From the Iraq Freedom Congress: The assassination of Tariq Mahdi is part of a series of crimes committed by the sectarian militias On August 18, 2006, the sectarian militias in Mahmoodya city (25 Km south of Baghdad) assassinated the secretary… Read moreIraq: labor leader assassinated
Over a six-day period ending Aug. 29, ICE agents arrested 109 immigrants as part of “Operation Return to Sender,” a national ICE program targeting immigrants with criminal records, final orders of deportation or other immigration violations. Most of those arrested… Read moreMore mass arrests in Operation “Return to Sender”
From the Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 14: Most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming, says a study that one researcher says “closes the loop” between climate change and… Read moreStudy: global warming fuels hurricanes
From Newsday, Sept. 12: Chilling testimony told in limo crash trial Little Kate Flynn’s body was not difficult to identify after she died in the wreckage of a head-on crash on the Meadowbrook Parkway, a Nassau medical examiner testified this… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
If, as we recently speculated, the White House was hoping it could groom Islamists in Syria as proxies to destabilize the regime, this ought to provide a little cold water in the face. In fact, much to the consternation of… Read moreSyria puts down attack on US embassy
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi and founder of the MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence, spent Sept. 11 with Camp Democracy, a small tent city established by anti-war activists on the National Mall in front of the US Capitol…. Read moreArun Gandhi visits “Camp Democracy”
There’s a lot of this going around all of a sudden. Watergate figure and born-again evangelical Chuck Colson wrote for the Christian Post Aug. 18 (in a piece imaginitively entitled “The Clash of Civilizations”): During the Cold War, there was… Read moreChristian fundamentalists remember September 11… 1683
From AndhraVision.com, Sept. 11: Satyagraha movement completes 100 years A hundred years ago today, Mahatma Gandhi launched the historic Satyagraha movement in South Africa to fight racism and colonial oppression in that country. Later, he used the same principles of non… Read moreGandhians remember September 11… 1906
From El Universal, Sept. 10, via Chiapas95: Unknown perpetrators attempted to burn down the offices of a leftist organization that is taking part in protests in Oaxaca City early Saturday. The door and main gate of offices belonging to the… Read moreOaxaca: arson attack on APPO office
For those who continue to follow events in Mexico’s conflicted southern state of Chiapas, there is an increasingly surreal sense of being through the proverbial looking glass. On a national level, the leftist PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is… Read moreChiapas: reputed paramilitary boss declares for PRD governor-elect
From Spain’s El Pais, Sept. 9, via Chiapas95 (our translation): The entrance of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, leftist) into Mexico’s institutional life, with the signing of an accord for reforms to the Law of Congress, is a… Read moreMexico: splits emerge in Lopez Obrador coalition
From the Sept. 9 New York Times, buried at the bottom of page 4 (below a much larger “profile” piece on a New Age self-help book written by Slovenia’s president). Links added. Explosions Hit Indian Mosque, Stoking Fear of Further Violence NEW… Read moreTerror blasts at Indian mosque
