Secondary school teachers in Mexico’s conflicted southern state of Chiapas carried out a 72-hr strike in solidarity with the struggle in neighboring Oaxaca, and to support Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s challenge to the supposed fraud in the presidential election and… Read moreChiapas: teachers strike, Zapatistas end alert
Mexican rebel leader Subcommander Marcos is remaking himself as a writer of political pulp fiction in collaboration with famed crime thriller scribe Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Interesting how a genre that generally plays to the law-and-order right in Gringolandia plays… Read moreSubcommander Marcos unveils Osama bin Laden theory
Protesters fortified street barricades and prepared petrol bombs Oct. 1 as Mexican navy helicopters buzzed over Oaxaca City for a second day, sparking rumors that federal forces were planning to retake the city center, which has been occupied by the… Read moreOaxaca at the brink?
As Lynne Stewart awaits sentencing, the New York Times Sept. 29 portrayed her as uncharacteristically contrite… Lawyer in Terror Case Apologizes for Violating Special Prison Rules Lynne F. Stewart, the once brashly defiant radical defense lawyer who was convicted in… Read moreLynne Stewart denied “need to know” on warrantless surveillance
From the New York Times, Sept. 29: PORTOROZ, Slovenia — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld agreed Thursday to put 12,000 American combat troops in eastern Afghanistan under NATO command, possibly as soon as next month, officials said. The plan approved… Read moreNATO expands Afghanistan role
Are we terrified yet? From AP, Sept. 29, emphasis added: BAGHDAD – Al-Qaida in Iraq’s leader, in a chilling audiotape released Thursday, called for nuclear scientists to join his group’s holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners so they… Read moreAbu Ayyub al-Masri: let’s go nuclear
Freedom’s on the march in America’s NATO ally and GWOT partner. Perhaps someone will have some well-chosen words for the current US president in the guestbook at Monticello. From the Al-Jazeera, Sept. 27: A Turkish court has fined an elderly… Read moreTurkey: free speech under attack …again
Freedom’s on the march in liberated Iraq. From the New York Times, Sept. 29: BAGHDAD, Iraq – Ahmed al-Karbouli, a reporter for Baghdadiya TV in the violent city of Ramadi, did his best to ignore the death threats, right up… Read moreIraq: journalists under attack
From the Reuters, Sept. 30: BAGHDAD – Iraq’s government shut down the capital with a one-day curfew on Saturday, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets and giving no reason for the measure. As dawn broke, streets in the… Read moreBaghdad under curfew again; Sunni mosque shot up
From CBC, Sept. 21: A North American security meeting was secretly held in Banff last week, attracting high-profile officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada. The North American Forum was hosted with the help of the Canada West Foundation… Read moreSecret NAFTA security summit held in Banff
Shops, gas-stations, hotels and restaurants shut down as part of a 48-hour strike seeking to pressure the federal government to intervene in the Oaxaca crisis Sept. 28, triggering long lines as residents stocked up on supplies. Meanwhile, followers of the… Read moreOaxaca crackdown imminent?
Ominous news, and a different perpective from our usual left-wing Mexican sources like La Jornada and APRO. Will the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca be put down by armed force before the December presidential transition? Whatever antipathy may exist between… Read moreOaxaca: People’s Assembly on “red alert”
