In this Nov. 8 commentary for Truthout, Jason Leopold saves some salient facts about the incoming Defense Secretary from the Orwellian Memory Hole. It seems that like the outgoing Rumsfeld, he was instrumental in building US intelligence and military links… Read moreRobert Gates: another ex-Saddam symp takes helm at Pentagon
From Mexico’s El Universal, Nov. 7 via Chiapas95: GENEVA – The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), embroiled in a conflict with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), will present a report before the UN human rights officials on Wednesday saying that… Read moreMexico: torture up 300% under Fox
From the AP, Nov. 7: Hundreds protest border fence in Mexico CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico — The mayor of a Mexican city on the Texas border led about 400 people on a 55-mile march Tuesday to protest U.S. plans for new… Read moreProtests against border wall both sides of the line
Under the slogan “the struggle of Oaxaca is the struggle of Puebla,” representatives of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) met with local activists in the capital of neighboring Puebla state Nov. 3. Leaders of the Frente Civico Poblano… Read more“Popular Assembly of the State of Puebla” proclaimed
From Reporters Without Borders, Nov. 3 via Chiapas95: While noting that two of Indymedia cameraman Brad Will’s alleged killers were arrested and taken before a judge yesterday in Oaxaca, Reporters Without Borders today condemned the shortcomings in the investigation into… Read moreOaxaca: Brad Will’s killers still at large?
Oaxaca’s beseiged Gov. Ulises Ruiz continues to resist calls for his resignation from all three of Mexico’s major political parties. He insisted Nov. 4 that the conflict in his state affects only “one avenue in one of 570 municipalities.” (La… Read moreOaxaca: Ruiz intransigent despite growing resistance
Tens of thousands of protesters from across Mexico have gathered in Oaxaca City Nov. 5 to defy federal police control of the streets in what organizers are calling a “mega-march.” Cars and buses from throughout the country arrived at Oaxaca‘s… Read moreOaxaca: “mega-march” defies federal police
Here we go again. This Nov. 1 commentary from the World Socialist Web Site (which is being echoed all over the left-wing blogosphere, e.g. on San Francisco Indymedia) relishes in the latest example of censorious behavior by Israel’s apologists, under… Read moreZionists seek to silence critics of Israel. Well, duh!
Here we go again. Fox News has the following to say about their upcoming “documentary,” Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, to air this weekend (strategically just before the mid-term elections, if that escaped your notice): We see in… Read moreFox News: Islamism worse than Hitler
From the Chicago Tribune, Nov. 2: Hispanic citizens sue government over raids ATLANTA — A civil rights group sued the federal government Wednesday on behalf of five Hispanic citizens who say they were detained and harassed by agents carrying out… Read moreLawsuit charges ICE racism, harassment
This is insidiously sinister—a step towards something akin to apartheid, two-tier citizenship. Not that we don’t already have that, of course, but this is close to legally acknowleding it and legitimizing it. From the New York Times Nov. 3, via… Read moreMedicaid denies infant care based on parents’ immigration status
From the BBC, Nov. 2: A new Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s 70m Muslims, has been announced. Colonel Muhammadu Sada Abubakar, 53, is the younger brother of Sultan Mohammadu Maccido, who was killed in a plane crash… Read moreNigeria’s Sokoto Caliphate gets new sultan
