Mexico

More severed heads in Michoacan

Especially given the contested presidential elections and the seizure of popular power in Oaxaca—both potential threats to Mexico’s ruling elites—it is ominous indeed to see the evident emergence of Colombia-style death squads linked to the drug trade and (we can… Read moreMore severed heads in Michoacan

Al-Qaeda in Gaza?

Amid the internecine Palestinian violence now rocking Gaza comes a distrubing report from Israel’s YNet Oct. 8 that an entity calling itself the Islamic Swords of Justice, said to be the Palestinian wing of al-Qaeda, shot up and set fire… Read moreAl-Qaeda in Gaza?

Maoists go mainstream

Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Oct. 5: Rallies Today: World Can’t Wait—for What? Call them the popular front to MoveOn.org‘s dogged efforts to defeat Republicans at the ballot box this November. Today the anti-Bush campaign World Can’t Wait… Read moreMaoists go mainstream

Repression in Yucatan

Some 100 Yucatan state riot police attacked a group of peasants at the ejido (collective farm) of Oxcum Oct. 6, lands which the state government is seeking to buy for a new ariport servicing Merida, the capital and major tourist… Read moreRepression in Yucatan

Planet Watch

October 7: Global No Car Day

This is one solution that the perennially annoying Thomas Friedman didn’t advocate in his recent rant against the “petro-authoritiarians” who have got the USA by the balls. But we certainly do. From the web page of California’s Buddhist Deer Park… Read moreOctober 7: Global No Car Day