHINGTON, DC — Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington show that hit-and-run pedestrian deaths have risen 20 percent since 2000. A total of 974 pedestrians were killed… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
From the New York Times, Oct. 17: BAGHDAD — The blackened shells of five cars still sit in front of the Church of the Virgin Mary here, stark reminders of a bomb blast that killed two people after a recent… Read moreIraq: Christians face sectarian cleansing
This seems like a worthy cause, but how much is the American Jewish Committee actually hurting Choudhury’s chances of acquittal or clemency by campaigning on his behalf? Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Bangladeshi journalist and the editor of Blitz, the… Read moreBangladesh: journalist could face death sentence
A suicide bomber crashed a truck full of explosives into a convoy of buses carrying unarmed navy personnel going on leave in Sri Lanka Oct. 16, killing at least 94 and wounding 150. The explosion, at Habarana about 100 miles… Read moreTerror and retaliation take bloody toll in Sri Lanka
Once again–which is more appalling? This isn’t the first time that clueless or insensitive art geeks have staged bogus bombings on New York’s subways, only to face criminal charges from an NYPD which is equally clueless about the first amendment…. Read moreArt stunt pseudo-terrorizes NY subways
Portions of an article on torture in Chechnya written by murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya before her death were published Oct. 12 by the Novaya Gazeta. The report detailed allegations of abuse, including an account by one man who said he… Read moreRussia closes Chechnya rights watchdog amid new torture claims
