Georgia officially charged four Russian servicemen with espionage last month, spurring new tensions between the two countries over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. (RIA-Novosti, Sept. 29) In a counterintuitive development, Russia is backing the predominantly Muslim Abkhaz… Read moreCaucasus headed for further Balkanization?
Jennifer L. Pozner writes for Newsday, Oct. 8: The terrorists who aren’t in the news Anti-abortion fanatics spread fear by bombings, murders and assaults, but the media take little notice On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror… Read moreMedia ignore Christian terrorism
From the Boston Globe, Oct. 15: BAGHDAD– Gunmen killed a radio journalist and kidnapped a television reporter, police said yesterday, continuing a spate of attacks that have killed 14 members of the media in recent weeks. Hussam Ahmed, a correspondent… Read moreIraq: more attacks on the press
Subcommander Marcos (now known as “Delegate Zero”) and other members of the Zapatista delegation are continuing their tour of northern Mexico, but met an obstacle to their freedom of transit when they attempted to reach the Baja California fishing port… Read moreSubcommander Marcos does Baja
Gunmen shot two people at a roadblock in Oaxaca City Oct. 14, killing one. The assailants fired at protesters at a street barricade in the predawn darkness, hitting one in the head and another in the arm, according to activists…. Read moreAnother death in Oaxaca; stalemate continues
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Oct. 11: Iraqi Body Count: How Many Is Too Many? Has the U.S. “liberation” of Iraq succeeded in tripling the death rate for people there? That’s the conclusion of new study published today… Read moreIraq: 655,000 dead?
Pretty funny that the Turkish Foreign Ministry has officially congratulated novelist Orhan Pamuk, who has just won the 2006 Nobel Prize for literature, saying the prize would make valuable contributions to promotion of Turkish literature in the world. (Xinhua, Oct…. Read moreArmenian genocide becomes political football —again
The Fiscalia, the Colombian national prosecutor’s office, has released a final report on the scandal surrounding a laptop siezed from Rodrigo Tovar Pupo (alias “Jorge 40”), leader of the Northern Bloc of the paramilitary Colombian Self-Defense Forces (AUC), revealing widespread… Read moreColombia: scandal reveals paramilitary control of regional elections
Following an agreement reached late on Oct. 10, a Mexican Senate committee is pursue a constitutional process known as “desaparicion de poderes,” that could result in the fulfillment of the Oaxaca protesters’ demand to have Ulises Ruiz removed as the… Read moreMore gunfire in Oaxaca as Mexican Senate mulls solution
From La Jornada, Oct. 11 via Chiapas95 (our translation): Culiacan, Sinaloa — Felipe Calderon Hinojosa will not last six years as president of the Republicin light of the social disconent generated by the electoral fraud and the social mobilizations that… Read moreMarcos: Calderon won’t finish his term
From AMATE news agency, via Narco News, Oct. 11: The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN in its Spanish initials), together with its leader Subcomandante Marcos, paid homage to Cuba and to guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the 39th… Read moreSubcommander Marcos hails Che, Cuban Revolution
More nameless dead. A photo caption in the Oct. 11 New York Times, not online: Two killed in Traffic Accidents Blocks Apart Two people died in accidents within two blocks of each other on the Uopper West Side yesterday, the… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
