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
A new military operation on Mindanao and growing impetus for a sweeping “anti-terrorism” bill in Manila, both aimed at the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)—which denies involvement in the terror blasts which have targeted markets and other public places, leaving… Read moreMindanao militarized in wake of terror wave
While the Mexican Senate ponders dissolving the powers of Oaxaca’s state government, thousands of activists from the Oaxaca Popular Peoples Assembly (APPO) and the striking teachers union are camped outside, having marched 290 miles cross-country from the conflicted state to… Read moreOaxaca: resistance considers government offer; police fire on students
After rejecting an offer from the federal government to end the five-month standoff in Oaxaca, striking teachers and community leaders are preparing a counter-proposal in the tense negotiations. Meanwhile, thousands of teachers and activists have arrived at the outskirts of… Read moreOaxaca: dialogue continues, military presence grows
As of this writing, some 12 hours after North Korea announced its first test of a nuclear weapon, at an underground site in North Hamgyong province, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has still not moved the hands of the famous… Read moreNorth Korea joins the club —or does it?
The New York Times notes Oct. 6 that charges were dropped against Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, whose fictional character committed the crime of refering to the “Armenian genocide.” But almost simultaneously, charges were brought against another writer, Hrant Dink, who… Read moreTurkish intellectuals in solidarity campaign for persecuted writer
